lippe, a sort of early Morello, ripe July 10, will be foutid a gi*eat acquisition, I 

 believe. 



It is nearly as large as May Duke, round deep red, acid but mild and very 

 rich, as a kitchen and preserving fruit it is certainly first rate in its season. The 

 Royal Duke is another noble fruit of the hardy sorts. Donna Maria, is earlier 

 than any of these, and also valuable, of the Morello class. 



The Monstreuse de Mezel is a magnificent fruit of the largest size, but an awk- 

 ward tree. Governor Wood stands unrivalled among the sweet light red sorts of 

 free growth. 



Mr. Chas. Downing brought some of the great Bigarrean from West Chester half 

 ripened, to Syracuse; they were on the branches, and gave evidence of great pro- 

 ductiveness and size. 



Mr. D. recommends it highly; he says he would have it in a small collection of 

 six sorts. We have a bearing tree, but the crop this season was light and not pro- 

 mising, compared with others beside it. The tree evidently wants age. I might 

 spread this cherry gossip over several pages more, but this is enough for the 

 present. I will only add, that cherry-trees suffered much here during the two 

 winters last past. Last winter the mercury was down to 10° or 12° below zero 

 for many days, with a high wind blowing. A very small crop of fruit set, gene- 

 rally, and the trees for a long time looked ragged ; for a long time the fruit did 

 not promise to obtain more than half size, but the weather was favorable in 

 June, and most varieties came fully up to the usual standard. Knight's Early 

 Black I think finer than I ever saw it, though a week later. 



VISITS TO COUNTRY PLACES, Xo. 3. 



ABOUT NEW YORK, THE NORTH RIVER. 



As one must leave the concert and the ball to see the charm of domestic life 

 and society, and to view the hallowing influence of woman's devotion at the bed- 

 side of the sick and the dying, so we must desert the highways of travel to enjoy, 

 or even to know of the many delightful retreats, the ornate mansions and grounds, 

 which have grown up during our late periods of prosperity in most parts of the 

 Union, where as much of the paradise with which man began his career is re- 

 established as his fallen nature will permit. It has been our good fortune to 

 revisit many such favored spots of late, and to discover new beauties and additions 

 created by the hand of taste. 



Wodenethe, the seat of Henry Winthrop Sargent, Esq., near Fishkill Landing, 

 Dutchess County, N. Y., was ouv jioint dhippvi for the region of the Xorth River. 

 The railroad which scours the borders of this American Rhine affords opportunity 

 for excursions, above and below, of such facility that you make engagements for 

 a dinner party sixty miles off, if you choose, even months beforehand, with as 

 much certainty of meeting at the hour named as we formerly felt in crossing a 

 street. Mr. Sargent is perfectly at home in all this region, and we found his 

 arrangements for the enjoyment of our little horticultural party perfect ; every 

 day brought its new and delightful scenes, we must say, unrivalled for beauty, 

 ready prepared for the enjoyment of elegant leisure. 



Wodenethe is Mr. Sargent's own creation. Prepared by foreign travel and 

 residence in the finest parts of Europe, and with a native taste for rui'al life, Mr. 

 ent procured a spot of extraordinary beauty, nearly opposite to Newburgh 

 began his operations of building and planting about the same period 



