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stove, which, if it is new, or worthy of note, we shall lay before 

 our readers. We would call the attention of gentlemen who are 

 building green-houses to the annexed plans and descriptions. They 

 are, we believe, as intelligible as it is possible to make such ; and, 

 sufficiently so, we hope, to enable any person to construct one in 

 a similar manner. To enumerate all the little items about such a 

 building would occupy too much space. We have, however, ad- 

 ded a great many, with the intention of making it perfectly un- 

 derstood. 



Art. II. On the Cultivation of the Plum, with some Remarks 

 upon Grafting on Peach Stocks. By S. Pond. 



Having frequently been called upon to state some reasons why 

 the plum trees in my garden are so much more healthy and vigor- 

 ous than trees in general, and so much more free from all kinds of 

 insects which infest these trees in great numbers in many other 

 places, I send you the following remarks, which, perhaps, if they 

 contain nothing very new, may be of benefit to some of your read- 

 ers, and, at least, call attention to the subject. 



In the neighborhood in which I reside, the plum trees, in the 

 various gardens, have been declining in vigor and health for many 

 years, and where, formerly, bushels of fine fruit, though of the more 

 common kinds, were raised, now scarcely enough is produced to 

 remunerate for the labor of picking ; indeed, a large part of the 

 trees have decayed and been rooted up by the proprietors ; some 

 few young trees have been set out ; but many of these have shared 

 the same fate of the old ones ; the same insects and the same dis- 

 ease, if such it is that destroys the trees, from inattention, having 

 been allowed to spread to such a great degree as to defy all at- 

 tempts to save them. 



The first object in planting plum trees is, to select fine, healthy, 

 handsomely formed ones, about two or three years, from the bud 

 or graft, and worked upon their own stools ; be careful, in trans- 

 planting, to cut the roots as little as possible. The soil of my gar- 

 den where the trees are planted, is deep and rich and quite moist, 

 and I find that they bear fruit much more abundantly in such than 

 in a lighter one. The situation is very low, so much so that, about 

 four or five years since, in the month of March, the salt water, 

 from the unusual height of the tide that season, overflowed the 



