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to you for republication in the pages of the 

 Horticulturist, as an article every way ap- 

 propriate to its pages. Another most inte- 

 resting paper was published in the Quar- 

 terly Review fur 18:27, on " Planting Waste 

 Lands ;" and another on " Landscape Gar- 

 dening," in the same journal, for 1828 — a 

 review of the " Planters' Guide," by Sir 

 Walter Scott — both replete with the skill, 

 experience, and exalted taste, so eminently 

 displayed in all Sir Walter's rural efforts. 

 To those who possess, and wish further to 

 confirm a taste for tree planting, and land- 

 scape gardening, I would refer to those 

 valuable papers. They are to be found in 

 the " Critical and Miscellaneous Essays of 

 Sir Walter Scott," vol. 3. 



Sir Henry Stuart's volume was repub- 

 lished in New- York about twenty years 

 ago by Grant Thorburn ; and to such as 

 wish to plant large trees in the proper 

 mode, it will be a useful book of reference. 

 But let such planter take your advice, and 

 plant only in winter, with large balls 

 of earth around the roots. In such way 

 only, in our climate, can he expect to suc- 

 ceed. 



A Note on the Curculio, fyc. — Good. I 

 trust that Mr. Cleveland will pursue his 

 " Notes." These memoranda are just the 

 thing for us, who " live to learn," as well 

 from the experience of others as from our 

 own. 



Window Green-Houses. — I affect not these 

 exotic affairs much. But the strong vein 

 of good practice, on the general principles 

 of cultivation, running through this article, 

 commends itself to the attention of every 

 reader. 



A Note on Vine Borders, No. 1. — I am 

 glad to see this article. Such discussions, 

 where investigation on true principles is 

 pursued, always leads to good results. If 

 my good friend, the Doctor, should get 



upset in any of his propositions, no one can 

 better right himself than he, nor commence 

 anew with stronger resources for another 

 controversy. 



Mr. Comstock, however, states one fact 

 which is to me rather new. He says — ' 'We 

 know, also, that if the roots of growing 

 trees be covered with several feet of soil, 

 they certainly perish in a year or two." 

 Per contra, I must state, that in repairing 

 a cellar floor not long since, I found the 

 roots of a willow tree which stood some 

 twenty feet from the building, that had 

 worked six feet under ground, and below 

 a three foot stone cellar wall, through a 

 most adhesive clay soil, — the roots all green 

 and alive when the floor was taken up. 

 Can Mr. C. be correct in his position ?* 

 Roots of distant, moisture loving trees have 

 also been found creeping through the walls 

 of a well, many feet below the surface. 

 But, I leave hirn for the kind attentions of 

 Dr. Stevens, who, I dare say, will attend 

 to " his case." 



A Note on Vine Borders, No. 2. — Mr. Colt 

 always "goes it strong;" and of his new 

 grapevines, with his dead cats, dogs, and 

 horses, in addition to the lime, charcoal, 

 soap-suds, et idgemtsomne, don't get "enough 

 of it," I hope he will inform us. How, my 

 good friend, would your delicate Alderneys 

 nourish in the rich, creamy qualities, and 

 corresponding quantities of their milk, with 

 such a surfeit of forced food as you propose 

 feeding to your grapes ? Would'nt they at 

 once go into a fever of plethora and indi- 

 gestion ? 



When you finish that new vinery, will 

 you be so kind as to send a plan of it, with 

 the cost in items, to the Horticulturist for 

 publication? I have a friend or two who 

 want to build, and are anxious to know the 



* Quite correct in the majority of cases; tliouph some few 

 trers are apparently not affected by being buried six feet 

 deep. Ed. 



