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and tasteful in dress, is to the human form 

 divine, that among their garden-loving neigh- 

 bors, the English, is the national feeling of 

 the adaptation of rural decoration to country 

 houses and cottages. 



Our Frontispiece gives a view of an 

 English cottage, which may be taken in il- 

 lustration of our remarks. It represents a 

 new Dairy Cottage, in the grounds of 

 Arundel Castle, a very short time after its 

 completion, and before sufficient time had 

 elapsed to enable those who are to care for 

 it, to weave about it all the witchery of the 

 "flower and the leaf." Nothing can well 

 be simpler than its plain stone walls. It is 

 true, they have a certain definite architec- 

 tural form, but there is an almost total ab- 



sence of the tracery, carvings and enrich- 

 ments, which many, adopting the style in 

 this country, consider so necessary to a beau- 

 tiful effect. Look at this cottage, (the real 

 one, we mean,) four or five years hence, 

 and you would scarcely know it. Ivy and 

 clambering roses, and bright blossoming 

 creepers, will then have decorated it, and 

 given it a finish more fascinating than the 

 carving of the carpenter, or the chiselling 

 of the stone-cutter. And, better than all, 

 with the embellishment comes the feeling 

 that it symbolizes the taste and the habits 

 of the dwellers within the cottage, and that 

 where there is so much rustic love of beauty 

 and home pleasures, there must also be 

 something of purity and happiness. 



REMARKS ON THE MANAGEMENT OP PEAR TREES. 



BY THOMAS RIVERS, SAWBRIDGEAVORTH, ENGLAND. 



[We quote from the last number of the 

 Gardener's Chronicle, the following inter- 

 esting article on the management of the 

 Pear. The author, Mr. Rivers, is not only 

 one of the most skilful and correct of 

 all the English nurserymen, but is also a 

 careful observer of facts in the art of cul- 

 ture. 



Our readers will bear in mind the great 

 difference in favor of American fruit-grow- 

 ers, as regards climate, for the standard cul- 

 ture of the pear. Our advantage, in bright- 

 er and warmer skies, makes it easy for us 

 in many parts of the country', to grow most 

 varieties to the highest perfection, when 

 grafted on pear stocks, and raised in the 

 common way, as standards. In all sites, 

 where, from unfavorable soil or climate, it 

 is at all difficult thus to raise fine pears on 

 pear stocks, a remedy will usually be found 

 in the employment of quince stocks. 



We have had opportunities of learning 

 very recently, that in situations on the sea- 

 coast, as well as others very far south — bor- 

 dering on the Gulf of Mexico, the pear on 

 the quince stock always thrives decidedly 

 better than on its own root. 



This does not prevent us from thinking, 

 that, for orchard culture, where the pear 

 thrives as it does in the interior of this 

 state, pear stocks are much to be preferred. 



There are a few sorts, however, such as 

 Beurre Diel, Duchess of Angouleme, etc., 

 which are almost invariably so much high- 

 er flavored on quince stocks, that they should 

 only be grown in the latter way. Mr. Ri- 

 vers' notes of the qualities of the different 

 sorts, grown on the quince stock, are interest- 

 ing, and we would be glad to collect from 

 our correspondents in various parts of the 

 Union, memoranda touching the .same sub- 

 ject in this country : i. e. what varieties of 



