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that people who have taste can accomplish much on a very small piece of ground, and at 

 small expense. Mr. Norton lost, last season and tliis, Jwo of his finest Pear trees by blight 

 — a lout Mo rceau and Summer Francreal — the best specimens perhaps in America. A 

 great loss to a small collection. 



A COMPLETE SuBTJBBAN KESiDEiTOE.— One of the most complete, tastefully-arranged, and 

 well-kept suburban residences in the fashionable quarter of our city, (East Avenue), is 

 that of Selah Mathews, Esq. The front lawn is spacious in proportion to the extent of 

 the grounds, and is kept closely cut and smooth as a piece of velvet. The fruit and kitchen 

 garden in the rear of the dwelling show good culture. On each side of the main walk there is 

 a row of fine dwarf Pears in full bearing. The trees of Louise Bonne de Jersey and Dutch- 

 ess cf Angouleme are models of beauty and productiveness combined. They are grown as 

 low standards with pyramidal heads. A snug little vinery, about twenty-five feet long, and 

 bearing a fine crop of fruit, gives a finish to this department; and we understand another) 

 to be heated, and to include pits for forcing early vegetables, is about to be erected. Barns 

 and other out-buildings, servants dwellings, &c., all exhibit taste and judgment in the 

 arrangement, and complete the picture of a very comfortable establishment. We have 

 others to speak of by-and-by. 



British Pomoi-ogical Society. — A society under this name was organized in London, 

 on the 10th of July last. Our friend Tiios. Kivers, Esq., presided on the occasion. Its 

 name and purposes are announced as follows : 



" 1. That a Society shall be established, to be called the British Pomological Society. 



" 2. That the Society shall have for its object the promotion generally of Fruit Culture in the 

 British dominions. That it shall especially direct attention to the production of new varieties 

 of Fruit'', examining and reporting on their merits, and endeavoring to classify the Fruits of 

 Great Britain, the European continent, and America." 



A pretty wide field that, friend Eivers. You sometimes accuse us on this side the water 

 of being somewhat extravagant in our enterprizes, but we have never ventured on any 

 thing like this. '■'■Great Britain^ the European continent^ and America!'' I Go oJiead. 



Correotiok. — We insert the following note as the best means of correcting the error 

 alluded to : 



" You will oblige me by making a few corrections and additions to my notice of the Stanwick 

 Nectarine. Your separating it from my account of the Nelumhium, and omitting a few other 

 sentence?, makes it appear that the term "here" applies to our own place, thereby doing an 

 injustice to Mr. Cope's present gardener, to whom all the credit and honor of its successful culture 

 is alone due. I may add, that since my notice of it, Mr. Cope informs me that the fruit lias 

 ripened, and "surpasses even expectation" in the richness of its flavor — approaching more nearly 

 tlie taste of a Peach than that usual to a Nectarine. Though ripe before the exhibition, and the 

 fruit had to be preserved some days in ice, in order to be saved for it, our fruit committee thought 

 it worthy of a special premium. Thomas Mkehan. 



The Chenango Strawberry Apple. — Under this name we have received specimens of a 

 large, oblong, handsome, striped Apple, of very good quality, from Mr. W. Collins, Jr., 

 Smyrna, N. Y. He says the tree is a vigorous, upright grower, and a great bearer. We 

 have found the same Apple at Brockport, in this county, under tlie name of Strawherry 

 Apple ; but we have not been able to trace its origin. It is well worthy of cultivation. 



