editor's table. 



"Parsley." Nothing agrees better with parsley in old worn out garden soils, than half 

 burnt weeds and rubbish intermixed with the deeper subsoil. 



(A ScBSCRiBER, Newark, N. J.) That enormous pear shall be figured as soon as possible, 

 if, indeed, it will not overrun one of our pages ! 



Dr. Ward will accept our thanks for a large basket of winter pears in fine condition. The 

 "Vicar" we found delicious. 



(W. A. G., New Orleans.) The barrel of oranges and pecan nuts came to hand in the 

 best condition, and were as fully appreciated as you could desire. 



Marietta, Penn\i. — Dear Sir: A few days ago I examined, for the first time, though well 

 aware of its existence, your elegant horticultural publication, and am so highly pleased with 

 its contents, beauty, and value, that I feel disijosed to exert myself in its favor. This locality 

 is proverbially the most fertile and wealthy in the State (Donegal Township), and particu- 

 larly adapted to the cultivation of fruit. No place can be found where the peach, apple, &c., 

 grow more luxuriantly than on our alluvial banks of the Susquehanna, or where the fruit is 

 produced more perfect. We frequently escape the eflects of late spring frosts, when further 

 inland they are very destructive to the early blooming kinds. The peach here attains its 

 largest size and highest flavor ; but, owing to its vigorous growth, the tree is not long lived. 



With all the natural advantages possessed by the owners of the soil for the profitable cul- 

 ture of fruit, comparatively little attention is paid to it, and they are suflering by the neglect. 

 Why this apathy in a matter that would so greatly enhance their yearly profits, and so 

 materially add to the comfort of themselves, their families, and neighbors ? Our farmers are 

 intelligent and euteriDrising, and ready to embark in anything that will pay. It must be 

 that they are uninformed upon the subject of the profits of fruit culture, and the superior 

 excellence of the new varieties in comparison with the old familiar sorts. That it is the 

 want of information on the subject I am assured from the following circumstance. Last 

 spring, I mentioned to some friends that I was about ordering some fruit-trees, when they 

 immediately requested me to order also for them. Others heard of it, and I soon had orders 

 amounting to over $400. These have all been planted in our town and on adjoining farms. 

 This is a beginning made with scarcely an effort, and I think the introduction and general 

 circulation of your interesting and valuable periodical would tend materially to advance the 

 good work. Yours, &c. John Jay Libhart. 



[This is the right spirit. Hundreds of communities within reach of profitable sales in 

 Philadelijhia only want a little stirring up l*y such a person as our correspondent, to be 

 competent to pour into our market thousands of dollars' worth of good fruit to their own 

 great advantage and the health of our fellow-citizens. The good work has begun ; it shall 

 be the business of the Horticulturist to foster it. — Ed.] 



The Horticulturist. — Dear Sir : * * * I have been looking over several publications of 

 merit respecting horticulture lately, and am greatly interested to observe how much in ad- 

 vance the work you now have in charge seems to have been, on many of the topics discussed. 

 Reports are often repetitious of the pages of your periodical. Year books copy extensively 

 from your recent pages. State agricultural reports are likewise followers ; they often are 

 only pourings " from one bottle to another." If the whole of the Ilorticulturist were burnt 

 in the grandest of Suttees on the funeral pile, it would only be like cutting down an oak 

 after its acorns have sowed a forest. Yours, Pereira. 



CiiiswicK ExniBiTioN. — All our readers who remember the splendors of the Chiswick Hor- 

 ticultural Exhibitions, near London, will regret to hear they have been given up as unprofit- 



