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Pears — Explanation of Terms. 



Vol. II. 



men of" the Gardens of England" is certain 

 ]y an appropriate compliment, and it is but 

 justice to remark, that we are in a good de- 

 gree indebted to the skill of the gardeners of 

 our " father land" for many of the beautiful 

 embellishments of our gardens. Our author 

 recites several useful hints on this subject; 

 which I here subjoin: 



" Another way in which woman may make 

 her labor extremely profitable, is in the man- 

 agement of the garden. Siie may easily ac- 

 quire skill and experience, and for my part I 

 think she cannot have a prettier amusement. 

 If there were nothing to be got by it, it is 

 worth a little labor to have the view from 

 your cottage window, ornamented with roses, 

 honey-suckles, stocks and mignonette, in- 

 stead of seeing a heap of rubbish, or a slough, 

 or a plantation of thistles or stinging nettles 

 But, let me tell you there is something to be 

 got by it. If you live near a market town, 

 and have a turn for gardening, I do not know 

 of a better thing for a woman to turn her 

 hand to. If proper pains were taken with a 

 flower bed, (and I know of nothing which 

 yields profit without taking pains, except it 

 be money in the funds and the likely way to 

 have that, is by taking pains to produce it,) 

 a flower bed well managed, will furnish you 

 besides supplying your bees, which, under 

 such favorable circumstances, you will of 

 course keep,) more than half the year with 

 four or six nosegays a week, which may be 

 sold to advantage. Suppose they bring you 

 but three pence a week all the year round — 

 thirteen shillings — it will buy your husband 

 a new hat, or your child a warm coat. But 

 this is not all — you will save some seeds of 

 your annuals, and more than to stock your 

 garden for the next year. These you will 

 carefully separate and mark, keeping them 

 from frosts and rain in the winter, and then, 

 in March or April, when people begin to think 

 of flower seeds, do them up in penny or two 

 packets, and display them for sale. If you 

 sell but two or three shillings worth, they 

 will buy what lazy, shiftless people are dis- 

 tressed for." — Newark Daily Advertiser. 



Pears. 



As this delicious fruit is beginning to ripen, 

 and some varieties are of short duration, on ac- 

 count of their rotting at the core, we would 

 recommend to those who have pears, which 

 are subject to this sudden decay, to pick them 

 from the tree before they become mellow, 

 and place them in a cool dry place, as in a 

 chamber, where by spreading them, they can 

 be examined more particularly than when on 

 the tree, and those properly matured, selected 

 for use before they become rotten at the core, 

 which they will not do, as soon as when 

 ripened on the tree. 



SIxplanation of Terms. 



Continued. 



22.; Green Crops — are such as continue 

 green while ripening their seed, or till taken 

 off" the ground ; such as peas, beans, cabbage, 

 carrots, turneps, &c. ) 



23. White Crops — are such as become 

 bleached, or turn white and dry while ripen- 

 ing their seed; such are all the various 

 kinds of grain. 



All plants, while their leaves continue 

 green, and especially such as have large 

 leaves, draw much of their nourishment 

 from the atmosphere. The green crops 

 therefore, exhaust the soil much less than 

 the wldte crops, whose leaves becoming dry, 

 receive nothing from the atmosphere, but 

 draw all their support from the soil, while 

 ripening their seed. 



24. Rotation of Crops — is a course of dif- 

 ferent crops, in succession, on the same piece 

 of ground, for a certain number of years, af- 

 ter which the course is renewed and goes 

 round again in the same order. 



There is a difference between a course of 

 crops and a rotation of crops. Thus, if a 

 piece of g-round in sward be broken up and 

 planted with Indian corn the first year; the 

 second year with potatoes; the third year 

 sowed with oats and grass seed ; and mowed 

 the fourth, fifth, and sixth years, this makes a 

 course of crops. If then, the seventh year, it 

 be again broken up, planted as before, and 

 the same course of cropping pursued, it be- 

 comes a rotation of crops. 



25. Soi/i7ig — is the feeding of cattle, 

 either in the barn or yard, through the sum- 

 mer, with new mown grass or roots. 



26. Live Hedge — is a fence formed of 

 living plants, usually the white thorn, plant- 

 ed closely in rows, which being trimmed an- 

 nually and kept clear of weeds, in a few 

 years grow into a living, permanent fence, 

 capable of stopping effectually every kind of 

 domestic animal. 



Most of the common farm fences in Eng- 

 land are of this kind. 



27. Quicks — a name commonly given to 

 the young plants of the white thorn used in 

 planting hedges. 



28. Layers — are the tender branches of 

 trees and shrubs bent down and buried in 

 tiie earth, leaving the tops out, in which 

 situation they are fastened with hooks to pre- 

 vent their rising. 



The part in the earth sends out roots, af- 

 ter which it is separated from the parent tree, 

 and transplanted, in the same manner as trees 

 raised from the seed. 



29. Cuttings or Slips — are small portions 

 of the twigs, branches or roots of trees or 

 plants, cut off with a knife, or slipped off 



