DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



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Chuech in the Lombaed Style. — [See 

 Frontispiece.] — The great change, and no 

 less striking improvement, whicli have taken 

 place in the church architecture of our princi- 

 pal cities, within ten years past, are beginning 

 to exert an influence on the rural and suburban 

 edifices of the same character. The uncouth 

 wooden buildings with frightful steeples, which 

 deformed so many of our country towns, are 

 gradually being displaced by tasteful and con- 

 venient churches of stone or brick, built in 

 more correct proportions, and the interiors of 

 which are really calculated to raise devotional 

 feelings in the minds of the congregations. 



The suburban churches of our country towns 

 are very important features, not only as places 

 of worship, but as bestowing dignity and beauty 

 upon the towns thf-mselves. To awaken and 

 diffuse a taste for good country churches comes 

 fairly within the field of our labors, and in ad- 

 dition to examples already given, we place be- 

 fore our readers this month, a handsome design 

 by Messrs. "Wyatt & Brandon, eminent archi- 

 tects in London, for a church in the Lombardic 

 style of Architecture. It has been admirably 

 carried out at Bethnal Green; the material, 

 brick, with stone dressings. The interior di- 

 mensions are 117 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 

 60 feet high to the picket of the gable. 



New Hardy Cherries. — We received on the 

 26th of June, from B. B. Kirtland, Esq., of 

 Grecnbush, N. Y., samples of two varieties of 

 seedling cherries — called Mary and Christiana, 

 that seem to us worthy of the attention of po- 

 mologists, especially at the north and west. 

 These cherries appear, in fruit, flavor and foliage, 

 to be a cross between the Mayduke and the 

 Heart cherries, assimilating much nioi-e closely 

 in flavor and color and form to the Mayduke 

 than the other parent ; the color bright lively red 

 — the flavor sprightly sub-acid — the fruit borne 

 in large clusters — the leaves rather narrow. 



The "Christiana," with quite narrow, small 

 leaves, and long stalks, is the finest flavored va- 

 riety. -''Mary" is the most profuse bearer and 

 remarkably hardy. Greenbush is in a cold 



portion of the northern states — the thermome- 

 ter having fallen to 14'* below zero the past 

 winter. The consequence of this was that the 

 cherry crop was almost wholly cut ofl' by the de- 

 struction of the germs of the flower buds in win- 

 ter, while these two seedlings of Mr. Kirtland's 

 were loaded with the heaviest crops. From 

 this fact, and the close relation which these 

 seedlings have to the May Duke, there is every 

 reason to believe they may prove hardy enough 

 to supply that place in the north and west, which 

 the compaiative failure of nearly all but the 

 acid cherries has left vacant. 



Large Trees in the State of New York. 

 — It is much to be regretted that no work has 

 ever been published with well engraved por- 

 traits of the finest specimens of our noble Ameri- 

 can forest trees, many of which are annually 

 disappearing, either by old age, or by the pro- 

 cess of " clearing up" the country. It is sad- 

 dening to the heart of a lover of trees to see in 

 many parts of the country the finest single speci- 

 mens sacrificed by the wanton axe of the wood- 

 man, who sees only so much " cord- wood" in 

 what, to his descendants, would be valued " be- 

 yond rubies." Of course new-world forests 

 must be cleared up, but it is difficult to under- 

 stand what good reason the most practical com- 

 mon sense man can have for despoiling the neigh- 

 borhood of his dwelliiig of stately single trees 

 — that should be held sacred as the pride and 

 glory of his home landscape. One cannot but 

 feel that the sentiment of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury in this respect is far behind that of the 

 most remote antiquity — as the Jews were for- 

 bidden to cut down the favorite trees even of an 

 enemy. (Deut. xx, 19.) 



The Genesee Valley is that part of New- York 

 where the lover of fine trees will find most to 

 delight and satisfy him. On the Genesee Flats 

 is a kind of meadoAV-park of a thousand or 

 more acres, belonging to the "Wadsworth fami- 

 ly, with the finest specimens of park-like oaks, 

 elms, and other trees of indigenous growth — 

 finely developed and presenting studies for 

 tist or arboriculturist, such as are nowhere 



