look, th:it he scut Joe for cuttinfrs to «rraft on liis old stocks. We feel pure th 

 "KvoiiinL' Party" will ere inatiy years be in the rhiladelphia market. 



lias our (|uestioner this year seen the new Currant.s, hanging "thicker" than 

 ropes of onions, and twice the size of the old sorts — they are in the market; and so 

 are better Raspberries — Dr. Brinckle's "Orange" ha.s been extensively cultivated, 

 as well as many other fruits for which we are indebted to his science; Blackberries 

 are coming there too very soon, along with Pears that will gratify your taste as much 

 as the exhibition tables delighted your eyes. Col. Wilder is preparing a feast for 

 you, but you must have a little patience, and let those who have done this great 

 work partake themselves, with their friends, of the first fruits of their labor. How 

 long was your father alive before he saw, much less tasted, a Black Hamburgh 

 Grape? The groat conservatories of his time were perfectly content if they ripened 

 a washing tub full of Lemons, or a few miserable Oranges in a year. Astonishment 

 was at its height in Philadelphia, when it was whispered that Mr. Pratt's gardener 

 picked two washing tubs full of Lemons, to make that atrocious mixture called 

 lemonade, for a party. A similar space occupied by those Lemon trees is now made 

 to produce five hundred pounds and more of the finest descriptions of luscious 

 Grapes for the benefit of the world, and at no greater cost. Every one who has 

 attended an exhibition may be comforted with the assurance, that in all these mat- 

 ters the day is about to dawn when fine fruits will be accessible to the many. It 

 takes no more space to grow a good Cherry tree than a bad one, but a countryman 

 is not likely to cut down his old Blackheart, which has regularly yielded him a few 

 dollars, and plenty for his family, till the new varieties have come to maturity; thus 

 the old Cherry will continue in the market for some time. Perhaps, too, the new 

 will be so much esteemed at home by the youngsters about, that some years must 

 elapse after bearing commences before the Louise Bonne de Jersey Pear travels to 

 the Market street stalls. But take courage from facts already developed, and hope 

 for better things. 



Gratitude is eminently due to those enthusiasts who are working in private, like 

 "the Happy Pomologist" of our July number, to improve the races of fruits. It is 

 a work of both time and labor to fertilize the flower, plant the seed, and await the 

 result, but this is the process by which what has already been done has been accom- 

 plished. The next task is the acclimating the new kinds by scientific reproduction, 

 and giving to our fruits American constitutions ; the foreign Grapes are now under- 

 going experiments to fit them to our climate, and we entertain no doubtof a successful 

 result. It is the aim of the intelligent workers in this field to make good fruits as 

 common as inferior sorts. That they will succeed everywhere, and in every garden, 

 in the life time of this and the next generation, is not to be expected. But that 

 wonders have been accomplished, and are in the course of accomplishment, in fruits, 

 flowers and vegetables, no one who remembers our markets thirty years ago can for 

 a moment doubt. 



It is one of the missions of this particular period, to discover what vegetable pro- 

 ductions are adapted to the various climates of the L^nion; when this has been even 

 partially successful, every portion of our country will yield its fniits in its season. 



