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require annual pruning, in order to get good strong wood, 

 from which only can large clusters and berries be gathered. 

 A good deep soil, well manured, and yearly cutting back the 

 young wood, will secure fine crops of handsome fruit. Capt. 

 Wilson is highly successful in the culture of the currant, and 

 has raised the Victoria with thirty-tiDO berries in one bunch, 

 the largest measuring half an inch in diameter. 



FLORICULTURAL AND BOTANICAL NOTICES. 



The Augusta Rose. — I infer from reading your last Mag- 

 azine that you may not have succeeded very well with the 

 Augusta Rose. I have succeeded so well with one which 

 I have, that I thought you might be interested to see a speci- 

 men of the rose in their different state of development from 

 the bud to the full blown rose. I have accordingly enclosed 

 to you what I regard the finest rose which I have. Though 

 not as large as the Cloth of Gold it is more fragrant, and, 

 what is more desirable, it is much longer expanding from 

 the bud to a full blown rose, than any rose which I have 

 ever seen. I have had it put out some 11 months. When 

 it was put out it was some \^ feet long. It has two rnain 

 stocks, about 7 feet high each, one of which the gardener 

 says would have been 10 feet high if he had not headed it 

 down. The lateral branches would average near, or quite, 

 30 feet long. It had 48 healthy buds, which, from the time 

 they were large enough to be counted until they fall off, will 

 be fully 2| months. It is on its own root, and, from the 

 hasty description which I have been obliged to make to get 

 the box to you by this morning's express, you will see that it 

 is a strong grower and free bloomer. The beauty and fra- 

 grance of the sample which I now send to you will, I think, 

 establish its reputation as one of the most desirable roses 

 which is now known. — Respectfully yours, Ichabod Wash- 

 burn, Worcester. May 9, 1855. 



This letter of Mr. Washburn was mislaid, or it would have 



