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Critique on the May Numder. — Well done, Mr. Barry, we are ghd once 

 more to find you have taken pen in hand, and certainly to good purpose. 

 The article on the difference between Pimis ponderosa and P. BejitJiamiatia is 

 to the point, and it is such articles that are much needed ; they give the result 

 of experience and observation : the more of them the better, we say. 



Rogers's Hybrid Grapes. — The christening of a child forms an epoch in its 

 life, and why should not the naming of a fruit in its more humble life ? Mr. 

 Rogers has done well, before starting his grapes anew in the world, where they 

 have so long wandered nameless, though not numberless, to gather them together 

 and describe their different characteristics. The quality and value, for table and 

 wine, of these grapes will long afford a subject for discussion ; but, whatever it 

 may finally be decided to be, Mr. Rogers will ever be held in grateful remem- 

 brance as tlie first to try the experiment on any considerable scale of hybridizing 

 the European and American grapes ; by his success giving the strongest stimu- 

 lus to similar efforts, which are, no doubt, destined in the future to produce results 

 now undreamed of But couldn't he have completed his list of names without 

 using those so unfitted to American tongues as Goethe and Gaertner ? 



The article of Prof Russell, on " New Trees and Shrubs of California and 

 Oregon," is full of information. Doubtless, our own country affords far more 

 valuable "novelties " tlian many for which we pay high prices, and get nothing 

 but disappointment. We say to our nursery-men. Look at home for new 

 plants for our gardens. The completion of the Pacific Railroad brings us within 

 a week of San Francisco, and gives rare facilities for floral acquisition. 



" The Pink Family," continued, by Joseph Breck, gives us brief descriptions of 

 the different species. But why dismiss all the pretty dwarf species with a notice 



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