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the white weed, or ox-eye daisy, with which some hundreds of 

 acres were perfectly white. Every farmer should unite in a de- 

 termined effort to eradicate this pest of the land; for where it 

 once gets precedence in any district, the farmer is a loser of at 

 least twenty-five per cent on his crop. 



JVeto Haven, residence of Richard J\Iusgrove, Esq. — July 12th. 

 On my arrival here I was introduced to Mr. Moningham, the 

 gardener, who kindly introduced me to his employer, who has a 

 very pretty city garden, (with a green-house attached to it,) neat- 

 ly laid out in well proportioned flower beds, planted with the 

 choicest kinds of flowers, kept in the neatest and best order. 

 The walls and fences were well covered with trained fruit trees 

 of the choicer kinds, and every thing about the place indicated 

 the true amateur and practical gardener. 



Dr. Ives, an amateur in fruit, and a cultivator of many fine va- 

 rieties of medicinal plants,* kindly showed me his garden, in 

 which he practises on fruit, by engrafting one variety upon an- 

 other, and by which experiments he thinks he has proved, that 

 the smaller kinds are much improved by grafting on the larger. 

 The doctor has engrafted the Seckel pear into the pound pear, 

 or Catillac, and says its fruit is finer and the tree a better producer. 

 Dr. Ives has in his garden a seedling pear, which he names the New 

 Haven pear; this had a fine crop of fruit, and he informed me 

 that it was of an excellent quality; the variety originated with 

 him, from seed, and seems to partake of the habit of the virgou- 

 louse. From appearance, and such respectable authority, it will 

 undoubtedly rank among the best varieties which have been pro- 

 duced from seed in this country. [We shall be glad to receive 

 from Dr. Ives an account of the origin of this variety, together 

 with a description of the fruit, and other particulars respecting 

 it. If this should meet his eye he will confer a favor by sending 

 us some information in regard to it. — Cond.'] 



The next place of note in the city is that of Mr. Tappan's, 

 managed by Mr. Moningham the elder, which is a type of the 

 one already described in choice things and good order. There 

 are also many pretty gardens attached to the different dwellings 

 in the city, especially on Hillhouse Avenue, a prettily arranged 

 part of the city, adapted for the first class of citizens, on a rising 



* It is much to be regi'etted that collections of medicinal plants, which 

 can be easily obtained, are not more generally cultivated, particularly 

 by the faculty. It is with pleasing recollections that I often bring to 

 mind the oft repeated phrase of my late employer. Dr. Hosack, of Hyde 

 Park, (whose memory will often be regretted by the afflicted, to whom 

 he often gratuitously gave his advice,) — " a])ply simples and herb tea, 

 such as wormwood, horehound, &.c." The doctor, a short time prior 

 to his death, seemed very desirous to have a portion of ground at Hyde 

 Park appropriated to medicinal plants, and would no doubt have excelled 

 in the best collection, had he been spared to collect them. — E. S. 



