many gaudier beauties; neither would the tulip-that bright queen of the garden-look well amid the sober tints of autumn. Nature intends that her beauties shall be dispersed over the whole circle of the year, and the florist assists in this arrangement, and for this assistance claims for himself the privilege that she shall be, to a limited extent, subservient to him in some instances, while he encroaches upon her seasonal laws. The British florist has a peculiar claim to this privilege, because he has taken under his care the floral beauties of every clime in both hemispheres-affording to each, as near as can be, its natural temperature, its natural soil, and its natural rank and station among others. If, then, he should occasionally interfere with nature's laws in bringing forth flowers out of the season, he is not only excusable as their cultivator, but it is creditable to him as their guardian. To have them always in beauty, would diminish rather than advance them in our estimation; but the recurrence of a flower when not expected—and especially if obtained without any derangement or mutilation of the plant operated upon-would be a delectable rarity, and really a desirable incident in the flower garden. Every one knows that transplanting rose-trees late, or pruning them late in the spring, procures a late bloom-three weeks or a month later than the usual time of flowering. I am speaking of the common Provence rose, though this treatment of rose-trees is less necessary now than it was before the introduction of so many French and Chinese varieties, some of which are always in flower during the summer and autumn months. The laburnum is a highly ornamental plant from the latter end of May to the middle of June; if the flowering shoots be cut back, and the tree divested of its racemes of pods, it will again bloom nicely later in the summer; indeed the whole of the Cytisuses may be made to flower twice in the summer, by careful cutting back after the first flowers fade. The rose, acacia, and several others of its congeners, will flower a second time; and so will the Althea frutex, presenting its second flowers as late as October, when flowers of any kind are much wanted. Checking the growth of herbaceous border flowers, by transplanting, or by divesting them of a few of their stems, to delay the flowering, or only allow it to be developed gradually, is an old expedient; and with attention paid to this management of perennials and biennials, and to the different times at which annual flowers may be sown, a continued display of flowers may be kept through the growing season.-(Gard. Journal, 1849, p. 387.)

Liquid Manure.-All gardeners may read with great advantage a leading article in the Chronicle of last week, on the proposed employment of the sewage of London for agricultural purposes. The immense benefits derived by growing crops from a discreet application of liquid manure, are there placed in a clear light, and we hope our amateur friends will act upon the principle stated in the sentence, "what is true of a grass field is equally true of a cabbage garden, of celery, peas, lettuces, asparagus, and all kinds of garden stuff" The inhabitants of large towns, having no gardens, are obliged to let the sewage made on their premises run away. But those who have any land to cultivate, should employ all the refuse of this kind at once, so as at the same time to benefit their crops, and prevent the existence of a nuisance.

What are called the slops of a large family, commonly produce a nuisance by being thrown into receptacles with more solid matters, where they are allowed to remain until a still greater pest is created by the necessity for removal; this is the ordinary procedure, except in cases where common sewers or dom-wells carry off such substances. It is obvious that these slops are highly fertilizing, and are capable of doing much good, either to fields or gardens, and we have for some time past employed them day by day, as they are produced, upon various horticultural productions. The pails are placed in a fixed spot by the housemaid, and the gardener applies the contents, either unmixed or diluted, as the case requires, in the course of the day. All the roses have had a plentiful supply more than once this season. Asparagus, peas, and strawberries, have evidently been benefitted by the application, especially the former, our practice being to pour some of the liquid on all the places from which stems have been cut, on the same principle as that indicated in the leading article above referred to, in relation to grass. We must quote a few lines of the passage, because they are so exactly applicable to our purpose. "Cultivators who know nothing of manure, except from the action of the solid, and sometimes not very useful, materials produced in farm-yards, cannot believe that half-a-dozen crops of grass per annum are possible, each heavier than the preceding. Nevertheless, such crops are attained by skilful men, and will one day be common. Liquid manure works the wonder." To say the least on the subject, whatever goodness exists in the slops is disposed of in the most expeditious and convenient way, and is made immediately available. The same observations apply to soap-suds made on washing days; these are never allowed by us to run to waste, but are at once applied where they seem to be needed. (Gard. Chron., 1849, p. 389.)

Achimenes. Few plants are more attractive than the different varieties of Achimenes now in cultivation, but they are seldom seen in that state of excellence which they are capable of attaining. It is customary to grow them in boxes, shallow pans, baskets, and pots, but I prefer the latter; for their bloom is soon over in shallow pans, baskets require too much looking after, and stiff unsightly boxes, which always meet the eye when looking at the flower, detract greatly from that imposing effect they create when properly arranged in pots, and trained in the way in which Pelargoniums are shown at Chiswick, only a little higher in the centre than the Pelargoniums, and allowed to drop a little over the edge of the pot. Nothing can exceed the beauty and elegance of A. longiflora and patens grown in this way. Instead of planting the tubers at first in small pots, and shifting them into larger ones as they advance in growth, as is commonly done, 1 use pots of 10 inches wide and 12 inches deep. After covering the bottom with a few crocks, I spread a layer of moss over them, on which I place 6 or 7 roots, and cover them slightly with a little leaf-mould, or well rotted cow-dung and sand. As the young shoots lengthen, more soil is added until the pot is filled to within 2 inches of the top, which space is afterwards filled up with moss pressed down firmly with the hand; the stems thus buried in the soil soon emit a profusion of roots which are never brought into action when the tubers are planted near the surface, I have had pots of A.

longiflora, measuring 24 feet high, and as much through, covered with bloom from the beginning of May to the end of September, and many of the flowers measured 3 inches in diameter.-(Id., 1849, p. 389.)

Vines in Pots.-In the Journal of the 9th inst., you requested information on this branch of gardening. Whether there is any thing new or worthy of the attention of your readers, in the plan I am about to detail, I leave you to determine; I never saw it practised until tried by myself. There is not so much trouble attending it as in growing vines from eyes, especially where the forcing departments are small. At the winter pruning of the out door vines, (Royal Muscadine and Winter Frontignan,) I leave several young canes which spring from the lower part of the vine, and which are purposely retained at the previous summer dressing; these should be strong and well ripened shoots in April or May. I lay them in 11-inch pots, plunged level with the surrounding soil, and as close to the wall as convenient, and filled with good rich loam and deer dung in a rough state. I leave two eyes above the soil, and, as they both break, I rub off the weakest shoot, tying the one left to a stake, close to the wall. When they have reached the height of three or four feet, I begin making small incisions between the pot and the parent stem, which I repeat at intervals, as I find the vines are making roots, till they are finally severed from the parent about the end of July, or when the pots are getting full of roots. Watering with clear liquid manure must be attended to from the time growth commences, as keeping them moist accelerates their striking root. When they have made wood eight or ten feet long, they are kept stopped in, and when the first symptoms of maturity show themselves-which it will do about the end of August-they are taken up, carefully, lest the roots are injured, and potted in as large pots as may be convenient, the larger the better, using the compost already named. They are then placed in a south-east aspect, and kept rather dryer, which will, by degrees, bring them to a state of rest; whilst the roots will be laying hold of the new soil. As soon as the autumn rains set in, they are pruned to the length of five feet, and removed to an open shed where they are kept dry, till carried into the forcing house, where the treatment is in every way the same as for vines produced from eyes, which I need not recapitulate.-(Gard. Journal, 1849, p. 387.)

ART. II. Domestic Notices.

The Elton and Black Eagle Cherries.-The drought is making sad work with our fruit, more than decimating what escaped the blast. I refer particularly to pears, plums, and peaches. We have had a very heavy crop of cherries, and they have been very fine--the Elton, most delicious; the Black Eagle takes the lead of the black cherries, but I fear it will be an indifferent bearer, contrasting strongly in this respect with the Florence, which, on my trees, bears in such masses, that they nearly all rot before they are ripe enough to gather.-Thy Friend, J. M. Earle, Worcester, July, 1849.

Belle de Brurelles Pear.-Permit me to say, that the Belle de Brussells, or Belle d'Aout, usually cultivated in New England, is not the same as that grown by Ellwanger and Barry, which they prize so highly. I have both growing in my garden. They are quite distinct. I have compared mine with trees from Col. Wilder, Manning, and other sources, and find none others like that from E. & B., but all of them like each other, having a more downy leaf than that from E. & B. It may prove, therefore, that Ellwanger and Barry's is the true one, and that it will be as good here as with them -Thy Friend, J. M. Earle, Worcester, July, 1849.

[We do not know how far Messrs. Wilder or Manning's trees are correct, but we know that our Belle de Bruxelles is the same as Ellwanger and Barry's, for we have seen the fruit of each, and examined the trees. Messrs. E. & B. sent specimens of the fruit last year to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for exhibition, and we had an opportunity to try them. We were satisfied, as well as the committee, of the identity with the pear cultivated under the same name in many collections around Boston. In some cases the Belle et Bonne has been received from France as the Belle d'Aout, and no doubt this has been often sold for it. The Belle et Bonne has a slightly downy leaf.-Ed.]

Munificent bequest to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.-We learn that the Hon. Theodore Lyman, whose death took place on the 17th of July, at his residence, in Brookline, made some noble bequests of his ample wealth; among others equally liberal, TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS are given to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; on what conditions have not been made known, but, undoubtedly, to be used in such manner as will best promote the interests of the society, of which he was an Honorary member.-Ed.

Horticultural Club at Flushing, L. I.-A Horticultural Club has been established at Flushing, the meetings of which are holden weekly on Saturday evening. The Flushing Journal, containing a report of the articles exhibited at the meeting, July 30th, has been sent us, from which, we notice that Messrs. Winter & Co. exhibited half a dozen bouquets, and Messrs. Parsons & Co. twelve varieties of cherries, and three bouquets.

Mr. Thomas McMinn, gardener to Mr. Wells, at Jamaica, carried off the palm of the evening. He exhibited eleven dahlias, and two superb petunias, one of which he has named Hoveyi, in honor of Mr. C. M. Hovey, of Boston; fourteen fine sorts of phloxes; sixteen of pelargoniums, &c. Mr. McMinn was highly complimented by the committee; all the articles exhibited by him proved his merit as a master of his profession. It is too bad that our gardeners should permit Mr. McMinn to run away with all the honors. Although we have among us all the material for a first-rate exhi bition, we have our doubts whether any gardener can excel Mr. McMinn. (Flushing Journal.)

[We must return our thanks to Mr. McMinn for the compliment intended in naming his petunia after us, and we shall take especial pride in cultivating the plant which he has been kind enough to offer to send us. Flushing must indeed have lost its renown, as containing the oldest and most exten

sive nursery establishments in the United States, to have all the prizes carried off by its neighbors from Jamaica.-Ed.]

Exhibition of Strawberries at Rochester, New York.-The following is the report of the committee, as published in the Rochester papers :

Matthew G. Warner, Esq., presented thirteen varieties of strawberries, viz: Hovey's Seedling, Columbus, Ross's Phoenix, Black Prince, Boston Pine, Burr's old seedling, Rival Hudson, Hudson, Corse's seedling, Crimson Cone, Burr's New Pine, Early Scarlet, Austrian Scarlet; the Hovey's Seedling being entitled to the Society's highest premium for the best quart. Mr. Lewis Burtis presented Hovey's Seedling, fine specimens, entitled to the Society's premium for second best quart. Matthew G. Warner, Esq., entitled to Society's premium for the largest number of varieties, and best grown pint of each.

Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry presented Myatt's Eliza, Boston Pine, Early Scarlet, Black Prince, Burr's Seedling, and eight new seedlings, worthy the thanks of the Society, being a larger number of new seedlings than has been offered on any previous occasion. Your Committee think a premium ought hereafter to be offered for seedling strawberries of superior merit. Mr. Charles Paulk, of Honeoye Falls, presented seven varieties of strawberries-Bishop's Orange, Black Prince, Prolific Hautbois, Stoddard's Alpine, Hudson's Bay, Boston Pine, and a new seedling. Messrs. Bissell, Hooker & Sloane, presented Burr's New Pine, Columbus, Burr's Old Pine, Black Prince, Cushing, Early Scarlet, Hudson, Rival Hudson, Boston Pine, and Hovey's Seedling.

It affords your committee pleasure to learn, that strawberries are receiving much more attention than heretofore. The above gentlemen, we are informed, have three acres in cultivation, and supply the market with several bushels daily.

M. B. Seward presented Aberdeen Beehive Strawberry. James H. Watts, Esq. presented splendid specimens of Northern Spy apples, in perfect order. Your committee beg to call attention to the lateness of the season for apples, the delicate sprightly flavor of the Spy up to the last moment that it can be kept. Newtown Pippin, and all the most celebrated dessert apples, having disappeared, leaving the Roxbury Russet chief competitor. Your committee think that after several years attention to the subject, that it is not exaggerating to say, the "Northern Spy" is the best and most beautiful dessert apple ever offered to your Society for competition, at so late a period as the 23d of June.-P. Barry, Chairman of Committtee. (Roch. Dem.)

ART. III. Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural Society.

SECOND EXHIBITION FOR 1849.-The second exhibition of the society, held at the Agricultural Rooms in the Old State Hall, on Tuesday, the 3d inst., as will be perceived by the reports of the committees annexed, was, in all respects, such as to encourage its members to further efforts. The hall was opened to the public, at 1, P. M., and from that hour until