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Swan's Orange, St. Martin's Quetsche. 



Ott, CHERRIES. 



Pratt, Bicrarreau Monstreuse de Bavay, 



St. Michael Archangel, Early Purple Guigne, 



Stevens's Genesee, Reine Hortense. 

 Striped Madeleine, grapes. 



Van Assene. Diana. 



PLUMS. RASPBERRIES. 



McLaughlin, Knevett's Giant. 



Prince's Yellow Gage, strawberries. 



Rivers's Fa\-orite, Burr's New Pine. 



A very large and handsome collection of fruits was con- 

 tributed by the members and others, which attracted great 

 attention from our Philadelphia friends. The reports of State 

 committees we shall endeavor to notice at another time. 



Art. V. Notes on Flower Garden Plants. By Hortus. 



Much change has of late years been effected in the ar- 

 rangement and management of flower gardens. Annual 

 flowers are almost discarded, and their place supplied with 

 others of a more permanent character. Whether the change 

 is an improvement, we will not say. In our younger days, 

 the glory and pride of the flower gardener lay in his rich dis- 

 play of annuals intermixed among the herbaceous flowering 

 plants, and when well arranged with regard to habit, color, 

 and size, produced an effect which one rarely meets with in 

 these days of groups and masses. The flower garden was 

 always well stocked, perhaps not always in a blaze of flow- 

 ers, but producing an equal, if not a more interesting, effect 

 in diversity and beauty of foliage, and there are many, (and 

 we are willing to be classed among the number,) who admire 

 a plant as much for the beauty of its foliage, as its flowers. 

 Masses of petunias, verbenas, scarlet geraniums, &c., are cer- 

 tainly objects of admiration while in their beauty, but their 

 season is limited ; the " first frost" renders them common- 

 place enough, and the flower beds are empty for one half of 



