PREFACE. 



The Fifteenth Volume of the Magazine contains a great 

 variety of information in every department of Horticulture, 

 which will be found enumerated in the following Table of 

 Contents. 



Boston, December 25th, 1849. 



CONTENTS. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



GENERAL SUBJECT. 



A Retrospective View of the Progress of 

 Horticulture in the United States dur- 

 ing the year 18-lS. By tiie Editor . 1 



Report on the Fruit and Kilclien Gardens 

 near Paris, from observations made dur- 

 ing a visit in the spring of 1847. By Mr. 

 R. Thompson, Superintendent of the 

 orchard and kitchen garden of the Lon- 

 don Horticultural Society . . . 49 



Destruction of Filberts by fungi. By N. 

 Goodsell, Esq., New York. . . 62 



Notes of a Visit to several gardens and 

 nurseries in Western New York. By 

 the Editor 97 



Fungi in Vegetation. By John Lewis 

 Russell, Professor of Botany, &.C., to 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety 154 



On the Acclimation of Tropical Exotics 

 in Florida. By the Rev. R. K. Sewall, 

 East Florida. In a letter to Dr. A. 

 Mitchell, St. Mary's, Geo. Communi- 

 cated by Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn . 241 



Remarks on Gardening and Gardens in 

 Louisiana. By Alexander Gordon, Bo- 

 tanical Collector, Baton Rouge, La. . 245 



Some Plants of Danvers and Wenham, 

 Essex County, Massachusetts. f?y John 

 Lewis Russell, Professor of Botany, 

 &c., to Mass.\chiisetts Horticultural 

 Society ...... 289 



Some remarks on the more general culti- 

 vation of Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and 

 Herbaceous Plants : with a notice of 

 the Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea, growing in 

 Roxbnry. By Gen. H. A. S Dearborn 337 



Beautiful Native Trees, Shrubs, and Her- 

 baceous Flowering Plants, growing in 

 Massachusetts, worthy of general culti- 

 vation. By Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn, 

 Roxbury . . . ... 385 



Notes made during a Trip to London 

 and Paris, in the Autumn of 1849. By 

 ■T. E. T 481 



Notes of a visit to Oatlands, Hempstead, 

 Long Island, N. Y.; the residence of 

 D. F. Manice, Esq. By the Editor . 529 



Desultory Remarks on the Principles and 

 Practice of Horticulture. By W. Saun- 

 ders, New Haven, Conn. . . . 534 



HORTICULTURE. 



The Blight in Pear Trees. By J. H. 

 James, Esq., Urbana, Ohio . 13. 433 



Disease in Apples. By N. Goodsell, Esq., 

 Rochester, N. Y 23 



Descriptions and Engravings of six varie- 

 ties of Apples. By T. S. Humrickhouse, 

 Coshocton, Ohio . . . .24 



The Hubbardston Nonsuch Apple. By 

 the Editor 63 



Description and Engravings of select va- 

 rieties of Apples. By the Editor : 



1. Mother, Hooker, Ben . . . 65 



2. Minister, Holmes, Tolman Sweet- 

 ing 159 



3. Sutton Beauty, Bullock's Pippin, 

 Cogswell 249 



4. Summer Rose, Vandervere, Fall 

 Harvey 536 



The Howell Pear, a new native seedling; 

 with a description and engraving of the 

 Fruit. By the Editor . . . 69 



Remarks on fifteen varieties of Early 

 Plums, which have fruited in the Pomo- 

 logical Gardens at Salem. By R. Man- 

 ning 102 



Pomological Notices ; or Notices respect- 

 ing new and superior fruits, worthy of 

 general cultivation. By the Editor . 105 



Remarks on the Formation of Vine Bor- 

 ders; vsilh a detail of experiments in 



