American Sum'r Pcarmain,

Buldwm,

Bullock's Pippin,

Danvers Winter Sweet

Early Harvest,

Early Strawberry,

Fall Pippin,

Fameuse,

Summer Rose,

Swanr,

Vandervere,

White Seek-no-Further,

Wine Apple, or Hays,

Wjnesap,

GravenMeiu,

Hubbardston Nonsuch,

Large Yellow Bough,

Lady Apple,

Porter,

Red Astraclinn,

Rhode Island Greening,

Roxbury Russcu,

And for particular localities.

Canada Red,

Esopus Spitzenhurg,

Newiown Pippin,

Northern Spy,

Yellow Belle Fleur.

Apples #1

Dear Sir: I hereby send you, per express, two specimens of two new varieties of the apple. First, the Rome Beauty, Its diameter is four and two-thirds inches, weight, fourteen ounces-, and keeps until May and June; is a prolific bearer, and blossoms from ten to fifteen days later than other varieties in its vicinity. They have succeeded as far south as New Orleans, and as far north as Cojumbus, Ohio. It is a rapid grower, and an early bearer.

Second

Crawford Keeper. Origin, seedling; weight, nine ounces; keeps until August. Remains sound and hard all winter and spring, and never loses its flavor. The tree is a large, heavy grower, requiring to be set forty feet apart, owing to its massive form., The original tree now living, aged twenty-five years. At fourteen years from bearing, there was picked from it, in 1855, fifty-seven bushels of good merchantable apples. This being a very hardy apple, will undoubtedly succeed well as far north as Maine and the Canadas. Both these varieties originated near Burlington, Lawrence County, Ohio - the extreme southern part of the State - and are largely cultivated, with abundant success.

Tours, respectfully, J. B. Wood.

Iron Furnaces P. 0., Scioto County , Ohio.

324 WALNUT Street, Dec. 8,1856.

Dear Sir: I send you a China quince (Cydonia sinensis) which grew at Columbus, Georgia. The tree is some eighteen or twenty feet in height, and was, within a few days, loaded with fruit. 1 understand that the plant was obtained in the West Indies. It grows well at Columbus, requiring no protection, in the open air.

M. Lorseleur Deslongchamps, in the Dict , dee Sci. Nat., under the article "Coignassier," says this quince attains a height of fifteen to twenty feet. The blossoms are eighteen or twenty lines in breadth, and of a fine rose color. It was introduced in Holland at the close of the last century, and has been in France since 1802, fruiting for the first time in the Jardin du Roi, in 1811. It was hardy at Paris, growing in the open air in that city. M. Deslongchamps considers it a good fruit. Your obedient servant, C. P. Meigs. J. J. Smith, Esq.

This fine specimen measured eleven and a half inches, in circumference, by fourteen and one-fourth inches, and its weight was one pound and a quarter. It is the fruit of the flowering quince, Cydonia Japonica, grown here for the beauty of its bloom, the fruit being with us utterly worthless, and so hard, as to be turned in a lathe. Dr. M.'s specimen looks so tempting, that we have little doubt it would make a good jelly. The difference of the Georgia climate from that of Pennsylvania, is very marked in this fruit.

J. Jay Smith, Esq.: Potatoes are now treated to a drying process; they are first deprived of their skins, and properly prepared, fresh currents of air moved in contact with the potato pulp by machinery. The material is made to take the shape of tubes, macoaroni fashion, and, when dry, is broken in a proper mill into the form of what is called " samp," or hominy; it has lost nothing but water, and being placed in tin canisters, the weight of four pounds is reduced to one, and it is ready for long voyages or travels, retaining all its taste and virtues as well or better than ship crackers. The manufacture is in Hinesburg, Vermont.

The Apple #2

Apples have been believed by some to have been introduced into Italy from Media, and that the Falisci, or inhabitants of Montefiascone, were the first to plant them in rows. But this must apply to some particular variety, not to the species, which we have already stated to be indigenous, but very early cultivated. Pliny enumerates twenty-three varieties, which appear still more difficult to identify with ours than the pears. Among the few that modern authors have recognized, the Appiani of the Romans are supposed to be the Appie or Appiole of modern Italians, the Appia piriformis to be the Appiolona lunga, the Syriaca r uberrima to be the red Calvetto, Ac. In more modern Tuscany, Micheli, in his above-mentioned manuscript, describes fifty-six sorts under the Medici princes, fifty-two of which are figured by Costello. - Journal of the Horticultural Society.