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AECniTECTURAL ORNAMENTS. 



on the tree until approacli of winter. The WJute Spanish Eeinette Apple, also along time 

 since introduced, is marked by many excellent qualities. I am, therefore, induced to 

 believe, that these fruits, being thoroughly acclimated or habituated to our climate, is one 

 cause of their high health. I am now grafting standard Pears Avith two varieties, upon 

 each tree, and from the seeds of these fruits hope to obtain new improved varieties, better 

 adapted to the climate than exotic sorts. 



In regard to the Julienne Pear, from the high rank as to quality I have given it in my 

 report, you may be led to think I am deceived in the variety. I am confident I cannot be 

 mistaken. The source from which I originally procured the variety, and my familiarity 

 with the wood and fruit of the Pear, (recognising them as readily as T would the faces of 

 my children,) convince me I have the Julienne of the books. Corroborative of my opinion 

 as to the quality of Julienne^ I enclose a letter I received 20th August last, from Hon. G. 

 W. Sargent, one of my neighbors, and a zealous pomologist, whose long residence at the 

 north, (Boston and Philadelphia,) enabled him to judge of the merits of fruits here. J. G. J. 



ARTIST'S VILLA. 



BY A. J. DAVIS, AECHITECT, NEW TOEK. 



FIRST 



This is a study for an artist's 

 own dwelling, and is thought 

 to be adapted to a rocky hill 

 site, " with thicket overgrown, 

 grotesque and wild." 



"The hairy side of a steep wilderness," 



and nature in full freedom, as 

 artists love it. 



The material is native trap 

 rock, gathered from the surfiice 

 around, and laid up with mor- 

 tar, hacked with brick, or the 

 same stone laid hoHotv, paying 

 no attention to smoothness, on 

 the exterior, which will be 

 overgrown with vines, and in- 

 corporated with the rock it 

 stands upon. 



This manner of building may 

 be practiced in very many parts 

 of the country, with economy, 

 safety, and good effect. Hence 

 it is offered to the patrons of SECOND 



the Horticulturist, landscape gardeners, and artists. — For elevation, see frontispiece, 



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