ABOUT FRUITS, FLOWERS AND FARMING. 417 



out all old and ordinary varieties. The gardens of this 

 town would afford about sixty varieties of roses, which 

 would be reckoned first rate in Boston or Philadelphia. 



While New England suffered under a season of drought, 

 on this side of the mountains the season was uncommonly 

 fine scarcely a week elapsed without copious showers, and 

 gardens remained moist the whole season. Fruits ripened 

 from two to three weeks earlier than usual. In conse- 

 quence of this, winter fruits are rapidly decaying. To-day 

 is Christmas, the weather is spring-like no snow the ther- 

 mometer this morning, forty degrees. My Noisettes retain 

 their terminal leaves green ; and in the southward-looking 

 dells of the woods, grasses and herbs are yet of a vivid , 

 green. Birds are still here three this morning were sing- 

 ing on the trees in my yard. There are some curious facts 

 in the early history of horticulture in this region, which I 

 meant to have included in this communication ; but insen- 

 sibly I have, already, prolonged it beyond, I fear, a conve- 

 nient space for your magazine. I yield it to you for cut- 

 ting, carving, suppressing, or whatever other operation will 

 fit it for your purpose. 



BROWNE'S AMERICAN POULTRY YARD.* 



LET no man turn up his contemptuous nose at this Trea- 

 tise until he has traced the manifold relations of eggs and 

 capons to cake, company, and civilization. Banish the barn- 

 yard, and the universal aldermanhood would shrink and 

 grow lean ; cup-cakes and sponge-cakes, omelets, whips and 

 legionary confections, would become mere dreams of re- 

 membrance. 



Every friend of the trencher, every notable housewife, 



* Published by A. 0. Moore & Co., New York. Price $1 00. 



