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rich soil upon the luxuriance of a plant, he has only to step into a 

 vinery, like that in Clinton Point, and see, with his own eyes, the 

 same sorts of grape, which in common soil, even under glass, usu- 

 ally grow but six or eight feet high in a season, and with stems like 

 pipe-stems, growing twenty or thirty feet in a single season, with 

 stems of the thickness of a man's thumb, and ripening delicious 

 fruit in fourteen months after being planted. Now, exactly the 

 same effect may be produced by deepening and enriching the soil, 

 where the elm or any other hardy ornamental tree is to be planted 

 and we put it thus plainly to some of our readers, who are impa- 

 tient of the growth of trees, that they may, if they choose, by a 

 little extra pay, have more growth in three years than their neigh- 

 bors do in ten. 



