one out of me, for a moderate man. I wish we orchard pear growers, not nur- 

 serymen, could have a " protracted meeting," and opportunity to " tell our indi- 

 vidual experience ;" I g^^ess we'd have a sympathizing time of it, and that without 

 declaring a " dividend" in the way of profits ! 



Notes on the G%dtivation of the Apricot. — Just one of those revelations of fact 

 that illustrate what strange, capricious subjects these light-skinned stone fruits are. 

 The Hudson Yalley proper, with a few miles up its tributaries, between Pough- 

 keepsie and Sandy Hill, is the only existing natural plum and apricot region I 

 know. These fruits usually grow successfully in that section of country. What 

 the cause, is yet to be shown ; climate, soil, and something else, all three put to- 

 gether, probably. In many other places, to my certain knowledge, with all the 

 care and pains-taking recommended by Mr. Tompkins, a dead failure has resulted 

 in these fruits. Still, I would by no means dissuade any one wishing to cultivate 

 them from trying every possible experiment. 



A Third Winter on the New Evergreens. — Mr. Sargent is entitled to the appel- 

 lation of a public benefactor to Evergreen admirers. With a position to give 

 them a thorough trial, and a determination to mark their individual progress and 

 success, or the want of it, he is reliable authority on the subject for all localities 

 of 40^° and upwards, north latitude. 



Guttapercha. — A wonderful plant; and made into as many uses as the elephant 

 makes of his trunk. But you don't enumerate all of them. I am told that even 

 consciences are made of it. Is that usual ? 



Gossip. — I like this. Half the mental pleasure of this hum-drum world is 

 drawn in from the colloquial interchange of ideas commonly called "gossip." 

 There are as many varieties of gossip extant in the difiTerent ranks of humanity as 

 Mrs. Opie enumerates there to be of " lying." There is loiv gossip, and scandal- 

 ous gossip, and "gossip about town." Then there is gossip of the " upper ten" 

 — all these don't amount to much. And then there is the gossip of literary, pro- 

 fessional, and political coteries, over their after-dinner wines — rare, rich, and racy, 

 according to the calibre of the brains concerned in it. And, last of all, is the 

 " gossip" of the Horticulturist ! Very capital in its way, too, Mr. Editor — full 

 of information and suggestion. But I wish you would split it up a little ; that is 

 to say, divide it into paragraphs. You drive it into such continuous density of 

 type, that one scarcely knows when to pause and take breath. Do give us a 

 page or two each number, and so subdivide the different heads of it that we can 

 take in one idea at a time, for my old head is so obtuse, that so many different 

 topics makes it all of a jumble before I get through with it.* 



The Lawton Blachherry. — " They say" that Mr. Lawton has no business to 

 give his name to a blackberry which another man discovered growing ivild in New 

 Rochelle, and the growers thereof — the aforesaid Mr. Lawton excepted — prefer 

 to call it the "New Rochelle Blackberry." If half the stories related of this 

 wonderful fruit are true — and, from the characters of those who tell them, I cannot 

 doubt — it should be in everybody's garden. I am trying the thing in a small way 

 myself; but the fruit is yet in futuro. 



Tlte New York Horticidtural Review. — So, "out brief candle," is added to this, 



* Tlie object we had in view in not splitting it up, was to pack away a large amount of 

 suggestions in a small space, for Jeffreys and others. We have a strong suspicion that our 

 valued correspondent is joking, as he sometimes does ; but just as we are finishing this para- 

 graph, we are setting off to see after our friends in his direction, and shall endeavor to pre- 

 scribe for his head, and teach him to mind our stops, read the matter slowly, say a para- 

 every hour or two, and make notes of what is memorable ; so that the tangle or 

 "gets into may be avoided in his future dips into our " gossip." — Ed. 



