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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



[November, 



plant had been found to do well in California. 

 He has since seen the cinchona plants in Berkely 



left out the house altogether. There was no time 

 to make a new cut. So the reader must derive 



County, California, to which allusion was made, his impression from Mr. Blodget's account in Oc- 

 and can say from actual observation, that they are j number, page 304. 



not a success by a long way. They were simply , ^.^^^^^ PEAR.-At the recent exhibit in Phila- 

 eking out a miserable existence. : ^^-^^^^-^^ ^wo, three and four year old trees were 



Grape Vines in City Yards. — We give with ' exhibited, on which had grown nearly a half 

 this an illustration of a city yard grape vine, as bushel of fruit. We do not admire such examples 

 grown by Mr. Lorin Blodget. We append the note ' of good culture. Nine out of every ten pears should 

 of a friend who paid a 



recent visit to the vine : • ^ J:k^?v^i>>-^i^.,?^~- ■■ ^^^ -^^ — ^ 



"My visit to Mr. Blod- 

 get's remarkable grape 

 vine, in his company, was 

 a very pleasant one of 

 some two hours. 1 per- 

 formed feats of climbing 

 from the ground on lad- 

 ders, dropping from back 

 windows of fourth story 

 to back roofs of third 

 story, thence to lower 

 depths on other ladders, 

 holding the while one end 

 of a 100-foot tape line ; 

 Mr. B. holding the other. 

 We recorded observa- 

 tions at altitudes and in- 

 clinations from the center 

 of gravity that caused 

 some trepidation to my 

 unaccustomed head, but 

 which seemed quite an 

 every-day affair to Mr. B. 

 and his little son, who 

 climb like cat and kitten. 

 I called out the measure- 

 ments of the tape, and they are entirely within I have been taken off in infancy. Then the fruit 

 the memoranda Mr. Blodget records of that occa- would have been delicious. These will be no bet- 

 sion. The vine did not suffer in the least in vigor ter than turnips ; and this is why the Kiefer is 



at its extreme ends — from its long journey to all pronounced to be a kind not fit to eat. 



points of the compass ; but was strong-growing, 



equally matured in every part, and made-almost I The Best Food for DvsPEPTics.-In the re- 

 to an inch— an equal growth in each direction the cently-pubUshed memoirs of General Dix, is an 

 same season. The abundant fruit, from whatever \ account of his visit to Dr. Abernethy for advice 

 part of the vine taken, bore the same testimony of j on dyspepsia. The queer old doctor said to him : 

 uniform vigor. Sight, smell and taste— the genii , "Sir, you are pretty far gone, and the wonder is 

 of that occasion— have left with me a picture of | you are not gone entirely. If you had consulted 

 strong individuality. The artist had orders to | common sense, instead of the medical faculty, 

 draw the house and vine in perspective, but he : you could probably have been well years ago. I 

 has only given a flat view of the end of arbor | can say nothing to you excepting this : You must 

 from the east. He has failed entirely to show the take regular exercise, as much as you can bear 

 north view of the vine climbing to the roof, with \ without fatigue, as little medicine as possible, of 

 an east and west extension of nearly loo feet, and the simplest kind, and this only when absolutely 



