of sight and existence. I have serious doubts, after all our trials of exotic Ever- 

 greens, whether our own grand and stately ]>ines, and hemlocks, and spruces, and 

 cedars, are not the best, as well as the most effective, lor all ordinary purposes, 

 that we can cultivate. 



You have so well handled " other matters," Mr. Editor, that I have not a word 

 to say about them. 



Dr. John Lindley. — A self-satisfied gentleman, as the y)icture shows him. I 

 wonder how he'd look if he should discover a hitf/ on the other side of the leaf he 

 is so quietly admiring ! A great man in his way, Mr. Lindley ! and, like most 

 other men of genius, possessing peculiarities which he would be quite as well with- 

 out. That he should speak lightly of America, as you observe on page 240, is not 

 remarkable, for these one-idea people are apt to fancy, that a subject of which 

 they know little is hardly worth investigation. A man, no matter how high his 

 pretensions or attainments in science, who looks contemptuously on a country like 

 ours, is quite apt to be a flatterer of the rich or great at home. Instance the great 

 lexicographer, Johnson, who, while sneering at Scotland and its profoundest men, 

 poured out his humblest adulations to the wife, successively, of a wealthy London 

 brewer, and an Italian musician. 



The White Grape Currant. — A good fruit, no doubt ; but, in the long run, 

 scarce equal to the White Dutch, under the best cultivation. This latter fruit, in 

 its long bunch, fine size, transparent berry, and delicacy of flavor, coupled with 

 its exceeding hardiness, stands yet without a rival, as a housekeeping currant, 

 among the white ones. By the way, why is it that almost everybody stows 

 away these excellent, useful fruits thickly under their fences, where they can get 

 scarcely any sun or flavor, when by planting them in open grounds, six feet apart, 

 and giving them good cultivation, they are among the choicest fruits of the season, 

 and, in eating for six or eight weeks ? 



Remedy for Girdled Fruit-Trees "The sovereign 'st thing on earth was 



parraaceti, for an inward bruise." I never knew a disease, from the itch to the 

 cholera — from the meazles to the consumption, for which somebody could not 

 prescribe a certain remedy. You may save the girdled tree, by following the 

 prescription of Mr. Lumm, for a few yeai's ; but where the bark is eaten clean off, 

 the trunk will decay, and leave a deformed, defective body. Better at once root 

 it out, if you want a per7nane7it tree, than attempt to patch a thing that is destined, 

 under ordinary circumstances, to outlive both you and your family. I have tried 

 all these nostrums with mice-bitten trees, when the girdling has been thorongh, and 

 know them, for all efficient purposes, to be a temporary benefit. If a strip of living 

 bark is left, or only the outer skin be eaten off, binding up the tree with cloth, or 

 the application of a salve, will restore it in time, as the sap, through even a hair's- 

 breadth of continuous bark will do wonders ; but, as a rule, cleanly girdled trees 

 are not worth -the trouble of nursing. 



Climatology. — A good paper. There is a great deal in the subject of acclimating 

 vegetables from their native climate into a colder or warmer one. Many years 

 ago, the sweet potatoe was not grown north of Virginia. Now, abundance of 

 the finest are raised in Jersey, Long Island, and some even in Connecticut, and, 

 they say, in West,ern New York. So with the sugar-cane. It is now grown two 

 degrees further north in Louisiana than fifty years ago, and equally good in 

 quality. This subject will bear any amount of study, and experiment with profit. 



Pear Cidture, No. 3. — I hope Dr. Ward is not done with the subject ; when he 

 has, I have a word or two to say. Till then, I noio say, en passa7it, he is perfectly 

 The cat will come out of the bag, in this dwarf pear business, after awh" 

 nurserymen have had a capital run of them for years past, and not a 



