of rare im rit because once in tbe course of many years it is destroyed by an Artie 

 winter. Yet i)opular attention will be directed, as it slionld be, to llie hardier 

 class of trees and slinil)s in our conntry, which we arc tDO ajit to overlook. In 

 making: a selection of the former, however, I can hardly say that I agree with 

 friend Allen (who always writes a spirited and sensible article) iu adoptinj^ tlie 

 Balm of (riload, Athenian Poplar, or Cottonwood. 



I carefully eradicated them from my own gronnds some years ago, and induced 

 one of my neighbors to do the same thing by the proller of some sugar-maples as 

 a substitute. They undoubtedly grow rapidly, and look well when young ; but 

 they are softwooded, easily broken by storms, great monopolists of soil and S])ace, 

 much given to sprouting, and lack durability. Iking large when grown, an equal 

 and more permanent amount of beauty can be obtained by the selection of trees 

 of less objectionable habits. Friend Allen has almost redeemed his tree by that 

 story of tiie oriole's, but I can assure him that I parted with no birds when I laid 

 an axe to the roots of the cottonwood. 



In speaking of ^ir. Allen, I fully concur with him in the report he makes to 

 tbe Western New York Fruit Grower's Association about the " Ladle's sweeting 

 apple." After trying it for two or three years, I have rejected it, as quite below 

 in this region the qualities attributed to it by jSlr. Downing, 



The failures of fruits from frosts and severe winters will turn attention to the 

 growing of grapes under glass, and in connection with this subject, I would 

 mention that having occasion this spring to remove an old grapery, I found the 

 studding and boards much dry rotted by the tan, with which the walls of the 

 building had been filled. The tan seems to be unnecessary, and for the reason I 

 have given had better be dispensed with. A span roof on a north and south line 

 gives the vines a much greater amount of solar light and heat during the day 

 than a lean-to grapery, with a southern exposure, and the temperature is more 

 equal. As we have sometimes violent winds when it is too warm to dose a 

 grapery, fine wire screens over sliding sashes in the ends of the building admit 

 of ventilation, while they break the force of the wind ; they also exclude beetles 

 and other insects. 



There seems to me to be a debatable philosophy in the reasons given by some 

 of our best writers on grape culture on the subject of ventilation. 



Keep the head cool and the feet warm, says Mr. Chorlton (page 24), is advice 

 often given by physicians, and the same rule, with very slight modifications, applies 

 to plants generally. " Nature has no fixed canopy over ])lants to prevent heat 

 passing upwards," &c. Now we keep our feet warm with cork soles and other 

 appliances, counteracting and not conforming to nature. A seed to germinate 

 requires warmth in the soil, but when the plant or tree is grown, if the soil be 

 kept damp and cool, it will stand the blaze of a July sun on its top without 

 injury. If nature has any rule about it, it would seem to be to keep the roots 

 cool, and the head of a plant warm. 



In unison with Mr. Chorlton is a remark of Mr. Saunders in the May number 

 of HortimUurist : " Towards the end of this month leave the top sashes open all 

 night, and allow the temperature to fluctuate with the external atmosphere. 

 There is no climate in the world where the temperature is constantly the same." 



As a general rule, to give a good deal of ventilation when the weather is warm 

 is good practice, but a grapery should be closed in cold nights, even in midsummer. 

 Analogies are often deceptive, but the analogy with regard to climate and grape 

 culture, if closely observed, would, we think, lead to a difierent conclusion from 

 that given by Mr. Saunders. 



The climates in the world best adapted to grape growing are those whi 



