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deed, we have rarely seen the Seckel on the pear stock make 

 so vigorous a growth, and we think the experiment well 

 worth trial. By grafting close to the ground, and, when 

 transplanting, placing the graft below or even with the soil, 

 we doubt not the trees will live to a good age and produce 

 abundant crops. Having secured several of the trees, we 

 shall watch their progress and report hereafter. Mr. Pierce's 

 whole stock is well grown. 



Garden of W. H. Corcora7i, Esq. — Mr. Corcoran has a very 

 beautiful garden, situated opposite the large open square in 

 front of the President's house. It occupies only about half 

 an acre, but it is judiciously, as w-ell as fancifully, laid out, 

 and possesses more attractions than many places of greater 

 extent. The garden is partially turfed over, with gravelled 

 walks, and beds of roses and other -flowers in figures upon 

 the turf At one end of the garden, is a very neatly con- 

 structed rock work, with a basin in the centre, supplied with 

 water from a cistern placed at some distance, but which is 

 only a few feet higher than the water. Small tubes project 

 through the rock work, and, by turning a cock, the water is 

 thrown up in several small jets and falls into the basin. Such 

 fountains are constructed at very little expense, and in small 

 gardens they afford much gratification. Four of the beds on 

 the turf were edged with basket work, and had the appear- 

 ance of being filled with a profusion of flowers. The gard- 

 ener, Mr. Watts, appears to have a very good taste, and has 

 carried out his plans with good effect. 



Baltimore, October 20th. — We arrived here from Washing- 

 ton early in the morning ; and we noticed that on all the low 

 land throughout the route, a hoar frost covered the groimd. 

 The dahlias were all cut off" in Washington on the 17th, and 

 in Baltimore at the same time. We afterwards found, on our 

 arrival home, that the dahlias were uninjured even to a later 

 period than in the former places. 



Garden of John Feast. — Since the fall of 1843, Mr. Feast 

 has added an acre of ground to his premises, directly in the 

 rear of his old garden, and also erected a range of houses 

 upwards of 100 feet long. This we fomid well filled Avith 

 plants, and principally with a collection of roses, including a 

 very large number of seedlings which had not yet flowered, 



