|r0pcss ill lortltulture.— |s i\}tn gnir? 



'T is not an uncommon thing to hear people say after at- 

 tending a horticultural exhibition, and luxuriating their 

 eyes upon the display of exquisite fruits, "Oh yes ! it is 



F\V%\ /^^\til) Jt!';^^^! M '^^^ ^^^'^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^ people and amateurs, who can 



~ >s w ; 2, afford to keep expensive places and gardeners, but why is 



it we never see these things in market i"' The question 



would appear to be a reasonable one ; will the questioners 



be contented at present with a reasonable answer? 



The progress of all great improvements is slow ; it has 

 taken some ten years to introduce successfully that obvi- 

 ously economical instrument, the mowing machine. The captains of the Thames 

 and other English steamboats keep a boy always on duty to hollow "stop her," "go 

 ahead," &c., and they contend that a bell "would not answer;" so that we see even 

 where it is of the strongest pecuniary interest, slowness marks the progress of a 

 good thing. In the case of luxuries this onward movement is necessarily more 

 tardy. 



The improvement in fruits, however, it can be seen, is progressing with great 

 rapidity; "the first day" in the creation of new races, and the taste to appreciate 

 better supplies is just passing over our country, or perhaps we might say, is past. 

 Its evening shadows have been marked in our principal cities by a few good fruits, 

 such as very superior Pears being seen for sale, especially in Boston, perhaps at a 

 high price, but still they were there; improved Apples almost everywhere; and the 

 opening of a second day is about to commence. Very superior Strawberries are 

 noticed by our correspondents from all parts of the Union, and what are they but 

 the results of Hovey's, and Burr's, and McAvoy's talent and industry ? Does any 

 one suppose for a moment, that the introduction of fine fruits of all kinds is to be 

 limited to the exhibition tables of societies; or that when a sensible man has eaten 

 of the new Pears, such as the Bartlet, the Duchesse D'Angouleme, or the Howell, 

 that he will plant the Catherine, or the poor old varieties ? In the meantime, you 

 and I, gentle reader, who may have, more providently than our neighbors, got a 

 little stock of trees just coming into bearing, admire them too much, and take too 

 much pleasure in giving a little basket of the produce to our friends; — in short, we 

 1/(1 have too few to hi able to part with them; but we can recollect with satisfaction 

 that this year, and for several past seasons, inquisitive neighbors, who were going 

 on in the old routine, spied over the fence our superior show of Governor "Wood and 

 La Heine Hortense Cherries, and were humble enough to ask for grafts, which are 

 now growing and will soon bear fruit for the market. Master Slowgoer stole an 

 "Evening Party" Apple last fall, and his father was so pleased with its saleable 



A'OL. 5. 



I 1. 



