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on the same side of the trunk. I cannot impute this to the sun of last summer, as some 

 which have suffered most were .shaded by branches reaching to the ground. 



Two questions now, Mr. Editor, and I have done. What is the " sulphate of am- 

 monia?" Not a druggist in the little town in which I live, knows anything about it. I 

 should like to know by what name to order it, the form in which it comes, and its proba- 

 ble cost. [It is only to be had of the wholesale druggists in the cities. Ed.] How does 

 it happen that particular soils are recommended for some varieties of the Pear? Should 

 not the soil be adapted to the stock on which we work, rather than to the tree we aim to 

 produce! [Certainly, to the stock. Ed.] Our success with the pear on the quince in 

 heavy soils would indicate this. Testis. 



July 10, 1852. 



We are much obliged to our correspondent, in whom we recognize one of the best cul- 

 tivators at the South. It gives us a new feeling of the breadth of our country, to know 

 that before strawberries are ripe at the northern part of the Union, peaches are in perfec- 

 tion at the other. Our correspondent's trouble with his peaches — i.e., their breaking 

 down with the abundance of tine fruit, will please the fancy of some of our British read- 

 ers who find it hard enough to make the fruit hang on at all. Ed. 



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BY JEFFREYS. 



American versus British Horticulture. — Out of rule, Mr. Downixg. Don't you know 

 that our new " Code of Practice" has expunged the versus altogether from the title's of 

 causes? However, as you are not a lawyer, you will hardly be " thrown over the bar" 

 for wrong pleading or mal-practice, in the Court of Horticulture, unless it be for the very 

 truth-telling habit you sometimes indulge in, a specimen of which we have in this article. 



If our people who require the services of foreign gardeners, would only do themselves 

 justice, one-half of the intoUerable exactions that are made upon their purses and their 

 patience, by sundry of those imported empirics, would be abated. Of " Native Ameri- 

 can" gardeners, we have none. Gardening is too " piddling" woik for them. "Cut and 

 burn" is the meaning of the word " improvement," over a great part of the United 

 States, while plant and prune may be the work of some less enterprising, and more pains- 

 taking ones than themselves. 



Gardening and professional gardeners, are, in fact, subjects of modern introduction, to 

 any extent in the United States; and in but few of the states now, is professional garden- 

 ing considered of much account. The only '* gardener" I knew in my boyhood, was a 

 superannuated old negro, with white hair, and eyes so old that a little halo of gray encir- 

 cled their pupils; and this worthy old African, called Cudjoe, used to itinerate over the 

 neighborhood soon as the early spring broke out, and as he knew the difference in the soil and 

 locality of the dozen or twenty gardens, which he had for the last forty j'ears annually 

 made, he took the warmest and earliest places to begin with. His role of " doing up the 

 garden," consisted mainly of sowing a few lettuce seeds in an early border; an onion bed 

 laid out in " square," and a row or two of early peas. This being done, his labors were 

 dispensed with, except that the "young Missuses" might now and then want a pose}^ bed 

 their "four o 'clocks" and "Marigolds," when old Cudjoe's services might be spun 

 for another half day. After all they were pleasant times, and many snug gardens, 



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