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death, by A. J. Downing, the Landscape-gardener 

 and Rural Architect ; — and so of other instances. 

 The reason of this is that we have no immense pri- 

 vate establishments in this country, where, at an 

 enormous expense, every branch of gardening is 

 carried on merely for the love of it; and where the 

 knowledge and experience which is to fit one for 

 doing justice to the editorial chair is to be found. 

 It is only in what is slurringly spoken ot as "horti- 

 cultural establishments," that immense gardening 

 capital, in America, finds encouragement ; and so 

 well is this known, that the chief difficulty Ameri- 

 can gentlemen find in keeping gardeners is because 

 the general course of an intelligent gardener is, some 

 time or another, to "start for himself." 



It is the universal practice of American gentlemen 

 to apply to the American nurseryman for advice. 

 Every nurseryman's table groans with correspon- 

 dence, and his steps all over his grounds are dogged 

 by inquirers of this character. People prefer the 

 chance of interested intelligence to disinterested ig- 

 norance. That is the amount of the whole story. 



To show how this pretension of not "having an 

 interest" works, in the number before us we see 

 two pages of the most fulsome adulation of a book 

 which Tilton & Co. have for sale ; — the same firm 

 being publishers of the magazine ! ! No other no- 

 tices of new Books appear, though several have re- 

 cently been issued from the press. 



We regret to have to make these severe remarks, 

 for we wished to give a cordial welcome and an as- 

 sisting hand ; but the publishers, or whoever may 

 be the editors, have themselves made the issue, and 

 in self defence we naturally meet it. Having said 

 this much as due to ourselves, we would forget the 

 unpleasant topic; and examining the work itself irre- 

 spective of its motives, feel free to say, that the ar- 

 ticles are of first-class excellence, and the whole get- 

 ting up of the magazine is good, and altogether a 

 credit to Boston Horticulture, and we wish it success. 



The Atlantic Monthly. — Our literature 

 abounds with serials which excite the affections, 

 and appeal to the passions, — and others are 

 devoted to abstruse science, which leaves the read- 

 ers, each for himself, to apply what he reads to use- 

 ful purposes. But magazines which encourage the 

 reflective faculties are not by any means so common 

 as we would like them to be. The Atlantic Monthly 

 is one of the few which, on this ground, is always 

 welcome to our tables. There are many subjects 

 treated of in it, of course, with which a horticultu- 

 ral paper has nothing whatever to do ; but yet so 

 much that has reference to the proper enjoyment of 



country life, and which, all who have the least in- 

 terest in rural pleasures, will enjoy, that however 

 much people may differ in opinion as to the subjects 

 and the reasonings of some of the articles, it is the 

 most popular magazine, among people who like to 

 encourage the thinking element, of any probably in 

 existence. 



Arnold's No. 1 Grape.— ^See Mnstrafion. — 

 We recently referred to Mr. Arnold's wonderful 

 improvement of the Clinton Grape. We have now 

 the pleasure ef giving an illustration of the best one. 

 Usually engravings of fruits have little value, as 

 there are so many like each other in mere outline ; 

 but in this instance a comparison with Clinton will 

 show at once the great march of improvement. We 

 are sorry a name has not yet been assigned it, as 

 Mr. Arnold will not, we hope, distribute it by 

 numbers. 



Hf&i aiib Plerp "JPIanh. 



In the latest issue of the Botanical Magaziney 

 the following plants are figured and described: — 



C-^LOGYNE CORRUGATA. — This species is distin- 

 guished by the wrinkled appearance of the pseudo- 

 bulbs, and by the racemes being three to six flow- 

 ered ; the flowers white, with the exception of the 

 limb of the lip, which is yellow. 



Cotyledon fascicularis. — A fine South African 

 succulent plant, very glaucous, with the leaves one- 

 third of an inch in thickness, and long campanulate 

 red flowers. 



Glyptostrobus pendulfs. — A tree closely al- 

 lied to the well known Taxodium distichum, from 

 which it differs in the foliage not being distichous, 

 in the seeds being winged, and in the great slender- 

 ness of the twisted stem. 



Helipteriim cotula. — A pretty yellow and 

 white-flowered everlasting ; introduced from West 

 Australia by Mr. W. Thompson, of Ipswich. 



Bolbophyllum reticulatum. — The finest of 

 the genus; the foliage eminently beautiful, owing 

 to its elegant reticulation. 



MusscHiA WoLLASTONi. — A beautiful cool green- 

 house shrub from Madeira. It is closely allied to 

 campanula. The flowers are yellow, with stigmas 

 in such a state of development that they give to 

 the flower the appearance of having another flower 

 thrust within it. 



