6 Retrospective Vieio of the 



fine ; St. Nicolas, a late autumn variety ; Compte de Le- 

 lieur ; Bonne des Zees, a delicious September pear ; Beurre 

 de Rhine ; Episcopal, a late winter pear ; Henri Van Mons ; 

 Souverain d'Ete ; Adele de St. Denis. The following Amer- 

 ican varieties, introduced to notice for the first time, also 

 promise well : — Brandywine, Ott's Seedling, Howell, and Gus- 

 tine's summer. The experience of another year has also con- 

 firmed the excellence of the following kinds : — Moyamensing, 

 Swan's Orange, Reid's Seedling, Osband's Summer, Belle 

 Epine Dumas, Dunmore, Jeane de Witte, Eye wood, Jalousie 

 de Fontenay Yendee, &c. Knight's Monarch has at last been 

 obtained, and it proves to be a superior fruit. We have had 

 specimens in eating two months, and yet have some that will 

 keep a long time. The new varieties now mentioned, we 

 shall describe and figure in the present volume. 



Floriculture. 



The taste for plants, which has rather fallen off, or, at 

 least not kept pace with that for fruits, for the last three or 

 four years, appears to be reviving. To encourage this has 

 been our object, and we have endeavored to present our read- 

 ers with all the information relative to new plants, and the 

 best mode of cultivating superior specimens of the choice vari- 

 eties already in our collections. 



Since the expedition of Mr. Fortune to China, but a limited 

 number of new plants have been introduced, by the London 

 Horticultural Society. Some of the zealous English nursery- 

 men have collectors in South America, through whom a 

 number of valuable acquisitions have been made : but they 

 have been principally greenhouse or hothouse plants, and not so 

 generally desirable as those sent home by Mr. Fortune. Near- 

 ly all the plants of any interest Avhich have been introduced, 

 will be found enumerated in our Floricultural Notices. 



The subjects which have been admirably treated upon in our 

 last volume, are the dahlia, (p. 27) ; the cacti family, (p. 110), 

 by Mr. Teschemacher ; the Chinese primrose, in a most capi- 

 tal paper, by Mr. Cadness, (p. 395) ; the Fuchsia, (p. 44.5,) 

 by Mr. Thorburn; the Calceolaria, (p. 492,) by Mr. Kennedy; 

 the Leschenaultia, (p. 447,) and the Achimenes, (p. 494,) by 



