DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



a man always pursues a certain consistency in 

 all that he does, he stamps the rank of character 

 on his actions; when he changes his plans and 

 motives every day, we say he has no character. 

 So, in building a city, avillage, or even the cotta- 

 ges on a farm, let every man's house be diffe- 

 rent, (as they are in the city of New- York,) 

 and the effect is only that of a confused jum- 

 ble. But let certain portions of a city, or the 

 whole of a village or country place, show dis- 

 tinctly some one single pervading influence or 

 feeling in design, and a character of dignity and 

 importance, is at once conferred. Variety is a 

 good thing, but it is only a secondary source of 

 pleasure — based on the weakness, rather than 

 the strength of man's nature. Ed. 



A Few Remarks on Cherries. — Triumph 

 of Cumberland. — I have a cherry which passes 

 under the name of the Triumph of Cumberland, 

 which, as far back as I can trace it, originated 

 at the Cumberland county almshouse, (a seed- 

 ling.) The last two years it has been the finest 

 cherry among about forty varieties of all the 

 choicest cherries now in use — of the very larg- 

 est size. It would, this last, and the summer 

 before, cast into the shade such as the Black 

 Tartarian, Holland Eigarreau, Bigarreau de 

 Mczel, Napoleon, and all others that I had, in 

 point of size, and second to none in point of fla- 

 vor. Its form is much like that of the Black 

 Eagle; it is a deep red when ripe, and it ripens 

 about medium season. 



I am satisfied that the variety is not much 

 known out of this state, and as a nurseryman, 

 would not attempt to give it such a recommen- 

 dation, were it not that I have not a dozen trees 

 of it for sale at present. Jacob Cocklin, of 

 York county, and D. Miller, of Carlisle, have 

 had trees of it on sale, I know, as I have got 

 from them before now, when short of them.* 



New Large Black Bigarreau. — In your work 

 on Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, in des- 

 cribing the Large New Black Bigarreau, you 

 attach a note, mentioning that it is the same as 

 the Black Tartarian, in a former edition. Now 

 I received grafts from A. Saul, three years ago ; 

 among other varieties the New Large Black Bi- 

 garreau, which is by no means a Black Tartari- 



* The Triumpli of Ciiiiiberland, aiirl the Cumbcrlnnd 

 .''cedliii'!: Cherry, have been coiifouiKied. I ha>e tliem 

 both on tlic same tree, and cannot consider them the same. 



an; it is quite as large as the Black Tartarian, 

 but much firmer fleshed, and about eight or ten 

 days later — I consider it a first rate cherry. I 

 mention this so that if Messrs. Saul & Co. have 

 trees of the kinds sent out as the New Large 

 Black Bigarreau, in the spring of 1848, they 

 need not call them Black Tartarian, as they are 

 not it by any means. 



Bigarreau Monstreuse DeMezel. — On seeing 

 a cut and description of the above cherry, in 

 the Horticulturist, a few years ago, I think I 

 was among the first to get hold of it. This 

 year it fruited finely with me, and as there has 

 been nothing said about it since its introduction 

 into the country, and even some reputable cata- 

 logues omit a description of it, (which I think 

 a very good plan, so long as a fruit is n6t 

 known,) I will say a word about it. I have not 

 at hand the volume of the Horticulturist. Avhere- 

 in it is described, but at the time of its ripening 

 I considered the description above named, as 

 correct as I would undertake to make one, ex- 

 cept the fruit is not quite so large as the cut 

 represented; it is quite firm, excellent flavored, 

 and ripened a little after the Black Tartarian. 

 I consider it a splendid cherry, and, from expe- 

 rience, believe it to be an early bearer. as a small 

 tree but two years from the bud had three cher- 

 ries on it about four feet from the ground ; they 

 were however far inferior to those on grafts 

 on a large tree. S. Miller. Union Cottage, 

 New Lcb., Pa., Dec. 26, 1851. 



The Improvement op Gardeners. — Sir: 

 Being anxious to promote the profession of gar- 

 dening, I will suggest the idea of gardeners and 

 nurserymen, in the vicinity of large towns and 

 cities, meeting to form libraries, to consist chief- 

 ly of books on Agriculture, Horticulture, Ar- 

 chitecture, Mathematics, Botany and Natural 

 History, and the leading periodicals embracing 

 the above sciences, as issued from the jiress. It 

 is for the benefit of both employer and employ- 

 ed, to combine the strictest economy with the 

 most profitable results — and to act on that prin- 

 ciple, a man must understand the laws of na- 

 ture, and how those laws are assisted by the in- 

 genuity of man. Whether it is in the proper 

 tillage of the soil; or in the various crops raised 

 from it; or in the construction and heating of 

 buildings for growing fruits or flowers in 

 tificial atmosphere. The energies of the 



