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CONDUCTED BY JOSEPH FROST. 



'he Horticulttrist. — We regret to learn tliat 

 Horticulturist, wliicli has been so ably conducted 

 the past two years and a half in this city, by 

 tEs Tick, Jr., as publisher, and P. Barky, editor, 

 been purchased by a firm in Philadelphia ; and 

 nunilier for this month is to be issued from that 



yherever the Horticulturist may go, it will have 

 best wishes in the future, and we trust that it 

 continue as the standard of Horticulture in this 

 itry, reflecting abroad credit on America in this 

 kindred pursuits, inculcate the principles of taste 

 teach the pleasures of rural life. 



TS TO THE PUHCHASEfiS OF TEEES, SEEDS, Ac. 



XDEu this heading we lind an article in the Hor- 

 turist, which so nearly expresses our views upon 

 subject spoken of, that we are induced to insert 

 Time and time again we have been solicited by 

 e who have been cheated and victimized, to e.x 

 to the public the tricks and trickeries of the 

 ery and seed trade, but have deferred it, doubt- 

 ,'ery much whether the public would avail them- 

 !S of the information or not. It may, however, 

 ;en by some who will be benefitted. 

 Dur correspondent, 'M.,' of Maumee, Ohio, re- 

 ■ in our last number some of the tricks of for- 

 ad venturers in the West, and we have seen the 

 same things done in this enlightened horticultu- 

 ;ity of ours a few years ago. Large quantities 

 le merest trash were sold at exorbitant prices to 

 ons who were never known to patronize respec- 



nurserymen and florists at their own doors to 

 imount of a dollar. A short time ago a gentle- 

 from one of the Eastern States called on us, and 

 ired for a person who he said had sold large 

 itities of Apple trees in his neighborhood, repre- 

 iUg himself to be the proprietor of one of the 

 jt and most extensive nurseries in Western New 

 k, and representing also that his tr-es wereprop- 

 ed by some superior method which was known 

 im only, and which gave them a decided superi- 

 f over trees grown in the ordinary way. On in- 

 y, we found ^this man did not own a single foot ot 

 , had never been a nurseryman, nor had he any 

 rest whatever in any nursery establishment, but 

 ;ht such trees as he could make the largest profit 



He was a crafty rogue, howevei', — pretended to 

 e than ordinary piety, and victimized the religious 

 pie of New England handsomely. A few weeks 

 a nurseryman of Rochester received intelligence 

 , he was represented in some parts' of Ohio by 

 irson who claimed to be his agent and soti, while 



he not only did not know such a persoji, but had nev- 

 es seen him or heard of him before, and he was com- 

 pelled to incur the trouble and expense of advertis- 

 ing him as an impostor. Is not this a high-handed 

 piece of deception to be attempted in such a busi- 

 ness, and among an intelligent people ? The man 

 who will do such a thing is not a particle better than 

 he who counterfeits a bank bill or a silver dollar, or 

 who will forge a signature to a bank check. We 

 have it from perfectly reliable authority, that a com- 

 pany of tree dealers, hailing from Ohio, purchased at 

 a small nursery in Western New York a quantity of 

 seedling unworked fruit trees, (Peaches and Cherries,) 

 knowing them to be such — for the nurserj-man we 

 believe to be a perfectly honest man, — and they took 

 them up, tied them in parcels, and attached labels to 

 them bearing the names of all the best fruits in the 

 catalogues. We were informed that these spurious 

 articles were to be carried to Tennessee. Here is a 

 piece of viUainy for you! Such men richly deserve 

 the penitentiary, and we can not understand how any 

 honest man could conscientiously refrain from expos- 

 ing them, and thus aid in bringing them to punish- 

 ment. 



" In every part of the country people have been 

 outrageously deceived by itinerant grafters. 'They 

 traverse the country, and take orders to do grafting 

 at so much apiece for all that live. When the season 

 of grafting comes, a few workmen coijie along with a 

 wagon-load of scions, containing every variety that 

 could possibly be called for, all procured from the 

 most responsible source; and as a proof of this, a 

 a catalogue of some well-known nurseryman is exhib- 

 ited, and, it may be, a forged bill or invoice ; while the 

 scions were most likely cut from some of the orchards 

 they had been grafting in. Thousands of orchards 

 have been ruined in this way. We have now one in 

 our possession which the previous owner had had 

 grafted by one of these rogues, and instead of hav- 

 ing three or four select sorts, as he ordered, he had a 

 collection of vile rubbish, mostly natural fruit, and 

 in some cases three or four difTerent sorts on a tree. 



" We might go on and cite cases of this sort which 

 have come to our knowledge enough to fifl a dozen 

 pages of this journal, but it would be a waste of 

 tiine and paper. In this part of the country people 

 are more cautious and careful than formerly, and few 

 men now are willing to trust unknown irresponsible 

 pei-sons with the important duty of grafting their 

 fruit trees. Not so, however, in some parts of the 

 West and South, where we are informed the specula- 

 tion is in full blast. We hope this word of warning 

 may find its way there, and prevent at least a few 

 from aUowing themselves to be victimized." 



BTTR&I CEMETEEtES. 



It is, doubtess, a dictate of our common humanity, 

 to cherish reverence and affection for the ashes of 

 the dead. Even the savage, driven into the wilder- 

 ness by the march of civilization, parts from the 

 graves of his fathers as reluctantly as from his corn- 

 fields and hunting-grounds. Some men, it is true, 

 affect indifference concerning the place and manner 

 of their sepulture. Like certain of the ancients, who 

 gave orders that their bodies should be burned, and 



