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men have not been fully able to supply. Our correspondent, 

 Mr. Manning, of Salem, has been indefatigable in liis exer- 

 tions to procure every new fruit from abroad, and he has, the 

 past year, fruited several new sorts, scions of which were 

 received direcily from Dr. Van Mons. At the ainiual exhi- 

 bition of the Massachusetts Horticuhural Society, in Septem- 

 ber last, he exhibited upwards of one hundred and twenty-five 

 varieties of pears. Mr. Kenrick, whose article upon some 

 of the gardens and nurseries around London, appeared in the 

 past volume, (p. 2S1,) brought out with him, on his return, 

 a few new kinds of fruits. He also received a package of 

 scions of new sorts from M. de Wael, of Antwerp, consist- 

 ing of the best of that amateur's very extensive collection of 

 fruit trees. The former are described, and the names of the 

 latter are enumerated, in Mr. Kenrick's new edition of the 

 American Orchardist. Under the head of our Pomological 

 Notices, we shall mention all the new fruits which have been 

 recently introduced. 



Mr. Manning's article in the last volume, (p. 41,) describ- 

 ing one hundred and six varieties of apples which he has 

 proved, is one of the most interesting papers to the pomolo- 

 gist. To establish a correct nomenclature appears to be the 

 whole eftbrt of Mr. Manning; he has spared no pains to col- 

 lect from all sources, and test the correctness of each. We 

 have the promise of one or two articles from him, which we 

 hope to offer in an early number of the Magazine. To cul- 

 tivators of peach orchards, the article by Mr. Hancock, (Vol. 

 VII., p. 90,) is recommended, as giving information upon 

 this subject; and, in connection, Mr. .Sinclair's article upon 

 the disease called the yclloivs^ which is so fatal to the peach 

 in the southern and middle States. Dr. Hildreth's article is 

 perhaps as valuable a practical communication as the volume 

 contains. Mr. Russell's article, together with our own, on 

 planting fruit trees, will aflbrd some useful information on this 

 subject, too oi'ten considered sufficiently understood, by many 

 cultivators. 



The science of vegetable culture has received important 

 additions in the works of Dr. Lindley and Dr. Liebig, the 

 latter of which was fully reviewed in our last volume, (p. 

 344,) and an extended notice of the former appears in the 

 present number. Other contributions to this subject will be 

 found in the articles on the growth of plants in charcoal, (Vol. 



