ence close study, and observation, with opportunities as good as most people have 

 enjoyed we feel but like an apprentice who bad served his first year, and began to know 

 Low to handle his tools, and understand their names and uses. _ 



We would have people look less lightly on these pursuits. Young men especif^lly, 

 who aim at acquiring a respectable position in them, should go to work in earnest - 

 be-in at the beginning, and discard the fallacious- idea that a few monthscan be any 

 so?t of preparation to ent^V upon this practice successfully. Those .dio aim at being 

 nurseryinei, should .go and serve as apprentices for at least three or four years m the 

 best establishments, where they may get a thorough training. To be able mere y to put 

 atree in the ground, or to set a graft or bud, is but a small part of he trade. Ihe t n^e 

 is fast approaching when such acquirements will not do ; they will not be sufhcient to 

 contend with greater skill, nor will they inspire the community with that confidence 

 without whiclr success can not be attained. A sentiment is ^^ f^;!'^ ''I'S-^ 

 quacks, or half-way workmen in any profession, and all such will find themselves lun 

 oft- the track. Reading, study, and observation, continual, are necessary m conjunction 



with everv-day practice. , . • .• i 



•The o-mwino- season is the time to acquire information; everything is active, and 

 yieldino'to surrounding influences. The effects of soils and manuresclryness and mois- 

 ture; the attacks of inselts and diseases ; the habits of growth and bearing of trees 

 the ripening of fruits; the advantages of different modes of propagation, pruning, and 

 tralaino-; and all the various treatment that trees and plants undergo during summer, 

 shoukrbe closely watched, and every result be seized upon and turned to account, for 

 the guidance of the future. This applies to every department of cultivation whether it 

 be tiie farm, the orchard, the fruit garden, or the flower garden. Our lady friends who 

 are embarking in the culture of flowers for their recreation and amusemen , and lor the 

 embellishment of their homes, must not rest satisfied with admiration of their beautihU 

 colors 01- foliage ; they must study their habits, observe what sod and treatment suits 

 them best, leai-n their geography, history, origin, &c., and they will greatly multiply the 

 pleasures and benefits of floriculture. 



We hear too many complaints of -barbarous Greek and Latin names ; people wan 

 everything easy and ready made. A Httle study and practice will make the liardes 

 names ea"y and familiar. The world is wide ; nations are various and speak different 

 lan-ruacres ; the names of people of one country are strange and hard to those of another; 

 but'we can not translate them-we must take them as they are. And so with the 

 names of plants, or fruits, or flowers, named by foreigners, - we must learn to pronounce 

 them as we learn other things more diflicult. 



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RUSTIC WORK IN GARDENS. 

 We observe about the country an increased display of huge pieces of carpentry painted 

 white as snow, and placed in the most conspicuous part of the garden, mtended as trel- 

 lises or supports for climbing plants. Indeed, they are becoming qui e fashionable- 

 large numbers have been on sale during the spring, in Rochester, and tl^^ j^'-^^f^^^ 

 a standing article of commerce. We rejoice at the growing taste ^^^^he inciea ed 

 attention to gardening, that make. trellises for climbing plants m demand but we must 

 say we would greatly prefer something more simple, rustic, and naural,- some- 

 thing that would look ai though it was merely intended to support Y^';^!^^^^^;'] 

 instead of being itself the principal ornament. To our taste, a young cedar t ^e s ipped 

 of the foliage, leaving the bark and branches on, is a much 7^<>^-« ^^«" f^,^ ^"^P? J^f'\" 

 climbing ros; or hcTneysuckle, or anything of that kind, than one of these elaboiate 

 productions of the carpenter. 



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