EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Pretty Fine Cabbage. — W. C. Hoff, Esq., has sent us from his fine gardens at the Mission 

 Dolores, a very compact and finely grown Cabbage, of the Flat Dutch variety, weighing thirty- 

 two and a-half pounds. If any of our cultivators can beat this, we should like they would 

 bring along their specimens. 



Generous Price For Frcit. — Two splendid Oregon Pippins, weighing two and a-half and two 

 and a quarter pounds, and one splendid Pear weighing one and three-fourths pounds, were sold 

 by Mr. Weaver, at Number 1, Washington street, at ten dollars each. What will our fruit 

 growers in Massachusetts say to this ? 



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Best Plants for Hedges. — A gentleman of Skaneateles, IST, Y., writes to the Country 

 Gentleman as follows : 



"In the Country Gentleman of the first instant you state 'there is no thorn, properly so called, 

 that can be relied on for hedges,' because ' it is occasionally liable to a sort of disease or blight, 

 that may destroy it after it is grown to a hedge.' This is an old prejudice revived, I fear. In 

 Onondaga, we are practical men — we like proof, and think it preferable to mere theory; accor- 

 dingly our attention has been for years directed to find the best plant for hedges, and from 

 experiment pronounced the White Hawthorn most suitable. More than thirty years test ought 

 to be conclusive. The Buckthorn has been tried and proved a failure, notwithstanding the 

 puffing of agricultural writers. The Osage Orange is strongly recommended by theorists, but let 

 us see a hedge that will answer the purpose, taking double the time that the White Thorn does, 

 and we may be convinced. In its formidable Thorns the Osage Orange, we are candid to 

 acknowledge, has few competitors; but it is unsuited for farm or country use, being too tender 

 for our rigorous climate. This we state from experience — dearly bought experience. 



"Tliere are White Thorn hedges in this section, more than thirty years old, and as sound and 

 good as ever — the older they got, the better fence do they make. The main cause that White 

 Thorn hedges do no better generally, is because improperly managed. We can not state the course 

 we pursue in this respect, as we are guided by circamstanees and soil; but we never dig deep for 

 planting." 



Osage Orange Hedges in Illinois. — The editor of tlie Prairie Farmer, traveling 

 between Springfield and Alton, says : 



"The Madura Hedge here not only lines the track of the road on either side, but forms, or 

 will soon, the dividing line between fields. They are of all ages, from the iiret season's setting, 

 to a standing of four or five years. Many of these larger pi<^ces are now the only fence, and no 

 farm animal ventures the trial of jiassing them. Cattle, horses, mules, sheep, and hogs, al' dread 

 them as they would a bed of serpents, and are glad to keep their own side. One or two of the 

 new set pieces are properly cut back ; but of the larger ones scarcely a single piece has been 

 suitably Uiickened at bottom. Tliis is a matter of great importance, and some of them will yet 

 have to be cut to the ground, and thickened over anew. This may be easily done with any 

 poorly grown Madura Hedge. The cutting should be in the spring before the plants start" 



Architectural Criticism. — In reference to doubts expressed in your January number, in 

 regard to the cottages being erected for the prices given, permit us to state, that we will guar- 

 anty to have them built in the vicinity of Rochester, by some of our most competent contractors, 

 for the several prices mentioned, — not getting thera up expressly for publication, but in every 

 instance being built, or are now in the course of erection. Austin & Warnkr, Architects. 



We see by the last number of the London Gardeners Chronicle, that Mr. Thomas' recent work 

 arm Implements, and the Principles of their Constmction and Use — has been republished in 

 n with all its illustrations. — Country Gentleman. 



