Cooper's Market Apple. — The above variety of Apple, it is understood, was introduced here 

 by Mr. Sciienck, of Brighton, who brought it from Xew Jersey. It is a beautiful medium sized 

 Apple, tart, when first in eating, but vrhen fully ripe, quite mild and agreeable, during all the 

 month of May. It is one of the most perfect keepers, and our fruit dealers have found a ready sale 

 for it this season. High colored when grown in the sun, and sometimes beautifully mottled. The 

 tree blossoms later by two weeks than other kinds, except the Hussct and Northern Spy. It is a 

 desirable Apple for Market, and very properly named so on that account. J. H. Watts, Ro- 

 chester. 



With the above note Mr. Watts was kind enough to hand us some very beautiful speci- 

 mens of this fruit, as fresh and juicy as we would expect to find them in mid-winter. We 

 have observed them frequently in the baskets of street dealers, late in the spring, competing 

 with the Northern Spy. It deserves more attention. 



Too Happy at Home ! — To Elsie, Woodside — So unexpected a prescription for my cure, as you 

 have proposed in the May number of the IlortlcuUurisf, while it calls for my grateful acknowl- 

 edgments, requires consideration. An exchange of situations, if it takes place, must be discusstd. 

 Will you take, with my perfected place, all its inconveniences ? Will you, or your husband, ac- 

 cept the gout, and rid me of it? This, you will say, can hardly be expected. Well, I suppose 

 you would not, if it were possible, desire my bodily ills. But are you prepared to spare time 

 enough, from your troup of Olive plants to see after all that it is necessary to do yourself on my 

 premises? The task is not a liglit one, and that you may be prepared a little for what will be 

 necessary, I will give you a few items to consider of. 



The more pressing at this moment is to see after a neighbor who deserves not the name. He 

 turned off the stream of water which fed my fi^h ponds, last February, to supply his own water- 

 ram. The law, after much expense righted me, and when I had re-stoeked my trout preserves, 

 the villain has just poisoned the rivulet: my pets all turned over, last night, perfectly dfad. I 

 have to see my attorney in the morning, enter suit, and attend to this most annoying affair for 

 several months. Will you, or your good man, carry on the suit for me while I am improving for 

 you ? Is he a lawyer, or has he any fondness for litigation ? Let me know that, before I decide. 



You say you have a fondness for having every thing in its place. Will you promise not to diy 

 clothes on my new Araucaria?, Rhododendrons, and funebral Cypresses, or hang your caps on my 

 clioice Rose bushes, while I am delving in your reserved acres of primitive forest? My library ! 

 What shall I do without it? And will you promise your children shall not ruin my "picture 

 books," or scratch my Florentine tables — ray small but recherche collection of statuary? Will 

 you guarantee the Roses of Ariadne and Pshyche ? Shall the birds which Virginia is feeding have 

 all their plumage perfect when I return ? My gardener is a good one, and understands my ways : 

 will you guarantee that he will be here when I get back ? And if he leaves you in a pet, or goes 

 on a drunken frolic to spite you, will you see after the fires in the Orchid house, the coldest nights 

 of next winter, every hour or two, if, at the same time, one of your children has the whooping 

 cough or the measles ? Does your husband thoroughly understand trimming dwarf fruit trees? 

 And is his temper such as not to spoil my favorite riding-horse? Do you really tliink he could 

 manage my Irish coachman, and make liim keep the gears of several kinds perfectly greased ? 

 And if he goes from home a day or two without notice, will you ovei'see your helpmate so much 

 as that the horses shall be fed, curried, and nicely put to bed? Has he a fondness for currying ? 

 I have several famous breeds of dogs who require daily looking after, and to be regularly exer- 

 cised, and you must see that they do not kill my family of tame grey squirrels ; and then there 

 are the lop-eared rabbits, to be daily and nightly protected from dogs and cats. The aviary I 

 will surrender to your care — but will you be sure to close off the water from the fountains 

 before the first freezing weather? Or when I return shall they be found all burst? Is it in 



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