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Gardners are said to be farmers on a small scale, this is true in 

 many respects, still there is a considerable difference. Market 

 gardens aie generally located near large cities, rivers, or the 

 ocean. Gardners- here get not only the best prices for their pro- 

 ducts, but they have to depend upon these almost entirely for 

 their manure of which they require no small quantity continually, 

 to keep their gardens in a rich productive state. They inakc 

 none or very little of what is called barn or farm yard manure, 

 the grasses so far from raising them, they wish to get rid of, thej 

 hoe, dig them up and destroy them. Hence, generally they hav« 

 have very little practical knowledge of the best manner of culti- 

 vating them, they have no interest in knowing much about them, 

 in their system they consider them almost a nuisance. When- 

 ever any question is raised by the armer on a large scale, as tG 

 the best mode of cultivating the grasses and the best kinds of 

 them, and how he shall improve his farm most by them , the 

 gardner is apt to shy these inquiries, he is not practically a^ 

 quainted with them, he has no interest in them, he farms it on a 

 small scale. Let those he says attend to these matters whose in- 

 terest it is, and whose prosperity in his business depends upoa 

 them. The existence ol the curculio and plum weevel some 

 gardeners think visionary ; they are so small they never could see 

 them, they never could find one. The entomologist discovers 

 and describes tliem, when it happens they are not so very small j 

 the gardener then wakes up, opens his eyes, and he can see th^m 

 to, but it is too late, the enemy has committed his ravages, and 

 liis fruit and fruit trees are laid waste to him. Thus the gardener 

 does not alwajs look into matters which it is both his duty and 

 interest to look into, Timothy grass is important for the farmers 

 of the northern and middle States, it is a native ; a few doubt its 

 being a native, but judge Buel, and many others like him, have 

 no doubt on the subject. It was brought north from North Caro- 

 lina, where it became distinguished in about 1770, by Timothy 

 Ileudson, from whom it derived its name timothy, and by which 

 it has always been known among us. It found its way to England 

 in about 17S0. The Kuglish, finding- it a very good grass suiting 

 their soil and climate, they cultivated it much, and soon gave it 

 a scientific name, phleum pratense, meadow cat's taO, by whicb 



