DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



There it remained all winter, and still remains. 

 The foliage of the buslies is more licalthy tlian 

 I ever saw it before — tlie fruit is almost entirely 

 clear and very large and promising. If this is 

 worth publishing, it is at your service. A. C. 

 New-York, June 10, 1852. 



Pbar Blight. — Mr. Ernst's views (given in 

 another part of this number,) and our own, on 

 the subject of pear blight, are substantially the 

 same, and we therefore look to Prof. Turner 

 for further proofs of the insect origin of the 

 disease. Any one who will compare the health 

 and hardiness of the pear tree on the eastern 

 shore of Maryland — where the climate is ex- 

 tremely uniform as compared with the western 

 states, will find satisfactory reasons for tlie great 

 prevalence of blight at the west — a country with 

 over fertile soil and the greatest extremes of 

 temperature. 



Our own opinion, expressed before, is that 

 the pear tree will never be thoroughly ac- 

 climated in the west, till a race of seedlings 

 is originated in the valley of the Mississippi — 

 which seedlings, by the very circumstance of 

 their origin, are as much better adapted to those 

 rich bottoms and prairies as the Hoosiers and 

 Buckeyes are better adapted than Torkshire- 

 men or the natives of Bordeaux. 



Sale of Fine Blooded Cattle — On refer- 

 ring to our advertising colums, our readers will 

 observe that Mr. Lewis F. Allen, of Black- 

 Rock, is to have a sale of his high bred cattle 

 in August next. This is by far the largest 

 herd of blood stock ever offered in the United 

 States; and from Mr. Allen's long experience 

 in breeding, and good taste in selection, we have 

 no doubt the most fastidious admirers of fine 

 cattle will find something in this herd to meet 

 their tastes, as well as to gratify their demands 

 in the dairy qualities of the cows. 



No creature can be more ornamental in a park, 

 lawn, or pasture, than a high-bred, beautiful, 

 and useful cow; and no country place of any 

 pretension to character, should be without one 

 or more of them. The sale is to take place in 

 this immediate vicinity, and it will be a rare ob- 

 ject of attraction to all who love to look at fine 

 stock, and convenient of access to those who 



purchase. * 



Tea Rose. — Having recently become a 



subscriber to the " Horticulturist," and per- 

 ceiving from its pages the uniform courtesy with 

 which you respond to the communications of 

 your correspondents, I have taken the liberty 

 of forwarding, by this mail, to your address, 

 a rooted cutting of a Seedling Tea Rose (from 

 " Paclole") requesting the favor of your opin- 

 ion of its merits after it has bloomed. 



The flower is good medium size, not full 

 double (averaging about 30 petals,) neither is 

 it very handsome when fully blown — the flowers 

 being pendulous, and the petals like most others 

 of its class becoming more or less placid from 

 a full exposure to the scorching rays of our 

 summer sun. The opening or half expanded 

 bud, however, is remarkably beautiful, and in 

 a bouquet of my choicest roses, invariably at- 

 tracts attention, both on account of its graceful 

 form and striking color — the whole flower being 

 of a deeper and purer yellow, than any other 

 ever blooming rose, with which I am acquainted 

 — I may add that as the plant increases in size, 

 the flowers which are very flagrant, become 

 deeper in color and more double than when it 

 is smaller. The original plant is but two years 

 from the seed, and has proved a most abundant 

 bloomer — and one specimen in particular, budd- 

 ed last May, on a strong stock, three feet from 

 the ground, has assumed a beautiful weeping 

 habit, and is much admired. 



Among my other seedlings is one of remar- 

 kable vigor, which shows an abundance of very 

 large and handsome buds, not one of which has 

 ever opened; the foot stalk withering just below 

 the bud, which promises, however, to be very 

 double, as I counted over 70 petals in tlie last 

 which dropped. 



It was raised in very rich soil, and though I 

 have siuce removed it to a poorer spot, no im- 

 provement has, at least as yet, appeared. If 

 your experience can suggest any remedj', I 

 would be much gratified to hear from you 

 through the "Horticulturist;" also he pleased 

 to state whether yon liave received the plant 

 now sent. 



I have named the yellow seedling, " Christi- 

 ana," and wish the name to be retained, if it 

 should ever be considered worthy of being pro- 

 pagated for sale. 



This is the only cutting which I have 

 with, and the last till I have heard your 



