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Pomological ^Gossip. 



tioii to those already recommended, of which the names 

 have been given in our volume for 1848, (XIV, p. 69.) 



APPLES. 



Dominie, 



Wine, 



Peck's Pleasant. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



Whitesmith, (Woodward's,) 

 Crown Bob, 

 Green Walnut. 



PEARS. 



Doyenne d'Ete, 

 Andrews, 

 Flemish Beauty, 

 Urbaniste. 



PLUMS. 



Madison. 



CHERRIES. 



Knight's Early Black, 

 Graffion, 

 Black Eagle, 

 Downer's Late. 



RASPBERRIES. 



FastolfF, 

 Franconia, 

 White Antwerp. 



PEACHES. 



Old Mixton Free, 

 Bergen's Yellow, 

 Crawford's Late. 



CURRANTS. 



Knight's Sweet Red, 

 White Grape, 

 May's Victoria. 



We are glad to see the committee have made the Beurre 

 Spence a synoiiyme of the Flemish Beauty, as adopted by 

 us in the Fruits of America. 



All the above fruits are described at length, accompanied 

 with outline engravings of each. 



New Seedling Raspberries. We notice that our corres- 

 pondent. Dr. Brinckle, of Philadelphia, has exhibited before 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, six or eight varieties 

 of seedling raspberries, which the committee notice as " very 

 fine specimens." Dr. Brinckle has raised several seedlings, 

 some of which he has named, but we have never yet seen 

 the fruit of any of them. We hope another year to see 

 specimens placed on the tables of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society, and have their merits tested. No fruit is 

 more capable of improvement than the raspberry ; and the 

 production of a large fine fruit, and a hardy vine, one that 



