Progress of Horticulture for IS 42. 3 



Crops of most kinds have been abundant ; the only ex- 

 ceptions are vines of all sorts ; cucumbers and melons were 

 quite scarce, and but a very limited crop was raised in 

 comparison with other years. Apples were a very abun- 

 dant crop ; peaches were not so plentiful in New England 

 as in the previous season, though there was a good crop. 

 In New Jersey they were not cut off the same as in 1841. 

 The plum crop was very heavy ; but the severe rains of 

 August and September rotted at least half of them. The 

 season for pears was not so favorable, for those of superior 

 quality, as the warmer summer of 1841, but specimens 

 were large and handsome. A reference to our reports of 

 the market will give information by which a comparison of 

 the crops of this and previous years may be estimated. 



Our subjects will be arranged under the same heads as 

 heretofore, viz : Horticulture, Floriculture, Landscape Gar- 

 dening, Rural Architecture, Commercial Gardens, and 

 Garden Literature. 



Horticulture. 

 The many excellent articles upon the growth of fruits 

 in the past volume, will leave us less to say on this subject. 

 With the increasing interest which is now manifested in 

 the cultivation of choice fruits, we have endeavored to 

 keep our readers informed of every thing worthy of their 

 notice. Ever since the introduction of Dr. Van Mons's new 

 pears, by the late Mr. Manning of Salem, there has been a 

 great desire felt to possess the best sorts of this fine fruit. 

 Mr. Manning fruited a great number of the varieties he re- 

 ceived, and a few of them have proved particularly good. 

 Mr. Manning's article, describing several of the most excel- 

 lent, will be found at p. 56, (Vol. VHI.) to which we refer 

 the amateur cultivator. A great number of fine pears, ac- 

 cording to foreign writers, yet remain to be introduced ; 

 and in order to enable those who are interested to procure 

 them, and test their merits, we have included the names 

 under our pomological notices for the year (Vol. VHI, p. 161). 

 Mr. Manning's notice of 44 kinds of cherries, fruited and 

 proved in his garden, at Salem, the past year, which was 

 probably the last communication he ever wrote, is a very 

 valuable article. It is a complete synopsis of nearly all the 

 cherries in cultivation. 



