Seventh

Small fruit culture is only profitable to those who start with capital, no debts, plenty of manure and can "hang on" to the very last.

Several Fine Plants Were Exhibited

Plants from James Dundas's gardener.

From M. W. Baldwin's. The new Veronica Imperial Blue.

From John Lambert's. Fine German Asters.

By Robert Buist. New - Achimenes Ambrosle Verehaffeltli, a white, striped with violet and yellow eye, very pretty cut flowers of Allamanda grandlllora; with many designs for baskets and boaquets from various members.

Shade

Plants under glass generally will require shade of some kind during the hottest part of the year. When a whole house requires shade it is best to have coarse canvas tacked on rollers to run up and down as required, but when a part only is shaded, we find noth-ing better than thin lime-wash brushed on the glass outside; it can be removed at pleasure, and the rain will wash it away by autumn.

The Shake Plant Of South America

If this story be not a " Munchausen," I don't know what is. It smacks too much of the " penny-a-liner," and Dickens, and " Household Words," for me to believe. There are, no doubt, plants in South America that will cure the snake bites - or, perhaps, by taking them internally - ward off their poison, for such we hare in this country, which the Indians know all about; but the personal part of the story is sheer gammon.

Shark's Coviter Harrow

In our last we remarked that we had suggestedthe manufacture of a smaller size of this harrow. This, we are glad to know, has now been done by Messrs. Haines & Pell, and a most excellent implement thus made more generally useful.

Shenk Pear

No one could give a truer history of this pear than that friend of horticultural improvement, J. B. Garber; but for the sake of pomological nomenclature, let it henceforth be called Shenk, or Schenck's, which is outlandish enough, sans culotte. A familiarity with this variety for years in its native locality, led me to estimate it highly; but having fruited it here for three years, my opinion is changed. It ripens only a few days earlier than the Bartlett, and is much inferior. It cracks badly, and among dozens not a perfect specimen is obtained. In those regions where the Whits Doyenne fails, it will be well to adopt it with caution. J. K. ESHLE-man. - Downington, Pa.

Shoenbrun

Single blue, very profuse.

New Violet, Marie Louise.

Short Horns

We have not received the catalogue of " Short Horned Cattle" from Elizabethtown N. J. alluded to in a note from R. T. Haines, the father of the proprietors J. D. H. Toronto. The paper alluded to has not yet reached us, much to our regret Professor Agassiz, proposes to publish the most important results of his scientific labors in twelve volumes with plates, by subscription. The price will be ten dollars each volume. Large subscriptions have been made in Boston and New Bedford. Little & Brown of Boston are to be the publishers.' We wish the undertaking every success.

The Wholesale Catalogue of Ellwanger and Barry for the present autumn is on our table, and contains the usual and extensive variety of that enterprising firm; Their fruit trees are justly celebrated.