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men, -wliosc talents, tnsto and learning should command patronage, beg it on Biu-h jialtry 

 grounils. For our part we would scorn sueh ai)i)0!ils for supijort. "Wo do all wo can to 

 give our patrons value for their money, and we trust when wo fail to do this, or when they 

 discover that wo are partial or dishonest, or any way imworthy of confidence, they will 



drop us at once. 



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The ]~>i{orTn. — The drouth mentioned in our last number has continued np to the present 

 time, (August 2-ith,) accompanied by excessive heat, excci)t at intervals. Its effects on all 

 kinds of vegetation may be well imagined. The pastures are completely dried up, and the 

 Corn and Potato crops over a large portion of country, are ruined beyond a hope of 

 recovery. Gardens and lawns have suffered severely, and the fruit crop is seriously 

 affected. Autumn and winter fruits are shrinlving and shrivelling on the trees, or dropping 

 off, and the foliage has more tho aspect of October than of August. This drouth is not 

 local, but very general — extending, with occasional exceptions, from Maine to Missouri. 

 We have before us a nmltitude of letters, giving a most lamentable account of the st8,te of 

 vegetation — the loss of newly planted trees — Strawberry beds dried up and ruined — the 

 grass burned out of lawns so as to appear beyond recovery. "We hope, however, refresliing 

 rains will soon come, and produce a magical resuscitation. Floods may be expected, and 

 timely preparation should be made to receive them. Gutters, drains, cisterns, &c., should 

 all be in perfect order, to avoid damage to houses, grounds, and crops. 



Fpxit fkom Pennsylvania. — "We are Indebted to our friend Dr. Esiileman, of Down- 

 ington, Pa., for a box of fruits, among which are specimens of the SJienh or Hosenschcnch 

 Pear — one from Lancaster county, which though rather over ripe, was melting and fine; 

 other specimens from Chester county were miserable deformed things, not worth picking 

 up. The Doctor says his trees in Chester county which produced these knotty specimens 

 were propagated from the tree in Lancaster county which produced the fine specimens 

 sent. This corroborates what Dr. G. has before stated, that it is very good in Lancaster 

 county and worthless with him. "We do not pretend to say, however, that the difference is 

 altogether owing to locality. Some two or three years ago we received scions of a Pear 

 marked '•'■ Eshletjmn^'''' from Dr. Brixckle, which are now bearing, and the fruit much 

 resembles the SchencJc, but it is very knotty and deformed, and not yet ripe. 



Dr. Eshleman also sends us specimens of the Steinmitz Catherine and Jlewes Pears, 

 neither of which are yet fit to be tasted. Also, the Brcnnaman Apple, a handsome looking 

 fruit, but too ripe to be tasted ; and a small specimen of Bcurre Clairgcau Pear — decayed. 

 The season at Downington, Ave think, must be two or three weeks earlier than at Rochester. 



"Washing and Scraping Teees. — The author of the famous resolutions on " Washing 

 and Scraping Trees^'' which we found in the newspapers credited to the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, and copied into our last number, with some comments, has turned 

 up in the person of " R. Morp.is Copeland," who replies to our remarks, which he terms 

 " carping criticisms^^^ in a very unpleasant mood, in the Practical Farmer. All we have 

 to say with reference to this matter is, that the Mass. Society had nothing more to do Avlth 

 these resolutions than to vote them a place on the table. "We say this much in behalf of 

 the Society. As to what Mr. Copeland has pleased to say of our criticism, we are quite 

 indifferent, and so are the public. "When he substantiates the soundness and consistency of 

 his recommendations, by solid, sensible arguments, we will give him the benefit of 

 pages in making them known. 



