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is clambering up the wall of the house and around 
the second story windows. Taken altogether, 
this porch forms a ”ery pleasing scene in Summer, 
and the arrangement of the vines is worthy of 
imitation 
The sketch, fig 3, is designed to show the pleas¬ 
ing effect produced by training vines over the ve¬ 
randahs and along the cornices of a dwelling. It is 
copied from the “wing” of the writer’s house. 
The vine is the American I vy, which, after cov¬ 
ering one end of a piazza, spreads itself along the 
cornice of the wing, clinging to the brackets and 
eaves, and making itself as happy as it pleases. It 
■hields the piazza from the mid-day sun, and hangs 
down gracefully in long iestoons over the library 
windows. In the autumn, it is tinted with purple 
and scarlet, such as no pencil can imitate. 
No architure is so perfect, as not to receive an 
additional grace from flowering vines ; and most 
private dwellings, it must be confessed, are so de¬ 
fective in proportion or finish, that they need a 
little drapery to hide their deformities. 
Many an uncouth house, now naked as a barn, 
and only a little more attractive, would look quite 
home-like and pleasant, if it were only surrounded 
with trees and flowers, and festooned with 
vines. 
We give the dimensions of our Summer House, 
(fig. 4below,) and the materials of its construction, 
because it satisfies our own taste, and is generally 
admired by all who see it. It has eight sides, 
three of them open, the others latticed and cov¬ 
ered with vines. The posts are of cedar, three 
inches by four, and eight feet high above ground 
The sides are four feet wide. Height of the apex 
from the ground, twelve feet. Diameter of a cir¬ 
cle sweeping within the posts, nine feet. There is 
a scalloped verge-board at the eaves, which is mu 
represented in the cut. All the woodwork, ex 
cept the posts, is of pine. The whole is planed 
and covered with three good coats of light drab- 
colored paint. On its different sides are p ante.i 
grapevines, honeysuckles and running roses To 
make it a pleasant and healthful resort at all times 
we excavated the soil within the house a foot and 
a half deep, filling in cobble stones at the bottom, 
then putting on a layer of gravel, and finishing off 
with clean sand. This makes the ground always 
dry to the foot of lady or child. And we may 
here say that this summer house is a favorite re¬ 
sort of the family throughout the warm season. 
Many a book has been read, and many a children’s 
tea party has been held, in its pleasant shade. 
The pencil of our lady friend, expert as it truly 
is, could not sketch the blushing roses, the purple 
grapes and the scarlet honeysuckle flowers, nor 
the snowy dresses and laughing faces with which 
?very Summer adorns this lovely retreat May 
some of our readers reproduce the like scenes 
within their own premises. 
The Orchard— No. II. 
appi.es —Continued from Page 19. 
Thus, little regard can he paid to the books, or 
nursery catalogues in selections for the orchard 
about to be planted. The reputa¬ 
tion of the fruits in the chief mar¬ 
ket where they are to be sold, and 
their aptitude to the soil and posi¬ 
tion where they are to grow, must 
better determine that, point. In fa¬ 
vor of this is another fact : the 
best fruit market at hand usually 
prefers the varieties which flourish 
in its own vicinity tothose brought 
from a distance. Thus : Boston 
largely prefers the Baldwin, and 
Roxbury Russet ; New York, the 
Newtown Pippin, and Esopus Spit- 
zenburgh ; Philadelphia, the Ram- 
bo, Vandervere, and some other 
choice varieties which flourish in 
its neighborhood ; while the Rhode 
Island Greening grows almost 
everywhere in the Eastern States, 
and finds a market in all their cities. The Bel¬ 
mont is the best market, apple of Northern Ohio, 
while the Cooper, the Yellow Bell-flower, and 
Rawles Janet, are popular in Cincinnati. So of 
other apple markets; each one has a different, 
standard of excellence in its apples, and each fa¬ 
vorite variety is usually growm in its own imme¬ 
diate neighborhood, or that section of country 
most accessible to it Therefore, we will sav : 
cultivate as your principal stock, that class of apples 
which are su? cly successful in your own sml , and 
popular in your nearest and best markets. 
The extensive orchardist will, unless the mar¬ 
ket is a large one, and near at hand, or easily Ac¬ 
cessible by steamboat or railroad, cultivate few 
except the late keeping varieties. Near large 
markets, the very early kinds, and a moderate 
supply of the Fall varieties may be grown 
But, as their season quickly passes, they cannot be 
relied on for extensive sales, and the late keepers 
are those to which he should look for profit; and 
now, as to the v 
MJMBER OP VARIETIES. 
Here is the great difficulty on which new begin¬ 
ners are apt to stumble. They have made up 
their minds upon a Hew of the best market Iruits 
They ascertain what are the most popular, and 
productive, and, consequently, profitable for their 
soil; and, being full of their subject, they talk 
with friends, and consult the books, and nursery 
catalogues. Every different man has a most 
“ capital apple,” of whose merits he can tell a 
long story, and our orchadist is forthwith con¬ 
vinced that he must, at least have a sample tree 
or two of this. Every fruit author he reads, 
names a “ choice collection” which is “ perfectly 
reliable.” Indeed, so convinced is the neophyte 
that they are “ not to be dispensed with” in an 
orchard of the magnitude he intends to plant, 
that he resolves to introduce them all “ in a mo¬ 
derate way,” and, before he is aware of it, he has 
fifty, or more varieties scattered over his grounds 
where he should have had but ten, at the most, 
and his labors are frittered away on a wide list of 
apples, which, when they come to produce, scarce¬ 
ly one half are worth the gathering; while, with 
not over half a dozen well chosen kinds, he could 
pick a crop from the siart, establish a character 
for his orchard, and go on in perpetual and in¬ 
creasing success. No ; the best, two early ; the 
best three Autumn ; and the three, four or at far¬ 
thest, five best. Winter apples, extending in all 
iheir season, from the very earliest ripening, to 
the latest keepers, are all that he should plant and 
Fig. 4. 
