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THE KIND OF INFORMATION NOW WANTED IN POMOLOGY". 



glazed flower garden. But we see that 

 we are getting beyond the limits of a 

 leader, and must not, therefore, weary those 

 of our subscribers, who take no more in- 

 terest in geraniums than we do in Irish 

 landlords, with too long a parley on exot- 

 ics. 



We must have space enough, however, 

 for a word or two more to beginners. Let 

 them take our word for it, — if they pre- 

 fer an abundance of beautiful flowers to 

 a pot-pourri, of every imaginable species 

 that can be grown under glass, they had 

 better confine themselves to a few really 

 worthy and respectable genera. If they 

 only want winter blooming plants, then let 



them take Camellias and Chmese Azaleas, 

 as the ground work of their collection, fill- 

 ing in the interstices with daphnes, heaths, 

 sweet scented violets, and choice bulbs. 

 For the spring, rely on everblooming roses,* 

 and geraniums. If they also wish to have 

 the green-house gay in summer, they must 

 shade it, (or wash the under side of the roof- 

 glass with whiting,) and grow Fuchsias 

 and Jtchimenes. In this way, they will never 

 be without flowers in abundance, while 

 their neighbors, who collect every new 

 thing to be heard of under the sun, will 

 have more tall stalks and meagre foliage, 

 than bright blossoms and odorous bouquets 

 for their trouble. 



THE KIND OF INFORMATION NOW WANTED IN POMOLOGY. 



BY A YOUNG PLANTER, NEW- YORK. 



There are many varieties of plants that are 

 cultivated with very unsatisfactory results, 

 in localities in which others, of the same 

 species, flourish with at least their ordinary 

 luxuriance. It has been found that, by 

 certain operations upon the soil, these va- 

 rieties may be made to thrive in many 

 places that have proved naturally unpropi- 

 tious to them. A Frenchman will find 

 material for a capital ragout, where an 

 Englishman would starve ; and a soil from 

 which the Bartlett pear will assimilate ma- 

 terial for an abundant crop of fruit, will be 

 death to the Doyenne. On another soil, 

 both may be equally well accommodated ; 

 and on yet another, the Bartlett again shall 

 fail. 



Owing to the eminent talent devoted to 

 the improvement of the pear, by men whose 

 attainments should give them a name among 

 the philosophers of the age, more, perhaps, 

 s known of the peculiar habits of separate 



varieties of this fruit, than of those of any 

 other. It is hardly possible for any one 

 person to command all the circumstances 

 which may be supposed to affect a number 

 of trees, each with a peculiar influence ; 

 but every one may observe some unusual 

 effects, as the result of his own culture of 

 particular varieties, and may eventually 

 trace them to constant causes. 



It is extremely desirable that such dis- 

 coveries, or observations and conjectures, 

 which may be compared with those of 

 others, and that suggest investigations at 

 other points that may lead to discoveries, 

 should be made public. 



At the recent pomological convention in 

 New-York, the Glout Morceau Pear, being 

 under discussion, gentlemen from six dif- 

 ferent localities followed each other in de- 



* Nothing is more satisfactory than those fine Noisette roses, 

 tlie Lamarque and Cloth of Gold, planted in an inside border, 

 and trained up under the rafters of the green-house. In this 

 way, they grow to great size, and give a profusion of roses. 



