Uniform Nomenclature of Fruits. 47 



tude of Boston, if protected for a few years. Picea Webb- 

 iana is a native of Himalaya, and a splendid tree, allied 

 to the silver firs, and about of the same hardness as the com- 

 mon silver fir : the tree at Dropmore, is the largest in Eng- 

 land, These, with many others, are pines and firs which 

 are deserving of every attempt at acclimization with us, and 

 we trust we have sufiiciently spoken in their praise, after an 

 inspection of several specimens, to induce nurserymen, as 

 well as gentlemen, possessing ornamental plantations, to add 

 these noble objects of vegetation to our pleasure grounds. 

 The Deodar cedar here is not so large as some we have al- 

 ready noticed. 



One great feature of Dropmore, is an avenue of the Cedar of 

 Lebanon, each forty feet high, planted out twenty feet apart, 

 and extending nearly half a mile ; the branches just begin 

 to assume the horizontal appearance which stamps the noble 

 character of this tree, and in a few years this avenue must 

 excel any thing of the kind in England. Many other species 

 of pines might be mentioned, which are growing in various 

 parts of the grounds, but we have already extended our no- 

 tice of this fine place beyjond our limits. Late at noon we 

 started olF for Maidenhead, the road to which lies through 

 a thickly and richly wooded country, with occasional 

 views of the distant Thames, and we arrived there in sea- 

 son for a late dinner, previous to our ride to Windsor. 

 ( To be continued.^ • 



Art. II. Remarks on the im,portance of an uniform, Nomen- 

 clature of Fruits ; loiih a few preparatory observations 

 upon the m,is conceptions entertained by many of Downing^ s 

 Fruits and Fruit Trees of America^ as attributable, in part, 

 to the author'' s objectionable and imperfect statement of its 

 design. By T. S. Humrickhouse, Coshocton, Ohio. 



A LAUDABLE Spirit of inquiry and interest upon the subject 

 of fruits and fruit trees, appears to be just now more widely 

 felt, than at any former period in the history of Pomological 

 efibrt, whether we refer to the present or to past ages. The 



