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;onie literary hand, to comb its tangled sentences, and 

 ■iluik out its artificial flowers, and gaudy tail-featli- 

 jrs, .stuck in without taste or conscience. 



'A little of this tendency is to be found in Mr. 

 DdwxiNG's work. Sentimental sweetnesses are quite 

 n ])lacein a treatise on the beautiful, and in works 

 rtating of landscape gardening; but the utmost fru- 

 -jality should be practiced in a treatise upon fruits. 

 And if, in any degree, Mr. Elliott has sinned under 

 he influence of Mr. Downixg's gonial and flowing 

 tyle, it is time that the pomological world should 

 jronounce its censure so distinctly upon such efforts, 

 IS shall create a law of propriety hereafter, otherwise 



Garden, where it has been merely known as a per- 

 fectly hardy " Caprifolium." In January, 1833, it 

 blossomed in the garden of the Marquis of Salisbury, 

 at llatSeld, whence Mr. "William Ingram, the gar- 

 dener there, sent us specimens, with the followmg 

 note, on the 13th of April: 



" The plant which afiords me these flowers has been 

 in bloom since January. It occupies an east wall, 

 and has enjoyed no particular advantages of soil or 

 treatment. The flowers appear with the earliest de- 

 velopment of the leaves ; and although not large or 

 otherwise striking in appearance, compensate for any 

 deficiency by their exceeding fragrance, combinirsg 





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ne shall have books of fruit stuck all over with mer- 

 itricious ornaments, like a confectioner's gewgaw at 

 in absurd municipal dinner." 



LONTCERA FKAGRANTISSIMA. 



LONICERA FRAGRANTISSIMA. 



Tttis is a sub-evergreen hardy shrub. Flowers 

 vhitish, very sweet scented. Native of China. Be- 

 ongs to Caprifoils. Introduced by the Horticultural 

 Society. 



This is one of the plants obtained from China by 

 Mr. Fortune, while in the service of the Horticultu- 

 ral Society, but has not flowered in the Chiswick 



the richness of the perfume of orange blossoms with 

 the delicious sweetness of the honeysuckle." 



Its evegreen foliage distinguishes it from all tuc 

 previously-known species of the Chama^cerasus di- 

 vision of the genus. — Paxtons Flower Garden. 



Grafting Pevrs on Mountain Ash. — A corres- 

 pondent of the Maine Farmer says, that five years 

 ago he grafted several Bartlett pears on Mountain 

 Ash stocks. Last year one of them bore very full, 

 more so than is usual on Pear stocks. The flavor 

 of the pear is excellent, and not at all changed by the 

 stock. 



