editor's table. 



tliroWs out limbs, limbs, limbs, and roots (if not sackere), till the other poor trees are over- 

 shadowed ; all that, badly planted, badly pruned — if pruned at all — near hard walks or 

 fi-nces, surrounded with grass, weeds, rasjiberrieH, currniits, llowers, &c. But, suppcso no 

 ereat mischief is brought upon the trees by children, animals, or the shadow of some tall 

 elm, or other forest-tree, wliiit then ? More than one-half of the fruit is i)icked wilfully or 

 playfully by children, servants, &c. &c. ; and if, by great care, the busy man (never at home) 

 succeeds in ripenhfj some, Js there one of these that can decently go out of tlie family ? 

 Wives, daughters, and inmates, would rather see their preserves and vegetables given away 

 than a Duchesse or Flemish Beauty. 



" If you must have pears, raise them yourselves, in gardens out of the reach of boyg, 

 and other nuisances." 



It is true enough that wo much depend on our own trees, for a good pear commands fifty 

 cents in the show window; but what puzzles the outsiders, and to which we have no satis- 

 factory answer, is where are all the promised abundance — the barrels that were growing? 

 We admit progress, and rejoice in it, but, that the idea of supplying the wants of our great 

 cities has not yet been realized, we, in common with the public, regret. The past season 

 has been a poor one, it is true, but one would suppose the various climates should have 

 furnished more than have yet been seen. The purchase of a half-barrel of good pears, we 

 have found it impossible to accomplish. Let us, however, live in hope. 



KosES. — Tlie finest of climbing roses is the "Cloth of Gold." The finest of yellow roses 

 is the Cloth of Gold. The finest of noisettes is still the Cloth of Gold. And yet how few 

 know it except as a dwarf, grown in a pot or a border, and bearing there a scanty supply of 

 its noble blossoms. Nevertheless, it yields to none in the power of flowering, producing, if 

 properly managed, enormous quantities of golden balls. 



So says Dr. Lindley. His correspondents agree in adding, that, to bloom it in perfection, 

 it should never be i)runed ; and we add, that the plant must have some age to insure a 

 profuse bloom. 



Grape- Vine Borders. — ^Mr. Editor : Though house grapes have been successfully grown 

 without the expensive preparation mostly resorted to, they do repay a liberal outlay, both 

 in the construction of the house and materials for the border. When rich borders so often 

 fail in producing, for any length of time, fine grapes, the cause must be looked for in the 

 position of the border, or want of sufficient porous materials in it to keep it open. Gar- 

 deners have difficulties enough in obtaining the means of doing these things as they could 

 wish, and need not a false economy to make things worse. 



A YocNG AXD Enthusiastic Gardener. 



Grafting Geraxiujis. — A writer in the Cottage Gardener says on this subject : " Mr. Peed, 

 gardener to T. Tredwell, had a collection of real curiosity and great interest — one of grafted 

 geraniums, thus : 1. Miss Emily Field, a blush-white flower. 2. Kingsbury Pet, an excellent 

 house plant. 3. Reidii, apparently a cross from Baron Iliigel, a.Uas Courcfs Princess Royal, 

 a fine pot plant, grafted three feet high, the two before it not quite so high. 4. Boule de 

 Xeige, grafted fifteen inches above the pot, and four feet high. 5. Commander-in-Chief, five 

 feet high, and ga-afted four feet from the pot. 6. Le Titian, four feet high. 7. Brilliant 

 ditto. And 8. Attraction, three feet six inches high. A gentleman, of great skill and in- 

 genuity, wrote to me six weeks ago, saying that geraniums would graft as freely as apple- 

 trees, and by the same kinds of grafting ; but Mr. Peed grafted all these on the continental 

 of cutting oflF the top of the stock, and splitting the top of it in halves about an 

 half, or not more than two inches, and wedging the end of the grafts to slip down 



