THE HYDRAULIC RAM. 



hind, and enters the green-house through a door in the back wall; a most awkward and 

 unhandsome arrangement, to say the least of it. In fact, this plant-house is more out of 

 place than any structure of a similar kind I ever beheld. But it stands under the lee of 

 a deep terrace, and that consideration was apparently sufficient to counterbalance all oth- 

 ers; at least all others have been made subservient to it, although finer sites than is pre- 

 sented by other parts of the ground, could scarcely be found. We believe Mr. Lelland 

 contemplates an addition to his plant-house this season, which is not yet begun; and were 

 it not for the fine orange and lemon trees now crowded together, we would be tempted to 

 wish that it never would. It is seldom that the plan or appearance of a structure of this 

 character, can be improved by alteration or enlargement, and unsuccessful attempts gene- 

 rally leave the building worse than at first. Besides, it would hardly be advisable to make 

 the conservatory project farther on the vineries than it does at present, and the same 

 money which would be required to make this house what its proprietor wishes, would 

 build a better structure from the foundation, and upon a far better site. 



The orange and lemon trees alluded to are indeed splendid — we thought the finest trees 

 we had ever seen, and the fruits too were splendid. Even in our comparatively tropical 

 southern states where the orange grows with far more luxuriance than in our green-houses 

 here, the fruit for size, richness, and abundance, could not be surpassed. We felt sorry 

 to see them so much crowded for want of room to extend their branches, but notwith- 

 standing their crowded condition, they were in vigorous health. The house contained 

 many other good plants, and had the beautiful Wistaria, in full bloom, trained on a trellis 

 under the roof; though hardly in its proper place, is nevertheless a beautiful object, and 

 forms an agreeable contrast to the dark green foliage of the plants beneath. 



The vines here are vines in good earnest — we never saw such young wood as they made 

 last year — the canes nearly an inch in diameter. In one house the vines were just com- 

 mencing their growth, which contained also a fine lot of peaches in pots. Why is this plan 

 of producing early peaches not more extensively adopted.'' Fine early crops can be produced, 

 and with very little trouble or expense, and lucky are they who this winter have peaches 

 under glass, for there will be very few out of doors; indeed none at all about here. There 

 is not a single peach tree in my garden, rather sheltered too, that has a young shoot alive. 

 How fares it with them on the Hudson, and in the peach orchards of New Jersey.'* 



There are many other objects of interest about here that I would mention, but T shall 

 throw aside my pen till another time. Yours truly, Horticola. 



THE HYDRAULIC RAM. 



BY T. W. LUDLOW, Jr.. YONKERS. N. Y. 



This little machine, one of the most useful inventions of the age, gives to every farmer 

 the use of water raised by it to a higher level, and at about the same expense for the same 

 distance, as it formerly cost to bring water in pipes, from a height above the point to which 

 he wished to carry it. AVith a small stream from a spring, at a descent of a few feet, you 

 can now force, say one seventh of the water, to any part of the farm, and raise it ten feet 

 for every foot you have of descent or power. If properly put up, according to the loca- 

 tion, and well protected from frost and the sediment of water, the Ram will run a year 

 it ought to be taken down, cleaned and painted, and new leathers and washers put 



* On the Hudson only the blossom buds injured — Eind on the hill-tops these have escaped. Ed, 



