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form on which he and his friends have been contending, there is surely no 

 use in further discussion in the Farm Journal or any where else. 



N. Longworth, in a late number of the Western Horticultural Review, 

 Concludes an article as follows : "As Longworth's Prolific (which is herma- 

 phrodite) produces a chance pistillate blossom, I see no reason for saying 

 that there may not be a pistillate bearing an occasional hermaphrodite or 

 Staminate blossom." This admission covers the whole ground, and is ex- 

 actly what T. Meehan has been assailed for asserting. One remark further, 

 in conclusion, which simple justice to him seems to require. It is insinu- 

 ated, and indeed directly asserted, that he had seen the article by W. D. 

 before penning his own, and had copied the ideas from it. On the contra- 

 ry, being accidentally on a visit to West Chester, he informed us that he 

 had forwarded his article to the Horticulturist, and this was before the issue 

 of the number of the Farm Journal containing W. D.'s essay. That their 

 views should have been identical, is no more strange than that the views of 

 scientific men should happen to agree on a scientific question when they are 

 2000 miles apart, and had never met. — Farm Journal. 



Our actual opinion is this : that a pistillate by itself may, and often does 

 produce fruit to some extent ; but that to insure what is called a crop it is 

 absolutely necessary to plant staminates near them. — Ed. Horticulturist. 



" I have a pistillate strawberry flowering ; there is not, nor has not for 

 many months, been a staminate in flower on the premises, nor perhaps for 

 twenty miles, and the fruit is swelling very well. I merely notice this as 

 showing that fruit will sometimes swell independent of pollen. I always 

 thought so, now I know it." — W. S., Bait., Sept. 23. 



The Pennsylvania Farm Journal. — This valuable and interesting mag- 

 azine comes out this month under partly new management. Mr. J. M. 

 Meredith having retired from the Register and Examiner will devote him- 

 self entirely to the publication of the Farm Journal. The circulation is 

 deservedly very large, and we hope that it will still continue to increase. It 

 is published at Westchester, Pa., at 1 dollar per annum. 



"ajor P. R. Freas, of the Germantown Telegraph, has disposed of an: 

 interest in that paper to Mr. John C. Stoever. We believe that the Tele- 

 graph is more largely circulated in the neighboring counties than any other 

 paper. It is an excellent family paper, and the agricultural portion is con- 

 ducted by Mr. Freas : no further recommendation is needed. 



Through some unaccountable delay, on the other side r several plates 

 which were shipped on the 31st. of May last have failed to come to hand. 

 We are therefore, compelled to issue this number without one ; the deficien- 

 cy will be made up in the December number. 



We again ask the attention of our delinquent subscribers to the bills 

 which we mailed them some time ago ; in most cases it has proved a mere 

 waste of postage stamps. 



