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a large number could be produced, and many such 

 slices could be cut from one stem. I believe that 

 the "mysteries" hitherto sold in London have al[ 

 been imported from India or Japan, but there is 

 no reason why they should not be made in this 

 country, and perhaps at a cheaper rate than pur- 

 chasing them of the Eastern manufacturers. The 

 material, if the demand for the articles continued, 

 could be imported in almost any quantity from the 

 East Indies, and by cutting the stem up into thin 

 slices, and then stamping the objects out with a 

 kind of die, thousands could be produced and rolled 

 into a small compass in a very short space of time. 

 J., in Gardeners' Chronicle. 



New Vegetable and Flower Seed.— It may 

 b\3 to the advantage of seed-growers andseedmen to 

 know that for all the novelities they can produce in 

 the above line, the subscriber will for a small con- 

 sideration give testimonials, of which he begs to 

 submit the following examples: 



]\/ew Early Fea.— I beg to state that I have given 

 your new early Pea (the Racer) a fair trial with 

 some of the earliest Peas known, and found it to 

 come in 2 days 5 hours 46 minutes and a few seconds 

 before any of them. It is likewise a stronger grower 

 and better bearer than Precocious (alias First Pod). 

 I shall want two pecks of it this year if you can sup- 

 ply me with them. 



New Late Broccoli — As a late variety of this 

 esteemed vegetable is a great desideratum for gar- 

 deners, I find your new late sort is likely to prove 

 so. The seeds of it were sown in the usual time, 

 in June, and the plants transplanted in the month 

 of July. The plants do not attempt yet to show 

 heads, although nearly a year has elapsed — this I 

 therefore think will prove that j''our late sort (Hy- 

 bernator) is the latest known. 



Cauliflower Seed. — The Cauliflower being reckon- 

 ed by epicures as the finest flower grown in the 

 garden, your plan of raising the seed in Norway on 

 purpose to make the plants hardier in the winter 

 months in this country is a step in the right direc- 

 tion. I have lately been cutting some fine heads 

 raised from your seed, and that in the time of severe 

 frost and snow ; you may therefore judge of my 

 triumph in supplying my employer's table in such 

 a season. Send me as many packets of seed as you 

 can, for many of the gardeners round who have seen 

 mine want a supply of seed. 



New Early Cabbage — Your new early Cabbage 

 (Tender-heart), I find is a first-rate early sort. On 

 trying it with Little Pixie, Nonsuch, Reliance, and 

 other dwarf early varieties, I found it comes in a 



few days earlier than any of them, and is of the 

 most delicious flavor. Send me 2 lb more of the 

 seed. 



New Kidney Fotato.—Your Emperor of the Kid- 

 ney's is, 1 find on trial, an excellent variety for 

 withstanding the disease, and for productiveness. 

 I tried it against Prince of Wales, Barsetshire Kid- 

 ney, and the Creamy yellow, and found it produce 

 a far heaver crop, and of better quality. Send me 

 10 or 12 pecks, if you have such a stock to dispose of. 



New Cucumber. — Your new Cucumber (Breech- 

 loader) I have grown this year, and find it is a Black 

 Spine of great length and beauty. From its fine 

 shape and length it will be there, or thereabouts, 

 in making a "bull's eye" at the exhibition tables. 

 Send me a packet of three more seeds. 



Fink, Carnation and Ficotee Seeds.— Pink, 

 Carnation and Picotee Seeds, grown by your "Tim- 

 buctoo" correspondent, of which you furnished me 

 with packets in the spring, have grown satisfactor- 

 ily. The plants are now coming into bloom, and 

 showing some extraordinary double show-flowers. 

 Send me another supply of packets of all sorts. 



New Dahlias. — Your new dark maroon DahHa 

 (Lucy Neal) — if I had raised one-half so good, how 

 happy I should feel ! Be sure and secure me a plant 

 in the spring. 



The above testimonials are samples, in different 

 styles, and only apply to a few of the novelities in 

 new seeds, which swell the "Fat Catalogues" 

 now yearly published. Applications from seed- 

 growers, seedsmen and nurserymen, will receive 

 prompt attention by addressing aline to "Investi- 

 gator," at the Post Office, Hookem-cum-Grabem, 

 Barsetshire. — W. T., in Gardeners' Chronicle. 



AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



President Wilder has issued the following Circu- 

 lar. 



The afl"air promises to be one of the most inter- 

 esting ever held, and we hope our readers will do 

 their utmost to second the efforts of the officers of 

 the Society : 



"Whereas, the meeting of this National Asso- 

 ciation was to have been convened last September, 

 and whereas, this meeting was postponed to the 

 present year, Therefore, the undersigned give 

 notice that its Eleventh Session will commence 

 in the City of St. Louis, Mo., on Wednesday, 

 Sept. 11, 1867, at U o'clock A. m., at Mercantile 



