OF

HORTICULTURE,

BOTANY,

AND ALL USEFUL DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN

RURAL AFFAIRS.

"Je voudrais échauffer tout l'univers de mon gout pour les jardins. Il me semble
qu'il est impossible qu'un méchant puisse l'avoir. Il n'est point de vertus que je ne
suppose à celui que aime à parler et à faire des jardins. Péres de famille, inspirez a
jardinomanie à vos enfans."-Prince de Ligne.

VOL. XXII.

1856.

(VOL. II., THIRD SERIES.)

EDITED BY C. M. HOVEY.
AUTHOR OF THE "FRUITS OF AMERICA."

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY HOVEY AND CO., MERCHANTS ROW.
1856.

HENRY W. DUTTON & SON, PRINTERS,

37 CONGRESS STREET, BOSTON.

Descriptions of Select Apples. By the Editor, 554 | The Rose and its Culture.

Holland Pippin, Fallawater, Smoke-

By A. D. G.,

Flower Garden Annuals. By the Editor,

A few words for the Herbaceous Plants.

By the Editor, .

The Rose. By Prof Charles G. Page,

Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 41, 97, 190,

326, 372, 428, 463, 521

house.

Pomological Gossip,

24, 80, 130, 266, 357,

457, 505, 559

FLORICULTURE.

Suburban Visits,

431, 466, 517

In the body of the Magazine, a few errors occur in the spelling of the botanical names, the
capitalizing the generic and specific names, their derivation and accentuation; these are all
corrected in the following list of plants.