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peck to a tree beneficial to tbe growth of plum 

 trees. 



A quarter is planted with different kinds of 

 oaks, in order to prove their respective hardiness. 

 Among them was a seedling nearly evergreen, 

 about 15 feet high, having the habit of a Lom- 

 bardy Poplar. Of hardy lawn trees and shrubs, 

 Mr. Rivers has an extensive collection, and a 

 <*reat many different kinds of weeping trees. We 

 noticed a collection of different sorts of Brooms 

 and Cytisus grafted on the purple Laburnum. He 

 has new weeping elms, new weeping birches and 

 thorns, and a weeping red-flowered chestnut (Pa- 

 via humilis pendula.) We observed mulberry 

 trees 40 years old, and with stems 12 inches in 

 girth, which had been transplanted, and were 

 doin"- well, showing how retentive of life the mul- 

 berry is. These had been cut well in, root and 

 top. Mr. Rivers has just put up a cheap house 

 for propagating Magnolias in, and growing vines, 

 &c. It has no back wall except a beech hedge ; 

 the roof is supported by stakes driven into the 

 ground 7 leet high at back, 2 feet high in front, 



with a 14 feet rafter. There is a sunk path tip 

 the middle, and on the right and left beds, which 

 are thus raised up near the glass. The rafters 

 are 20 inches apart, and glazed with sheet glass ; 

 and owing to the extreme ventilation no burning 

 is ever experienced. 



We now come to the roses, of which Mr. Rivers 

 has an amazing quantity. We think we under- 

 stood him to say that he had 10,000 standard 

 Hybrid Perpetuals and Bourbons alone, chiefly 

 worked on the Manetti stock, and all clean and 

 healthy. No aphis or blight was to be seen. Mr. 

 R. informed us that he thought the air too bracing 

 for these pests, which seldom or never trouble 

 him; and when they do their visit is but short. It 

 would bo vain to attempt to describe what we 

 saw among roses ; but we cannot pass over unno- 

 ticed a plantation of 500 standards of Geant des 

 Batailles. This was truly an interesting sight, 

 the glowing colours of this fine rose reflected by 

 the rays of the setting sun, had a striking effect. 

 It is one of the best of roses, being both early and 

 late in flower. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



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Grafting and Dwarfing. — Dear Sir: Al- 

 though I have attentively read every number of 

 the Horticulturist since its publication, I have failed 

 to satisfy myself upon the subject contained in the 

 following questions, and would therefore request 

 you to do me the favor of answering them in your 

 valuable Journal. 



In working peaches on plum stocks, is it advisa- 

 ble to bud at the surface of the ground, or stand- 

 ard high? [At the surface of the ground ; and 

 because the growth of stem and stock, correspond 

 more closely than when budded standard high. 



Ed.] 



Wherein are plum stocks superior to their own 

 stocks, for growing peaches ? [They are not su- 

 perior for standard trees, if healthy peach stocks 

 can be had ; for trained trees they are considered 

 superior, partly because the trees grow more com- 

 pactly, and partly because, from the hardier cha- 

 racter of the plum stock it is less liable to disease. 

 Ed.] 



Can apricots be dwarfed, and by what process? 

 [By budding it on the Sloe. Ed.] 



Which is the most desirable for dwarf, or pyra- 

 midal apple trees, Paradise or Doucin stocks? 

 Truly yours, C. N. R. Milan, O., August 28th, 

 1849. 



[We cannot better answer the latter query than 

 by quoting Mr. Rivers' remarks in his " miniature 

 Fruit Garden." " On the continent, there are two 

 or three varieties of the apple known under the 

 name of the Paradise apple: viz. — the Pomme de 

 Paradis, the Pomme de St. Jean, and the Doucin. 



These are all called Paradise stocks in England, 

 but on the continent the first and last are used for 

 distinct purposes — the first for dwarf bushes, the 

 latter for pyramids. The Pomme de Paradis, 

 (Paradise apple of the French) is exceedingly 

 dwarf in its habits, and too tender for this climate, 

 unless in very dry and warm soils. Out of 2,000 

 imported in 1845, more than one half died the first 

 season, and two-thirds of the remainder the fol- 

 lowing one. They were planted in fine fertile 

 loam, favorable to the growth of apples, and on 

 which the Doucin, or English Paradise, planted 

 the same season, grew with the greatest vigour. 

 The same result attended an importation of 2000 

 in 1846: But very few of them are alive, and the 

 apples grafted on them are exceedingly dwarf. 

 The Pomme de St. Jean is more hardy than the 

 true Paradise, not quite so dwarf, and yet not 

 nearly so vigorous as the Doucin; it is the latter, 

 or English Paradise, which is most deserving of our 

 attention for forming fruitful pyramids, the culture 

 of which is very simple." 



We may add to the above that as the climate of 

 Ohio is more like that of France than that of Eng. 

 land, there is no doubt that the true Paradise 

 stock, (Pomme de Paradis) would succeed well 

 there. The Doucin or English Paradise is the 

 stock usually employed for dwarf apples in this 

 country. Ed.] 



Horse Yoke. — Dear Sir: In your March No., 

 I noticed some person inquiring where the horse 

 neck yoke, invented and patented by Dansworth, 



