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To CoRREsroNDENTS. — We particularly desire to retain as contributors the established 

 as well as occasional correspondents of the Horticulturist, who have favored the late 

 editor Avith their coniniunications. The truth is elicited from the mouths of many wit- 

 nesses, and every real experience is valuable. By general consent this periodical seems 

 to have become the repository of the thoughts, and wishes, and doings of a very large 

 circle of intelligent and active minds, whose writings we shall be happy to consider the 

 ivork as the medium of communication to its readers. There is a practical communion in 

 gardening pursuits, in which there are no concealments or patents ; all should be willing 

 to give their quota to the common stock, and where there is so much willingness to im- 

 part information as has heretofore been evinced, much knowledge will be disseminated- 

 It has been a beautiful and valuable feature of Mr. Barry's management, that so much 

 practical information has been elicited from all sections of the country, and we trust this 

 feature will, in no degree, be impaired. 



The ladies, too, should be encouraged to take up their pens ; there are many who 

 know much that is worthy of telling. "We have many experienced readers among the 

 fair portion of the lovers of a garden, and trust that they will not forget this invitation 

 to our pages. 



Intricacy in Gardening. — It would be difficult to select a more striking passage from 

 any author on gardening than the following from Sir Uvedall Price's noble work on the 

 picturesque : 



" Acconling to the idea I have formed of it, intricacy in landscape might be defined, that 

 disposition of objects, which, by a partial aud uncertain concealment, excites and nourishes 

 curiosity. Many persons, who take little concern in the intricacy of oaks, beeches and thorns, 

 may feel the effect of partifil concealment in more interesting objects, and may have experi- 

 enced how differently the passions are moved by an open licentious display of beauties, and by 

 the unguarded disorder which sometimes escapes the care of modesty, and which coquetry so 

 successl'ully imitates. Variety can hardly require a definition, though from the practice of 

 many layers-out of ground, one niiglit suppose it did. Upon the whole it appears to me, that 

 as intricacy in the disposition, and variety in the forms, the tints and the lights and shadows 

 of objects, are the great characteristics of picturesque scenery ; so monotony and baldness 

 are the great defects of improved places." 



Hail Storm in May. — We witnessed nest morning the deplorable effects of a hail 

 storm which occurred at Plainfield, New Jersey, on the evening of the 24th ,f May last 

 It would appear to have been extremely local, as no notice of it appeared at the time in 

 the paoers* Hail stones as large as Hickory nuts, of every shape, fell in great numbers, 

 literally destroying the labors of the husbandman ; and the rain, as if from a water 

 spout, inundated the whole neighborhood to the depth of two or three feet. An 

 siastic Pomologist, residing on the spot, suffered most seriously. Nearly all his 



