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are too unwilling to promote those interests which contribute 

 to their own welfare and pleasure. The time is not far dis- 

 tant, however, when the hopes of the best friends of garden- 

 ing will be realized, when the science of the culture of the 

 ground, and the creation of natural landscapes and gardens 

 will be carried out to the admiration and delight of all who 

 will admire and take pleasure in them. The gardens which 

 I have here noticed, — fine although they be, — are but the 

 precepts and examples of others still finer than themselves ; 

 and though gardening as a science, or as an art, imparts 

 neither honor, nor influence in a speculative point of view, 

 to those who patronize it, yet it has patrons and admirers not 

 a few among the learned, — the good, — and the great, — who 

 consider it no reduction of their dignity to be the friends of 

 gardeners, — to promote gardening, and even to engage in its 

 practical operations. But I am digressing from my point : 

 I have already tired your editorial patience, by the length of 

 this communication, so I will throw down my pen, and re- 

 main yours, appreciating as I do, your endeavors to improve 

 and elevate the standing and skill of professional gardeners. 

 New Haven, January, 1850. 



Art. II. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Apples. By the Editor. 



We continue our description of Apples from our last vol- 

 ume : — 



XXYII. Jonathan. Kenrick's American Orchardist. 



Phihp Rick, ) ^^ g^^g American collections. 

 King Philip, 5 



In a letter under date of March, 1848, Mr. Manning writes 

 us as follows : — " I send you a few specimens of Judge 

 Duel's favorite apple, the Jonathan, Avhich I do not recollect 

 that you have yet particularly noticed. I have found it dis- 



