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ceived fourteen dollars per bushel for them. 

 The above gentleman has often said, that 

 his plum ."trees, which are set out about 

 the buildings, and take up but little room, 

 pay him more profit than the whole of his 

 valuable farm of two hundred acres. Ano- 

 ther fruit-grower in your neighborhood, has 

 sent four hundred bushels of Frost Gage 

 plums, to market in one season, and receiv- 

 ed twelve hundred dollars for them. 



Yet with all these facts before us, there 

 is no full supply of any kind of fruit in the 

 Philadelphia market, except peaches. Many 



farmers and gardeners neglect setting out 

 fruit trees from a natural negligence ; others 

 dislike to pay fifty cents for a fine plum 

 tree ; others again are afraid that every 

 body will go to fruit-growing, and bring 

 down the price to almost nothing. But we 

 would ask, if there is any more danger of 

 every body commencing on a large scale 

 the culture of fruit, than there is that every 

 body will commence the raising of onions, 

 or the making of razor strops, or the culti- 

 vation of roses ? Yours, etc. 



B. G. BOSWELL. 



THE DELIGHTS OP GARDENING, BY LAMARTINE. 

 TRANSLATED BY CHARLES KING, NEW- YORK. 



There are many of our readers tvho think, 

 doubtless, that they know by heart all the 

 delights of the garden. To such we com- 

 mend the following address. Certainly 

 they cannot read it without feeling that 

 much of the beauty and interest which lie 

 hidden in this devotion to natural pursuits, 

 were never fully revealed, until illumined 

 by the imagination and the heart of La- 



MARTINE. 



We owe the first sight of this fine pro- 

 duction to Charles King, Esq., who has 

 kindly translated it also for our readers, and 

 prefaced it by the following note : — 



The charm of flowers, and of the gardener's call- 

 ing, has rarely been more touchingly or eloquently 

 expressed and illustrated, than in the following 

 address by a distinguished poet, historian and states- 

 man of France, M. de Lamartine. 



It was delivered recently at Macon, at the annual 

 exhibition and meeting of the Horticultural Society 

 of Saone and Loire, from which department M. de 

 Lamartine is a member of the Chamber of De- 

 puties. 



Where so much depends, as in an address so 

 poetical and imaginative as this, upon the style and 

 diction of the orator, a translation can but feebly 



render the charm of the original. With this al- 

 lowance, it may be hoped the readers of the Horti- 

 culturist will not regret the space devoted to this 

 address. CHARLES KING. 



New- York, Kov.lG, 1847. 



Gentlemen — It belongs particularly, indeed 

 in my judgment it should belong exclusive- 

 ly, to those masters of the Art whom you 

 have just heard — to those magistrates of 

 nature — it should above all belong to the 

 learned and venerable Dean of Agriculture 

 (M. Jard), who, just now in referring to 

 me, has transferred to me as a public man 

 the sentiments of affectionate regard with 

 which he honors me in private life — to such 

 men it peculiarly belongs to entertain you 

 about the useful and attractive science of 

 gardening, of which the fruits and the 

 flowers but now refreshed our senses in 

 another enclosure. Nevertheless since it 

 has been cast upon me as the national re- 

 presentative of all this population, to address 

 you, after they have spoken, I will make 

 the attempt. But what shall I say, that 

 every one of you does not know a thousand 

 times better than myself? 



Of all those scientific nomenclatures 

 which designate your annual exhibitions, 

 of all those plants which flourish and fruc- 



