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corrected, but I believe it to be only the cut-leaved 

 variety of the native Bubus affinis. 



I have tried the best of the American kinds, and 

 with the exception of one year, when I had a few fine 

 fruits from Kittatinny, they had been a failure, where- 

 as invariably when people have told me that their 

 American Blackberries have fruited well, I have found 

 them to be the Parsley-leaved. 



Some members of the large Rose- Apple-Plum tribe 

 grow to be large forest trees, and in my wild orchard 

 they would go in the farther parts. The Bird-cherry 

 (Prunus padus) grows into a tree of the largest size. 

 A Mountain Ash will sometimes have a trunk two 

 feet in diameter, and a head of a size to suit. The 

 American kind, its near relation, but with larger leaves 

 and still grander masses of berries, is a noble small 

 tree ; and the native white Beam should not be for- 

 gotten, and choice places should be given to Amelanchier 

 and the lovely double Japan Apple {Pyrus Malvs flori- 

 hunda). To give due space and effect to all these 

 good things my orchard garden would run into a 

 good many acres, but every year it would be growing 

 into beauty and profit. The grass should be left 

 rough, and plentifully planted with Daffodils, and with 

 Cowslips if the soil is strong. The grass would be 

 mown and made into hay in June, and perhaps mown 

 once more towards the end of September. Under 

 the nut-trees would be Primroses and the garden kinds 

 of wood Hyacinths and Dogtooth Violets and Lily of 



