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THE FLORIST. 
Cour and Triomphe de Jodoigne are two large handsome continental 
sorts, of recent introduction, and are of first-rate quality; Beurre 
Clairgeau and Hitton’s Seedling are large and showy Pears, which 
appears to be their only recommendation. 
Apples. —Cox’s Orange Pippin has proved to he the best Apple, 
being superior to any new or old variety of its season. Among new 
kinds, the following are perhaps among the best: Taylor’s Seedling, an 
improvement on Manks’s Codlin, will keep till February ; Lord Raglan 
is a kitchen sort—will keep till June, and retain its flavour; Frogmore 
Nonpareil is a good winter table Apple, much superior to the Downton 
Nonpareil, which variety it greatly resembles; the Jefferson is an 
excellent new American kind, and likely to suit our climate ; Reine 
et St. Savour appears to be Dutch Mignonne. 
Strawberries .—The Filbert Pine, Carolina Superba, Prince of 
Wales (Ingram’s), and the Queen still hold their place among the best, 
and are not as yet surpassed by newer varieties. 
The Nursery and Seed trade is so intimately connected with that of 
Horticulture generally, that our remarks on the progress of one must 
necessarily include that of the other. We, therefore, have only to re¬ 
mark that a very active trade has been in progress during the past 
season for most descriptions of nursery stock. Of those more par¬ 
ticularly inquired for, we may mention fruit trees, both in pots, for 
orchard houses, and out-door planting, American Plants, Conifers, and 
the best class of evergreens, ornamental trees, and Roses, while the 
demand for florist flowers—always great—keeps increasing. One of 
the most remarkable facts connected with the times, aie the means em¬ 
ployed, and the improvements made by nurserymen for propagating 
new plants. The rapidity with which new plants, even those which a 
few years since were considered difficult, are now struck and got ready 
for sale, is a striking evidence of improvement in this department. The 
seed trade has kept pace, if it has not exceeded that of the nursery 
trade, and affords unmistakeable proofs that the better classes of vege¬ 
tables are becoming more extensively grown, and we are glad to hear, 
therefore, are finding their w ay to the tables of the poorer classes. 
{To be continued in our next.) 
FRUIT CULTURE.—No. VII. 
BY MR. POWELL, ROYAL GARDENS, FROGMORE. 
{Continued from page 302). 
In the cultivation of all fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, that are inmates 
of a British fruit garden, especially trained trees, it is a matter of great 
importance. that the art of pruning should be properly understood. 
Therefore, in the first place, it is necessary that the beginner should 
make himself thoroughly acquainted with the habits and mode of bearing 
of the several kinds of fruit, as well as the trees individually, owing to 
