OF

HORTICULTURE,

BOTANY,

AND ALL USEFUL DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN

RURAL AFFAIRS.

"Je voudrais échauffer tout l'univers de mon gout pour les jardins. Il me semble
qu'il est impossible qu'un méchant puisse l'avoir. Il n'est point de vertus que je ne
suppose à celui que aime à parler et à faire des jardins. Peres de famille, inspirez
la jardinomanie à vos enfans."-Prince De Ligne.

VOL. XV.,

1849.

(VOL. V., NEW SERIES.)

EDITED BY C. M. HOVEY.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY HOVEY AND CO., MERCHANTS ROW.

1849.

PREFACE.

THE Fifteenth Volume of the Magazine contains a great

variety of information in every department of Horticulture,

which will be found enumerated in the following Table of

Contents.

Boston, December 25th, 1849.

CONTENTS.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

GENERAL SUBJECT.

A Retrospective View of the Progress of

Horticulture in the United States dur-

ing the year 1849. By the Editor

Report on the Fruit and Kitchen Gardens

near Paris, from observations made dur-

ing a visit in the spring of 1847. By Mr.

R. Thompson, Superintendent of the

orchard and kitchen garden of the Lon-

don Horticultural Society

Destruction of Filberts by fungi. By N.

Goodsell, Esq., New York.

Notes of a Visit to several gardens and

nurseries in Western New York.

the Editor

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97

Fungi in Vegetation. By John Lewis

Russell, Professor of Botany, &c., to

the Massachusetts Horticultural So-

ciety

241

On the Acclimation Tropical Exotics

in Florida. By the Rev. R. K. Sewall,

East Florida. In a letter to Dr. A.

Mitchell, St. Mary's, Geo. Communi-

cated by Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn

Remarks on Gardening and Gardens in

Louisiana. By Alexander Gordon, Bo-

tanical Collector, Baton Rouge, La.

Some Plants of Danvers and Wenham,

Essex County, Massachusetts. By John

Lewis Russell, Professor of Botany,

&c., to Massachusetts Horticultural

Society

154

245

289

The Howell Pear, a new native seedling;
with a description and engraving of the
Fruit. By the Editor
Remarks on fifteen varieties of Early
Plums, which have fruited in the Pomo-
logical Gardens at Salem. By R. Man-
ning

Pomological Notices; or Notices respect-
ing new and superior fruits, worthy of
general cultivation. By the Editor 105
Remarks on the Formation of Vine Bor-
ders, with a detail of experiments in

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