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effects that liave taken place among the other fruits, and 

 that the horticulturists of Boston succeed in raising the de- 

 licious and highly flavored new Flemish pears in the highest 

 perfection. 



The description of the different mulberries, including the 

 celebrated Chinese Morus muUicaulis^ occupies, very properly, 

 a prominent place in the American Orchardist. The author's 

 directions for the rearing of the silk worm, bear the mark of 

 knowledge and research upon the subject, and will be found 

 valuable at the present time, when the silk culture is occu- 

 pying so largely the public attention. 



We are gratified to find also a number of pages devoted to 

 the description and modes of culture of the tropical fruits 

 which may be acclimatized in the southern section of the 

 Union. We would earnestly call the attention of our neigh- 

 bors of the Floridas, Louisiana, Georgia and the Carolinas 

 particularly to this subject. We are convinced that, by 

 proper care and exertions, a number of the tropical fruits 

 may become objects of extensive cultivation in those States. 

 The olive now grows in Europe as far north as the 45° of 

 latitude, and Mr. Kenrick informs us that the tea has been 

 successfully cultivated in Franconia, latitude 49° north ! 

 The plantain and banana will, we are convinced, produce 

 abundant crops in Florida, and we would suggest to south- 

 ern horticulturists to attempt the naturalization of the Chi- 

 nese guava (Psidium Cattleyanum), the fruit of which ripens 

 in our hot-houses in the northern States, and possesses all 

 the delicious flavor of the strawberry. The rose apple 

 (Eugenia jambos L. — now called Jambosa vulgaris) with 

 fruit resembling the apricot, and the mangostan., we have but 

 little doubt may, by proper means, be naturalized in many 

 of the southern sections of the Union. — D. 



Art. III. A Discourse delivered before the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society^ on the Celebration of its seventh Jlnniversary, 

 September llth, 1835. By John Lewis Russell. Pam- 

 phlet, 8vo., pp. 36. Boston, 1835. 



This is one of the most interesting addresses that has been 

 delivered before the society. Brief as it is, to those that 

 have been heretofore delivered, unless we except Mr. Gray's, 



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