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considered as not worth cultivating; for if left in the garden they 

 are apt to be transplanted into a new bed, and thus confusion may 

 arise among the varieties: because a great many of the plants 

 produce good fruit is no reason they should be suffered to re- 

 main. The stock of fine fruit can be increased to any extent in 

 a year or two. 



We have made these remarks at this time in the hope of in- 

 ducing amateurs as well as nurserymen to attempt the raising of 

 new varieties of strawberries. As yet the plants of nearly all 

 the kinds in cultivation have been introduced from the Eng- 

 lish gardens, and are not suited to the severity of our ch- 

 mate. There is no reason to doubt that strawberries of su- 

 perior flavor and of equal size to any ever originated by English 

 horticulturists can be produced in this country, and we hope the 

 time is not far distant when we shall not be dependent upon 

 England for new varieties. 



Art. II. Roses — new Varieties. — By An Amateur. 



In a former communication I mentioned that Mr. Samuel 

 Feast, of this city, had produced a large number of new varie- 

 ties of roses, rhododendrons, aizaleas, &c. Some of the roses 

 are now in bloom, and many of them may be deemed valuable 

 additions to our floral collections: I mean additions, for, unlike 

 many new things with which we are blessed from year to year, 

 by our friends over the water, they are distinct from all other 

 known individuals — they are themselves alone. They are not 

 old plants with new names either, as very many neic plants turn 

 out to be. And, by the way, permit me to digress for the pur- 

 pose of giving you an instance of the re- christening of plants, 

 evidently for the purpose of increasing sales. In one of your 

 numbers of last winter, a correspondent, writing from Philadel- 

 phia, mentioned the monthly cabbage rose, that they had in 

 Philadelphia, in such terms that I immediately sent to the person 

 whom I guessed was the writer, for the monthly cabbage rose 

 spoken of, referring to the Magazine for the description. He 

 sent me the rose — and what do you think it proves to be? Why, 

 the Gloria de Prance; the same we have had for some time, and 

 of which one of our gardeners (Mr. John Feast,) had an abun- 

 dance of saleable plants, the stock of which he got from Phila- 



