388 THE FLORIST AND 



The Western Plowboy is the title of a paper published at Fort Wayne, 

 Inch, $1 a year. 



The Prairie Parmer, published at Chicago, Illinois, at $1 per annum, 

 is one of the very best of our exchanges. As a useful farmer's paper we put 

 it in the very first rank. The horticultural department is under the charge 

 of Dr. J. A. Kennicott, whose name is a sufficient guarantee for the accu- 

 racy of that part of the work. 



Since writing the above notices we see that under the new name of the 

 Horticultural Review and Botanical magazine, Dr. Warder's paper vill re- 

 appear on the first of January 1854. We are glad to know that so talented 

 a fellow labourer has sufficiently recovered his health. The Doctor will be 

 assisted by Jas. W. Ward, Esq. The price of the Review is $3 per annum. 



The Parmer arid Artizan, published at Portland, Me., is a monthly de- 

 voted to the interests of the farmer and mechanic — besides articles on agri- 

 culture, it contains notices and descriptions of inventions — price $1 per an- 

 num. 



Our friends who remit their subscriptions for the coming volume, are re- 

 quested to register their letters; — the address is H. C. Hanson — Office 

 Florist, Philadelphia. 



A correspondent in Indiana, writes us, under date of December 4, that 

 Pansies are in bloom with him in the open air. They are little affected by 

 cold ; in a garden in this neighborhood, there was not a week in which they 

 did not bloom during last winter. What may appear surprising, a large plant 

 of Abutilon striatum, which had been bedded out, survived the winter in 

 the open ground. It was, of course, much cut down, 



