Dr. Howard's notice of the Burgundy grape is worthy the attention of those who are planting vines. Our notices of new annuals, we trust, will prove interesting. Art. III. by Mr. Boll, on planting rose seeds, should be read by every lover of that flower. Our Floricultural Notices contain some interesting botanical intelligence. The miscellaneous matter, which includes some notice of the new horticultural association in New York, will be found interesting. Errata.—The following correction of an error in Dr. Howard's article came to hand too late: The Miller grape is so called, "from the under surface of the leaf having a light appearance like meal," and not from. the foliage being covered with a white down, resembling that upon the wing of the insect called the miller, as it now reads in the article. In our January number we shall give our Retrospective View of Gardening for 1838. Gentlemen, amateurs, and gardeners are respectfully requested to send us any information which will assist us in making it as complete as possible, and free from errors. Accounts of recently formed gentlemen's residences, gardens, nurseries, &c., and rare collections of plants, together with an account of all new plants introduced the present year, are particularly desired. All letters or communications should reach us by the first of December next. Secretaries of horticultural societies are requested to forward the reports of their exhibitions, for insertion in the December number. We are desirous of making these reports as complete as possible. Received Manuscript communications from Prof. Torrey, Dr. J. C. Howard, Mackenzie & Buchanan, A. J. Downing, George Watson, L. Boll, A. Mitchell, J. A. Winthrop, An Amateur, J. W. Russell. Books and Printed Papers.-The Silk Culturist and Farmer's Manual, No. 5, for August, 1838. The Cultivator, No. 6, for August, 1838. The Farmer and Gardener, Nos. 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1838. The Maine Farmer, Nos. 21, 22, 23, and 24, 1838. The Yankee Farmer, Nos. 29, 30, 31 and 32, 1838. The Franklin Farmer, Nos. 50, 51, and 52, 1838. Mechanic and Farmer, Bangor, Circular and Constitution of the Horticultural Association of the river Hudson. Prospectus of the Flora of North America, by Prof. Torrey and Gray. Silliman's Journal, Vol. XXXIV., No. 2, July, 1838. MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE, Subscriptions received at the Bookstores of Messrs. Hilliard, Gray & Co. and Otis, Broaders & Co., at Colman's Literary Rooms, and at the Seed Warehouse of Messrs. Hovey & Co., Boston; at the office of the Publisher, in New York. New and Rare Plants. HOVEY & CO. have for sale fine healthy Plants of the following new and rare species, all of which have been noticed in the Magazine of Horticulture. H. & CO. also offer for sale fine Plants of the following new and 18755 17500 HOVEY & CO. SEEDSMEN AND FLORISTS, Have for sale one of the finest collections of these beautiful families of Plants ever offered for sale in this country. Of CAMELLIAS their stock embraces upwards of two hundred varieties, including nearly all the finest kinds. Of ERICAS or HEATHS, they have very fine plants of several specimens. The following Catalogue of several of the varieties is annexed. Respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have for sale a superb collection of TULIPS, and other bulbs. The Tulips are of their own raising, and can be depended upon for their elegance, all inferior ones having been discarded from their collections. Their GENERAL assortment of Dutch HYACINTHS, NARCISSUS, RANUNCULUSES, &c. &c., will be received in a short time, and will embrace some of the most splendid varieties ever offered for sale in this country. The hyacinths have all been selected from specimens which they have grown themselves, and know to be the most desirable variéties in cultivation. A catalogue of the names will be given in the next Magazine. Dealers, and the trade generally, supplied, on the most reasona ble terms. CONTENTS. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Floriculture. ART. I. Some account of an Agave americana, and a Catalogue ART. III. Catalogue of Plants which have flowered or fruited in Observations on the Lagerstræmia. By K. ART. V. Notices of new and beautiful Plants, figured in the London Floricultural and Botanical Magazines; with some Account of those which it would be desirable to introduce into our Gardens ART. VI. Notes on Gardens and Nurseries 865 366 870 . 371 876 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. OCTOBER, 1838. ART. I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Some account of an Agàve Americàna, and a Catalogue of Plants in the Collection of J. W. Perry, Esq., Brooklyn, N. Y. Communicated by Mr. J. W. PAULSEN, Gardener to Mr. Perry. I HAVE under my management, here, a fine plant of the Agàve americàna, some account of which, I presume, will be interesting to your readers. The plant I procured of Mr. Cohen, an amateur gardener in Philadelphia, and, from its large size, I am in hopes that I shall be able to bloom it in the course of the next year, or, at least, the year after. There are two reasons, I apprehend, why this plant has so rarely been in flower, in the northern parts of Europe or in America; first, that the plants are not kept in a growing state only part of the year, and are generally treated with the utmost neglect; and, secondly, that many gardeners, having an impression (it being a prevalent idea,) that the Agàve blooms only once in the course of a hundred years, few exert themselves to encourage the plant to make a rapid growth, thinking that the period of its flowering is so far distant that they shall not have the pleasure of seeing it during their lifetime. Both causes have tended much to its not being oftener seen in collections. The plant in this collection is about thirty years of age, but remarkably strong and healthy. I brought the plant from Philadelphia, on the 6th of June last, and immediately made preparations to plant it out in the open air. A circular bed was marked out, thirty-six feet in circumference; the centre of it was elevated three feet higher than the edge, down to which it gradually and evenly sloped. This was done to keep the bed dry in the VOL. IV.NO. X. 46 |