B. triphylla is the best for summer-bloom, and, as a bedding-plant, is better than any other species. The flowers are orange-scarlet, very showy and attractive.

Of hybrid varieties there are many which are worthy of notice, although as yet but little attention has been paid by hybridists to the Bouvardia. The plant promises well, and the next few years will probably witness a great advance.

The subject of our illustration is a step in this direction, and is a new seedling Bouvardia, to which we take great pleasure in calling the attention of our readers. This attractive variety was raised by Mr. John Henderson, and is a sport from the well-known carmine variety Hogarth. It has been named, in honor of the producer, Bouvardia Hendersonii. It promises to be an even more abundant bloomer than the parent. The flowers are produced in branching terminal corymbs, as in the varieties of B. leiantha; the tube is long, full, and well rounded; the petals large, of great substance, of a delicate rosy peach-color; the foliage is dark-green, not smooth, clear, and fine. In habit the plant is vigorous and healthy, very floriferous, and winter-blooming.

The color is one which has long been wanted for bouquets, as it harmonizes well with any other color.

Altogether it is an admirable variety; and we cannot but regard it as a great acquisition, which we trust may soon be so generally grown as to become indispensable for choice bouquets.

Bouvardias are propagated by cuttings of branches or roots, and by seed; the two former for the perpetuation of old species, the latter for the production of new varieties.

Cuttings should generally be made in spring, and should be from halfripened shoots taken off at a joint. They should be inserted one-half their length in silver sand or in sandy loam, and have a slight bottom-heat. They root readily, and may soon be potted off.

Propagation by root-cuttings is chiefly used with B. leiantha and its varieties. The roots should be cut into pieces about an inch in length; planted about an inch deep in a pan of sandy soil, which should be placed in a brisk bottom-heat. The plants will soon appear, and in a few weeks be strong enough to pot off.

Seed may be sown at any season in sandy loam : it vegetates more freely if placed in bottom-heat. The plants intended for winter-blooming should be bedded out in summer, and be well grown. Just before the frost comes, they should be potted and placed in the greenhouse, where they will soon come into bloom. E. S. R., Jun.

GLEN RIDGE, March, 1868.

GRIMES'S GOLDEN PIPPIN (SYN., Grimes's Golden).

THE first publicly known of this apple was at a meeting of the Ohio State Pomological Society in September, 1855, where it was shown by Samuel Wood and Son of Jefferson County, O., and who then gave its origin as having been on the farm of Thomas Grimes, Brook County, Va. This was published, with a condensed description of the fruit, in the Ohio

Transactions. The soil of the parent tree was sandy; but experience with it has proved that it does equally well on rich clay-loam as on sand. It is claimed by those who have been in yearly acquaintance with this apple, that, almost from the time of its first bearing,- now about seventy years, it has never failed to produce fruit: not even the severe frost of 1859, which

destroyed almost every thing beside, prevented this tree from perfecting its crop of fruit. The young trees have been considerably disseminated; and, wherever grown, the hardihood and perpetual bearing of the parent tree seem to have been continued. The tree is of a moderately vigorous growth, forming an upright spreading head in the orchard; its branches or limbs being very tough, and having knobs or abutments, as it were, at the base of connection with the main branch, which enable it to sustain severe winds or heavy loads of fruit without breaking or cracking off. The fruit is uniformly even and regular in form and size; and, although fit for eating or cooking early in winter, may be kept without extra care until March or April.

Description.-Fruit, size medium; form roundish, oblong, oblate, conical; color rich golden-yellow, with sometimes a shade of bronzed-red in the sun, and moderately sprinkled with small grayish dots; stalk varying, sometimes medium or short, and again, when grown on the lower outer buds of the tree, rather long and slender; cavity deep, often slightly russeted; calyx partially closed; basin deep, rather abrupt and uneven; flesh yellow, compact, firm, crisp, tender, juicy, rich, brisk, aromatic, sub-acid; core small; seeds ovate; quality best. Season, December to April.

NEW APPLES.

A GREAT number of new apples have been introduced in the Middle and Western States during the past few years; while doubtless many varieties, if not an equal number, have been practically forgotten. Those intending to raise fruit for the market should plant but comparatively few varieties, and those only that have been fully tested and found to be productive and profitable.

PEACH-TREES IN POTS.

We take great

THE general opinion among fruit-growers is, that, when the mercury falls as low as ten degrees below zero, the fruit-buds of the peach will be killed. This may not be strictly true: but it is true that the peach often fails when the winters are severe; and this repeated failure has led many persons to abandon the culture of this most luscious fruit. Now, there is not, perhaps, among all the fruits that can be grown in a Northern climate, one more generally esteemed and admired than this; and the question is often asked, How can it be raised where the winters are so unfavorable? We would suggest growing them in pots or tubs, and placing the tubs in a house or warm barn-cellar in winter, where they will be perfectly protected from the severe weather. This cannot be done on an extensive scale, perhaps, or in such a way as to yield a profit, but may be, to some extent, by every lover of this fruit, to supply his own table. pains to raise grapes and other fruit under glass; and why not take some trouble to raise peaches in this way? The expense is not large : for, if earthen pots are used, they will last many years, and serve for several generations of trees; or a cheaper article can be made to answer the purpose. The large size iron-bound white-lead kegs, sawed in two, make very good tubs for this purpose; and even the light Malaga grape and raisin casks will last as long as one set of trees can profitably be kept. Each tub or pot should hold about three-fourths of a bushel of good earth and compost well prepared. The trees may be set in the spring, the roots shortened, and the tops well cut in; and, if they are in pots, the pots may be plunged in the ground in some position not too much exposed to the hot sun the first year. They will need to be watered once in a while, but not nearly as often as those not so treated. If they are in tubs, they cannot be put into the ground, because of the danger of rotting the wood, so that they would not last long enough for even one set of trees. When they have made a fair growth, the shoots should be pinched in for a double purpose, to have them ripen up their wood, and also to cause them to form fruit-buds for the next year; for they ought all to produce some fruit the second year after being planted. They may require several successive

pinchings-in during the season. They should receive an occasional watering with manure-water, especially the second and successive years, when they are carrying a crop of fruit. On the approach of extreme cold weather, say about the last of November or first of December, take these pots or tubs up, and place them in some good cellar where they can remain all winter; requiring no care beyond an occasional watering, if the cellar be very dry. Care must be used in setting them out in the spring; for it sometimes happens, that, even after all the trouble of housing them in winter, they are set out only to have their blossoms or fruit all destroyed by a late frost. When they are ripening their fruit, they should be exposed to the sun, that the fruit may be high colored and fine flavored. We have often seen two or three dozen beautiful specimens of fruit on such trees. It is not best to keep one set of trees more than four or five years. All the varieties may be grown in this way; though the dwarf varieties, such as Van Buren's Golden Dwarf and the Italian Dwarf, are better adapted to pot-culture.

This system is recommended to amateurs who are fond of peaches, and are willing to make special efforts to secure good specimens. We advise a fair trial of peach-trees in pots in those parts of the country where the winters are too severe to permit of their being raised in the orchard with

success.

HEADING IN PEACH-TREES.

THIS important work should receive early attention. There is a very great difference in the appearance at least between those trees that have been shortened in and those that have been left to themselves. The trees so treated live longer, are broken down less by the wind, produce larger and better fruit, which is more easily gathered than from the trees grown by the old method.