his wit at the expense of another' feelings. Language 

 which no gentleman would think proper to apply to 

 another in personal discourse is freely employed 

 in print, under a seeming notion that epithet is 

 force, and ridicule reasoning. 



On taking charge of this journal we resolved that 

 this unfortunate example of those who ought to 

 teach us better should not be imitated in our pages, 

 and we have rejected articles, and cut out sentences 

 of others that would perhaps half fill a volume of 

 the journal. Yet, with all our care, expressions 

 escape our critical pen, which we are often sorry 

 we had not more closely watched. 



There are times when it is necessary to criticize 

 with severity ; when to ''spare the rod is to spoil the 

 child;" but there is no reason even why this should 

 not be done with such strict justice, that even those 

 castigated shall not object to the legitimacy of the 

 weapons employed. 



We look upon Horticulture as one of the very 

 best agencies for producing Peace on earth and good 

 will amongst men. It draws together men of all 

 creeds, parties, and nations, better than any bond 

 of which we know, and we are anxious to preserve 

 it from all the discourtesies and asperities which 

 weaken other friendships. 



We hope all our correspondents will take the 

 hint, and by a careful regard f)r the feelings of 

 those with whom they discuss points, aid us in pre- 

 serving that record which with the few exceptions we 

 have referred to, we feel very proud of. 



BEES IN :ORCHARD HOUSES. 



Our readers will remember a discussion going on 

 in the English papers as to whether Baes were or 

 were not an injury to the flowers of fruit trees grown 

 under glass, which one of our correspondents refer- 

 red to with extracts in our pages. It was contended 

 I that if any good resulted from their agency in fer- 

 tilization, it was more than counterbalanced by 

 J injury to the pollen and organs of fertilization. 



Also will our readers remember our notice of a 

 very successful fruit forcing house under the care of 

 Mr. Wm. Young, gardener to Stephen Morris, Esq., 

 near Philadelphia, where peaches by the bushel 

 grew in fifteen inch pots and eighteen inch tubs. 

 Possibly no fruit house in the United States — has 

 greater success than this ; we do not understand hoy 

 any can well be better. 



Now Mr. Young attributes much of his success 

 to the agency of Bees in well fertilizing his flow- 

 ers. He places a hive in the house as soon as 

 the flowers begin to open, and the bees are kept 

 there until the last flowers are gone, when they 



are again removed to the open air, and the hive 

 covered a little when the bees retire to their sub- 

 torpid state until the spring time comes. 



We had a chance of seeing Mr. Morris' house re- 

 cently when the Peaches were in full bloom, with 

 milHons of blossoms, and with hundreds of bees 

 fluttering from flower to flower, "gathering honey 

 all the day," as if to them the orchard house was 

 the real summer season. The odor of Mignonette 

 and Heliotrope, the gaiety of the scarlet Geranium, 

 the promise of bushels on bushels of fruit, and 

 the "life" given to the whole scene by the bustle 

 of insect animation made us strongly feel how 

 happy is the man who can afford an enjoyment like 

 to this. 



As to any injury resulting to the crop from bees, 

 it is just the reverse. Mr. Young's experience 

 proves it. No doubt those who have recorded fail- 

 ures where bees have been kept in orchard houses, 

 have honestly recorded their failures; but it is evi- 

 dent the bees have been blamed for what they have 

 had no hand in producing. Some other thing 

 causing the trouble. 



THANSFL ANTING RASPBERRIES 

 AND BLACKBERRIES. 



As the season is now approaching when the re- 

 marks will be appropriate, we remind our readers 

 of what we pointed out last fall, that most of the 

 failures with these arise from planting too deep. 

 They will not root out from the cane, as most things 

 will from their stems — the buds have to come from 

 the crown or the roots, and several inches of soil to 

 come through is too much for the buds. They will 

 sooner die first. 



And while on the topic we may observe, that pro- 

 pagators do not seem generally to know that root 

 cuttings are much better planted like other cuttings, 

 than laid down flat under the soil as usually done. 

 The tops should not be above the soil, but about 

 level with the surface. 



A REMARKABLE FACT. 



The Philadelphia Public Ledgei\ has the follow- 

 ing paragraph : 



"A gardener employed on the estate of Joseph 

 Buonaparte at Bordentown, N. J., recently died, 

 leaving his family in comfortable circumstances." 



The poverty of Editors is proverbial, niuny of 

 them having to lie in bed on Sundays, while their 

 solitary shirt is being washed and fixed up for the 

 week ; but we did not know thot gardeners were also 

 expected to be so poor. We are glad to chronicle 

 the fact that at least one gardener has manasred to 

 leave his children in comfortable circumstances. 



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