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When we pass a garden, and see a great painted pyramid of posts and lattice work, 

 with a little, starved, neglected plant somewhere in the grass at its base, the impression 

 is forced upon us, right or wrong, that the proprietor is less a pei-son 

 of true taste than a lover of show — one who has a garden because 

 it is fashionable, more than because it is beautiful. We think bet- 

 ter, we confess, of the taste of the poor girl who has the walls of 

 her father's little cabin covered with " morning-glorys" climbino- on 

 common strings, than we do of his. We are very far from bein<T 

 opposed to garden embellishments of an architectural kind, but we 

 would insist upon their being in good keeping with the garden ; Ave 

 can not commend the taste that expends ten dollars cheeifu'ly for 

 an " ornament," and one dollar grudgingly for trees or plants. — 

 Great naked pyramids of painted boards and empty iron vases on a naked lawn, are by 

 no means indications of true taste. A garden is no garden, whatever else it may con- 

 tain, without a profusion of trees, shrubs, and flowers. 



We would be glad to see rustic work more generally introdu'cetl 

 into gardens. They are cheap, simple, and appropriate, indicative of 

 taste and ingenuity more than wealth or fashion, and more in har- 

 mony with the plain and simple character of our village and country 

 gardens, than those of an expensive or elaborate kind. A lustic bas- 

 ket, a lawn filled with verbenas, petunias, or any such long-blooming 

 plants, is a very pretty object. Above we give the figure of one raised 

 on a rustic pedestal. We also annex the figure of a pendant one, 

 which has a very agreeable efiect suspended in a room, hall, verandah, 

 or in a gi'een-house. Some very pretty specimens were in Floral Hall 

 at the last New York State Fair, made by Mr. Adam Kachler, of Le 

 Roy. A very pretty pendant one was made of a large oak knot, liol- 

 lowed out. Others were made of grape vine stems, rough bark, acorns, 

 and fir cones. We shall hereafter give some illustrations of Mr. Kachlek's work. 



Browx's Patent Fumigator. — This is an excellent English contrivance for fumiga- 

 ting trees and plants, to destroy insects. Tobacco is placed in the magazine at top, and 



lighted in the same manner as an or- 

 dinary smoking-pipe. A draught of 

 air is produced for its combustion by 

 the revolutions of a fan, which draws 

 the smoke in at one part of the cylin- 

 der and drives it forcibly out at an- 

 other in a cool state. It is used in 

 fumigating orchards, fields of turnips, 

 &c., as well as green-houses. It may 

 also be used in cellars, out-houses, 

 &c., wherever insects are troubh^some. 

 It is a simple, convenient article, easi- 

 ly used by any one. It is highly re- 

 commended by all who have used it 

 in England and this country, and must become of very general utility. It may be had 

 in Boston or New York. The jirice, we believe, is $5. 



BROWN S patent FUMIGATOR. 



The Foksythia VmroissiMA. — Tliis fine shrub, one of the best of Fortune's collection in C!hina, is 

 now, May 10th, loaded with its gay yellow blossoma. ' We shall give a description of it next month 



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