DOMESTIC NOTICES, 



viiu'gar i)lant ; in each case, a li<iuitl substance, capable of, and disposed to, the acetous 

 f.rnientation, is brought into contact with substances that have, in part, undergone that 

 f.i mentation, and not passed beyond it. The result of the contact is, that the action, origi- 

 nally confined to the one part, is continued through both. 



A .similar process takes place by producing the paunary fermentation, in bread, by yeast 

 or leaven, causing and extending something like organization through the mass. And one 

 as remarkable, and not dissimilar, is the action produced in the human body by inoculation. 



The mixing of pomace with the cider, when pressed, and leaving it to ferment, is not 

 essential ; it is, however, useful in getting rid of much sediment that is useless. 



The periods of mixing and quantities mixed, are those I have used, and may be varied : 

 but, by mixing at such periods, and in such proportions, the vinegar will not, at any time, 

 be made perceptibly less acid by the mixture. Vinegar is frequently made of water cider, 

 but the water does not become vinegar ; the vinegar is only so much weaker by the water 

 in its composition. Respectfully, A. W. Corson. 



The Weather. — The Horticulturist, like the "honest angler," is a great weather watcher. 

 It may therefore be interesting to compare the present hard winter, and its effects, with 

 similar seasons in former years. This I have an opportunity of doing, by referring to the 

 records of the Secretary of the " Cincinnati Angling Club," for the past twenty-six years. 



Besides recording the exploits of the '-brethren of the rod," with their finny prey, it was 

 made the duty of the Secretary to take careful notes of the weather. 



In duration of cold weather, the winters of 1830-31 and of 1831-32, will compare with the 

 present, and, in severity, the month of Febniary, 1835. The cold weather commenced on the 

 first day, and continued throughout that month with but little intermission. Tlie 6tli, 7th, 

 and 8th, were intensely cold days. The thermometer was down to 17° below zero on the 7th. 

 This was the coldest day in this vicinity, since 1797, until the present winter, when the 

 mercury fell, on the 9th inst., to 20° below zero, in an average of observations within ten 

 miles around the city. 



In 1831 and 1832, the peach and early cherry buds were killed ; both were bad fruit years. 

 In 1835, the peach, cherry, and many of the pear buds, were destroyed ; and, in some locali- 

 ties, the peach-trees, and finer variety of cherry-trees, were killed. The orange-trees in 

 Louisiana and Florida were killed down to the groiind in 1835. 



Most of the peach buds, and the buds of the finer variety of cherries, are destroyed ; and, 

 in some instances, the young trees. 



It is reported, that in some warm situations, where the grape buds were swelled prema- 

 turely in autumn, that they are also killed. But I think the grape, apple, hardy pears, and 

 plums, and the Morello cherries, are safe yet. 



R. Bpchaxan, Cincinnati, 22d of January, 1856. 



A Suburban or Country Residence.* By R. Morris Smith, Architect, Philadelphia. — Tliis 

 cottage was designed by me for a suburban residence for a small family, and was erected 

 near Philadelphia. It would be suitable as a country residence, or, with some small addi- 

 tions, as a farm-house. It was intended to combine the comfortable accommodation of a 

 family of moderate size ; some degree of lux^^ry in the interior, and picturesque ensemble, 

 with a neat, yet roomy compactness, that should avoid the large, unnecessary expenditure 

 so frequently caused in building, by a slovenly and half-studied plan (through which we 

 often find large, useless, yet costly spaces left here and there, and dignified, on the jian, 

 with the names of " lobby, passage, ante-room, vestibule, salon," and what-not, unless in the 



* Sec Frontispiece. 



