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food, and does not require much more than a tenth of the labor bestowed 

 on preparing the ground and sowing it. It also comes in a fortnight 

 earlier. — ( Gard. Mag.) 



Thunberg'ia alata var. alba. — At the exhibition of the Devon and Exeter 

 Botanical and Horticultural Society, specimens of a new variety of the 

 Thunb^rgi'a alata were shown for the first time in the country. The 

 flowers are clear white, with a jet black eye. — ( Gard. Mag.) 



Large Hydrangea. — There is a hydrangea growing in the open ground 

 at Tringwainton, near Penzance, which is forty-five feet in circumfer- 

 ence, eight feet in height, and had above one thousand three hundred 

 flowers on it last year. There are some hundreds of hydrangeas in the 

 plantations at Tringwainton, which have all sprung from this plant. — 

 {Gard. Mag.) 



Male Carle Apple. — This variety was lately exhibited at the London 

 Horticultural Society's exhibition, and, in the report in the Gardener's 

 Magazine, it is stated that "this exceedingly delicate and beautiful apple, 

 in Finale, near Genoa, is only here [England] a vapid, pale, and a very 

 poor-flavored apple ; such is the effect of climate !" The variety has 

 been exhibited before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and its 

 qualities have been considered very inferior. — Conds. 



Art. in. Domestic JVotices. 



Early Potatoes. — Mr. Walker, of Roxbury, at a very late meeting (April 

 23d) of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, presented for exhibition 

 a potato of this year's growth, of large size. It was one out of a speci- 

 men of about half a peck presented at the meeting of the New York 

 Horticultural Society on the 19th ult. It was raised at Hyde Park, the 

 residence of E. Holbrook, Esq., by his gardener, Mr. Horrvell. Mr. 

 Walker received this specimen when at New York, from one of the 

 members of the Society. — Conds. 



JVew Variety of Pumpkin. — The Hon. Abbott La^vrence, member of 

 Congress, of this city, has presented to our friend and cotemporary, 

 T. G. Fessenden, Esq., a {"ew seeds of a new kind, called the " seven 

 year's piunpkin." Its principal valuable property consists in the great 

 length of time it may be kept in a sound state of preservation. Mr. Law- 

 rence states in a letter that he was informed that " one which was pulled 

 three years," is now as " sound as it was the day it was taken from the 

 vine." The seeds were from the State of Pennsylvania. — Conds. 



Bidhs presented to the Massachusetts Hortindiural Society. — The following 

 are some of the kinds which were sent to the Society, by Baron Von 

 Ludwig, of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, and distributed among the 

 members : — Amaryllis falcata, A. var. sp. from frontier, Bahiana stricta 

 var., B. rubra-cyanea, and plicata, Brunsvigta, sp. Bui bine pugioneforme 

 and floribiinda, Antholyza montana and j)realta, Hsemanthus coccineus 

 and tigrinus, Ornithogalum inconspicuum, aiireum and aureum var., Cyr- 

 tanthus, new sp. not described, Vallota purpurea, Wats6n?.7 sp., spicata, 

 Meriana, Meriana var., and aletroides ; Nerene sarni^.usis and undulata, 

 Ihsa chrysostachya. Gladiolus hirsutus, blandus, alatus and new sp. ; 

 Hesperantha sp., Tritonia lineata, longiflora and sp., i'xia flexuosa, stric 

 ta, stricta var., and viridiflora ; Cyanella lutea, Peyrousza corymbosa, and 

 falcata, Eucomus sp. The bulbs were received in fine order. — Conds. 



Transplanting Evergreen Trees. — In our last number, at j). 155, ai-e 



