DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



how they will do the coming season, which I 

 think will test them. If life is spared, I will 

 promise you next autumn, as full an account as 

 you may wish of my cultivation, and its results 

 for 1850, 1851, and 1852. I do not expect to 

 bring anything new to light, but facts I can give 

 you, which, if I had had them when I first be 

 gan to cultivate the grape, would have been of 

 great benefit to me. In the construction of my 

 border, and in the cultivation of the grape, I 

 have followed in the main, Mr. Allen's book, 

 excepting that I put no dead animals into the 

 border. P. Hartford, Ct. 



Crescent Seedling Strawberry. — Editor 

 HoRT: In answer to numerous inquiries per 

 mail, permit me to say the " Crescent Seed- 

 ling" Strawberry plants, can be obtained of the 

 originator, Henry Lawrence Esq., 3d Muni- 

 cipality, New-Orleans, at $8.00 per 100. 



Mr. Lawrence writes me, under date of the 

 7th inst., saying, " I have had strawberries on 

 my table since the 4th of January last, and at 

 the present time have them in the greatest abun- 

 dance, the average weight being one ounce, and 

 about three inches in circumference ; this will 

 continue without intermission, until the middle 

 of August." 



As soon as my plants exhibit their habit of 

 bearing in this northern climate, I will report 

 the same to your readers. R. G. Pardee. 

 Palmyra, N. Y., April 16, 1852. 



Horticola's Notes on Country Seats. — 

 Dear Sir: Tour most admirable magazine is 

 not one to which exception can often be justi- 

 fiably taken — certainly not in any case where 

 your own hand guides the pen, and but seldom 

 in that of your correspondents. It is not for 

 me to eulogize the good work it does, or at- 

 tempt to magnify the place it fills in " the 

 country" world. There is, however, in the 

 April number of your book, a letter from one 

 " Horticola," describing country seats, that, in 

 one respect, is so void of a proper appreciation 

 of landscape scenery and the beautiful in coun- 

 try seats, that I know you will not object to see 

 a protest entered upon his criticism. I allude to 

 his remarks upon the country seat of George 

 W. Lyman, Esq. (Your writer calls the pro- 

 prietor G. C. Lyman,thus showing his ignorance, 

 as it would seem, of the vicinity ) He desig- 



nates it as crotchety and ludicrous. Tou, who 

 have an eye for the beautiful, and the sense and 

 perception to appreciate it, would have come 

 to a far different conclusion had you been afford- 

 ed the most distant glimpse of it. He comiiares 

 it with Rose Hill, and a Mr. Leland's place, 

 both suburban villas, of the size of two or three 

 acres, which pretend to nothing else. Mr. Ly- 

 man's place is an estate of nearly 800 acres, 

 full of natural beauty, and planned and execu- 

 ted, and actually grown by the first Mr. Lyman, 

 nearly fifty years since, when there was no ex- 

 ample, no '• Downing's Country Houses" to 

 guide him. He was a man of taste, natural and 

 inbred, and he produced a work that has but 

 few equals in New-England, one that you your- 

 self would call a truly English country seat — 

 for in looking at it you would be immediately 

 reminded of the English gentleman's country 

 home, that you have so often described. For 

 taste in the grouping of trees, the position and 

 effect of the house — the management of the ap- 

 proaches, the just weighing of art with the na- 

 ture that surrounded him, Mr. Lyman was 

 eminently successful. 



I will not consume your valuable time longer, 

 but close with the request that when you next 

 visit this part of the country, you should look 

 for yourself. Tour neighbor, Mr. Sargent, 

 could doubtless have given you a more correct 

 impression of the place than Horticola. Tours, 

 very faithfully, '•' A Subscriber." 



We suspect Horticola not to be an unpreju- 

 diced critic, and fear, from what we have since 

 learned, he has done injustice to several places 

 in his last communication. Ed. 



Wants of our Readers. — Will you allow a 

 subscriber to make a suggestion respecting the 

 information wanted by a large class of the read- 

 ers of the Horticulturist, who like himself, are 

 at a loss for practical instruction on the culture 

 of flowering plants. But few books on the sub- 

 ject are within our reach, and these not adapted 

 to teach floral culture in this climate. A small 

 number of the readers of the Horticulturist 

 possess greenhouses or the means of cultivating 

 plants, requiring artificial heat, yet the common 

 frame is within the reach of most of them. 

 Frame plants when perfectly cultivated are a 

 source of much pleasure. Practical instruction 



