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Parker, as usual, had a ereat variety. Mr. McKenzie exhibited 

 some choice roseH, particularly the R. devoniensis, in beautiful 

 bloom. The vejretahles exhiliited tor competition v\ere of the finest 

 quality, and reflected great credit to the growers. The accession to 

 our number has been great; forty-four new members were ()!oposed 

 that meetinjT. — dn Amateur, Philadelphia, dpril 23, 1842. 



The Cinnamon Rose for a Slock fur Budding. — Will you have 

 the goodness to mention, in the Magazine of Horlicullure, whether 

 the cinnamon rose is a suitable stock to inoculate or bud roses uj)on; 

 or what is a more suitable stock for that purpose? — Yours, C. F. J. 

 [The cinnamon rose is too weak a growing kiud for a stock: the 

 sweet brier is much better: the old blush rose of the gardens, and the 

 Boursalt rose, are also go'id stocks, particularly the latter. — Ed,] 



Horticiillure in Western Neio York. — I have taken great jdeasure 

 in cultivating a few of the native plants of this reirion, and were I 

 sure that they are not common with you, it would give me a florist's 

 gratification to send you seeds of some of them, but I am no botan- 

 ist, and do not know how to describe them. The pnlmonaria is free- 

 ly growing here in meadows, and is called "blue-i)ell." I have cul- 

 tivated it, as have .many others, with success. I have a very hand- 

 some perennial, flowering about the 1st of July, in cultivation, from 

 the woods, growing to the height of two feet, with three-lohed leaves, 

 and white flowers of five petals <rrowing singly on rather a long foot- 

 stalk. I have never seen it in Connecticut, nor have I ever found a 

 name for it here, as "wild flowers" are much despised. From this 

 miserably imjjerfect description, can you divine what it is.' and will 

 you have the seeds? I call it Estella, though the flowers ai;e not 

 Etar-shaped, 



I have raised the Bartonza ailrea and Nigella hisjjanica from seeds 

 received from Hovey &. Co. two years since, more beautiful than 

 Mrs. Loudon's engraved representation. Indeed, all the seeds I pro- 

 cured from those gentlemen were very successful. 



There is a growing taste for floriculture and horticulture in this 

 remote region. At Cortland Villa^re, Mr. Randall has a fine green- 

 house and beautiful grounds; the oidy private green-house 1 know 

 hereabout. We have procured fine plants (perennials) from Rev^ 

 Mr. Bostwick, of Hammondsport, to whom we owe the introduction 

 of the Chinese psonies, and some other rare floral ornaments. You 

 will pardon these notices, as ! know you are desirous of receiving 

 information on these subjects, however superficial, which shows the 

 dawn of a brighter day in floricultural knowJedge. — Respectfully 

 yours, S. IV. J., Oswego, Tioga Co., N. Y. 



Botanical Intelligence. — Our botanical friends will be pleased to 

 learn that Dr. Asa Gray, the able coadjutor of Dr. Torrey, in the 

 publication of the Flora of North America, has been appointed to 

 the Fisher Professorship of Natural History in Harvard University. 

 We may congratulate Dr. Gray on his appointment to fill such a 

 situation, and doubt not but that be will be the means of awakeninj? 

 an interest in botanical studies, which have, since the resiunation of 

 Mr. Nuttall, as Curator of the Botanic Garden, been almost, or 

 quite, given up. — Ed. 



