Description Of Two New Cherries From Ohio

A. J. Downing, Esq

Dear Sir: Some two years since I assumed description of several new varieties of cherries originating from pits of the Yellow Spanish, grown and fruited by Prof. J. P. Kirtland. These having become pretty extensively distributed, I trust have sustained elsewhere, as at home, the report I then made. Here they have fully sustained my words. The "Rockport Bigarreau," and "Rirtland's Mary," taking, however, a first rank, when considered as to point of real merit, market value and public favor. I have now to introduce to your readers, and the pomological world at large, the

Descriptive Catalogue No. 7: Bulbous And Tuberous Roots

Andrew Bridgeman, No. 878 Broadway, New York - A very choice Catalogue of Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Crocus, etc, with directions for their cultivation. These bulbs are indispensable for winter blooming.

Descriptive Catalogue Of Strawberries

W. R. Prince ft Co., Flushing, N. T. 1855, 1856.

Descriptive Catalogue Of The Andre Le Roy's Nurseries, Angers, France

This is the most complete and valuable catalogue which M. Le Rot has yet sent out - giving very ample lists of synonyms of varieties, in connection with the name of authors or cultivators, who have introduced or disseminated them. We must say, however, that these latter indications, as far as relates to American varieties, are generally incorrect.

A Descriptive Catalogue Or Frutis Cultivated And Bold By Thos. Rivers, Of The Nurseries Sswbridgewortl Herta, England

We are always glad to receive Mr. Rivers catalogues. They are without exception th most instructive and reliable of any we receive from across the water. He commits erron to be sure, but it would be wonderful if he did not. He is a most persevering collector c novelties, and of course is not unfreqnently deceived. Mr. Rivers has given a grea impulse to fruit growing in England; he has introduced some new items of practice tha bid fair to work well in that cool, damp climate. He now strongly recommends biennia removal as necessary to the successful cultivation of pyramidal Pears on Pear stocks; h also recommends it for Cherries on Mahaleb stocks. His specimen quarter of Apples, h says, contains 850 sorts - one plant of a sort - and yet only occupies 850 square yard The trees are planted 31/2 feet apart, row from row, and 21/2 feet apart in the rows, and bier nially removed in November.

Designs

By J. J. Habermehl, gr. to John Lambert. A table design, a basket, and hand bouquets.

By Thos. Meghran. A basket.

By H. A. Dreer. A pair of bouquets.

Design For A Bird House

OUR artist is a great lover of birds as well as of flowers, and has happily combined the two ideas, the one surrounding the other. Here is a Bird Cage, neat, simple, full of the beautiful warblers within. Upon the outer edges of the stand are little flower pots full of choice plants, and here and there some pretty climber attempts to work its way toward the top. On the ground underneath is collected a few more flower pots of larger size, with plants of ornamental foliage, and in the distance, just on the outer edge of the grassy lawn, are the forms of the evergreens and shrubs which bring out the whole picture into still more charming relief.