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Another- difficulty arises from the new developments 

 constantly making, which tends to exalt a neglected 

 variety in some sections of our country, and depress a 

 favorite one in other parts, so that we shall, it is pro- 

 bable, in future editions take the liberty of amending 

 or changing our opinions respecting some of the differ- 

 ent varieties named, as time and enlarged Q^perience 

 shtll demand. 



/Another point of delicacy still arises, from the fact 

 t/iat many of our friends have produced seedlings of 

 /.vhich they think and speak in the highest terms ; but 

 from what little we have seen of them, and their trial 

 being almost exclusively in the hands of the origina- 

 tors, we do not feel authorized to speak of them pro 

 or con; besides, many seedlings are constantly pro- 

 duced by our nurserymen, some good, and many not 

 so good, who cultivate them frequently, as they do 

 their plants for sale, in crowded beds or even in com- 

 pact masses, or in the partial shade of trees or shrub- 

 bery, on old soil, so that their mode of trial is often 

 of little value in developing or determining the real 

 character of the plant. 



Some varieties we do not name will doubtless prove 

 superior, and we would not intimate that some of the 

 varieties we are not acquainted with may not prove of 

 the first class. 



We shall speak mainly and freely our own experi* 



