The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . h. A great many per-sons are prevented from planting fruit-trees by not having the soil ready for themin proper time. It is never too soon to commence draining and deepeningthe soil for an orchard, or for any thing else. — Western Rural. [We think it is about time to hear the last of the too-much-fruit bugbear;at least, in the vicinity of Boston. We are not likely here to see the day whengood fruit, and sound, healthy vegetables, will be drugs in the market. When tomatoes are from four to eleven dollars a bushel, and Williams apple
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . h. A great many per-sons are prevented from planting fruit-trees by not having the soil ready for themin proper time. It is never too soon to commence draining and deepeningthe soil for an orchard, or for any thing else. — Western Rural. [We think it is about time to hear the last of the too-much-fruit bugbear;at least, in the vicinity of Boston. We are not likely here to see the day whengood fruit, and sound, healthy vegetables, will be drugs in the market. When tomatoes are from four to eleven dollars a bushel, and Williams applessix dollars per bushel, — not barrel, — it is rather astonishing to be told that toomuch fruit is planted. — Ed^ Azotes and Gleaninsrs. III Passiflora (§ Granadilla) cincinnata, Mast., sp. n. — Flowers and leavesof this passion-flower were exhibited at a recent meeting of the Floral Commit-tee by Mr. Philip Frost, the intelligent gardener at Dropmore. The beauty ofthe deep green glossy leaves, and the rich color of the singularly long and twisted. rays of the fringe-like corona, excited much attention, and deservedly securedthe award of a first-class certificate, which was made to it on that have been kindly placed in our hands by Mr. Frost, who tells us,moreover, that he raised the plant from seeds sent from South America. Onexamination of the specimens furnished by Mr. Frost, and on comparison with 112 Notes and Gleajiinzs. those in the herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, we find that the species ishitherto undescribed ; though dried specimens collected by Gardner in Brazil,not materially differing from the living plant, are in the herbarium. The plant is a climber, with cylindrical, smooth branches ; the leaves arestalked, and digitate, or palmisect, with five smooth coriaceous lobes of a deepgreen color on the upper surface, but paler below ; each lobe is oblong-obtuse,with a very fine mucro at the apex, entire or irregularly lobed at the mar
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