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previous co-laborers in the wide field of Pomological literature. 

 Seven editions of Kenrick's OrcJiardtst^ besides those of Coxe, 

 Thatcher, Prince, and Manning, and ten volumes of our Mag- 

 azine, with numerous communications from Mr. Manning, 

 have certainly done something towards supplying a fund 

 of information for the cultivator, and rendering him conver- 

 sant with nearly or quite all the fruits introduced into our 

 gardens. It would have been no more than a just tribute 

 to those who had garnered up before him, and done so 

 much towards restoring something hke " real order " out of 

 chaos, to have admitted the value of their labors, and 

 acknowledged an indebtedness to them, as well as the 

 " heavy debt of gratitude " due to the London Horticultural 

 Society. But ]io allusion is even made in the preface to any 

 previous work on fruits, except the Catalogue of the London 

 Horticultural Society. We doubt not, with Mr. Humrick- 

 house, that this was an inadvertence, rather than an inten- 

 tional error, and we shall look to a future edition to see it 

 corrected. When this shall appear, Ave trust that some of our 

 many able correspondents will undertake the task of a 

 thorough review, and point out the errors, as well as the many 

 excellencies of the work. — Ed. 



Art. HL The Arboretum ; or a selection of the most orna- 

 ifiental and desirable trees and shrubs^ native and foreign, 

 adapted to the clim,ate of the United States ; with descrip- 

 tions and engravings, a?id their mode of cultivation, propa- 

 gation and treatTnent. By the Editor. 



The increasing taste for ornamental trees and shrubs, and 

 the desire to possess information in relation to those which 

 may be regarded as the most beautiful and desirable, in garden 

 scenery, has induced us to commence a series of articles upon 

 this subject. Public opinion has undergone a great change 

 within a few years ; that spirit of destruction, which has 

 laid waste our forests, and which might be considered as 

 belonging to some Vandal age, is giving away to the progress 

 of civilization and improvement, and we now find that it is 



