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country where pear stocks can be so easily 

 reared as in ours, the surest way is to follow 

 dame nature and cultivate the fruit on its 

 own bottom. 



Saco, in Maine, however, is a high lati- 

 tude, greatly subject to the blasts of cold 

 northeasterly winds, where the Mountain 

 Ash flourishes in high luxuriance, and the 

 Pear stock may not. If so, by all means let 

 the trial continue, and raise pears on the 

 Mountain Ash if nothing better can be done. 



Hints for the Fruit Garden. — Excellent 

 and timely. How many thousands of bush- 

 els of choice fruit, after great pains-taking 

 in cultivation, are utterly lost for want of 

 proper materials in gathering and care in 

 preserving them. This article should be 

 well read, and put away for annual reference 

 by every fruit-grower. 



Riven'' Nursery. — No doubt a most inter- 

 esting and beautiful sight. I have often won- 

 dered why our nurserymen, many of them 

 men of fine taste in landscape delineation, do 

 not study more of the beautiful, and the pic- 

 turesque in laying out and planting their 

 grounds. Such dispositions may be made of 

 the different fruit and ornamental trees, 

 shrubbery, and flowering plants, as would 

 make them exceedingly attractive as places 

 of resort, and thereby greatly extend the 

 sales to their proprietors. Let us have a re- 

 form in these things, and not have our 

 nurseries, as too many of them now do, 

 look like so many corn-fields or bean patch- 

 es ; but tasteful, inviting, and expressive in 

 part of the purpose for which the plants with 

 which they are occupied, are intended. It 

 is one most interesting feature of this truly 



delightful profession, that our nurserymen 

 now embrace many men of education, taste 

 and refinement. Let this improvement con- 

 tinue, and by their annual congregation in 

 conventions, and mutual and friendly inter- 

 course, they will ere long arrive at that po- 

 sition which their useful calling should com- 

 mand. 



Advertisements. — Right glad was I to see 

 such an array of fruit and ornamental trees 

 on sale in the different nurseries ; and what 

 a growing taste in the public do these noti- 

 ces indicate, as compared with thirty years 

 ago, when Messrs. Prince and Bloodgood 

 of Long Island, were the only prominent 

 nurserymen of this great State. Now, mil- 

 lions of trees are yearly advertised, and mil- 

 lions yearly sold and planted. But how 

 many, think you, of those millions sold and 

 planted, live to bearing and maturity ? I 

 hardly dare name twenty-five per cent, of 

 the whole number. Ignorance, carelessness, 

 neglect, are the prolific causes of most of 

 this destruction, while the appropriations of 

 planted grounds to other purposes in a rap- 

 idly improving country like ours, particular- 

 ly in the vicinity of our large towns and vil- 

 lages is another cause. Nurseries there- 

 fore, will be kept up, and the increasing 

 taste for cultivating fruits, and ornamental 

 trees, and shrubbery, on the part of the pub- 

 lic, will not only sustain, but augment the 

 demand. 



Go on, gentlemen nurserymen. No pro- 

 fession among us promises better returns 

 than yours, and may you all be as success- 

 ful as your merits shall deserve. 



Jeffreys. 



