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nati, not willing that their Eastern friends should keep far 

 ahead, have recently made journeys among us, and taken 

 home the best selections they could make from the nurse- 

 ries. Our correspondents, Messrs. Elliott and Ernst, passed 

 the autumn in New York and Boston, and returned with 

 all the choice fruits which the nurseries of the East afforded. 

 A correct nomenclature is now all that is wanting to 

 facilitate a more speedy introduction of fine fruits. Culti- 

 vating the same variety under several names, is attended 

 with sad disappointment to many cultivators. We offer 

 our pages as a medium, through which the cultivators of 

 the East and West may exchange information, and with 

 our own assistance we trust that errors may be detected, 

 and a nomenclature established as correct as that of the 

 London Horticultural Society's catalogue of fruits. 



Garden Literature. 



The principal publications of the year have been reprints 

 and new editions. On the subject of agriculture there have 

 been several volumes, some of which we have reviewed. 

 Ken rick's American Orchardist has reached its sixth edi- 

 tion, and the seventh is now preparing for the press with 

 some few alterations. The ninth edition of Bridgman's 

 Gardener'' s Assistant, with several alterations and addi- 

 tions, making a volume of about 500 pages, is now issuing 

 from the press. The Transactions of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society, a volume of 500 pages, hnprovements 

 in Agriculture, Arts, ^'c, by Hon. H. L. Ellsworth. Ma- 

 nures, a prize Essay by Dr. Dana. The American Poultry 

 Book ; and the Vegetable Kingdom, or Hand book of plants 

 and fruits, by L. D. Chapin. The principal reprints have 

 been Burger's Economy of Farming ; Lectures on the op- 

 plication of Chemistry and Geology to Agricidture ; The 

 Farmers Manual; the Farrtier'' s Mine, or Source of 

 Health ; Familiar Letters on Chemistry, by Liebig ; The 

 Silk question settled, by Mr. Barbour, and some other 

 smaller works and pamphlets. The periodical papers have 

 been much improved. The America?i Agriculturist, by 

 Mr. Allen, is well edited and has a goodly list of corres- 

 pondents. The new volume commencing January 1. The 

 Cultivator is about to appear in large octavo form, and com- 

 mence a new series ; we think the change a good one. The 



