shilling, even two shillings a piece, in the fruit-shops, and of a certain tree, or 

 trees, in such a one's garden, which annually yield their owners scores of dollars 

 in their fruits. All this may be so. But, about the orchards of such trees 1 

 where are they ? The pear has a thousand, or less, enemies. The blight runs 

 with a zigzag, forked, and sinuous course, through the orchard one year. The 

 slug, and the curled and spotted leaf, like the leprosy, hit them in another. The 

 pestilent field mouse girdles them at the roots in the third ; and calamity, in 

 general, is after them in the fourth. I have had a little experience in this line 

 myself, and the upshot of success in extended pear culture, either dwarf or stand- 

 ard, I receive with great allowance. I hope Doctor Ward will be successful, for, 

 if any man knows how to do the thing, he does. It is well that he is so close to 

 Professor Mapes' superphosphates, and the poudrette factories ; and if he gives 

 his trees the very best of garden culture, manuring them like cabbages, trimming 

 and cutting back to order, thinning out his fruits with scissors, and all that sort 

 of thing, and don't lose them by disease or casualty, and then can get ten dollars 

 a barrel for bis pears, or sixpence a piece for them in market, he'll do. His 

 article is interesting, and I hope he will continue the subject. 



Garden Wheelbarrow. — This is one of the tools. But, when you get it, be 

 careful that it is not a gimcrack affair, to be made over again by your own village 

 blacksmith the first time you use it. One-half of these garden tools, well enough 

 in the invention, are not worth taking home, from the flimsy, dishonest way in 

 which they are put together. Too much like Pindar's razors ! 



Golden Hamburgh Grape. — If this grape is as good as its mother, the Black 

 Hamburgh, it is an acquisition to the grapery — for its color is a high attainment 

 in such a grape. If I were to stock a vinery with a dozen grapes, ten of them 

 should be Black Hamburgh, and the other two Golden Chasselas. These two 

 varieties are easily grown, sure bearers, and possess the aggregated virtues of all 

 the others. Only prove the Golden Hamburgh what it is described, and I will 

 add it to the others, making three reliahle grapes. 



Residence of John Bartram. — I don't think much of his old home, but I do 

 think very much of the good old Quaker who lived in it ; and Col. Eastwick 

 deserves credit for the pious veneration with which he preserves it. I must go 

 and take a look at the old place, when I get time. 



Moonlight on Vegetation. — Who doubts its effects ? The garden women say 

 they pick double the cucumbers during moon-shiny nights than in dark ones ; 

 and they ought to know. 



Experiment with the Osage Orange. — I should like to see the Western men, 

 who grow Orange hedges hy the mile, " pinching" their shoots by way of trimming ! 

 No, no, Mr. Alexander, that won't do. A snccessftd hedge plant in this country, 

 has got to bear cutting down, or cutting off with a bill-hook, scythe, or shears, 

 as may be, or it's of no use in farm hedging. I've seen a couple of models of 

 machines for clipping hedges, to work by horse-power, which, if they work at all, 

 will trim miles a day. We'll know more about these hedges five years hence. 



