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glad to say, a trip to America has given many of our radicals 

 a better feeling to the natale solum. 



One traveller gives one account, and another a different 

 one. But few of our unemployed weavers, with an united 

 handicraft, have eulogized the colonies they sought after ; and 

 other settlers send home letters of disappointment and misery. 

 Government has now agitated the question, and where valuable 

 and enterprising young men are willing to expend their man- 

 hood in other climes, it is grievous to think they may be 

 stranded, from the want of rudder or compass ; more parti- 

 cularly so, since few emigrants have the power of removal 

 from the land of their first destination, be it good or bad. 



To the young gardener, I wish the best encouragement ; 

 to the old one, peace and competence, I wish the opulent 

 as much amusement from horticulture as I myself have re- 

 ceived : and to yourself, thorough success through all your 

 useful and valuable publications. 



W. R. G. 



West Hiding of York. 



Art. X. Some Account of a remarkable Lemon Tree in the 

 Garden of C- Uoare, Esq. F.R.S. U.S. fyc. at Luscombe, 

 Devonshire. By Mr. Richard Saunders, Gardener there. 



Sir, 

 1 beg respectfully to present you with these two lemons, the 

 produce of a tree which I raised from a cutting six years ago. 

 Exclusive of these two, there is on the same tree ninety-four 

 others, which have attained full maturity, and a remarkably 

 large size, and also a vast quantity of green fruit of various sizes. 

 This tree, with several others, raised at the same time, and in 

 the same manner, consisting of citrons, shaddocks, and limes, 

 was planted when one year old, against a common wall, (the soil 

 having been previously prepared,) the whole of which have 

 grown in a most vigorous and astonishing manner, some of 

 them making shoots from six to seven feet in length, in one 

 year. The third year after being planted, they produced a num- 

 ber of fine fruit, and have continued very productive ever 

 since : one of them, a citron, produced last year thirty-nine 

 fruit, measuring from fifteen to eighteen inches in circumfer- 

 ence; two lime trees produced in the same time above three 

 hundred fruit. The trees are protected from frost during the 

 winter with frames and sashes. 



