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crown, with a greenish yellow skin, streaked with bright red, 

 and mottled with dark blotches. Flesh, yellow, breaking, 

 juicy and fine flavored. It keeps till mid-winter. 



Milan. — Probably a native of Virginia or Kentucky, where 

 it is extensively cultivated and prized. Fruit, small, round, 

 light red on a yellow ground : flesh, white, tender, juicy, 

 subacid and fine flavored. It keeps till spring, and the tree 

 is a great and constant bearer. 



King. — From Mason Co., Ky. Fruit, medium size, dull 

 red mixed with yellow, and obscured with dark clouds over 

 the surface : form, oblong, flattened at the base : flesh, white, 

 tender, juicy and pleasant. It keeps till January. 



Stump. — A seedling, from an old stump in the garden of the 

 Shakers of Union Village, Ohio. It is in eating in the au- 

 tumn, and in point of flavor, cooking qualities, and its re- 

 markable adaptation to drying for sauce, one of the best win- 

 ter fruits. The tree is remarkably productive, and the fruit 

 of large size. 



Our next Pomological notice, in an early number of the 

 next volume, will contain a review of the new fruits which 

 have been introduced and tested the present year. 



Art. IV, Som,e Account of the Hog Artichoke. By W. S. 

 Rockwell, Esq., Milledgeville, Ga. 



How the Hog Artichoke came to be referred to Solanecc, I 

 am at a loss to conjecture. The plant which was sold in this 

 vicinity as the Hog Artichoke, is certainly a Helianthus, al- 

 though I am not prepared to assert that it is H. tuberosus, 

 (Jerusalem artichoke.) It differs materially in habit. The 

 two agree in the fringed linear lanceolate leaves of the invo- 

 lucrum, the three-cleft concave palese, the two-awned com- 

 pressed quadrangular seeds, though in the Hog artichoke, 

 they (the awns) are rather persistent, and, perhaps, in the 

 alternate ovate-lanceolate leaves with the petioles ciliated 

 at the base. H. tuberosus rises with an erect, rarely 

 branched stem to the height of eight to ten feet, bearing a few 



