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farm, and without it nothing else can be thoroughly 
well done for the crop. It would be well for our 
farmers if they would take lessons on plowing, 
at least so far as to enable them to draw 
straight lines (for these are rarely seen in the Uni¬ 
ted States), and stir and pulverize the ground well. 
We should be glad to get hold of the plow handles 
ourselves under Mr. Pate’s instruction, and only 
regret that our numerous avocations elsewhere 
prevent our doing so; but as it] was, we did 
absolutely stay long enough to turn a short furrow ; 
yet, in comparison of those of the canny Scotch¬ 
men, we will candidly acknowledge it did not do 
us much credit. Our readers, however, will please 
bear in mind that we are now somewhat out of 
practice, and that we are unluckily more at home 
with the pen just at this moment than with the 
plow handles. We trust this will not always be 
the case. 
One of the men whom we saw at work there 
is desirous of obtaining a permanent situation as a 
farmer. We were witnesses of his plowing, and 
can recommend that, and as for the rest we will 
refer to Mr. P. Any one employing him might be 
sure of one thing on his farm, and that is —straight 
furrows. 
BUSH PULLER. 
Fig. 40. 
This is a very useful implement to attach to 
bushes, clumps of roots, and bogs, for the purpose 
of pulling them out of the ground. It is made with 
two, three, or four claws. These are hooked to the 
bush close to the ground, an ox-chain is then 
hooked into a hole at the other end of the puller, 
the cattle attached, when the bush and roots are 
easily hauled out. It also answers very well 
pulling out small stumps. It will do the work of 
half a dozen men in clearing and grubbing. 
Price $3 to $4. 
Dutton Corn.— Mr. Frederick Plumb, of Sals- 
bury, Conn., says that he received an ear of corn 
from a friend, who said it was from the Rocky 
Mountains. The grains of this ear were covered 
with a husk. He has improved it by cultivation, 
and thinks it will soon be entirely free from husk, 
and will be in perfect resemblance of the Dutton 
corn, which Mr. Plumb esteems as the best kind for 
the Northern and Eastern States. He planted, a 
few years since, ten acres of Dutton corn, ten 
acres of the yellow eight-rowed, ten acres of the 
twelve and fourteen-rowed white, and ten acres of 
eight-rowed white. The Dutton proved a much 
better crop than either of the other varieties. Next 
to the Dutton, Mr. P. prefers the eight-rowed yellow. 
We are in want of a first quality of Dutton Corn 
for seed. Who has it for sale ? 
NURSERIES OF MESSRS. HOVEY & CO. 
We. visited these extensive nurseries last July. 
They are situated in West Cambridge, a few miles 
out of Boston, and contain upwards of 35 acres of 
a great variety of soil, from a light sand to a heavy 
loam, lying upon a substratum of heavy clay, vary¬ 
ing in its depth from 2 to 10 feet from the surface. 
This substratum is of great service to the nursery, 
as a sufficient quantity can be brought up any time 
by the trench plow or deep spading, to temper the 
surface soil to such a consistency as to suit any 
variety of shrub or tree; and the ground being 
thoroughly sub-drained, the operations of the nur¬ 
sery are never impeded by an excess of moisture. 
The ground slopes from the south-west to north¬ 
west, and is exposed to all the cold winds of the 
country, which the Messrs. Hovey think is quite, 
an advantage in enabling them to rear hardy trees. 
Mr. C. M. Hovey has recently returned from an 
excursion to Europe, a very interesting account of 
which he has published in a series of numbers in 
his Horticultural Magazine. While abroad, he 
made arrangements to add largely to their collection 
of fruits, &c. Especial attention is given here to 
pears, they having the enormous number of 400 to 
500 different kinds, from every good source in 
Europe and in our own country, for the purpose of 
testing their genuineness and qualities. Some 
of these we saw in bearing, and very fine spe¬ 
cimens they were. We think they will have 
some new and choice ones for sale in a year 
or two. It is their intention to reject the indifferent, 
and propagate the good varieties only. We noted 
several other kinds of choice fruit trees here, among 
which are the May and new and black Bigareau 
cherry; the Icknorth, Imperatrice, Fellemberg, 
Royal Nouvelle, Thomas, and other plums; Fas- 
tolff raspberry, Victoria currant, &c., &c. We 
found the Victoria rhubarb here of immense size, 
and of fine quality. This, with Downing’s seed¬ 
ling, which is an earlier variety, are considered the 
only two sorts now worth cultivating by those who 
desire a superior quality of food. 
The Messrs. Hovey are very careful about their 
work in the nursery, never using the plow or the 
cultivator, but instead of these implements,- the 
spade. They think that they can thus bring for¬ 
ward their trees in a superior manner, the ground is 
so much better worked. As we have no experience 
in this matter, we must leave-nurserymen to decide 
for themselves which are- the best implements for 
their use. 
They have originated another seedling straw¬ 
berry, which they call the-Boston pine. It is of fine 
flavor, though not so large as.the Hovey seedling. 
The green-house department here is very exten¬ 
sive. The large conservatory, or, show house, is of 
a chaste, neat architecture,. 84 feet long, 22 feet 
wide, with ai span roof, and well constructed 
throughout, being one of the most expensive in the 
country. Another large house-is 84- by 25-, with a 
span roof. Besides these there are- some smaller 
houses, making a rich and varied display of plants. 
The camellias- w.ere worthy of all admiration. 
