Domestic JVotices. 75 



the past summer, on the Catskill and Alleghany ranjjes of mountains, 

 where the peach trees in particular were healthy and loaded with fruit, 

 when in the old and fertile plains below scarcely a sinarle peach was to 

 be found. The cold, it is well known, increases in the proportion of 

 the decrease of temperature of one degree of latitude for every eight 

 hundred feet in altitude, and we must look for some other cause than 

 temperature, to account for the abundance of fruit in these elevated 

 sites. This cause we believe to be the superior vigor and thrifiiness of 

 the trees in the new soil of the mountain ridges, and the greater conse- 

 quent hardihood of the whole system of the tree in such localities. 

 This opinion receives much weight from the fact that in this establish- 

 ment, in the severe winter of 1834, when the old peach trees were almost 

 universally destroyed or greatly injured by the cold, the young and 

 thrifty stocks, many thousand in number, were not in the least aflected. 

 The deductions which we would draw from these facts ai'e, that fertile 

 spots in mountain ranges may be made to yield a profitable return by 

 planting them with the more delicate fruits — and (contrary to the com- 

 mon opinion) that young trees, in a highly vigorous state, are less liable 

 to be affected by intense cold than old unthrifty trees. — A. J. D., Botan- 

 ic Garden and Ntirsery, Newburgh, N. Y. 



Maurdndya. Barclaykna. — This very beautiful plant was displaying 

 its flowers on the south side of a building at the residence of T. Lee, 

 Esq. Brookline, as late as December 1. The severe frosts in Novem- 

 ber destroyed part of the foliage, but a succession of flowers continued 

 to appear up to that date. Its hardiness, separate from the elegance of 

 its dark tubular shaped corrollas, should recommend it to every garden. 

 — Cond. 



Bleeker^s Meadoio Pear, which has had considerable notoriety as a 

 native fruit, has been much overpraised: it is certainly not above a 

 third rate variety. I had an abundant crop this season. The great 

 fault is, the hardness of the flesh — it never becoming buttery and melt- 

 ing like the fine varieties, either when ripened on the tree or in the 

 fruit room. For the rest it has a good flavor, but cannot be ranked 

 among good fruits, now that we have the beurre Diel, Duchess d'An- 

 gouleme, Capiaumont, and so many other delicious jaears. — Yours, Jin 

 Tkmateur, Newburgh, N. Y. 



Mrs. Marryatt. — This distinguished patroness of botany and garden- 

 ing was elected, at a late meeting, an honorary member of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society. — Cond. 



Garden Engines. — An excellent engine for the various purposes of 

 gardening, such as washing wall trees, trees in forcing houses, vines in 

 graperies, &c. is manufactured by Mr. J. Clark, Court-street, Boston, 

 It throws the water with considerable force, and we have been inform- 

 ed by gardeners who have had it in use for some time, that it is an in- 

 dispensable article in larsre srardens containing graperies. Sec. — Id. 



The Bed stock (Mathiohi inciina and annua.) was " the favorite 

 flower" of Cuvier, and the sentiment which prompted his preference, 

 the memory of a mother, is as honorable to his character as any more 

 striking incident in his life, in the capacitj" of the jirofoundest investiga- 

 tor of Nature. What delightful stories are connected with many a 

 little floweret, and with what renewed interest do we regard the hum- 

 blest vegetable whose history is connected with that of man ! Burns 

 has immortalized the simple " crimson-tipped flower," as the daisy, 

 which grows in wild luxuriance in the meadows of Britain, and we 

 cannot see a patch of its descendants in the doable varieties of the gar- 

 den, without an admiration of the character of the poet who could by 

 the magic of his song captivate our hearts. The meek blue corol of 

 the Myositis with its golden eye, fringing the bank of the slugglish 



