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three quarters of an inch long, stout, and deeply sunk in a 

 broad open cavity : Eye, medium size, closed, and deeply 

 sunk in a very large, round, open basin ; segments of the 

 calyx, short : Flesh, yellowish white, fine, crisp and tender : 

 Juice, abundant, pleasantly acid, brisk, rich and high flavored : 

 Co7'e, small, closed : Seeds, large and broad. Ripe from Oc- 

 tober to January. 



Art. YI. The Neio Globe Amaranth. By John Lewis 

 Russell, Prof, of Botany to the Mass. Hort. Society. 



It is always pleasant to be introduced to a new plant. 

 One half the pleasure many derive from horticultural pursuits, 

 or botanical research, comes from the novelty of the object. 

 Curiosity arouses itself to see, to criticise, to admire, or to 

 reject. And then, too, the love for beauty comes in for a 

 share of the enjoyment. This element of our natures ought 

 to be a subject of education. How much it is prompted and 

 gratified by the innocent taste for flowers, how refined it 

 becomes when it meets with encouragement, the history of 

 gardening readily shows. 



Probably much of the well known interest which attaches 

 to fruit culture is of precisely the same character. To watch 

 the expected crop, from the earliest bursting of the pregnant 

 bud to the swelling off" of the rich cluster — from the carna- 

 tine-tinted flowers to the perfected and blushing downiness 

 of the peach — from the rosy blossoms to the growing ruddi- 

 ness, or brown russet, of the apple's cheek — from the snowy 

 racemes to the melting delicacies of the pear — to anticipate 

 the coming epoch when the glaucous bloom on the skin of 

 the plum shall attest its ripeness — these, we have no doubt, 

 all enter into the pleasures of the horticulturist. Nor has any 

 department of this comparatively modern art a want of varied 

 interest in curious study and in pleasing results ; and your 

 friend's new maize, or your neighbor's new melon, or farmer 

 Jones's new turnip, equally show the delight which novelty 

 imparts. 

 . The earliest recollections that many of us have connected 



