to those of box, their symmetry can be preserved with 

 less care, and are less obnoxious to the charge of the 

 treasonable practice of affording shelter and suste- 

 nance to myriads of insects which prey upon the de- 

 licious products of the vine and other rare fruit. 



We have been too long accustomed to rely- upon 

 foreign nurseries for fruit trees and other plants. 1 am 

 aware that to a certain extent this is unavoidable. But 

 we should depend more upon our own resources, and 

 learn to appreciate them. We have suffered too much 

 of disappointment, and experienced too much of vexa- 

 tion from the carelessness of others to submit with 

 patience to a repetition of them. We have waited 

 season after season for several successive years for the 

 development of fruits that were sent to us under the 

 imposing title of some rich and rare variety, and have 

 found in the reality that the good consisted alone in the 

 name. I would encourage the public nurseries in 

 our own vicinity, not to gratify any exclusive or sec- 

 tional views, but because we may thereby the more 

 easily avoid the inconveniences which have long been 

 the subject of complaint against others more remote. 

 The fear of prompt and immediate detection and ex- 

 posure, will have a tendency to render their proprie- 

 tors more cautious, w^hile the liberal support they 

 would receive, would stimulate them to secure and 

 retain the confidence reposed in them. The imposi- 

 tion that Vv^as practised upon the patriarch Jacob, who 

 was compelled to accept Leah as the reward of seven 

 years of labor and toil, for^Seteffia, is somewhat 

 analagous to the case of many of us. We, too, have 



