PARADISE IN THE COUNTRY. 



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■18°, while the next one in height, about a 1 dently dead, including the stamens and 



mile distant, showed a temperature of — 6°. 



Several jears since, two brothers in Cum- 

 berland in this State, one living near the 

 bottom of a high hill, and the other near the 

 top of the same hill, bought each of them a 

 thermometer ; and their observations caused 

 the one in the valley to apply the epithet 

 of lazy to his brother's thermometer. He 

 said it could not get up so high, nor down 

 so low, as his own could. 



The writer of this has three peach or- 

 chards, at three different elevations ; and 

 this winter, after the mercury at the house 

 fell to — 6°, I examined the buds, cutting 

 some fifty in each orchard. The lowest 

 orchard is thirty or forty feet lower than the 

 house, and in this nine-tenths of the buds 

 were killed. In the one at the same eleva- 

 tion as the thermometer, and in one thirty 

 or forty feet higher, just one-fourth of the 

 buds were dead, A portion of the buds 

 will generally be found to be dead, when 

 examined in any winter. 



The mode of examining is to cut the bud 

 transversely directly through the middle, 

 when if it is dead, the black speck will be 

 seen. From observations with the naked 

 eye, I think the ovary merely is killed, 

 though occasionally the whole flower is evi- 



pistils. 



No doubt other circumstances besides 

 elevation, have an important influence on 

 temperature. Among these are proximity 

 to the sea, and the shelter of large cities. 

 The American Almanac, has records of ob- 

 servations, made January 4th and 5th, 1835, 

 at eleven places in the interior of New- 

 York, ranging from —28° to —40°, while 

 in New-York city the mercury stood at 

 — 6°. Observations at six places in the in- 

 terior of Pennsylvania, ranging from — 13° 

 to— 32°, in Philadelphia —6°, in Pittsburg 

 — 4°. George Bartlett. 



Smith/ktd, R. I , April 15. 1847. 



[Highly interesting remarks to planters 

 of fruit trees, to which any observing per- 

 son may add an abundance of additional 

 testimony. While we write, the peach 

 trees in all the neighborhood around us are 

 profusely in blossom, and promise the finest 

 crops — with the exception of a narrow val- 

 ley lying along a stream of water, a couple 

 of miles distant. The level of this valley 

 is not more than fifty or eighty feet below 

 that of the country about it, yet the buds of 

 the peach trees within it are nearly all de- 

 stroyed. — Ed.] 



HOW TO MAKE A PARADISE IN THE COUNTRY. 



[We have been requested by a friend, to re- 

 print in the Horticulturist, the following es- 

 say, from the inimitable pen of the author 

 of " Letters frovi tinder a Bridge.''' There 

 are many citizens who retire into the coun- 

 try, and fancy that the numberless cares of 

 a large " country place " are only a kind of 

 Arcadian child's play. There are many too, 

 who do not know that all they really want 



in country life, are not its business and 

 cares, but its beauty and its retirement ; no! 

 a great landed estate, and great personal 

 slavery, but a simple residence, tasteful, ad- 

 mirably situated, and which will, in a good 

 degree, take care of itself. Nothing, we 

 venture to say, has ever been written, that 

 so exactly strikes the actual level of wants 

 and wishes of this class of our readers, as 



