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THE ILLIFOIS FARMER. 



Maech 



to make up a list. It is probable that 

 time will prove that other varieties are 

 equally valuable, but to those who wish 

 to be positive, to plant an orchard that 

 will not fail them, to keep within the 

 above list. 



PEAKS. 



Doyenne de Ete, Osband's Summer, 

 Belle Lucrative, Bartlett, White Doy- 

 enne, Louise Bonne de Jersey, (Flem- 

 ish beauty rots at the core,) Duchess 

 de Angouleme, Swan's Orange, and 

 Yicar of Winktield, may be classed as 

 the best on a dozen years trial. 



GEAPES. 



Isabella and Catawba rot badly, Del- 

 aware has not proved satisfactory in all 

 situation, Diana promises well, as also 

 Concord. What eftect it may have to 

 put a shelter of say a foot wide over the 

 top of the trellis wg cannot say, but 

 have hopes of it. 



STRAWBEEKIES. 



Willson's Albany in the timber land 

 of Egypt is the berry for market. The 

 longdistance and time required to reach 

 the north, give this berry the advantage 

 of all others on account of its keeping 

 qualities. • 



TOMATOES. 



The apple tomatoe is the only one 

 now planted for market. 



PExVCHES. 



Hale's Early promises to be the ear- 

 liest by some four or five days, and is 

 being largely planted. Troth's Early, 

 or as some suppose, Haine's Early and 

 Galbraith seedling are the same and 

 not distinct. 



Cole's Early Red, Coolage's Fa- 

 vorite, Honest John or Large Early 

 York, Early Crawford, OldMixon Free, 

 Late Crawford, with Smock and Heath 

 Cling, follow in the season as named. 



and make up the best possible collec- 

 tion for market. 



These kinds are more particularly 

 selected, because they seldom rot on 

 the tree, while manv sorts otherwise 

 equally good are of no value on account 

 of the rot. This remark holds good 

 also in the case of the apple. 



The Pet Plant. 



A florist a sweet little blossom espied, 

 Which blossomed, like its ancestors, by the road-side; 

 Its sweetness was simple, its colois were few. 

 Yet the blossom looked fair in the spot where it grew. 

 The florist beheld it and cried, "I'll enchant 

 The botanical world with a sight of this plant; 

 Its leaves shall be sheltered and carefully nursed. 

 It shall charm all the world, though I met with it first 

 Under a hedge." 



IIo carried it home to his hot-house with care, 

 And he said: '•Though the rarest exotics are there. 

 My little pot plant, when I've nourished its stem. 

 In tint and in fragrance shall imitate them. 

 Though none shall suspect from the roadside it came; 

 Rodum-sidum I'll call it — a beautiful name — 

 While botanistslook through their glasses and view 

 Its beanties. they'll never imagine it grow 

 Under a hedge." 



This little pet plant, when it shook oil the dirt 

 Of its own native ditch, began to be pert. 

 And tossed its small head, for perceiving that none 

 But exotics were round it, it thought itself one. 

 As a wild flower ail would have owned it was fair, 

 And praised it,though handsomer blossoms were there; 

 But when it assumes hot-house air?, we see tlirough 

 The forest tints of its hues, and suspect that it grew 

 Under a hedge. 



In the byways of life, oh ! how many there are 

 Who, being born under a fortunate star. 

 Assisted by beauty or talent grow rich, 

 And bloom in a hot-house instead of a ditch; 

 And while they disdain not their own simple stem ; 

 The honors they grasp may gain honors for them ; 

 But when, like their pet plant, such people grow pert. 

 We soon trace them to their orig inal dirt — 

 Under a hedge. 



Wonders of the English Language. 



The English language must appear fearfully and 

 wonderfully made to a foreigner. One of them 

 looking at a picture of a number of vessels, said : 

 " See, what a flock of ships." ■ He was told that a 

 flock of ships was called a fleet, but that a fleet of 

 sheep was called a flock. And it was added for 

 his guidance in mastering the inaccuracies of our 

 language, that a flock of girls was called a bevy, 

 that a bevy of wolves is called a pack, and a pack 

 of thieves is called a gang, and a gang of angels is 

 called a host, and a host of porpoises is called a 

 shoal, and a shoal of buifuloes is called a herd, and 



