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any country of the earth, or in all other 

 countries united, that can compare with the 

 assortment now concentrated on this island. 

 We have all the finest varieties of France, 

 Italy and England, and of its birth-place, 

 Persia ; and we have more than fifty highly 

 estimable varieties, which have originated in 

 the different states of our own Union. 



Within the last month, the writer was 

 applied to by a most intelligent connoisseur 

 of the Peach, residing in England, to send 

 him a collection of fifty American peaches; 

 and such an assortment was selected and 

 sent out to him as will, no doubt, when he 

 shall regale his friends with their fruits, bid 

 them render the same glowing tribute to 

 our pomological productions, that the God 



of Nature seems to have intended should 

 apply to every object connected with our 

 country. 



In conclusion, I will simply remark, that 

 the Yellows is never imbibed by any Peach 

 tree until it has blossomed, (incisions of 

 course excepted,) and therefore any person 

 who obtains peach trees one year grown 

 from the inoculation, cannot fail to have 

 healthy trees, as they do not blossom until 

 the second year.* This is a very important 

 point, and another one is, that trees of this 

 age will form a full bearing orchard, quite as 

 soon as if they were a year older, and thus 

 one year additional will be gained in the 

 duration of the orchard. W. R. Prince. 



Flushing, Dec. 1846. 



A LEAP PROM AN OLD JOURNAL. 



BY EVELYN, ON THE HUDSON. 



It was early in the morning, on the 1st 

 July, 18 — , that we were apprised that the 

 ship was close in on the Irish coast. I hur- 

 ried to the deck, and found that we had in 

 view two bluff", isolated rocks, known in the 

 chart as the " Bull and Cow," whose wall- 

 ed, weather-beaten sides receive the shock 

 and heavy surge of the long-swept waves 

 of the Atlantic. 



As Ave coasted along, to double Cape 

 Clear, the fishermen put out in their boats 

 to intercept us. and whilst bartering with 

 the sailors, they gave us rich specimens of 

 their brogue and blarney. One, who seem- 

 ed anxious to propitiate our Captain, stood 

 up as he approached and exclaimed, " Och ! 

 your honor, and I thought it was you !" As 

 we sailed up St. George's Channel, the 

 Welch Mountains lifted their azure heads 

 into the prospect ; and, being of Dr. Johnson's 

 opinion, that "no one should go to sea who 



can make interest to get into goal, where 

 confinement is safer and not more irk- 

 some," I escaped from our good ship by 

 Holyhead into North Wales, and soon had 

 good reasons to congratulate myself on the 

 change, in the villa-like Hotel of the Pe?i- 

 ryn Arms Inn, near Bangor. The Inns of 

 England are proverbial for cleanliness and 

 quiet comfort, and in stepping from the well 

 kept rooms of this Inn upon its sweet lawn, 

 which commands an extensive view of Beau- 

 maris Bay, I felt as if domesticated at an ele. 

 gant villa. The scenery about Bangor is 

 highly interesting, particularly the beautiful 



* Except the stock on which it is budded is constitutionally 

 diseased. We )iave pretty well satisfied ourselves that this lias 

 been the case — that the elements of the Yellows sometimes 

 lie dormant in the kernel. When this is the case, unless the 

 soil is such as to give an unusual stimulus to the health of the 

 plant produced, the yellows will, sooner or later, develop it- 

 self. We agree with Mr. Prince, tliat the Yellows is fast 

 disappearing, an<l trust, in a few years, as good cultivation be 

 comes general; it will entirely disappear. — Ed. 



