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P) H7*0ur spirited friend at New York, of the American Gardener's r®y 

 o° Chronicle we do not pretend to notice. The handle to "our name is c n 



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/ just sufficient to lift us by, and no more. If more is required he can 

 have it at the shortest notice — with deeds given under hand and seal 

 to substantiate all pretensions. We would say a word for our talented 

 cotemporary the "Working Farmer." Prof. Mapes we know will not 

 see, or if he do, will not notice such miserable cavil as is vented 

 about "Wren houses." We hope that at some future day, science 

 will have more gentlemanly advocates than the Empire city now pos- 

 sesses. Oh, mantle of Linnseus and Knight where hast thou descended! 

 We recommend the "Working Farmer" as a tried, scientific and prac- 

 tical sheet — not a whit too chemical, though the "Plough" thinks it 

 cannot turn up the furrow, loaded with salt and soot, and gypsum, and 

 guano. We shall see when the husbandman comes round to gather 

 the crop, where it is heavy, and where light. 



U3?* One of the speakers at the Horticultural Exhibition at New 

 York eulogised our friends across the ferry in the following words : — 

 It is conceded that notwithstanding the sterility of their soil and seve- 

 rity of climate, Scotch gardeners are more talented in their profession 

 than any others. 



[XT* The correspondent who enquired last month about Stowell 

 Corn, knew more about it than we did. We would thank such men 

 to help us with their knowledge. 



03/** Thomas Hutchinson, who left this city two weeks ago as col- 

 lector of native plants and seeds, has written a journal of his tour to 

 Cincinnati. We shall copy from it copiously next month. He pub- 

 licly returnts hanks to Messrs. Cunningham, of Pittsburg — Mr. .Rob- 

 inson, Sharpsburg — Mr. G. MacHattie, at C. F. Spangs, Pittsburg, — 

 and to Mr. Pentland, Cincinnati, Gardener to N. Lorgworth, for their 

 kind attention towards him. 



[J"?* We must hold over a paper on the cultivation of the Straw- 

 berry — and Mr. Powell's article on Foreign Grapes; also, Thomas 

 Hutchinson's conclusion of the paper on Pruning — with many other 

 important matters. 



(£/*• J. C. Haight, of 5th Avenue, 15th Street, New York, Gardener, 

 F. Norton, has in his pretty conservatory, fine plants of Doryanthes 

 exelsa in bud, also, Yucca aloeifolia a fine collection of Acacias 

 Araucaria excelsa, &c. 



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(£7* The state of the thermometer is left out, and a Botanical tour 

 in New York, New Jersey, and Chester county, Pa., with the contin- 

 uation of the article on Acclimatisation of Plants. Also, notices of < 

 ic and private gardens in the vicinity of New York. ^) 



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