Marie Lefebvre

Flower from six to seven inches in diameter, color delicate blush white, with a broad purplish lilac, longitudinal band in the center of each petal, colors well defined, very fragrant.

Marie Louise

This pear has stood in my grounds a dozen years, and in only two years of the seven or eight of its bearing - the first year and the last - has the fruit been really good. Last season it was almost equal to the Virgalieu; large, melting, sweet,: and delicious. It is a careless, slovenly grower; writhing and twisting its branches in all sorts of ways. Yet it is a good bearer. Were I to plant again, it should not- be in my collection.

Marie Louise - New Sweet-Scented Violet

The best and most valuable thing in new violets we have yet had. In color it is much darker than the well-known Neapolitan violet, double its size, equally fragrant, and in its prolific flowering it is believed capable of surpassing the old favorite "Neapolitan." Much admired among bouquet makers.

Marie Parent

Tree - moderately vigorous. It first produced fruit in 1851. Fruit - large, pyriform, with the surface uneven. Stalk - oblique, three-fourths of an inch in length, woody, and of a brown color. Eye - surrounded with folds in a rather large cavity. Skin - green, changing to a golden yellow when the fruit becomes fit for use. Flesh - white, very fine, melting, somewhat buttery, very juicy, sugary, and deliriously perfumed. Ripens in October. Raised by M. Bivort. [This sort is figured and described in the Annates de Pomologie Beige, Vol. L, p. 15. M. Bivort states that it was raised by him in 1844, and that the seed was taken from fruit gathered that year at Louvain, from a tree among the varieties resulting from the last generation of seedlings raised by Professor Van Mons, named in compliment to Madame Parent, wife of the editor of the Annales de Pomologie].

Marie Thierry

Deep rose, shaded; an expanded rose; large, full centre, and very double.

Marie-Anne De Nancy

Tree - moderately vigorous, and likely to prove a good bearer. Fruit - middle-sized, turbinate, about nine inches in circumference. Skin - smooth, green, streaked and speckled with russet, becoming yellowish when fit for use. Stalk - scarcely half an inch in length, clear brown, thick, and fleshy. Flesh - white, very melting, and buttery, with abundance of sugary vinous juice. Ripe in September and October. From seed by Van Mons.

Marion

Bunch, medium. Size of berry, do.; black, very round, harsh, and unpleasant, until cool weather, when it is rich and agreeable. Juice, exceedingly dark, and will make a splendid wine; will most likely prove valuable at the North.

Marion County Horticultural Society, (Indiana)

The officers of this Society for the year 1862 are as follows : President, Dr. Geo. W. Mears; Vice-Presidents, D. V. Culley, J. S. Dunlop, J. T. Francis; Treasurer, S. V. Morris; Secretary, W. H. Loomis. The spring exhibition will be held at Indianapolis on the 4th and 5th of June.

Market Gardens Near London

It is stated on the authority of the London Garden, that there are 18,000 acres of land devoted to market gardening in the vicinity of London, England.