DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



shoot, or between the fruit and the points of 

 sucli branch ? 



In grape culture this is a question of some 

 moment, since in the removal of leaves near the 

 bunches, in order to admit breezes refreshing 

 to the perspiratory organs of the berries, it 

 might happen that the apparatus designed to 

 pump in fluids for assimilation by the digestive 

 ones was rendered too feeble. Individually, I 

 incline to the belief that the inner are the more 

 important ones, and base my conclusion upon 

 the habits of the grape and tomato, and upon 

 my observations in fruit, and more especially in 

 peach growing, a branch of pomology in which 

 my friends will have it that I am " some;" yet 

 if I know anything on this subject (and allusion 

 to the good opinions of friends is made but to 

 show I might know,) and were called upon to 

 grow a first rate peach, one to charm all behold- 

 ers and yet prove equally grateful to the palate as 

 pleasing to the eye, I would unhesitatingly 

 choose for the experiment some good looking 

 specimen, located in a healthy portion of some 

 well cultivated tree, pendant at the point of 

 some slender branch, a position in which, when 

 enlarged, it would swing like a plummet before 

 every breeze, where it Avould linger long after 

 its fellows had articulated and fallen to the 

 ground, gradually receiving the softest and 

 most bewitchingly impressions of beauty by 

 touchings and retouchings of the solar ray upon 

 a perfectly pure and unsunburnt ground ; but in 

 a position where it should do its own pumping 

 of fluids, aided only by a small tuft of leaves 

 vjaving gracefully near the point of thebranch, 

 but above and betiveen the fruit and its sources 

 of food. L. Young. 



Dwarf Pears for marketing. — A corres- 

 pondent inquires if it would be profitable to set 

 out a thousand dwarf pear trees, with a view to 

 Tiiarketing purposes. The answer must be — If 

 such sorts are selected as have been found du- 

 rable on the quince ; and if good and enriching 

 cultivation is given them — they would probably 

 prove quite profitable. They should be trained 

 as half standards, that is, with heads on bare 

 trunks about two feet high. This will prevent 

 the danger of the lower limbs being split off by 

 deep snow, and the only pruning they will re- 

 quire will be a thinning of useless shoots once a 



year, and preserving a neat ovate shape to the 

 heads. 



It must not be forgotten that the roots of the 

 quince, being .smaller and in a more compact 

 circle than those of the pear, need a better sup- 

 ply of the elements of fertility, if the tree is ex- 

 pected to receive its due amount of nourishment. 

 Hence, constant and enriching cultivation must 

 be given. 



Among those sorts which have proved dura- 

 ble upon the quince, are Louise Bonne de Jer- 

 sey, Stevens' Genesee, Angouleme, Glont Mor- 

 ceau. Passe Colmar, Easter Beurre, Beurre 

 d'Amalis, Diel, Doyenne Bou.ssouck, Stc. Many 

 other varieties will grow freely on quince for a 

 few years, but the first good crop of fruit, (even 

 on double worked trees.) exhausts the trees, 

 and they soon languish and die. 



There is one great drawback on the profits to 

 be expected from an orchard of dwarf, or of 

 any other pears ; this is the danger of loss from 

 fire-blight, which to some cultivators, has re- 

 sulted in as heavy loss as would have been the 

 destruction of their dwellings by fire. Cultiva- 

 tors of the pear should foim themselves into a 

 mutual insurance company, for securit}' against 

 this loss. 



The inquiry whether dwarf apple trees can be 

 made to aff'ord profitable crops for market, can- 

 not, by any means, be answered so favorably. 

 A tree ten years old will not yield perhaps a 

 tenth part of the crop from an equally well 

 treated standard. We have indeed known a 

 distinguished cultivator to give the opinion, (we 

 shall not say it is strictly correct.) that taking 

 all circumstances into consideration, the average 

 cost of api)les from dwarf trees, as now culti- 

 vated, is about five dollars per bushel. They 

 can be regarded only as curiosities — fancy arti- 

 cles, of which they aflford sometimes very inte- 

 resting specimens. 



Chrysanthemums. — Edward. The follow- 

 ing are some of the best: Madame Poggi.Fleur 

 de Marie, Temple of Solomon, Celestial, Em- 

 press, Lucidum, La Reine d'Or, Campestroni, 

 and Lady TalfoTird. 



Fuchsias. — Thomas Simso7i. The best 

 sias we have noticed this season, (some 



