The Late Professor Adrien De Jussieu

Advices from Paris mention the decease of this distinguished botanist, upon whom the mantle of his great ancestors may be said to have fallen. Among the most conscientious and exact of systematical writers he also ranked high as a physiologist, as his well known elementary work has shown the world. For many years his health had been delicate, and of late had been deplorable. By his decease a vacancy occurs in the President's chair of the French Institute, in that of Professor of Rural Botany in the Jardin des Plantes (which, it is said, will not be filled up), and among the twenty foreign members of the Horticultural Society Of London. - J. L., in London Gardeners' Chronicle.

Late Prolific

This differs from any other variety on my grounds. Very promising, fruit large and handsome, and plenty of it. Not late, but medium. Season short. Form of fruit differing materially from cut in catalogue, the larger proportion being rather long and wedge-shaped, firm, and of good quality.

Champion, decidedly the most promising new variety I have tested for years, coming fully up to all I have seen claimed for it, except in size. A more favorable season doubtless would improve it in this particular. The yield was satisfactory. Fruit uniform and handsome. Of good average size. Continues long in bearing; and if it sustains its reputation for hardiness of plant, I predict for it a brilliant future with us.

Laure De Glymes

Size - full medium. Form - oval-turbinate, three inches in height by two and a half inches in diameter. Calyx - open, moderately sunk. Stem - short, less than one inch in length, tolerably stout, inserted without depression in a fleshy base. Color - orange-russet, on a dull yellow ground. Skin - handsome. Flesh - white, melting, and tender; not very juicy. Flavor - sweetish, with pleasant aroma. Season - October to November. Quality - "good;" hardy and prolific; bearing in clusters; valuable for the orchard. M. Alexander Bivort describes the above variety, in the Album de Pomologie, as being of exquisite quality. Our specimens would not bear so high a classification. It may, however, prove "very good".

Laurel-Leaved Willow

It is a matter of some surprise that this very beautiful willow is not more generally grown. It is perfectly hardy, easily propagated, even from cuttings, and seldom dies from removal if properly transplanted. The laurel-leaved willow bears the pruning-knife or shears well, and can be kept as a low dwarf bush in garden borders, or grown as a medium sized tree on the lawn. It is, when grown as a bush, from four to eight feet high, that the dark-green, polished leaves, flashing in the bright sunlight, reveal its incomparable beauty. No laurel leaf is darker or more glossy, and its slender branches permit its being swayed by the wind, and revealing its beauty. When grown as a tree, and bearing seed, its leaves are not so dark, or so highly polished, yet there are few, if any trees with so handsome heads, and trim, inviting appearance for the lawn. - American Rural Home.