Domestic J^otices. 35 



Art; III. Domestic Notices. 



Mr. RusselPs Garden and Nursery, at Worcester. — Our correspond- 

 ent, Mr. J. W. Russell, now at Mount Auljurn, has erected, the past 

 summer, in his garden here, and just completed, an excellent and well 

 constructed green-house for growing both flowers and vegetables. Per- 

 haps few of our readers are aware that Mr. Russell has lately purchased 

 a line piece of land, at a short distance from the centre of this flourishing 

 town, containing upwards of thirty acres, part of which he intends to 

 devote to a nursery, and the other to the production of vegetables for 

 the market, for which, owing to the great increase of the population of 

 the town, there is now much demand. There is a spreading taste for 

 horticulture here, as the neat and well laid out grounds of some of the 

 wealthy gentlemen will attest. It must be a source of much gratifica- 

 tion to the citizens to have Mr. Russell select their vicinity for the es- 

 tablishment of his garden; and while we congratulate them upon the 

 accession of a gardener among their inhabitants who possesses so much 

 practical knowledge, we must lament his removal from our vicinity. 

 We would state, however, that he does not contemplate to leave his 

 present situation for some time; and we shall be much astonished if the 

 proprietors of Mount Auburn are willing to dispense with his services, 

 if a good salary will be any inducement for him to remain. The affairs 

 of the cemetery are looked after with the interest of a proprietor, and 

 we doubt if a person could be found who would perform the duties of the 

 oflSce in all its parts with the same fidelity. Mr. Russell has given the care 

 of his garden at present to Mr. Hall, a very good cultivator, and he 

 will remain where he now is for at least two or three years. When he 

 does leave us, he will carry with him the good wishes of every person 

 interested in gardening. — Cond. 



New seedling Pear. — We have been just presented, by James Brown, 

 Esq., of this city, with a fine native pear, originated in West Cambridge 

 about seven years since. It bore a few pears in the season of 1835, 

 and, during the one just passed, produced above a peck. We have not 

 time or space to speak of its merits, otherwise than to say it will rank 

 with the Dix, Wilkinson, and others of the best native sorts, but shall 

 describe and name it after the raiser, who is an old inhabitant of the 

 town of West Cambridge, in our next. — Id. 



Urania specibsa. — A fine plant of this splendid species is in the pos- 

 session of J. W. Boot, Ksq. of this city. It is about ten feet high, and 

 its rich foliage is an object of surpassing grandeur. Such a fine speci- 

 men is rarely seen, but we anticipate the time when this, together with 

 the whole of the noble order Musacece will be appreciated sufficiently 

 to be grown in houses by themselves. — Id. 



St. Germain Fear. — This noble fruit, which has been termed an 

 "outcast" by Mr. Kenrick, in his Orchardist, has been raised in all the 

 perfection of olden time in the garden of Mr. S. Sweetser, Cambridge- 

 port. Some of the individual fruits were upwards of Jive inches in 

 length. This does not look so much like an " outcast" as Mr. Ken- 

 rick would have us believe; and we are inclined to the opinion that 

 climate and old age have less to do with the deterioration of many of 

 what are termed " ancient" varieties, as the Doyenne Gris or St. Mi- 

 chael, brown beurre, &c., than careful cultivation, sheltered situations, 

 E roper soil and judicious pruning. The only complaints we have heard 

 ave been made by cultivators within a short distance of Boston; while 

 throughout nearly the whole extent of the Union they are produced in 

 all their original beauty and excellence. We have received, the past 



