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The nurseries of Parsons & Co., and Wilcomb & King, 

 of Flushing, will be noticed in another nvimber. Their 

 grounds are well selected for nursery purposes, and the 

 stock of trees very good. W. R. Prince has, since the de- 

 cease of his father, continued the nurseries under his own 

 name. Mr. Winter is making improvements in his nursery, 

 which nearly adjoins that of Mr. Prince. 



Our correspondent, Mr. Allen, of Virginia, promised to 

 send us some account of the state of gardening in that 

 neighborhood, but we have not received it in time for this 

 paper. 



For the state of the nurseries in the west, we must refer 

 to the remarks of our correspondent, Mr. C. W. Elliot, in 

 our last volume, p. 425. 



There is one important thing which we wish to call to 

 the minds of nurserymen. This is the naming of trees in 

 a legible manner, and fastening the label to the tree so that 

 it may not be easily pulled off. We have known of an in- 

 stance where the name of a variety could not be ascer- 

 tained, either from carelessness in writing, or writing on a 

 label not properly painted. In whatever way nurserymen 

 may mark their trees, let it be in a plain style, which shall 

 not be unreadable ; and let the label be attached by a coji- 

 per wire, and not by a string, so that the purchaser, in case 

 he should forget to add a new label at the time of planting 

 out, may not be disappointed when, in a month or two af- 

 terwards, he looks for the name, to find it missing. Neat 

 labels, painted with white lead and marked with a good 

 lead pencil, and fastened with a copper wire, will last three 

 or four years. 



Garden Literature. 

 With the exception of Mr. Downing's Cottage Residen- 

 ces and Gray's Botanical Text Book, no work of note has 

 been published during the year. A little volume called the 

 Muck Manual, somewhat useful to farmers, has been pub- 

 lished at Lowell. New editions, however, of Liebig^s Or- 

 ganic Chemistry, and the Farmer's Comjianion, have ap- 

 peared, and a reprint o{ Johnson's Lectures on Agricultural 

 Chemistry and Geology. The fourth number of the Or- 

 chardisfs CoTnjmnion, of which we reviewed the three first 

 at p. 144 of our last volume, has appeared, completing ihe 

 first year and volume of its publication. A new number is 



