The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . size and beauty as on account of their excellent Mr. Editor, —You will not be surprised, that, having been a constant readerof your Journal from the beginning, I have been impelled to put on paper some ofmy ideas in regard to your last number ; and, if acceptable, perhaps I may here-after send you my views of future numbers. And, first, let me rejoice with you and all your readers over the re-appearancein the field of the veteran who has so long stood at the head of American po-mologists. Here we have an account of the no
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . size and beauty as on account of their excellent Mr. Editor, —You will not be surprised, that, having been a constant readerof your Journal from the beginning, I have been impelled to put on paper some ofmy ideas in regard to your last number ; and, if acceptable, perhaps I may here-after send you my views of future numbers. And, first, let me rejoice with you and all your readers over the re-appearancein the field of the veteran who has so long stood at the head of American po-mologists. Here we have an account of the notabilities of Southern horticulture,such as could only have been given from actual observation, by Mr. Wilder andthe keen-eyed horticulturists who accompanied him. Some of his accounts arerather startling to us among our frosts and snows. Think of a camellia-tree inthe open air spreading twenty-five feet, and bearing ten thousand flowers ; anda Cloth-of-GoId rose covering one-fifth of an acre of wall ! And then, too, imagine a grape-vine whose stem is six inches in diameter, andwhose branches cover a trellis forty
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