American Hollies

A Correspondent inquires where plants of the American Holly can be had. Will any nurseryman who has them for sale make it known!.

The American Home Garden

Being Principles and Rules for the Culture of Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers, and Shrubbery. To which are added brief Notes on Farm Crops, with a Table of their Average Product and Chemical Constituents. By Alexander Watson. With several Hundred Illustrations. 12mo, Muslin, - - - $1 50.

American Husbandry

Being a Series of Essays, Ac., designed for . its Improvement. By Willis Gaylord and Lorner Tucker. 2 volumes 18mo, Half Sheep,..........100.

The American Institute

The Directors of the American Institute announce that their twenty-seventh annual exhibition will be held at the Crystal Palace, opening on the 8d of October. Should this affair result favorably, it may result in the purchase of the palace for the use of the association; but the place is in such bad odor that the experiment of the Institute is one of doubtful results.

American Institute Prize Essays

The Institute has completed a very liberal list of prizes for Essays on a great variety of subjects relating to Agriculture, Horticulture, the Mechanical Arts, etc. We call particular attention to these prizes, as being worthy of the consideration of all parties interested in either of these departments of industry. Circulars may be obtained on application at the Institute in the Cooper Union Building, New York.

The American Odd Fellow

Mr. Orr, the publisher, has sent us a new monthly magazine with the above title. It is devoted exclusively to Odd Fellowship, and to the members of the order must prove a welcome visitor. It is neatly printed on good paper, and furnished at one dollar a year.

American Passion For Flowers

It is stated that more bouquets (not buttonhole) are made up in a single month in the city of New York than in the course of a whole year in the city of London. This is, perhaps, a trifling exaggeration, but Mr. Dickens said very much the same thing in writing of his American experience several years ago, so that it is evident that our love for flowers is sufficiently conspicuous to attract the attention of foreigners.

American Pears In London

Specimen pears from the famous pear orchard of G. F. B. Leighton, Norfolk, Va. were sent the past season to London, England, and exposed for sale in Covent Garden market. They were pronounced equal, both in size and flavor, to the same kind of pears imported from France. They weighed from 16 to 21 02s. each, and measured 14½inches in circumference.

American Pomologial Society

The coming September meeting will be, we believe, the finest ever held. Boston is on the qui vive to prepare an immense treat for her horticultural visitors. Sundry projects are in preparation, which we cannot now name, but will add great eclat to the executive ability of the managing officers.

American Pomologlcal Society

Marshall P. Wilder, the President of American Pomological Society, writes us that the date of the next meeting - the quarter centennial of the Society - has been fixed for September 10th to 12th next, in Boston, at the Horticultural Hall. He further adds: "Although our princely stores are in ruins, yet we will, as of old, welcome all the lovers of horticulture, arid old time friends, with the kindest of attention and hospitality."