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mental. In 1852 it fruited for the first time ; and in September of the same 

 year, specimens of the nuts, with the wood and foliage, were exhibited by 

 Mr. Joshua Pierce, of Washington, at the meeting of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, in Philadelphia. The nut, in its general appearance, differs 

 very materially from any others of the Juglans family : — Size, large, one 

 and three-fourths inches long, one and seven-twelfths wide, and one thick, 

 exclusive of the remarkable carena, elevated a fourth of an inch above the 

 surface, and extending entirely around its longitudinal circumference ; form, 

 ovate, pointed at its apex ; exterior surface, deeply and boldly, but inter- 

 ruptedly and irregularly sulcated, without having the continuous longi- 

 tudinal furrows usually noticed in the Butternut ; color, light brownish yel- 

 low; kernel, fine. Mr. Pierce has succeeded in two instances in grafting 

 this variety on the English Walnut. What has been the success of others, 

 in propagating it, to whom scions were sent, we are not informed. It is 

 extremely difficult to graft the Walnut in any of the ordinary ways. Ow- 

 ing to the excitability of its buds, they are apt to push, and exhaust the 

 organizable matter of the scion, before its union with the stock can take 

 place. This usual cause of failure is obviated by working, as recommend- 

 ed by the late President Knight, witli the base of the annual shoots, the buds 

 of which are small and but little developed. Another successful mode, 

 noticed in D'Albret's recent work on grafting, is to cleft-graft in the side 

 of the young shoots, and is said to answer well whether performed in the 

 solid or herbaceous state. In regard to the stock of Belt's Hybrid, we 

 would suggest the Butternut for standards, and the Juglans Prsparturiens 

 for dwarfs. 



From J. B. Garber, of Columbia, Pennsylvania — Nine varieties of apples, 

 sent to him from Georgia. These are the first apples we have received 

 that were grown in that state. Much attention, we understand, is being 

 paid at this time, by the pomologists of Georgia, to the raising of late kinds 

 of this fi uit. Those that ripen with us in the winter, become, when trans- 

 ferred so far south, autumnal varieties. This fact has induced them to turn 

 their attention to Southern Seedlings. And we learn, that they have al- 

 ready succeeded in originating a number of kinds, which promise to be far 

 better keepers, than those which they had previously obtained from the 

 north. We are so much pleased with the appearance of those sent to us by 

 Mr. Garber, that we hope Mr. Richard Peters, of Atlanta, or some of our 

 other Georgia friends will furnish us, at the proper season, with other speci- 

 mens for examination. Although those we have received are not in a con- 

 dition for testing, we deem them sufficiently interesting to merit a full 

 exterior pomological description, especially as most of them are entirely 

 new to us. And if it should prove from our descriptions, that we have not 

 received the true varieties, we trust specimens tliat are genuine will be for- 

 warded to our Society. 



1. Liinher Twig, or James River. — This variety has been cultivated, to a 

 considerable extent, in Virginia, and some of the Western States. Size, 

 full medium, three inches long by three and three-sixteenths broad ; form, 

 rounding oblong; color, striped and marbled with pale red on a yellowish 



