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not encouraged to make a vigorous growth; the young wood 

 will then get fully ripe, and hardened before cold weather; 

 the frost will have less effect upon the buds, and, unless the 

 situation is very unfavorable, and subject to late frosts in the 

 spring, the chances are that the trees will not be injured, and 

 will [)roduce good crops. 



The cultivation of the peach has attracted more attention, 

 within a year or two, in the vicinity of Boston, than for some 

 time previous: to those who are planting trees, we would 

 recommend a perusal of Mr. Hancock's communication, con- 

 vinced, from the success which has attended his cultivation of 

 the trees, that the information which he has given will be 

 found the result of experience upon the subject. — Ed. 



Art. IV. jyutices of Culinary Vegetables, neio, or recently 

 introduced^ worthy of general cultivation in Private Gar- 

 dens, or for the Market. By the Editor. 



It is now two years since our last notices of new vegetables 

 appeared in our pages. Owing to various circumstances, it 

 was not convenieiu for us to complete our report so early last 

 year as usual, and we concluded to let the whole remain until 

 the present year, when all the information which we had col- 

 lected could be presented together. 



During the two years past, not many new kinds of vegeta- 

 bles have been brought to notice. A few have appeared, 

 which are said to be well worthy of cultivation, but iheir ex- 

 cellence remains to be tested by actual experience. So many 

 of the varieties of reputed worth, have proved of no value, 

 when fairly tried, in comparison with the old and established 

 sorts, that cultivators are fearful of introducing them until they 

 are well satisfied that they are really valuable additions. The 

 accession, therefore, of new varieties, even when they are 

 great improvements over the old kinds, is necessarily very 

 slow, and only effected by continually bringing them before the 

 public, and showing by actual experiment, that they possess 



