170 THE FLORIST AND 
find a pleasant loasturage in the field of foliage spread out before them. 
The berries are "delicious bits" to them; and many a meal's victuals, 
besides an occasional "lunch between whiles," do they afford them. They 
will leave all other trees for the Wild Cherry ; it is at once their favorite 
"hunting ground" and "council chamber." You who feel proud of the 
welcome the feathered tribes give you, .on your first arrival at your rural 
residences, will you not, in all gratefulness, surround your homes with the 
means of their support ? If you are not a member of the " Carson 
League," you may reserve to yourself a tithe of the fruit, for the manu- 
facture of " Cherry Bounce," and when in a social mood, invite your 
friend, as a worthy one of mine does, to "take a leetle, just by way of 
medicine," with you. But, should you eschew all these unpopular modes 
of showing fraternal feelings, you will still have an immediate personal 
interest in the culture of the Wild Cherry ; for while you have it Avithin 
your reach, you may make to yourself a tonic and a febrifuge, by which 
you may safely reap the advantages of any "Cherry Pectoral," and that, 
too, without infringing the patent laws. 
The Wild Cherry is as easily cultivated as any of the garden kinds. 
The nuts should be sown as soon as ripe, or before the frosts set in. If 
kept till the spring, they seldom appear till the year following, and, in 
some cases, not at all. The second year from germination, the young 
seedlings should be taken up, their main roots shortened, and replanted 
into nursery rows. They will move readily for some years after. 
The best time to transplant the Wild Cherry is in the autumn, as soon as 
eve? some rain has moistened the ground, after the fall of the leaf. Their 
success is less certain, when moved in the spring. 
Thos. Meehan. 
ON THE TERM "NATURAL" AS APPLIED TO LANDSCAPE. 
BY AVILSON FLAGG.* 
I have already treated this subject, somewhat briefly, in a former num- 
ber of this Journal. In that essay I merely suggested a few hints in rela- 
tion to certain general laws by which nature is governed in the grouping of 
plants, and the development of their forms. As it is highly important to 
understand these laws, if we would avoid doing injury to the landscapes we 
attempt to improve, I shall make them the subject of further discussion and 
* In Hovey's Magazine. 
