1856.] Uffeds of Frost on Dormant Vegetation. 201 



duke Hector, too near the mark !) " No telling when a client may want 

 his will drawn— young lawyers ought therefore to eat and sleep in their 

 offices ; to watch and pray for fat clients, like a busy spider in his web, 

 watching to prey on some plump old blue-bottle." The pun, though 

 somewhat fished-for and far-fetched, seemed, nevertheless, to put the old 

 Trojan in a good humor with himself, and this was soon reflected on 

 Clinton, and he muttered out, " well, well ; I shall not die till the young 

 dog comes home, and we'll have it drawn then ; at all events, it's not my 

 will to trust any body else with my will ! " And this second attempt 

 of the old punster made his heart quite gleeful and his face look 

 gladsome. 



(concluded in our next.) 



[For the Cinclnnatus. 

 "THE. EFFECTS OF FROST OX DORlklA^^T \ EtiET A.TlON."n 



Messrs. Editors: 



Gentlemen — In the last No. (for March), of your journal, 

 among its other interesting matter, there is an article on " The Effects 

 of Erost on Dormant Vegetation," over the signature of ''Annandale." 

 The subject being one of deep interest to horticulturists, just at this 

 time, I perused it with no small interest. 



As a general principle I would not animadvert on the views of a wri- 

 ter on horticultural matters, over ajlctiiious signature, and I should not 

 do so now only for your indorsement of the writer's scientific attainments. 

 No doul/t your correspondent possesses all the high attainments you 

 ascribe to him. I must, however, confess my disappointment and regret 

 that his article affords no new light, but is confined to a mere statement 

 of some facts, and arguments on them, to prove what, it is to be pre- 

 sumed, every intelligent horticulturist is familiar with, so far as applies 

 to frost on dormant vegetation. 



Your correspondent sets out with the supposition, that there is much 

 *' alarm among all our horticulturists," and for which there is no serious 

 cause. That the " subject has not met with the attention, from prac- 

 tical horticulturists, which it deserves." That " the results of many 

 experiments and observations have been laid before the public, but they 

 are not generally known, and have scarcely been noticed in popular 

 works on botany, or the cotemporary agricultural or horticultural 

 magazines," etc. As a proof of this he refers to the experiments of Mr. 

 John Hunter, as "presented to the Royal Society of London, in 1775 



