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is so poor that it is scarcely worth anything for cultivation, 

 many of the streets are only thirty feet wide, and the houses 

 stand within four feet of the boundary ! When these streets 

 were laid out by the speculators who purchased it, the land 

 was not worth thirty dollars an acre ; and the only differ- 

 ence in expense in making a road a mile long, fifty feet 

 wide, instead of thirty, would be the paltry sum of sixty 

 dollars ! It was, however, considered as a useless waste 

 of land to make them wider, to say nothing of its cost, 

 forgetting, in their penny-wise and pound-foolish econ- 

 omy, that every hundred-feet front lot on a fifty-foot street 

 would bring at least one fiiill a foot more than the same on a 

 thirty-foot one, — which, if the lots were one hundred and 

 fifty feet deep, would be a gain of $500 in a street a mile 

 long. Streets, therefore, need not be made wide with refer- 

 ence to effect or as a matter of taste alone, but on the score 

 of economy.. 



The direction of roads is also, to a certain degree, a ques- 

 tion of economy as well as of taste. Mr. Flagg has shown 

 how ready the selectmen of a town are to spend hundreds of 

 dollars to straighten a road, when one quarter the amount, 

 paid in putting it in good order and planting it with orna- 

 mental trees, would render it more satisfactory to all, as well 

 as preserve the picturesque effect which every old road pos- 

 sesses. We hope Mr. Flagg's remarks on this point will be 

 attentively read and treasured up. 



Art. III. Pomological Gossip. 



The Ohio Strawberries. — In a late number we gave a 

 brief account of the new strawberries raised in Cincinnati by 

 Mr. Longworth's gardener, and recommended by the Horti- 

 cultural Society of that city ; one of them, in particular, as 

 superior to all others. Our opinion was formed after a care- 

 ful inspection of the plants growing in fine condition in our 

 collection, and from repeated trials of the fruit upon our table. 



