Azaleas done flowering should be repotted, pruned into shape, and placed in a warm situation, if large and fine specimens are wanted. Cinerarias done flowering may have their tops cut off, and the plants removed to a cold frame. Tulip and hyacinth buds will require to be immediately uncovered; as soon as the shoots are well above the soil, choose a good dry day, and carefully stir the surface of the earth with a stick or the hand; nothing invigorates their growth more than this. Ranunculus beds should be covered half an inch deep with sand: this will prevent the drying winds from cracking and hardening the surface. Carnations and Picotees, wintered in pots in frames, should now be shifted into a larger size, if it is intended to grow them in pots; and if in the ground, a bed should be got ready, and prepared to receive them. Pansies, in pots or in frames, should soon be transplanted to a well prepared bed, so as to get well established before dry weather; sow the seeds now for a succession of bloom. Calceolarias will need one more shift into the size they are to bloom. Seeds may be sown now for a succession. Achimenes and Gloxinias of all kinds, will need another shift into larger pots. Fuchsias should now be propagated from cuttings; plants already potted off, will need a shift into a larger size. Cactuses should now be liberally watered. Chrysanthemums should now be propagated from cuttings. Ericas and Epacrises should now be headed well in, and placed in a cool and airy situation, until the weather is sufficiently mild to admit of their being planted in the open air. Propagate from cuttings now. Hydrangeas, both japonica and the hortensis, should now be shifted into larger pots. Tuberoses should now be planted, and placed in a hot-bed, to forward their growth. Ixias, spararis, and other bulbs, done blooming, may be placed away on an airy shelf, and sparingly watered. Gladiolus gandavensis, and other summer flowering kinds, may be planted out in the open ground, the last of the month. Paonies, both the tree and herbaceous sorts, should now be transplanted. Rocket Larkspur seeds should be sown early, as the plants bloom much stronger, than when the sowing is delayed. Balsams, Asters, Stocks, and other showy annual flower seeds, should now be sown in pots or boxes, and brought forward in the hot-bed, for early blooming. Daphne odora may now be propagated from cuttings. Roses should be pruned as soon as convenient, as they push stronger than when the work is delayed. Neapolitan violets in frames, should be liberally watered. Herbaceous plants of all kinds may be transplanted this month. THE present number will be found highly interesting. The articles by Messrs. Walker and Leuchars, as also that by Mr. Saunders, are particularly worthy of attentive perusal. Our Miscellaneous Intelligence also contains a variety of entertaining matter. Our thanks are due to Dr. W. D. Brinckle, of Philadelphia, for scions of several kinds of pears; to J. R. Comstock for scions of his seedling apple, the Summer Bellflower; and to Geo. Jacques, of Worcester, for further specimens of Hubbardston Nonsuch apples. Received, Manuscript Communications, from S. Walker, John Lewis Russell, N. Goodsell, B. P. Johnson, R. B. Leuchars, Wm. Saunders, R. C. Wood, J. R. Comstock, W. D. Brinckle, Geo. Jacques. Mr. C. M. Saxton, 205 Broadway, New York, is our agent in that city, and J. S. Waters, Baltimore. Payments for the Magazine from March 1, to April 1, 1849. J. J. Vanderkemp, vols. 13 and 14, $6.00 12 00 3.00 and 14, Beaufort Agricultural Society, vols. 13 and 14, 6 00 F. Trowbridge, balance account to 14th vol., . 8 00 C. Kessler, vols. 13 and 14, M. Hauser, vols. 13 and A. N. Skinner, vols. 11 to 14, . 12 00 Edward Wilson, vol. 12, 3 00 Col. Horticultural So ciety, vols. 13 and 14, 6 00 Louisville Horticultural Society, vols. 12 to 14, 9 00 E. S. L. Richardson, vol. 15, 3.00 H. Case, vols. 13 and 14, 6 00 O. Johnson, vol. 13, 3 00 R. S. Field, vol. 12 to 14, 9 00 6 00 H. M. Brent, vols. 12 to 14, T. M. Edwards, vols. 13 6 00 14, John Richardson, vol. 15, 3 00 J. Frothingham, vol. 15, 3 00 Mrs. Geo. Wade Hampton, vols. 11 to 14, 12 00 S. D. Pardee, on account, vol. 14, . P. S. Van Renssellaer, vols. 13 and 14, and 14, 9.00 C. F. Spang, on account, 10 00 3 00 R. C. Wood, vol. 13 and 6.00 14, A NURSERYMAN WANTED! 13 00 6 00 At the KINDERHOOK NURSERY, who thoroughly understands the propagating of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, and Greenhouse Plants. Application, giving reference, and stating experience and amount of salary required, may be addressed, H. SNYDER, Kinderhook, N. Y. Kinderhook, March 1, 1849. CONTENTS. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. General Subject. ART. I. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties of Pears. By the Editor, Horticulture. 193 ART. II. On the Management of Peach Trees. By R. B. Floriculture. ART. V. On the Cultivation of Cape Heaths. By. W. S. Leach, Gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth, Surray, England. With Remarks by the Editor, ART. VI. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New and Beautiful Plants figured in Foreign Periodicals; with Descriptions of those recently introduced to, or origina ted in, American Gardens, . Reviews. ART I. The American Fruit Book, ART. II. A Practical Treatise on the Management of Fruit Trees, 213 215 219 223 224 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. ART. I......General Notices, ART. II....Domestic Notices, ART. III...Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Printed by Dutton & Wentworth, No. 37 Congrese St. Boston 225 235 238 239 |