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parsimoniously. There was not enough to furnish the phosphates, or a copious disengnge- 

 ment of nitrogen. Professor Norton's lectures in Albany, were exceedingly useful to 

 me. Another mistake was to allow the sash to remain with bad joints, so that a uniform 

 temperature could not be maintained. After fitting the sash, I found a great difference. 

 In the early part of the season, the house has been kept closed, a larger part of the day 

 than in previous years, and with decided advantage. True, Mr. Dowxing says, " Plenty 

 of sunlight, plenty of air, and plenty of moisture," are his fundamental principles for grape 

 culture. But if the house is open too much for air, the caloric escapes, and the moisture 

 evaporates. I have never kept mine so close before, and never before had such growth of 

 wood, or such perfection of fruit. Being too much shaded by some forest trees, behind which 

 the sun retires at 3 o'clock, I have laid some old sash on the border out side, and so have 

 obtained a temperature suited to the wants of the roots. Under the glass, the vapor is 

 also condensed, and the roots find a grateful moisture, to the very surface of the ground. 

 The border is mulched with tan. 



With these comments, which appear sufficiently egotistical, I conclude, observing that 

 if others can derive any, even the smallest profit, from these speculations, I shall be satis- 

 fied. And I hope also, to offer reasons, at a future time, wh}^ many others would do well 

 to commence the building of a vinerj^ A. Messer. 



Geneva, Ontario co., N. Y. 



FRUITS vs. INTEMPERANCE. 



BV JAMES RICHARDSON, Jr. 



The grand mission of the horticulturist, in subduing, cultivating, and embellishing the 

 earth, — of rendering the outward world a Paradise, — a garden of beauty and delight, (as 

 the word Paradise literally imports,) is as yet but little understood and appreciated in 

 all its length, and breadth, and glory, by even its most distinguished apostles and earnest 

 and enthusiastic devotees. For it shall be his ofiice in the coming age, not only to tians- 

 form the face of nature, and through the hints and suggestions everywhere given him by 

 tlie Divine Creator, to deduce order and beauty from the surrounding chaos, but to have 

 a very important and powerful influence upon the life and culture, the health and happi- 

 ness of man The civilization of man, and that of the earth indeed, always go hand in 

 hand, and each acts upon, and advances the other. By the greater abundance and im- 

 provement of grains and vegetables, and especially by the increase of various and luscious 

 fruits, a very striking change is to be made for the better, in the manner of human living, 

 in the regimen and nourishment of the human body, and hence, in the purity, activity and 

 beautiful development of mind and soul. How much more poetical, how much more re- 

 fined and elevated, as well as beautiful and exhilirating, is a table glowing with the vari- 

 ous melting and luscious fruits in their season — the dewy, delicious strawberry, the fra- 

 grant raspberry, the ruby cherry, the tempting paradisean nectar of peach and apricot, 

 plum and pear, and the glorious clusters of the rich and juicy grape, with the cooling and 

 refreshing waters of cantelope and melon, accompanied by simple farinaceous articles 

 of diet, than a board covered with the flesh of beasts, however delicately cooked, and with 

 various spiced, unnatural, and unholy mixtures of cake, pastry, &c. Think of 

 Adam slaughtering an ox in Paradise, or the delicate fingers of his fair and gentle par 



