TIIK IIAI'I'Y VOMOLOdlST. 



endless acres, our <;oo(l host the PomoldLnst — a host in himself, in more ways than 

 one ; and yet he may naturally have had other objects associated with the prospects 

 of his two sous, who have devoted themselves to separate branches of horticulture 

 — the elder to Aj;riculture, and the younjrer to the garden and Pomology. The 

 united etl'orts of father and sons, (united in the best and strongest sense of the 

 tiMin), are devoted to the cultivation of a fine farm of about three hundred acres, 

 situated upon an extendi J and beautiful plain, of good light soil, within a quarter 

 of a mile, or little more, of a mountain range, and which charmingly relieves the 

 landscape with its varied shades of light, as the sun brightens its prominent points, 

 or these cast their shadows of darker hue upon the vallies. 



I cannot pretend to do justice, by description, to the farming department of our 

 host's estate ; I was kept too busy and too much interested for two days in the 

 gardens, to be able to go over the fields ; but I am informed that the wheat and 

 oats prosper in the best sense, — that they are habitually sold for seed grain at the 

 highest price, and the crops of field roots have been the wonder of the neighborliood. 

 The gardens and nurseries of young trees, as I have said, were the objects of my 

 particular attention and concern, and from the early breakfast hour until noon, I 

 walked beside the two Pomologists listening eagerly to their free interchange of 

 facts and opinions, as they successively reached the long straight lines of young 

 Pear trees ; then the nurseiy of seedlings, and the new grafts added to the number- 

 bearers, so excite my wonder in their variety and amount, as to make me fear a sus- 

 picion of exaggeration should I attempt to tell of them. But it may give some idea 

 of our host's labors to state, that this spring, the fourth, I think, since he began 

 his fniit gardens, he has grafted with his own hand over two thousand young trees ; 

 that he is the originator of many hundreds of new varieties of Pears, and that the 

 most rigid system and care is observed in every detail of labeling — registering — 

 pnining and cultivating the orchards. And while refering to this division of our 

 distinguished Pomologist's industry, I must not omit to mention the quarto vol- 

 umes in which he has so beautifully and accurately painted, in water colors, all the 

 varieties of fruit he has originated. These volumes give evidence of no ordinary 

 genius as an artist, and especially do they prove most patient perseverance in the real 

 business of book-making — for these are ponderous books of which the letter press 

 and beautiful ilkistrations are the work of a single man — receiving no aid from 

 printer, publisher or machinery. 



The Register or catalogue of the finiit gardens and nursery, contains painted 

 maps, in water colors, first of the general grounds &.G., then of each section upon a 

 larger scale; and in each of these every tx'ee is numerically and alphabetically en- 

 tered by the Pomologist ; so that no errors or confusion can result in regard to the 

 names or characters of trees. This Register — of royal octavo size and of about 

 three hundred pages, our host carried under his arm, as he conducted us through 

 the almost endless lines of growing trees of various ages and grafts ; but it was 

 very rarely that he had occasion to refer to the book, for he seemed to have an in 

 ve knowledge of the variety he was approaching, without looking at the lett 



