ORNAMENTAL TU££B. 



is equalled by its exeellcnce; it is very vigorous, hardy, and productive ; continues 

 long in bearing; most excellent in every respect for field and garden. The 

 "Walker, were it not for its exceeding adhesiveness to the germ, would be valuable. 

 The ]\rrs. Wilder is so like the Colonel "Wilder as scarcely to need a separate 

 description. It is not so hardy, and not so jiroductive. The double-liearing 

 Antwerp scarcely bears at all ! and what fruit there is, scarcely tolerable. Several 

 native varieties have high-flavored fruit, but the berries are too small to be valua- 

 ble. The true Antwerp is very hardy, and a most vigorous grower, and bears 

 good crops of medium quality; it is still cultivated in Jersey for market. The 

 Xorthumberland Fill-basket has a high English nursery reputation, but has not 

 yet given any indication of merit in this country. 



[The above is a capital article by a practical and observing man. We may 

 remark that he omits two of the most valuable manures for this plant — spent tan, 

 and chippings of leather ; the raspberry luxuriates in this kind pf food. 



Mr. Hughes cannot have the true Mrs. Wilder, the fruit of which was larger 

 and finer than the Colonel Wilder ; but unfortunately the original plant was 

 destroyed before it was disseminated. 



In regard to the Walker, the pertinacity with which the fruit adheres to the 

 stem renders it more valuable for market purposes, but it should be gathered ivith 

 the stem on, as is the custom in England, and then it can be transported to any 

 distance. When fully ripe, there is no raspberry that will remain so long in per- 

 fection, on or off the plant, as the Walker. — Ed.] 



ORXAMEXTAL TREES— THE LOMBARDY POPLAR. 



BY LEWIS F. ALLEN, BLACKROCK, NEW YORK. 



Were I disposed to solemnize, after the fashion of Natty Bumppo, in the midst of 

 the Catskills, while gazing alone from one of its topmost peaks far away down into 

 the broad valley of the Hudson at the " wasty ways" of the white man, I might 

 commence this, my homily, with the profound remark, that " man is a cajmcious 

 animal !" Even so, as applied to the ornamental verdure wherewith he should 

 surround his dwelling, or decorate his grounds. Forty odd years ago — I was a 

 boy then — the pleasant village near which I was nurtured, in the charming valley 

 of the Connecticut, had some of its pleasant homes and cleanest streets planted with 

 the Lombardy poplar. They threw up their clean, straight stems, and trembling 

 sugar-loaf tops far above the great elms which swung their branches in hoary 

 majesty around them, and with the tall spire of the white meeting house, gave the 

 town a cheerful, happy look, such as it has never worn since the " better taste" of 

 the good people there have cut them all away and supplied their places with 

 locust, alianthus, and maples. Nor am I disposed to find fault with the ephemeral, 



