moment, so much lias this useful machine been simplified, an engine on wliecls, of 

 the same i)()\vcr, can be jjurcliasetl fur pcrliaps half tlic monc}'. Jt is a most dc- 

 siralile ac(iuisition to a country i)hicc. 



We Iiave already recorded >lr. llunnewcU's eminent success with the Stanwicit 

 nectarine; liis graperies, peadi-liDUsc, greeiiliousc, and gardens, arc entitled to 

 liigh commendation; Mr. Harris, Ills gardener, is a most? intelligent cultivator; 

 he reads and studies his subject, and we could not but remark the greater intelli- 

 gence everywhere between the reading and the unlettered controllers of gardens ; 

 all the difference, iu short, between knowledge and stupidity ; ten words uttered 

 betrays the difference. Mr. 11. 's grapes were equal to any we have ever seen, both 

 iu weight, color, and flavor, 



Mr. llunnewell showed us several successful attempts in trimming into shai)C a 

 tree, which would have been one of the last we should have thought of attemptiiitr. 

 The White pine, taken young, bears shearing in a most wonderful manner ; it has 

 been made to assume various fantastic as well as ornamental shapes, such as no 

 one, who had not seen or heard of it, could have anticipated. If this can be 

 effected with so loose and open a tree, what may we not expect might be accom- 

 plished with the Bhotan or Finns excelsa, with its closer habits, and more numer- 

 ous branches and leaves. Altogether Mr. Hunnewell's residence jiromises to 

 become, as it already partially is, one of the most attractive "around IJoston." 



It is a great treat to the Horticulturist to pass a day at Dorchester with 

 ^Marshall P. Wilder, the efficient President of the Pomological and Agricultural 

 Societies. His premises do not comprise more than twenty or twenty-five acres, 

 but they exhibit an industry and results of high culture, in a climate of some 

 more difficulty that our own, that might prove a useful example. His collection 

 of Pear and other fruit-trees is world-renowned, and justly so ; among the new, 

 from which good is expected, we pencilled the names of Buerrc de Wael, Consel- 

 lier de la Cour, Trioraphe de Pomologie, Emile d'lleyst, Pius IX., Beurre Wet- 

 teren, Henri Bivort, Poire de Xonnes, and Dorothee Royale Xouvelle; as these 

 are new and just fruitiug, we are promised descriptions when the time of the 

 Colonel, so fully occupied, permits. Mr. AVilder has given his views on the sub- 

 ject of pear culture, dwarf and standard, in his address at Bochester, and pub- 

 lished in the November Horticulturist, so that we need not enter upon it now; he 

 has pears on dwarfs of twenty-five years' standing in full health and bearing, as he 

 says, to answer any doubts on that subject. 



Mr. Wilder cultivates, as the best Raspberries, Orange, Gushing, and Knevet's 

 Giant ; Strawberries, Burr's New Pine, which is fully as early as Jenny Lind, and 

 " best;" the Monroe Scarlet, as promising well, and nearly as early. He considers 

 Jenny's Seedling one of the most desirable varieties, coming in rather late. Of 

 Currants, we found here the following new sorts : La Fertile, Hartif de Bertin, 

 Versailles, Precoce de Tours, Caucase, Goundin White, and Cerise Kouge. 



In the address we have already alluded to, will be found Mr. Welder's views on 

 fruit-rooms, and we have only in conclusion to remark on his fine collection of 

 Camellias ; the specialities of his greenhouses are Wildcrii, Mrs. Abbe Wilder, 

 Maria Louisa, Grace Sherwin, Glory, &c. &c. 



The late Mr. Becar, of New York, a friend of Colonel Wilder, has left a new 

 and splendid Camellia, to be dedicated to the memory of the late Mr. Downing, 

 in which all lovers of horticulture will take a warm interest. Mr. W. agreed with 

 us in thinking it might be well to employ the proceeds of this elegant plant in 

 founding some experimental garden, or in a gold medal for extraordinary merit 

 We should be glad to know wliat were Mr. Becar's views on the subject. 



rmrood, tlie residence of Mr. Peabody, near Salem, is quite remarkable, from 



