230 Domestic Mtices. 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 



Seedling Roses. — Messrs. Noe &. Boll, Florists, New York, have 

 sent us their catalogue of roses for 1838. It contains a very fine collec- 

 tion of Bengal, tea-scented, Noisette, Isle de Bourbon, hybrid, Scotch, 

 moss and annual roses, with a great number of seedlings, of their own 

 production. We have heretofore noticed this collection, which is one 

 of the best in the country. Mr. Boll, being well acquainted with 

 the French florists and rose growers, has an excellent opportunity of ob- 

 taining every thing that is fine. In the cultivation of roses, Messrs. 

 Noe & Boll display much knowledge. We have never seen better plants, 

 or any more profusely laden with blossoms, than those in this collec- 

 tion. 



Fifty tea-scented roses are enumerated, among which are several new 

 and very fine ones. 



The seedling roses are all of them yet in the possession of Messrs. 

 Noe & Boll. They are upwards of a hundred in number. AVe hope 

 that a ready sale will be found for these, which, we have no doubt, are 

 all very beautiful kinds. We recommend those who are in want of fine 

 roses, to this catalogue. — Ed. 



Combretum purphreum. — This most gorgeous species is again in beau- 

 tiful bloom, at Mr. Cushing's. When we saw it a few days since, we 

 counted, then open, at least twenty of its graceful racemes of blossoms. 

 The plant has extended itself very rapidly, and now covers a good 

 space of the back wall. It will remain in perfection along time. — Id. 



Early caulifloivers. — Some of the finest cauliflovvers we have ever 

 seen, we observed a week or two ago at Belmont place. Mr. Haggers- 

 ton had cut a great number, (raised in the pit, which we have previous- 

 ly noticed.) and many of them were of large size, and most excellent- 

 ly grown. The plants were not set out until the first of February. — Id. 



Early Strawberries. — Four weeks since, a quart of strawberries was 

 gathered, at one time, from plants growing in the stove at Mr. Cushing's, 

 and since then large quantities have been picked. The plants stand on 

 shelves, near the top of the back wall of the stove, and produce abun- 

 dantly. The kind is the Keen's seedling, which Mr. Haggerston prefers 

 to all others for forcing. — Id. 



Transplanting Evergreens. — The following very judicious remarks on 

 transplanting evergreens, are from the pen of Gen. Dearborn. If at- 

 tention were paid to the few particulars which he mentions, we should 

 hear less complaint of the loss of evergreens. 



"In the cultivation of the coniferous trees, and especially the pines, 

 hemlocks, spruces and firs, great care must be observed, in their remov- 

 al, not to injure the root, branches, or bark; and by no means should 

 any of the branches be cut off, as is too generally done. They have the 

 fjreatest aversion to amputation, and resent the lopping of their loicer 

 limbs so stubbornly, that they never grow thriftily, or make fine look- 

 ing trees; and the fir is so sensitive on this subject, that it sickens, lingers 

 and prematurely dies, if its under branches are cut otf. In selecting 

 any of this class of trees, for transplantation, be sure to take only such 

 as urow in open and airy situations, where they find ample room tor the 

 extension of their far-reaching loicer litnbs, and such as on which these 

 limbs groio close to the ground, and by no means cut off any of them, if 

 you wish to be eminently successful in their culture, and to have thrifty 

 and beautiful samples. The great want of attention to these particulars, 

 is the cause that so many persons fail in the cultivation of the fir bal- 

 sam, as it is called in Maine — the silver fir, [abies balsamifera.] They 

 take them from thickets, where they have run up tall and slim, with short 



