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and the other third of the ear contained THIR¬ 
TEEN rows! We also found at several other 
places, different ears of corn where the rows 
passed each other on the cob, making odd rows 
for a longer or shorter space upon them. The 
above ears are now in our possession ready to 
be shown to the discomfiture of all th efacetii of 
the land ! But to be serious, we have seen through 
life too many freaks of nature not to believe that she 
could make odd rows of corn, and we are firmly 
convinced that we were not mistaken in reporting 
“ twenty-one” rows as forming the ear we noticed 
at the American Institute last year, although we 
did not get possession of it to show the unbeliev¬ 
ing. We shall be obliged to any of our friends 
who will furnish us with ears of com containing 
odd rows, to further substantiate our position that 
such things do occasionally exist. 
NURSERY AND GARDEN OF MESSRS. WINTER 
& CO. 
In the beautiful town of Flushing, on Long Is¬ 
land, about an eighth of a mile from the steam¬ 
boat landing, on the north side of the main street, 
in the heart of the village, is the nursery and gar¬ 
den of Messrs. Winter & Co. It occupies twenty- 
one acres, and is one of the oldest establishments 
in the state, being a part of the celebrated Linnaean 
nursery and garden, founded, and for a long time 
successfully conducted, by the late Mr. Prince. 
These grounds are well worthy of a visit. They 
are highly cultivated, and handsomely laid out 
with spacious avenues running the whole length, 
bordered by a great variety of flowering shrubs 
and plants, and ornamental trees, several of which, 
like the Italian stone-pine, are very rare, and have 
attained their full stature, forming not only highly 
delightful, but instructive promenades, to the sci¬ 
entific, as well as the unlearned in horticulture 
and arboriculture. Convenient seats for visiters 
to rest themselves, are placed along the walks, in 
the shady groves of the umbrella magnolia, and 
beneath the spreading branches of majestic trees. 
At that period of the year, pre-eminently denomi¬ 
nated the season of flowers, the display is very at¬ 
tractive, the roses alone covering an acre of ground, 
the numberless peonies bursting out with their rich 
variety of colors, and other flowers dotting the 
grounds with their brilliant dyes, in great profu¬ 
sion. These are continually followed by others 
during the whole summer, and in the fall comes 
a magnificent display of dahlias, of which there is 
a large collection conveniently planted for inspec¬ 
tion. Many of these specimens are truly beauti¬ 
ful. The green-houses also are quite extensive, 
and are well filled with a good collection, agreeably 
ornamenting the grounds around during the mild 
season, with much that is curious and rare. 
But Messrs. Winter & Co. have not confined 
themselves exclusively to the ornamental; for the 
visiter will find here quite an extensive nursery, 
embracing the usual variety of apples, pears, 
lums, peaches, and quinces. They struck us as 
eing in an excellent, healthy, thrifty state, and 
are well arranged for growth, and convenience in 
taking up. Great care also is exercised to keep the 
varieties apart, in such a way as to avoid mistakes 
in executing orders. When we last visited this 
establishment, about two months since, we were 
particularly attracted by the sight of a young tree, 
clustering more thickly than we ever saw one be¬ 
fore with its large splendid fruit of a pale yellow, 
with a brilliant red cheek on the side approached 
to the sun, well meriting the designation given to 
it of the Queen of pears, and making a striking 
ornament to the garden. Not far from this was a 
dwarf apple-tree, two feet only in height, on 
which hung several fair apples of a good size, 
showing itself among the trees, the very Tom 
Thumb of fruit-bearers. 
There are many other things at this beautiful 
place which we should like to mention, had we not 
previously written at such length on the subject 
of nurseries and gardens ; and as Flushing is 
only a sail of an hour and a half from this city 
amidst the most delightful scenery on the East 
river, we trust our readers will avail themselves 
of a trip thither to admire for themselves. We 
know of few more delightful excursions, and there 
are several other establishments in Flushing aside 
from that of Messrs. Winter & Co., all of which 
are well worthy a careful inspection. 
THE OREGON. 
The western papers give us late and interesting 
information respecting this distant territory, and 
we have no doubt that we shall soon have a 
delegate in Congress from it. They have al¬ 
ready (at least on paper) a large commercial city, 
four miles above the mouth of the Wallamett'e, 
where town lots are selling at $50 each, being (as 
they say) a great sacrifice , as they are valued at 
full $200 ! Pork is worth 10 cents; beef 6 cents ; 
potatoes 40 cents; flour $4 per hundred; butter 
25 cents ; cattle from $50 to $150 each ; and horses 
the same. A herd of one hundred young cows 
driven over the mountains would bring $4,000 
cash !—a rare chance for drovers. We would ad¬ 
vise our friends on the upper Missouri to look to 
Oregon for a market, rather than to New Orleans ; 
the distances of the two places being about equal 
from our frontier settlements this side of the Rocky 
mountains. If cost of transportation of produce 
were the same, it would be quite another affair. 
Wild fruit and fowl and fish are very abundant; 
a good goose sells for 8 rifle charges of powder, 
and a large salmon for 4—cheap enough. Mill 
privileges without number; wood and timber 
plenty, some of the trees growing three hundred 
feet high ! Grass on the prairies all the year 
round—a grand country this for sheep; land good, 
and producing well of wheat, corn, &c., &c.; 
climate mild, light—snows only in winter, which 
melt as fast as they fall. Laborers wages $1 50 to 
$3 50 per day—a blessed country for the poor 
man. Such is the flattering account we have 
from the emigrants of the Oregon. Who will riot 
take the risk of being scalped by Indians, or de¬ 
voured by grisly bears, to say nothing of sustain 
ing innumerable hardships for a succession of 
