EDITOR'S TABLE. 



AnA, finally, (I fear you will suspect my profession), will you, when it shall be convenient, give, in the HoHicrd- 

 turlst, a design for a neat, quiet, country inn, such as may be suited for a rural village, not subject to the arrival of 

 many strangers, but needing, occasionally, accommodations for the comfortable, hospitable entertainment of a "so- 

 journer for a night or day" — a pleasant, home-like place, that shall have no taint of the " vile Virginia weed," and 

 no dark, lurking place for evil '■'■spirits?" W. — Shreieshury. Mass. 



(1) There are grounds which, generally, arc qiiite dry; hut from their adhesiveness, or from 

 the im[)enetrability of the sub-soil, water is not permitted to pass off rapidly. Such soils need 

 draining, and a loosening of the sub-soil, to make them suitable for fruit trees. To see water 

 accumulate on the surface is a sure sign of wetness. If anj' part of your garden be lower than 

 the rest, make a drain there large enough to contain the surplus water, unless there be a natural 

 outlet. This large drain may be four feet wide and six feet deep, if necessary ; fill it with stones, 

 of small size, to within two feet of the surface; lay some straw, brush or rubbish, over them, or 

 some sods, grassy side downwards, and cover with earth. Into this large drain smaller ones 

 may be conducted, having just fall enough to let the Avater run. We usually' make stone drains 

 two feet wide at the top, eighteen inches at the bottom, and three and a half feet deep ; fill them 

 with small stones, as described for the larger ones. In a flat, moist garden, stone drains are 

 useful, even if there be no outlet, as a drain in the middle of a walk is sure to keep it perfectly 

 dr}' in all states of the weather. 



(2) This will serve as drainage to some extent. When diificulty is apprehended from water it 

 is a good plan to raise the bed, so as to have the ground descend from it. 



(.3) None that we know of. 



AVe must defer the questions concerning "cliimnej' caps" and " thatched roofs" to some of our 

 correspondents who have had more experience in the matters than we. 



Perhaps our friend Davis will give us a design, soon, for a "neat, quiet, country inn." 



I PUKciiASED, two years ago, a number of Pear trees, grafted Ave feet from the ground ; and have been trouliled 

 with a kind of wart that has appeared upon the part where the graft was inserted. I fear that the growth of the 

 trees will be checked. Please tell me what is to be done. A SuBscr.icEn. 



The growth of these "warts" is owing to the interruption of the circulating fluids at that 

 point. They may be a greater deformity than an injury. You might j-iare them off with a 

 sharp knife, down to a level with the natural bark; not all around the tree at one time, so as to 

 " girdle" it, bitt gradually. 



Nolict^ of i3ooIv5, ^3am.pljltts, kt. 



Second Festival or tue Sons of New IlAiirsuiRE. Celebrated in Boston, Nov. 2, 1853. 



The proceedings at this Festival, and an account of the proceedings in Boston on the day 

 of the funeral at Marshfield, and the subsequent obsequies commcniorative of the death of 

 Daniel Webstei'., have been published in a beautiful volume. This association numbers 

 among its members many of the most eminent men in the nation, of all professions. Dan- 

 iel Websteu was their first President, and he has been .succeeded by !^^AI:SIIALL P. Wilder. 

 TIic spccclies, ])ocms, and sentiments, as may be supposed, are of the higlicst order. New 

 llam])shirc lias here s^mietliing to be proud of. We sliould say the book contains excellent 

 portraits of Daniel Webster, Marshall P. Wilder, Samuel Appletox, and the late 

 JoxAS OiiiCKERixo. The following happy allusion to one Avho has done much, and wlio 

 we trust will live to do much more, for American horticulture, will be read with interest: 



" Our principal theme of discourse here to-night, Mr. President, is New Harapshire nnd her 

 sons. When I look over this spacious hall, and behold it filled with men brought up in, and 

 brought out from, the lowly hamlets on and about our hills, and scan the course, as illustr 

 the paintings on your walls, of tlie career of the New Hampshire boy, I feel assured, sir, 



