PLANTING AND PRUNING. 



The vine is strongly recommended as a fruit for prairie land, as is the straw- 

 berry, pears, and especially apples; the summer Bcrgamot pear, perhaps a local 

 variety, but a common one, is hardy and productive. 



The JJartlett pear is said to be short-lived. Among apples recommended are 

 Early Harvest, Sweet June, Early Scarlet Bough, Red Astrachan, Kaml)o, Fall 

 I'ippin, Fallen Waldcr, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet, White and 

 Yellow Belleflower, Wine Sap, Willow Twig, and Newtown Pippin. 



Incidentally, we learn here and there much regarding the State; for instance. 

 Dr. Le Barron says: "Birds are much less numerous than in the Eastern States, 

 from the scarcity of mature orchards and timbered lands in a newly-settled and 

 prairie country." Among the most interesting facts are those regarding the cul- 

 ture of flax ; a movement for the manufacture of linen is now going on in this 

 country, that threatens, ere long, to supply an article for which we have annually 

 paid millions to foreigners. This movement is connected with the newly-invented 

 machinery for spinning flax ; respecting this, and the raising of the raw material 

 in the West, the volume gives an account that we would ask the agricultural 

 journals of the country to disseminate. The culture is, perhaps, the most pro- 

 fitable yet attempted, and the demand is unlimited. 



In conclusion, we wish every State in the Union, including our own, had a Dr. 

 Kennicott. 



PLANTING AND PRUNING. 



BY B — , NEW JERSEY. 



J. Jay Smith: If we could only properly recollect in the right time what has 

 been written on some subjects, as, for instance, on horticulture, we should not 

 have to run over volumes to have a question settled just when we are about to 

 apply it to practice ; the matter is so great, shall I say diluted, that hints are for- 

 gotten; all previous experience is overlooked, and how often we find writers 

 stating only a few experiments of their own limited practice. 



" Facts and few words," are my motto. If you think my remarks deserving a 

 corner in your invaluable journal, I shall venture to attempt a resumSo? old and 

 new notions on the subjects of planting and pruning, from the time of Laquin- 

 tinye, Duhamel, Scobold, &c., down to our present time, and I shall try to state 

 by ray own experience what seems to me most applicable to this climate and lati- 

 tude. 



It is a settled fact that the habits of some fruit trees, and many other plants, 

 arc different here from what they are in Europe; some, which do well on the old 

 continent, will not succeed here. For instance, the common Erica, which sponta- 

 neously covers the barren and waste grounds in Scotland, Belgium, and Germany, 



