NEAR CINCINNATI. FOR SALE! The entire stock of Trees, Evergreens, Shrubbery, Hardy, and Greenhouse Plants, together with all the Tools, Implements, Buildings, and Lease, offering one of the best openings in the West, to any person desirous of engaging in the above business, being now in successful operation, with every facility for carrying on an extensive business. The land contains between nine and ten acres of ground, handsomely situated, fronting on the Springfield and Cincinnati Turnpike, one and a quarter miles from Cincinnati. If not previously disposed of by private contract, the whole will be offered at PUBLIC AUCTION, the Stock of Hardy Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens, &c., on the 2d of April; the Greenhouse Plants, Buildings, Tools, Implements, Lease, &c., &c., on the 1st of May. Further description is deemed unnecessary, it being presumed that persons wishing to purchase will call and examine for themselves. dress Letters of inquiry, to receive attention, must be post-paid. Ad- Feb. 1, 1849. Reading Road Nursery, Cincinnati, Ohio. WHITELEY & GALLUP, MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT BOILERS AND FURNACES, For heating Hot-Houses, Conservatories, Factories, Dwelling-Houses, &c., by circulation of Hot Water or Steam, in cast iron or copper pipes. This mode of heating is the most healthful, economical, and durable, ever invented. The advertisers have, for many years, been practically engaged in London and other parts of England, as well as in this coun try, in fitting up Hot Water and Steam Apparatus on the most extensive scale and approved mode of construction. We solicit the attention of gentlemen, practical gardeners and others, to our new PATENT BOILER, convinced, on inspection, that it will be decidedly preferred to all others. We have fitted up the Steam Boiling apparatus of the MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, the STATE REFORM SCHOOL, at Westboro', and the various establishments of the following gentlemen, which we respectfully refer to: J. P. CUSHING, Esq., Watertown; G. M. DEXTFR, Esq., PETER WAINWRIGHT. Esq., FRANKLIN HAVEN, Esq., R. C. HOOPER, Esq., Boston; Col. T. H. PERKINS, Brookline; Messrs. HoVEY & Co., Nursery. men, Cambridge; JOHN DAVID WOLFE, Esq., Westchester, N. Y.; E. KING, Esq., Newport, R. I.; NATHAN STETSON, Esq., Bridgewater, and numerous others. W. & G. have always on hand, Doors and Frames, Furnace Bars, Fire Brick, and all materials for warming Greenhouses. Feb. 1, 1849. CONTENTS ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Arboriculture. ART. I. Select List of Hardy, Deciduous, and Evergreen Shrubs. By the Editor, General Subject. ART. II. Fungi in Vegetation. By John Lewis Russell, Professor of Botany, &c., to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, . Horticulture. By the ART. III. Notices of Culinary Vegetables, new or recently introduced, worthy of General Cultivation. Editor, ART. IV. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties of Apples. By the Editor, . Page. 145 154 156 159 ART. V. A Select List of Apples, with a Few Observations on their Respective Merits. By Samuel Walker, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, . 163 ART. VI. On the Management of Peach Trees. By R. B. Leuchars, New Haven, Conn., Floriculture. ART. VII. General Management of the Calceolaria. By 166 174 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. ART. I......General Notices, ART. II....Domestic Notices, ART. III...Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural Society, HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA FOR APRIL, Printed by Dutton & Wentworth, No. 37 Congress St. Boston. THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. APRIL, 1849. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ART. I. Select List of Hardy, Deciduous, and Evergreen Shrubs. By the EDITOR. NOTHING adds so much to the beauty and interest of a small garden or a suburban residence, as a liberal stock of the showier ornamental shrubs, both evergreen and deciduous. Numerous as the species and varieties are, and natives too, as many of them be, yet it is rare that more than a dozen of them are found in a collection, unless in that of some zealous amateur or lover of trees, who is acquainted with their merits, and fully appreciates their beauty. More especially are our gardens deficient in evergreen shrubs. Rich as our Flora is in its several species, and prized as they are by cultivators abroad, it is rare to find them occupying a place in our collections. Our pastures abound with the elegant kalmia-our woods are skirted with the beautiful rhododendron-our swamps dotted with the silvery andromeda-and our low grounds clustered with the glossy-leaved winter-green. But among our cultivated shrubs, they are as little known as the rarest plants of foreign climes. Our object is now to name some of the most ornamental and desirable shrubs; not a list of all, as that would occupy more room than we now have to spare; but, at another opportunity, we shall extend the number, and arrange them all, including those now enumerated, according to the Natural method, that those who are desirous of making an arboretum can have a guide in the selection of kinds adapted for that purpose. We shall divide our selection into two classes, viz., Deciduous and Evergreen shrubs, and arrange the kinds according to their average height of growth, so that the young amateur may have some guide as to the proper place of planting in a border, that the dwarfer kinds may not be overgrown by the taller varieties. I. DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. SEC. I. Shrubs growing from two to four feet high. 1. COMMON MEZEREUM, (Daphne Mezerèum.) A showy little shrub, of quite dwarf habit, and one of the earliest flowering ones our gardens possess: the blossoms, which are of a bright pink, quite clothe the branches, appearing in April before the leaves. On account of the earliness of its blooming alone it should be in every small collection. It grows in any good soil. 2. JAPAN QUINCE, (Cydònia japónica.) Among the most brilliant of early blooming shrubs The flowers are of a deep glowing red, and appear in profusion along the shoots. They open immediately on the appearance of good weather in April, and continue in bloom a long time. The plants have a dwarf and straggling habit. There are two varieties of the Japan quince, viz., the white, so called, but whose flowers are only a pale blush; and the double-flowered, whose flowers, however, consist of only two rows of petals of the same deep color as the original species; all are desirable in a large collection. 3. TREE PEONY, (Paònia Moútan.) It is but a few years since the pæony has been cultivated as a hardy shrub. It is, however, one of the most splendid we now possess, with flowers measuring eight or ten inches in diameter and perfectly double; a small bush with twenty or thirty of these huge flowers presenting a magnificent object. It is of slow growth, and requires a deep and rich soil. In very cold and moist localities, it is best to slightly protect the young plants with a covering of manure, straw, or pine boughs. P. M. Banksia and papaveracea are the common kinds. Blossoms in June. Within a few years, a great number of elegant varieties have been produced by the French and Belgian florists, as well as by our own cultivators. These are yet rare, and only |