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wall-fruit is hastened, and the fruit improved, by having the wall 

 painted black. He tiied the experiment on a vine. The 

 blackened part of t!ie wall produced twenty pounds ten oinices 

 of fine grapes ; tlie other half of the wall yielded only seven 

 ])Ounds one ounce, neither so large nor so ripe. The wood on 

 the blackened part was also stronger, and more clothed with 

 leaves. 



APRICOT TRKES. 



A gentlemnn of Chichester has now in his pleasure grounds 

 a few standard apricot trees of an uncommon size. The history 

 of them may prove of great advantage to horticulture. The 

 present possessor recollects his ancestors having twelve or four- 

 teen of them ; bat upon coming into his own hands, he cut most of 

 ihem down as unproductive, never having known them to bear 

 fruit. About four were left as ornamental trees to the ground, 

 which have begun to produce within the last six years an annual 

 abundant crop : one of these the last summer yielded five bushels 

 of large ri))e fruit. It appears by the above statement, that 

 standard apricot trees will not bear fruit until 40 or 50 years 

 old. 



THE DEAF AND DUMB RESTORED. 



The Narraleur de la Mense contains the following article on 

 the cure of two deaf and dumb persons, who recovered their 

 hearing and speech. This novel and successful operation was 

 performed by M. Deleau, a young practitioner, a doctor of me- 

 dicine, of the Faculty of Paris, ex-surgeon to the 4th regiment of 

 cuirassiers, and now established at Mibiel (Mense). The two 

 deaf and dumb who underwent the operations (whereby he per- 

 forated with dexterity and success the meulus auditor ius) are 

 Mademoiselle Bivier de St. Mibiel, aged 1(> years, and the Sieur 

 Toussaint, son of the assistant magistrate of Hans-sur-Meuse, 

 aged 28 years. 



The young girl is doing extremely well. It is more than a 

 month since she underwent the operation. Her left ear is per- 

 fectly healed, and the opening made to the tympanum always 

 continues ; which is absolutely necessary. She takes notice of. 

 the least sounds, and begins to articulate words in a very satis- 

 factory manner. Her vivacity pleases, and her figure changes 

 for the better. She is incessantly hinnming various airs which 

 her sisters teach her. 



The young man of Hans-sur-Mouse, who was operated uj)on 

 a short time since, hears as well as his comrades, and even more 

 lively. His right ear is finer than his left — he makes constant 

 efforts to pronounce all sorts of words. The surgeon, from 

 whom vve have the particulars, hopes that in three or four months 

 the two -^ubjectb will speak perfectly. It is evident that they 



must 



