Dr. Folk's Native Grape

The July Horticulturist having come to hand before this, I shall reserve what I have to say on this grape, to couple it with the new seedling of Mr. Allen, of Salem, Mass., and perhaps another new thing or two of the sort.

Dr. Gray's "How Plants Grow"

The London Leader says truly of this work, "The volume is remarkably meritorious in its classification of subjects, clear and precise in themselves, and is assisted by upwards of five hundred illustrative wood cuts." • It is received both at home and abroad as a great improvement on any former publication, and being particularly lucid and understandable by the young, it will be introduced by those who have the good of the public schools more at heart than the interests of favored publishers of less valuable books.

Dr. Gray's First Lessons In Botany

The London Athenaum, which never spares a fling at American authorship when it dares to be caustic, speaks in the highest terms of the author as "one of the most accomplished and sensible cultivators of botanical science now living," and "the most distinguished botanist of the United States." Of the book: " We cordially recommend these Lessons in Botany as the best work with which we are acquainted for the use of those who are commencing the study of that charming science".

Dr. John Lindley

A self-satisfied gentleman, as the picture shows htm. I wonder how he'd look if he should discover a bug on the other side of the leaf he is so quietly admiring I A great man in his way, Mr. Lindley! and, like most other men of genius, possessing peculiarities which he would be quite as well without. That he should speak lightly of America, as you observe on page 240, is not remarkable, for these one-idea people are apt to fancy, that a subject of which they know little is hardly worth investigation. A man, no matter how high his pretensions or attainments in science, who looks contemptuously on a country like ours, is quite apt to be a flatterer of the rich or great at home. Instance the great lexicographer, Johnson, who, while sneering at Scotland and its profoundest men, poured out his humblest adulations to the wife, successively, of a wealthy London brewer, and an Italian musician.

Dr. Kane Rose

We have received from Mr. Pentland some specimens of this new Rose, with which we are greatly pleased. It is large and very double, being well filled in the centre. The color is sulphur yellow, and it is delightfully fragrant. We should deem it an acquisition.

Dr. Kirtland's Cherries

We are asked for the result of another year's experience with Dr. Kirtland's Cherries. We have had no results from other parties, and for our own part we have nothing to add to what we have already said in regard to them, not having had any other varieties in bearing. The Got, Wood, Doctor, Cleveland Bigarreau, Rockport Bigarreau, and Ohio Beauty, are all we have tested, and they are all good; the first the best, and one of the very best of all Cherries. We will be glad to hear from cultivators who may have tested them, or other varieties.