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than I should try to fly, if they told me I 

 could. How can your eater of " hog peach- 

 es" know wluit an Early York is? He 

 must test the fine varieties first. I would 

 like to know how many men in Mississippi, 

 or even in South Carolina, can judge be- 

 tween an Apricot, or a Green Gage, and the 

 Chickasaw plum ? 



I was told fifteen years ago it was folly 

 to try apples; "they had been tried." I 



have shown Baldwin apples long after frost 

 as good as any body could. A friend from 

 Indiana, " a traceller," saw them here. He 

 pronounced them good. Of course, " sum- 

 mer apples will grow, and fall apples may ;" 

 " but winter apples will not." Wait awhile, 

 until my Male Carle, Northern Spy and 

 others bear, and then we will see. Yours 

 with respect. M. W. Philips. 



Edwards, Miss., February, 1850. 



CRITIQUE ON THE MARCH HORTICULTURIST. 

 BY JEFFREYS, NEW-YORK. 



How to lay out a Country Place. — This ar- 

 ticle is timely, and much needed. Grounds 

 for a residence require a front, sides, and a 

 rear, as much as the house which is to oc- 

 cupy them ; and the why and wherefore 

 should be as freely discussed. I propose to 

 leave this subject, over which you are so 

 accomplished a master, altogether to your- 

 self ; and I hope you will not dispose of it 

 until it is made — even to the newest be- 

 ginner — " as plain as the nose on his 

 face." 



The Process of Wine-making in Ohio. — 

 It is more than refreshing, amidst the twad- 

 dle of so many pretenders in our day, to 

 find a man of the right down blunt, practi- 

 cal sense of Nicholas Longworth. Why, 

 a single page of his experience is worth a 

 volume of the theoretical gossip we almost 

 daily meet, — (not often in your pages, how- 

 ever,) a cogent illustration of " the blind 

 leading the blind." 



Stray Notes, fyc. — Feeding Trees. — Cer- 

 tainly. A tree loves to be fed as well 

 as a pig. If you don't believe it, just con- 

 duct your sink spout to the roots of some of 

 your scurfy, mossy, half starved trees, and 



if you don't soon see the difference, we'll 

 inquire the reason why. 



Mr. Hooker's Notes. — Most instructive. 

 I wish he would continue them. How can 

 we ever excel at home, unless we know 

 some little of what the world is doing 

 abroad? As to the agricultural school, our 

 masters at Albany have got the thing in 

 hand; and I hope — for I have not as yet 

 full confidence in what they will do — some 

 good will come out of it. 



Experiments in Horticulture. — Well, if 

 we have got to come to this process of 

 thumping the trees, and catching the curcu- 

 lios in our fingers, be it so. But for my 

 part, I shall exhaust every other mode heard 

 of, before I apply it. Why, only think of it ; 

 a man like myself, not quite so big as 

 Sir John Falstaff, bobbing and squatting 

 round among two or three hundred plum 

 trees ever}' day in the week, and that be- 

 fore sunrise in the morning, — the only time 

 of day when the little rascals are torpid, — 

 nabbing curculios ! I sadly fear, as with 

 my ancient friend, the sequel would prove — 

 " the more flesh, the more frailty." Let 

 others try this method, if they like; but be- 



