IV 



CONTENTS. 



Description of Select Varieties of Pears. 

 By the Editor, 



1. Grand Soliel, Beurr^ Sterkman, 

 Beurre Clairgeau, Poire d'Albret, Jo- 

 sephine des Malines, Bonne des Zees, . 197 



2. Braiidywine, Petre, Kingsessing, 

 Ott, Seckel, Merriam, . . . .449 



Wool Waste as a Manure. In a series of 

 Conversational Meetings by the mem- 

 bers of the Mass. llort. Society, . . 206 



History of the Endicott Pear Tree. By 

 C. M. Endicott, Salem, Mass., . . 254 



Remarks on several New Pears. By Bap- 

 tiste Oesportes, Angers, France, . . 298 



Descriptions and Engravings of Select 

 Varieties of Cheriies. By the Editor, 



1. Hovey, Duchess de Pallua, Coe's 

 Transparent, 405 



Description and Engraving of the Lang- 

 don's Seedling Plum. By Dr. G. W. 

 Russell, Hartford, Ct., . . . .461 



The Shenks Pear. By the Editor, . . 498 



Description and Engraving of the Marthy 

 Anne Pear, one of Mr. Dana's new Seed- 

 lings. By the Editor, .... 538 



Mode of Replacing branches on pyrami- 

 dal or Espalier trees, as practised iu 

 France 544 



Pomological Gossip, 124, 169. 208. 261. 301 

 347. 399. 462. 541 



FLORICULTURE. 



Notes on Flower Garden Plants. By Hor- 

 tus, 



Dielytra spectabilis ; with an Engraving 

 of the Plant. By the Editor, 



The New Globe Amaranth.' By John 

 Lewis Russell, Prof, of Botany lo the 

 Mdss. Hort. Society, .... 133 



A New and Economical Plan for construct- 

 ing small Green-houses for growing 

 Plants in Winter. By H. G. Davis, Esq., 

 Millbury, Mass., 159 



The Cultivation of the Camellia. From 

 the Gardeners' and Farmers' Journal, . 211 



The New Pompone Chrysanthemums. By 

 the Editor, 214 



The Cultivation and Propagation of the 

 Nepenthes, (or Pitcher Plant.) By Jas. 

 H. Cruise, Gardener to A. B. Marvin, 

 Esq., Brewster Station, N. Y., . . 217 



Mitraria coccinea, its Cultivation and 

 Treatment, By the Editor, . . . 263 



Descriptions of Eighteen New Verbenas. 

 By the Editor, 266 



The Cultivation of Begonias, From the 

 Gardeners' Journal, .... 303 



The Abromia umbellata. By the Editor, 307 



The Cultivation of the Carnation and 

 Picotee, 348 



Flowering of the Victoria regia in Salem, 

 Mass. By J. F. Allen, Esq., . . .367 



How to Grow Specimen Pelargoniums. 

 By the Editor, 372 



Variety in Flower Gardens. From the 

 Magazine of Botany, .... 408 



Floricultural and Botanical Notices of 

 New and Beautiful Plants figured in 

 Foreign Periodicals ; with Descriptions 

 of those recently introduced to, or orig- 

 inated in, American Collections, 25. 78. 135. 

 180. 219. 268. 309. 375. 411. 503 



Notes on Gardens and Nurseries, . . 548 



REVIEWS. 



The Cold Grapery, from direct American 

 practice, being a concise and detailed 

 Treatise on the Cultivation of the Exo- 

 tic Grape Vine, under glass, without ar- 

 tificial heat. By William Chorlton, gar- 

 dener to J. C. Green, Esq., Staten Is- 

 land, N. Y. 1 vol. l2mo., pp. 95. New 

 York, 1853 222 



Chemical Field Lectures for Agricultur- 

 ists. By Dr. Julius Augustus Stock- 

 hardt. Translated from the German. 

 Edited, with Notes, by J. E. Teschema- 



cher. 1 vol. 12mo., pp. 242. Cam- 

 bridge, 1853, 223 



A Tractical Treatise on the Culture and 

 Treatment of the Grape Vine ; embrac- 

 ing its History, with directions for its 

 Treatment in the United States of 

 America, in the open air, and under 

 glass structures, with and without Ar- 

 tificial Heat. By J. F. Allen. Third 

 Edition, enlarged and revised. 1 vol., 12 

 mo., pp. 330. New York, 1853, . . 313 



