IIORTICULTUEE. 



have discovered by liybridizing- or any other means a vahiable production, to dift'use 

 it among their countrymen, hajipy themselves if they can benefit others. A miser, 

 in horticulture, is an unknown animal. Horticultural societies are now diffused 

 throughout the length and breadth of our land ; even New York city, amidst her 

 lumber of bales and boxes from Europe and the east, has found time and space to 

 have her own " Transactions" in horticultural science. There is taste enough lying- 

 dormant among her citizens to give her a first position in this respect, and we are not 

 sure but that her own vicinity has advantages for such pursuits beyond any of her 

 sisters. The constant arrival of steamships from every climate, aftbrds the opportunity 

 of the early reception (in "Ward's cases, or other modes,) of plants, seeds, and trees ; 

 and the demand for fruit, flowers, and vegetables within her own limits, must be the 

 best on the continent. Let her infant society persevere, as indeed there cannot be a 

 doubt that it will. Philadelphia and Boston are "ahead" of her in this respect, but 

 when did she ever run a race in which she was not in the advance at last ? She has 

 private conservatories, and public nurseries, that rival those of her neighbors, and at 

 this moment the State furnishes a large portion of the trees demanded by the com- 

 merce in these valuable articles. 



It would be ungracious to close an article without naming the pleasure and profit 

 to be derived from the successful culture of a kitchen garden. Here we must again 

 mention our friend who rejoiced in his first successful experiment in celery. He con- 

 tinues his supply of that delicious vegetable, but hearing a European gardener make 

 the true remark that Americans in the country never worked or employed their time 

 to full advantage in the winter, he set himself to consider what article of consumption 

 would best pay for outlay, at a season when nature declines, without assistance, to 

 yield her fruits to man. Asparagus seemed to promise this result. After a trial, in 

 a small way, he now forces this article on an extensive scale. His calculation is, that 

 ten families at least, will give a dinner party every day, and be glad to give him a 

 dollar each for this delicious dish out of season ; if they do, and beyond a doubt they 

 will, his winter beds of asparagus alone will more than pay for all his manure and 

 wages for the year ! 



To those who design to make the most of their vegetable gardens, we especially 

 recommend the perusal — not once only, but often — of McMahori's Kitchen Gardener- 

 Abridgments are numerous, but experience has convinced us that it is the best work 

 issued from the American press. Ample evidence of the dift'usion of a taste for the 

 subjects on which we have delivered a brief discourse, is afforded by the large sale of 

 books exclusively devoted to Arboriculture and Horticulture ; a second edition of those 

 six beautiful volumns of Michaux & Nuttall on American Trees is now in press ; the 

 Horticulturist has thousands of eager subscribers, and other periodicals are equally 

 successful. The readers of such works must have science and enthusiasm on their 

 topics, but their intelligence does not stop here. The agricultural interest of New 

 York is just now roused to the great want of their State, and they are urging on 

 their Legislature the publication of an accurate map of the State, with definite 



