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fruit without being in the neighborhood oi staminate plants; 

 but that they would in some seasons, and under some cir- 

 cumstances, fruit better if placed near a bed of slaminate 

 plants is, he thinks very probable. The question is asked 

 whether it may not be that "in a wet season, or under 

 some other unfavorable circumstances, the anthers of these 

 kinds do not shed sufficient pollen for free fructification ? 

 This is, as he says, the point on which more information is 

 needed. To us it seems the main point on which the 

 whole question rests. In our own seedling the stamens are 

 not wanting, but the filament is quite short, and hence un- 

 der unfavorable circumstances of too high cultivation, too 

 Avet a season, or other causes, the pollen is not freely dis- 

 tributed, and the immense number of pistils, from the great 

 size of the embryo berry, are not properly fertilized ; some- 

 times those nearest the base begmning to swell up, while 

 those in the centre are quite dried up, thus forming an im- 

 perfectly^ ripened fruit. 



We hope Mr. Huntsman will continue his inquiries on 

 this subject farther, and communicate the results to us, as 

 well as his ideas upon any other question which may be 

 interesting to our readers. — Ed. 



Art. IV. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New 

 Plants, figwed in foreign periodicals ; with Remarks on 

 those recently introdnced to, or originated in, American 

 gardens, and additional information upon plants already 

 in cultivation. 



Edivards's Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Gar- 

 den and Shrubbery. Each number containing from six to 

 eight plates; with additional miscellaneous information, 

 relative to new plants. In monthly numbers ; 35. plain, 

 35, 6f/. colored. 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering 

 Plants. Each number containing four colored plates. 

 Monthly, 25. Gd each. Edited by J. Paxton, gardener to 

 the Duke of Devonshire. 



