Weigela Nivea

This splendid weigela was introduced into Europe several years ago from Japan, but it is comparatively new in this country. The plant is similar in habit to the well-known weigela rosea. The leaves are large and conspicuously veined, and of a light green color; flowers, pure white, and produced in great abundance. A beautiful shrub, and worthy of a place among the many fine varieties of this species.

West New Jersey Not An Apple Region

From a long article in the Agricultural Department Report of 1865, written by J. S. Lippincott, we find a very unfavorable account of the value of that region as an apple-producing one. Good, remunerative crops, it is there stated, cannot be relied upon oftener than once in eight or ten years, either from apple or pear trees; and in consequence, entire orchards have been rooted out to give place to market gardening or truck culture, which is annual, and pretty certain in its returns. This is a decided reduction upon the character of that section for fruitgrowing, which some land operators have reported, and would have us believe.

We have got one little item of belief in our head, and if any of our readers can controvert it, by giving records of continued success, we shall be glad to receive. It is, that no permanent apple or pear-trees productive of good fruit, can be found of thirty or more years on any light, sandy soil.

Westborough Mass

A correspondent in Princess Anne County, Virginia, reports that one farmer, from 300.000 plants set out in November and December, obtained a spring crop of cabbages amounting in value to $13,000.

It is said that at the Denver Fair "cabbages of fifty pounds, pumpkins weighing more than a hundred each, and turnips and beets of fifteen pounds apiece were the rule and smaller ones the exception."

The business of canning tomatoes has largely increased in Cumberland County, New Jersey, where $100,000 worth of that vegetable are annually raised for this purpose.

Western Fruits

We are indebted to James H. Watts, Esq., for an opportunity of examining superb specimens of the following varieties of apples which he brought from the pomological meeting at Chicago: Baldwin, Domine, Rambo, Vandervere, R. I. Greening, Maiden's Blush, Willow Twig, Northern Spy, Esopus Spitzeriburgh. Yellow Bellflower, Newtown Pippin, Rawle's Janet, Fall Pippin, Jonathan, Fall Wine, and some other varieties. Judging from these specimens, they have been grown in a soil and climate particularly favorable to them. A very handsome red cheeked Virgalieu pear accompanied the apples, and if we may be permitted to judge from one specimen, we should say this variety will succeed as well in the West as it does in Western New York.

Western Horticultural Review

We learn that Dr. Warder is about to revive this journal. The first number is to be issued on the first of January.

Western New York Nursery Business

It is estimated that the amount of trees sold and shipped by the railroads in Western New York is over eight thousand tons, exceeding in value one and a half million of dollars annually.