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will be ready for transplanting into beds. I have occasionally- 

 exhibited specimens from my bed, at the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society's room. Yours, he, 



Cambridgeport, March 1th, 1836. S. Pond. 



We need hardly recommend the above communication, by Mr. Pond, 

 to the attention of our readers ; many of whom have seen the specimens 

 he states as having exhibited, and who can testify to then- monstrous size. 

 We have frequently inspected his beds, and can truly say, that we have 

 never observed any in a more flourishing condition. We entii-ely agree 

 with him, in his remarks upon deep planting. It is one of the absurd 

 systems which abound in empirical gardening, and will soon give way to 

 more rational modes of cultivation. When the committee of the Horti- 

 cultural Society have said, that the specimens exliibited before them were 

 " of an uncommon magnitude, and deserving of honorable mention in 

 the annals of horticulture," no further remarks from us will be wanted, 

 to convince cultivators of the excellence of Mr, Pond's method of grow- 

 ing this desirable esculent. — Conds. 



Art. VI. Notices of new and beautiful Plants figured in the 

 London Floricultural and Botanical Magazines ; with some 

 Account of those which it would be desirable to introduce into 

 our Gardens. 



Edwards''s Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrub- 

 bery. Each number containing eight figm-es of Plants and Shrubs. 

 In monthly numbers ; 4s. colored, 3s. plain. Edited by John Lindley, 

 Ph. D., F. R. S., L. S., and G. S., Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Loudon. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine, or Flower Garden Displayed, containing 

 eight plates. Li monthly nmnbers ; 3s. Qd. colored, 3s. plain. Edited 

 by William Jackson Hooker, L.L. D., F. R. A., and L. S., Regius Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Notes relating to Floriculture. — The Christian name of the 

 late Mr. Drummond is Thomas, not James, as frequently written. 

 —{Gard. Mag.) 



The Baron Von Ludwig, Dr. Hooker states, in the Botanical 

 Magazine, for December, is a " nobleman resident at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, where he generously devotes his fortune to the pro- 

 motion of botany and horticulture, particularly with a view of ren- 

 dering service to the colony, by the introduction of useful plants. 

 To Europe, he has, with the greatest liberality, communicated 

 many rare South African plants, and has enriched our gardens with 

 several new or little known species." The 9th volume of the 



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