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interstices about the roots. In a short time this lime was formed into a hard crust, "which 

 served not only as an effectual bar to the entrance of the grub during the whole season, 

 but what is almost equally important, I found last fall unon removing this lime from its 

 bed, that the wounds, (and some of them were quite serious ones,) which I had inflicted 

 on the base of the tree in removing the grubs, were healed up, and in as good and healthy 

 condition as any part of the tree; and now my trees are in a more healthful and promis- 

 ing condition than they ever have been. This process of liming, however, should be re- 

 newed every spring. 



I do not know whether this experiment of mine is original, but can confidently say that 

 I never saw or heard of its having been tried before. But be this as it may, the in- 

 formation is before you, and if you think it will in any degree promote the interest of hor- 

 ticulture, it is at your service. Very respectfully your ob't serv't. J. C. "Wright. 



Scottsville, Albemarle Co., Ya., IGth Dec, 1850. 



A very good hint, and one which may be amplified and improved on. Ed. 



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BY L. F. ALLEN, BLACK ROCK, N. Y. 



[The following article, on the same subject as the leader in our March number, — was 

 written before our correspondent had seen that number — though it is an excellent continu- 

 ation of the same idea. We are glad to have our notions of the advantages of introducing 

 domestic animals into the ornamental park scenery of our country places, fortified by one 

 of the most noted stock-breeders in the country, whose broad meadows on the Niagara 

 river, give example for his and our precepts. Ed.] 



Dear Sir — It is passing strange that a people so intelligent in most things appertaining 

 to their own enjoyment, and so ambitious in the fitting up and arrangement of their coun- 

 try places, as the Americans, have thus far shown so little taste in collecting fine domes- 

 tic animals about them, not only as creatures of convenience and economy in living, but 

 as adding a beauty and effect to their summer homes, ftir more expressive than anything 

 else which can be obtained, even at a much greater expense. In every populous part of 

 the United States, and more particularly in the neighborhood of our large cities and towns, 

 scattered far and wide, are seen imposing and costly houses, seated in large lawns and 

 parks, planted out with noble trees, embellished with beautiful gardens, and expensive 

 grounds, to say nothing of the various minor decorations, both of nature and of art, set 

 up or planted at much cost, and cared for at a heavy annual charge upon the proprietor, 

 merely as objects to gratify the taste, or to arrest the attention of the passer-bj", to gaze 

 at and admire. These, so far as they go, are all very well; but, contrary to what is usu- 

 ally supposed, they fall far short of completing a country establishment as it should be; 

 a pantomime in the landscape; not speaking io the heart like the living action and the 

 moving beauty of animal life, which would otherwise give effect and fulness to so much 

 rural beauty and ornate embellishment, and make it just what it should be, the perfection 

 of rural objects inartificially brought together, and filling up a complete picture. 



In taking a summer drive through a neighborhood of the fine summer establishments 

 out of our large cities, or on the banks of the Hudson or the Delaware, and observing the 

 fostidious keeping of many of the parks and grovmds about them, one would suppo 

 the land was not made to be grazed or trodden upon, even where worthless for any 



