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SO as to dwarf them, are to be purchased for the price of two or three shillings each, while 

 apples, itc, are even cheaper. Where is he to get a catalogue.'' Let him look at the adver- 

 tisements attached to this periodical, and selecting his nurseryman, commence his cor- 

 respondence without delay, for every year's advance brings him nearer to the goal of 

 his wishes. Let him at once read Barry's Fruit Garden, to learn the simple and best 

 practical methods of trimming, and when his first year's purchases are in the clearing 

 — our word for it, he has a source of pleasure in store, and baskets full of fruit 

 in prospect, which will prove a never failing source of occupation, mental and ph3'sical, 

 as long as he occupies his improving premises. These pets will be society' to him in his 

 otherwise lonesome hours; if he will at once take up the subject of a kitchen garden, 

 his home is complete, the only danger being that he will not be induced ever to leave it. 

 The first winter let him force a small hot-bed of salads and radishes, (with a corner 

 filled with the most useful green herbs for his cook's especial delight) with his own 

 hands, watching its progress, moving its shutters and glasses with every considerable 

 change of temperature, reading up to his suliject, visiting and observing his nearest suc- 

 cessful neighbor, and he has out-door, healthful occupation for his winter, both day 

 and night; such an amateur as our friend (for such we shall ever after call him,) has 

 now become, will not go to sleep as soon as tea is over; he will read and re-read Mc- 

 Mahon's Kitchen Gardener — one of the very best, after all, on the subject; Downing, 

 Thomas, and Barr)"^ on Fruits, will become his manuals, while Parsons and Rivers on the 

 Rose, will be consulted for a little variety. AVith what pleasure will he read Loudon and 

 the horticultural and agricultural periodicals; we shall not despair in another year of see- 

 ing him biing into the parlor, for display to his neighbors, his largest pumpkin, whicli he 

 remarks is a valuable article, it looks so like having results. A Ward's case, and a few 

 house plants that will thrive in a sitting room, among which is a fine ivy in a receptacle 

 large enough to contain its large roots, will make in-doors in a snow storm not onl}' tolera- 

 ble but delightful. Have we conjured up an amateur, by detailing the process by which 

 tliis healthy action of the mind is produced.' If so, we wish there may be thousands of 

 these added every year to our population; thousands may be added, but we want thou- 

 sands more. N. Y. H. 



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liuio to Popularize the Taste for Planting. — A very palatable talk to all, except such 

 professional gardeners and nurserymen as tliink that ever}' thing they give away is lost. 

 Yet your reasons wh}' they shoulil believe in such doctrine, are too palpable to be long 

 resisted by them. Our agricultural and horticultural periodicals, are doing great things 

 in tliis line, among our country people, and planting oucg the fashion, every body's house 

 will be smothered in trees and climliers. Railroads, too, help the people to travel. They 

 thus see what other folks do; and they — that is, (he most observant of the travellers — go 

 home and do likewise. Rely upon it, the taste for planting is in progress. Compare the re- 

 cently built farm-houses all over the country, with those of our bojiiood, and mark the 

 change! Then, they were as utteily bare of trres as of out-houses; stood all alone by 



elves, naked, inhospitable, and desolate to the eye. Now, even the same old 

 nients, inhabited by people of better taste, are changed in their outward style; various 



