Merrit's Seedling

Also from Mr. Merritt. Bunch smaller than the preceding; berry below medium ; color greenish amber. Riper than the Montgomery, and we should think a better grape. This is alto a Chasselas seedling.

Mesembryanthemum Cordifolium Varie-Gaturn

A new bedding plant of exquisite beauty, and very dwarf trailing habit. The leaves are a delicate green, broadly margined with purest white, and are of a succulent nature. This plant will endure the hottest sun and dryest weather.

Mesembryanthemum Cordifolium Variegatum, Sowing

The seed should be sown in light, sandy soil, which should be watered before sowing, allowed to stand for a few hours and again watered, and when settled, sow the seed, covering it very lightly with fine soil or silver sand. Place in a cucumber frame or hot-bed, and near the glass, and when the seedlings appear, remove at once to a light and airy position in the warm greenhouse. Do not water overhead but through the spout of the watering-pot, pouring the water on a piece of crock or slate that may be placed in the pot amongst the seedlings. Very little water is required whilst they are young, or, indeed, at any state; all they require is to be kept from becoming limp. Pot off singly when they are large enough to handle - Journal of Horticulture.

Mespilus Japonica

This early fruit would prove a valuable one for orchard houses. It is a Medlar of superior excellence, making its appearance in New Orleans fruit stores in April. The plant and flower are both sufficiently ornamental to give it a place independent of its valuable fruit.

Hardy Aquatic Plants (suitable for a small tank in the house or open air). - Aponogdon dislachyon, four inches. Butomus umbellatus, two feet. Hotlonia palustris, floating. Menyanthes trtfoliata, one foot Ranunculus aquatilis hederacea, six inches. Nymphaa odorota, four inches. Hydocolyle vulgaris, one foot.

Messrs. Thorburn & Co., Astoria

We are glad to find that these gentlemen are keeping up their collection of Dahlias in the same perfection that they have for some years past. The plants this year do not bloom quite so well as usual, owing to the weather principally, but altogether they are well worth a visit, if only to see some of the new varieties recently introduced, which are valuable additions to our stock of these flowers. We And our friend Mr. G. C. Thorburn, has been obliged for want of room, to remove his green-house plants and stock to his new nursery, at Newark, N. J. The situation is well adapted to the purpose, and being within ten minutes of the railroad station, it is, although further from New-York, as readily and speedily accessible as Astoria. We wish him all success in his new undertaking.

Metcalf's Early

Ripened with New Jersey Scarlet, but much of the fruit rotted before it was fully colored, and it is inferior in most respects to either of the preceding. A prominent grower at Moorestown remarked to me after fruiting it this season, that "Metcalfs Early had played out."

Metcalf's Key To Bee-Keeping

The title of this book, which has just been laid on our table, reads as follows: A Key to successful Bee-keeping: being a Treatise on the most profitable Method of Managing Bees, including the Author's new System of Swarming, whereby all watching for Swarms during the Swarming Season is done away with, and all loss by flight to the woods prevented. By Martin S. Metcalf. Published by C. M. Saxton, 25 Park Row, New York.

Price 35 cents. - There is a promise of something fresh in this little book, but we have had time only for a mere glance.