Notes on the May Number. — Mr. Editor : It would be affectation in me 

 to pretend that I am not pleased with the calls that have been made for some- 

 thing further from " Bismarck ; " and when anything occurs to me which prom- 

 ises to interest your readers, I shall be happy to communicate it. Somehow or 

 other I can write more freely when I have a text to start from, and so I will give 

 you a few thoughts which have been suggested by your May number. And first, 

 of Mr. Flagg's question — 



Are Peach Duds with Large Petals the Hardiest? — My observation would 

 lead me to say, that both the fact and the theory advanced in explanation of it, 

 are highly probable. And there are one or two of the kinds which Mr. Flagg 

 thinks worth looking up, which I have grown to some extent, one of which, the 

 Barrington, I should say is decidedly more hardy than the average. But I am 

 afraid that its pale greenish-white color would not be sufficiently attractive here, 

 however it might be for our English cousins, among whom it has been chiefly 

 grown. With me it ripens the last instead of the first of September. The 

 Grosse Mignonne, if I recollect rightly, used to give at least a small crop, when 

 many kinds failed wholly. It is easily identified, both in trees and fruit ; but the 

 George IV., and similar small flowered varieties, have been largely cultivated for 

 it. I thought it a litde apt to rot. 



More about Heating Green-houses. " N. F. F.'s" reasoning is very good, and 

 I do not doubt that his experience is correctly stated ; but there is one point 

 which appears to have been overlooked, and to which I wish to call attention, 

 and that is, that the climate of Baltimore is very different from that of Boston, 

 and consequently heating green-houses is a very different thing there from what 



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