256 Notes o?i Gardens and Nurseries. 



we lately gave some account; probably some of them 

 will bloom the present season. 



In the open garden, the roses were just coming into 

 bloom. A row of standard plants, set out a year ago, 

 were in as fine condition as could be desired, and were 

 throwing up strong shoots, terminated with great clusters 

 of flowers; they stood entirely unprotected, last winter, 

 and scarcely one of them was injured. Some of the most 

 beautiful of those in bloom were Hybrid China President 

 Mole, Brilliant, Coronation, and Charles Louis ; a week 

 later, and the display would be truly magnificent. 



Col. Wilder has raised several hundred seedling straw- 

 berries, the result of various impregnations, with our Seed- 

 ling for one of the parents ; the vines were now coming in- 

 to bearing, and some of the plants promised well ; but as 

 this is the first year after planting out, another season will 

 aflbrd a better opportunity to test them. It will be difii- 

 cult to find a variety possessing all the merits of our seed- 

 ling ; we have known hundreds of plants raised from it by 

 various cultivators, both with and without hybridization, 

 and all of them have been destroyed as not worth keeping. 

 Ross's Phoenix, and the Swainstone Seedling were show- 

 ing some fruit, but not in sufficient quantities to form a 

 just estimate of their merits. Ross's Phoenix appears to 

 be very much like the parent, Keen's Seedling. The Brit- 

 ish Queen, of which Mr. Wilder had several plants, last 

 fall, were nearly or quite all killed by the winter. 



The fruit trees, especially the pears, were showing an a- 

 bundance of fruit, and several new kinds are bearing, for 

 the first time here; Knight's Monarch, and Van Mons 

 Leon le Clerc, are among the number; we may therefore 

 anticipate the pleasure of seeing these highly esteemed va- 

 rieties in the approaching autumn. Several new French 

 Pears are also fruiting, but we did not take down the 

 names. 



The May Bigarreau cherry fruited again this season in 

 great perfection, although, from its exceeding earliness, be- 

 fore any other fruit was ripe, the birds destroyed the best 

 part of the crop ; the tree had been literally loaded with 

 fruit; but it was, even now, [June 8th,] nearly or quite 

 all gone. This variety is, without doubt, the very earliest 

 cherry in cultivation, coming in ten days before any other 

 kind ; ripe fruit was picked June 1st. 



