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pond, but from a well at the wheel-house, with the purest spring water, which 

 is forced to the top of his house, 100 feet above its level ; and this supply is equal 

 to all the requirements of his family, his stables and cow-sheds, and to irrigate 

 his garden and grounds. 



But what, as we before stated, is most to be admired, in our estimation, is the 

 number and variety of trees which have been added to the few white and black 

 oaks, and chesnuts, that stood at the foot of the hill when he commenced the 

 improvement of this rude and ill-shapen piece of land. If the reader should ask 

 why we have taken the space occupied with a not quite periect list of these, the 

 answer is ready. This is a beautiful species of improvement, which almost any 

 farmer may imitate ; while many of them fail, even in that simplest and cheap- 

 est, if not most agreeable of the cardinal duties of life — for they do not evea 

 " plant a tree." 



These trees planted by Mr. Colt arc all in the most flourishing condition, but 

 not without care and attention. Children won't thrive that are not sometimes fed, 

 combed, and washed. One of them, however, the Linden, ( Tilia europcea,) seems 

 to have attracted the bitter enmity of an insect borer, that with his saw encircles 

 the young branch in the neatest possible manner, leaving just enough at the 

 heart to hold on until broken by the first breeze that shakes it — ^just as false 

 friends drop off and disappear when misfortune threatens or slander assails their 

 benefactor. 



Besides these, there are several hundred fruit trees, imported from England 

 and France — such as pears, plums, apples, and peaches — in addition to some 1500 

 of Mr. C.'s own raising, or procured from Rochester, Cincinnati, or Boston, of 

 the choicest varieties. 



In vineyard, in open ground, there are 700 choice European vines, of the best 

 kinds, besides 300 of the best European grapes, which are cultivated according 

 to the Thomery plan at Fontainbleau, where the best grapes are produced for 

 the Paris market ; and he is now putting out 700 to 1000 more. He raises a 

 choice collection of grapes under glass, and his supply of black Haraburghs, 

 Victorines, black and white St. Peters, Muscat of Alexandria, Frontinacs, and 

 " Cambridge Botanical Garden," will yield him, it is estimated, more than 1000 

 pounds of as fine grapes as are raised in this country ; and, using the Yankee's 

 privilege, he guesses he will have from out-door vines over 5,000 pounds of sim- 

 ilar grapes. 



He finds whale-oil soap suds, 1 pound of soap to 15 gallons of water, the best 

 wash for fruit trees. It kills all kinds of vermin, opens the pores of the bark, and 

 makes it smooth and healthy ; and, if a quart of it happens to run down to the 

 roots, so much the better. For protection of his peach trees, he first cuts out the 

 enemy at the root, and then paints the rascals' damaged and vacated quarters 

 with gas tar. This proves, likewise, an excellent protection to the Mountain 

 Ash, which is also liable to attack and depredation at the same point. This 

 Mountain Ash, by-the-by, is one of the enviable boasts of this northern country. 

 We are not aware that it flourishes south of the Chesapeake. 



Mr. C. has near half a mile of luxuriant hedge of the Osage Orange, (the Ma- 

 dura aurantiaca,) which he much prefers to all other plants for hedges, and 

 which is so much admired at Mr. Cushing's celebrated villa, near Boston. He 

 agrees with Gen. Dearborn, in thinking the Buck-Thorn the next best. 



Experiment is bemg made at Roswell House with the Cherokee Rose, (not 

 the least of the many good and beautiful boasts of the sunny South.) It might 



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