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but it was not until within three or four years that its qual- 

 ities were fully made known, and plants offered for sale. 

 The fruit is most brilliant in color, and rich in flavor, as we 

 ourselves have tested, and its very large size aud most abun- 

 dant produce, must entitle it to a place in every collection. 



The British dueen Strawberry was fruited in New York the 

 past year, but in the size of its berries it did not come up to 

 our seedling ; perhaps when the plants are stronger another 

 year, the fruit Avill be much larger. In England it is consid- 

 ered one of the best. The Deptford Pine subsequently raised 

 by the same cultivator, Mr. Myatt, is also a large and su- 

 perior variety rivalling or surpassing the Queen. Princess 

 Alice Maud, as an early variety, is now attracting attention. 

 Since the production of Keen's Seedling, Mr. Myatt has been 

 the most successful cultivator of new varieties. 



Other new fruits have been described and noticed in our 

 last volume. A plum called the Louis Philippe, was exhib- 

 ited at a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 in August, which was pronounced very fine. Upon diligent 

 enquiry among the principal nurserymen in Paris, we could 

 not learn of any such variety. It is undoubtedly the Prune 

 peche or Nectarine plum of the French, as they have not any 

 other August plum of equal size. The Blue Imperatrice and 

 Semiana plum have, as we anticipated, proved to be diifer- 

 ent varieties : we shall take an early opportunity to note their 

 characteristics in a separate article. That excellent new va- 

 riety, the Jefferson, is described by our correspondent Mr. 

 Downmg in another page of the present number. 



FlOPvICULTUKE. 



This department is in a flourishing condition ; a greater 

 number of new and beautiful plants have been introduced 

 than usual, and a larger number of seedling productions have 

 been brought into notice. It is gratifying to record the growth 

 of new plants from seeds, as the success which has attended 

 their production hitherto has been such as to warrant contin- 

 ued experiments. The camellia may be noticed as an example 

 of what hybridization will effect, and the same results may 

 be obtained with the azalea, rhododendron, pelargonium, &c. 



