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water, and dressed, as is asparagus, or stewed in soy, with 

 salt, pepper, and butter added, or boiled in soup, as is Okra. 

 It is a very agreeable and pleasant addition to the list of veg- 

 etable esculents, and worthy of trial. I have distributed the 

 seeds pretty generally among my friends in different parts of 

 the country, and with pleasure enclose you a few for trial. I 

 would suggest that you allow a few of the earliest plants to 

 mature their seeds, and that, when setting out the plants, you 

 place them in rows, about a foot and an half apart, and the 

 same distance apart in the rows. 

 Albany, April 10, 1849. 



The above communication was accompanied with a few 

 seeds of the Hoo-Sung, for which Dr. Wendell will receive 

 our thanks. We shall give this new vegetable a trial and re- 

 port upon it another year. — Ed. 



Art. IV. Glandular and Glandless heaved Peach Trees. 

 By N. GooDSELL, Rochester, N. Y. 



The subject of glandular and glandless leaved peach 

 trees was introduced before the Pomological Convention, at 

 Buffalo, by William R. Prince, of Flushing, New York, but, 

 from the press of business before that meeting, the subject 

 was not sufficiently discussed to make it intelligible to all the 

 readers of that report, which was published, of their proceed- 

 ings. 



During that discussion, Mr. Prince said, " serrated, or 

 glandless leaves of the peach, are, therefore, more or less dis- 

 eased, and consequently less desirable, and of much less 

 value than those of a contrary character, and will, in time, 

 be exploded from our gardens." 



From the above and some preceding remarks, as reported, 

 some might suppose that Mr. Prince wished to convey the 

 idea, that the stinted, sickly appearance of peach trees, with 

 glandless leaves, was owing to an inherent, or constitutional 

 disease in such trees from their earliest vegetation. I do not 

 think that Mr. Prince intended to be so understood ; if he did, 

 I think it would be difficult to defend his position. 



