American Peaches In France

M. Catros-Gerand, in the Revue Horticole, calls attention to the American peaches, Amsden, Cumberland, Downing, Alexander and Beatrice - the last, however, being English and not American. He praises them as valuable additions to French pomology, and regards them as a type of a new race of peaches hitherto unknown in the old world, and brought about by some new conditions in connection with the new world.

The Editor states he cannot endorse his correspondent's views.

Japan Persimmon

Mr. Conner, says the Florida Dispatch, has raised a persimmon weighing one pound and one ounce. We are waiting for some one to send us figures that will beat this. What have the Norfolk growers to say ? Mr. Lip-sey, of Archer, Florida, has a tree four feet high that matured one hundred fruit. Here again is a defiance to Virginia to rise up and beat it if she can.

Sharpless Strawberry

Mr. F. Burvenich says in a French publication that this name without doubt was given to this variety in allusion to the fact that it is particularly sweet and highly perfumed, and that it must not be confounded with Sharpless Seedling, a very distinct variety. But the colored plate looks marvelously like our Sharpless "Seedlings".

Profits Of Oranges

A correspondent from Florida writes, that "orange culture is one of the most profitable enterprises any one coming to that State can engage in, especially if one can manage to sell out his orchard".

Pitson Pear

From Stone and Wellington, Fonthill, Ontario. This is a handsome pear; brown, inclining to russet, regularly pyriform, medium-sized, and indicated a fruit of high quality; but the specimen coming so long a distance by mail, had commenced slightly to decay, and hence had not the high flavor we suppose it might have under better conditions.

A Native Of North America

This is the description of Helenium pumilum in an excellent English serial. This is about on a par with saying that a fern which is found growing only by Lake of Killarney, is "a native of the Northern part of the Eastern Hemisphere." We often wonder at the limited notions of North America which prevail in otherwise intelligent English circles.

The American Garden

Messrs. B. K. Bliss & Sons have disposed of their interest in the American Garden to E. H. Libby, who will continue its publication. The magazine has been ably edited by Dr. Hexamer, who we are glad to note will continue in charge. If has been a valuable coadjutor in the cause of horticultural progress, and we wish it a long-continued success.