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desired at the same time. Tlie usual way is to 

 lay it on sippets of toasted bread, and pour over it 

 some white sauce, or melted butter made with milk 

 instead of water. But if the toast is not intended 

 to be eaten, but only to serve as a draining cusliion 

 to the vegetable, and then cast out to pigs, or, in a 

 town, probably to the kennel or dust-hole, such a 

 wasteful proceeding is, to say the least, culpable, 

 w4iile so many of our fellow-creatures are perishing 

 for want of a like morsel. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Hint to Ornabiental Planters. — The ques- 

 tion has often occurred to me, as it probably has to 

 many others, why do artificial plantations never 

 have the appearance of natural woods ? The prin- 

 cipal cause appears to me obvious and simple, and 

 one easily removed. It is this : that planters inva- 

 riably make the great mistake of filling up their 

 plantations to the very extremities with trees as 

 thick as they can stand together. The consequence 

 is, that though they may take a pleasing outline for 

 their boundary fence, yet that outline remains stiff 



and hard, consisting of trees of nearly xmiform 

 height and age; and when viewed at a distance, 

 the plantation looks as if its edges had been clipped 

 by the gardener's shears, a defect which the growth 

 of a hundred years often fails to oiiliterate. Now 

 let the observer turn his eyes on any natural wood ; 

 there everything is quite different, he will find no 

 precise definite outline ; on the contrary, the skirts 

 of such a wood almost always consist of widely 

 scattered trees of various growth and age, forming 

 groups with many vacancies and intervals bare of 

 trees running up between them. This it is that 

 gives that pleasing variety which offers so strong a 

 contrast to the productions of the landscape gar- 

 dener. If, then, the above observations are well 

 founded, the planter may easily avoid the defect of 

 which I complain, which often makes a plantation 

 rather an eyesore than an ornament. Let him only 

 imitate nature, by fringing his plantations with 

 widely scattered trees, interspersed among numer- 

 ous vacancies and intervals, as above described, and 

 I feel confident of the good result. — Gard. Chron. 



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The Genesee Farmer. — Among the first on our 

 exchange list is this truly valuable agricultural 

 journal, published at Rochester, N. Y., and con- 

 ducted by Dr. Lee, in its agricultural, and Mr. Ear- 

 RY in its horticultural departments. 



Dr. Lee is widely and favorably known by his 

 earnest devotion to the cause of agricultural chcm- 

 istrij. Both by lectures and editorially, has he la- 

 bored for a long time most zealously to awaken 

 farmers to the inaportance of the science of chemist- 

 ry, and to render that science plain and comprehen- 

 sible to all persons engaged in agricultural pur- 

 suits. 



It is not, perhaps, too much to say that the Gene- 

 see Farmer has done more for the benefit of gricul- 

 ture, in this particular department, than any other 

 agricultural journal in the Union. The horticultu- 

 ral department is managed, in the main, with ex- 

 cellent practical knowledge, as well as spirit and 

 taste. We are heartily glad, therefore, to learn 

 that its influence is gradually extending itself in 

 every direction. 



In the leader of the April number, we perceive 

 Dr. Lee has entirely misunderstood the editor of 

 this journal, and our personal views in writing the 

 articles on the Philosophy of Manuring Orchards, 

 which has attracted some little attention in various 

 parts of the Union. Certainly, nothing was farther 

 from our wishes than to appear to claim any ori- 

 ginality in bringing forward the now well known 

 chemical theory regarding special manures. It is 

 not a department to which we have particularly de- 

 voted ourselves, as Dr. Lee and others have done, 

 though we have always felt bound not to let lead- 

 ers, like himself, get wholly beyond our more limit- 

 ed vision. On the contrary, we not only gave es- 

 pecial credit to Dr. Emmons, of Albany, for his 



most valuable researches into this subject, but pub- 

 lished, in a note, his exact analyses. 



We did this in the sjiirit of " honor to whom ho- 

 nor is due," and always wish to follow this maxim. 

 Strictly, however, we were not bound to do so ; for 

 Liebig and other writers had already made the 

 theory of special manures widely known, and there 

 was no need of any reference to authorities. The 

 following remark, from one of the most distinguish- 

 ed men of science in England, is to the point on this 

 subject : — 



'• Discoveries, when once communicated to the 

 world, become public property ; they are thrown 

 into the common stock for mutual benefit ; and it is 

 only in the case of debatable opinions, or of any re- 

 cent or unconfirmed observations, that it really inte- 

 rests the world that authorities should be quoted 

 at all." 



Still, we did consider Dr. Emmons as highly de- 

 serving of especial thanks of horticulturists, for di- 

 recting his attention to the analysis of fruit trees; 

 and it was with the design of drawing the attention 

 of the horticultural public generally to this subject, 

 that we took it up precisely at the season of the 

 year when it was most applicable, and treated it as 

 we did. Though we had no hope of throwing as 

 much sunshine on the garden and orchard as Dr. 

 Lee has done on the farm, we hoped to clear away 

 a little of the ground-fog, and trust our contempo- 

 rary will, on consideration, take what he calls our 

 " waking up" with his wonted amiability. 



PoMOLOGiCAL RuLES. — To the list of Horticultu- 

 ral Societies which have adopted the Rules of Po- 

 mology in our last number, we are now able to add 

 the Rhode Island Horticultural Society, and 

 the Detroit (Mich.) Horticultural Society. 



