Progress of ITorticiiUure in the U. States. 3 



mostly to the depression of trade, and consequent inability of 

 individuals to purchase largely, and want of time to attend to the 

 subject. 



In the commencement of our last volume we gave several pa- 

 pers under the head of Pomological J\^otices and JVotices of JVeio 

 Culinary Vegetables. These embraced many new fruits and 

 vegetables, whose qualities it would be unnecessary to enumerate 

 here. These papers will be continued, and all the numerous 

 fine fruits which have been sent to this country will eventually be 

 fully noticed. We shall therefore refer the reader to the above 

 papers for full information on these subjects. 



The system of coiling vines in pots, which was first adopted by 

 Mr. Mearns, and published in the London Magazines, and from 

 thence copied into ours, has been fully tried during the two past 

 years, and without much success. The method is now about 

 given up. The best vines which we have ever seen subjected 

 to Mr. Mearns's mode of treatment, were some under the care of 

 Mr. Haggerston, at Mr. Cushing's; a few of these bore tolerable 

 crops the second year. The attempts which have been made to 

 procure grapes in quantity from coils of the same season have 

 wholly failed in every instance. The planting of peach trees in 

 pots is now becoming quite general: since our paper appeared 

 on their management (II., p. 241,) several amateurs have been 

 induced to try the experiment. 



In Boston and vicinity but few trees have been planted. Pears 

 are more sought after than any other fruit, particularly the finer 

 sorts; and, as the stock of good trees is very limited, the nurse- 

 ries have been tolerably well drained of the best specimens. 

 Some new varieties have come into bearing the past year, and 

 these will be noticed in another place. We have ourselves ex- 

 hibited before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society some fine 

 specimens of seedling strawberries, raised by cross impregnation 

 between Keen's seedling, the Methven scarlet, and other sorts. 

 We think highly of the quality of some of them; but another 

 year's trial will be necessary, before we shall be able to ascertain 

 fully their respective merits. We have given a paper upon the 

 production of seedlings, and we hope both amateurs and practi- 

 cal gardeners will be induced to try experiments in raising supe- 

 rior kinds. 



The cultivation of the pine-apple has been taken up in earnest 

 by Mr. Gushing of Belmont Place, Watertown. When we last 

 visited this fine situation, we found one of the elegant stoves con- 

 verted into a fruiting pine-house, the pit of which was filled with 

 fine grown specimens, some of which were beginning to ripen 

 their fruit, or "swell off," as the phrase is. In the pit of die 

 other stove was also a great number of succession plants, intend- 

 ed for fruiting next summer. Col. Perkins has also erected a 



