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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
NEW-EOCHELLE OE LAWTON BLACKBERRY 
This valuable plant may still be set out 
during the first two or three weeks in May— 
the earlier the better. We have heretofore 
said so much in favor of this variety that we 
will now only add a word or two regarding 
its cultivation. We have seen it growing 
and bearing finely on dry upland soil, though 
Mr. Lawton and others state that it delights 
in moist soil, and will produce abundantly in 
the most shady borders of the garden, and 
even under fruit trees ; and they recommend 
for a permanent plantation, a rich, loamy, 
and rather humid soil, well manured. 
Great care should be taken to keep the 
roots from the sun, and from a dry hot at¬ 
mosphere while they are out of the ground. 
W T ith this as with almost all plants and trees, 
we recommend to let the roots lie in a pud¬ 
dle for a few hours before setting out. This 
puddle may be made by mixing any rich sur¬ 
face soil with water enough to form a thick 
but running mass. A mixture of one-fourth 
to one-half cow dung is excellent. See di¬ 
rections for setting out fruit trees in the Ag¬ 
riculturist for March. We append the fol¬ 
lowing directions for planting, &c., from Mr. 
Lawton’s circular : 
Planting. —If put out in a dry season, 
throw into the place assigned to each plant 
about a gallon of water, and allow it to settle 
away ; then regulate the earth for its recep¬ 
tion, and put in the roots about three inches 
deep ; a proper humidity of the soil will thus 
be preserved for a long time. Watering 
upon the surface hardens the soil, impedes 
the healthful influence of the air and dew, 
and often proves fatal to the plant. 
Distance. —Against a wall or garden fence, 
plant them five feet apart, or where they can 
be approached on either side to gather the 
fruit, only four. For field cultivation, allow 
at least ten feet between the rows, (all of 
which space will be required the third sum¬ 
mer,) for the convenience of gathering the 
fruit, when the plant has attained its full size 
and strength. Any gardener will know how 
to occupy the superflous ground until re¬ 
quired for the proper cultivation of the plant. 
First Year. —In forking up or weeding the 
ground, be careful not to injure the roots, so 
as to interfere^with the growth of the new 
shoots, as they constituteJ-he bearing wood 
(indeed the plant itself) for the following year, 
and if they are destroyed the plant is lost. 
Second Year. —The plants will be firmly 
rooted, but of medium size only. Refore the 
buds put forth in the spring, reduce the 
length of the leading shoots about one quar¬ 
ter, and shorten also the laterals, according 
to their length, and they will produce a mod¬ 
erate crop of good fruit without further care, 
besides furnishing strong vigorous canes for 
the ensuing season. 
Third Year. —The plants will now be in 
full bearing, and must be pruned and managed 
with due regard to their extraordinary size, 
productiveness and increase. All the old 
wood, having decayed during the winter, 
should be removed early in the spring after 
selecting three or four of the best new shoots 
in each hill for bearing. New plantations 
may be made with the other canes, or if not 
required for that purpose, they must be cut 
away close to the surface, and all the strag¬ 
gling shoots between the rows eradicated. 
Pruning the Third Year. —Many of the 
principal shoots will now be from six to 
twelve feet high, and they may be cut off 
just below the bend (near the top), or reduced 
about one quarter of their length, and in 
shortening the laterals the cultivator will 
have acquired a sufficient knowledge of the 
plant to exercise a proper judgment; indeed, 
the pruning and management of the plant 
may no doubt in some localities be varied to 
advantage. 
Props. —If the cultivator shall desire to 
support the plants, a cheap and convenient 
way is, to put posts at the extremity of the 
rows, and extend from them a single wire, 
to be elevated about four feet, and supported 
at proper intervals by stakes driven in the 
ground ; to this the canes can be readily at¬ 
tached. 
AMEEICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
This association which is doing much to 
advance the fruit-growing interests of our 
country, have issued their programme for the 
coming season. The Sixth Session, or An- 
ualgathering, will be held at Corinthian Hall, 
Rochester, N. Y., commencing Wednesday, 
September 24, at 10 o’clock A. M., and con¬ 
tinuing several days. The exercises will con¬ 
sist of reports from committees, and local 
associations ; discussion and revision of the 
Society’s Catologue of Fruits; value of fruits 
for general and local cultivation &c. Circu¬ 
lars giving full information can be obtained 
by addressing either of the following officers : 
President— Marshall P. Wilder, Boston, 
Mass.; Secretary—H.W. S. Cleveland, Bos¬ 
ton, Mass.; Treasurer—Thomas P. James, 
Philadelphia, Pa. Further information in re¬ 
gard to thespecific arrangements of the con¬ 
vention, will be announced in due time.— Ed. 
BEAUTY ON EARTH. 
“ There is beauty enough on earth to make 
a home for angels.'' 
There is a strange proclivity in man to 
misapply or neglect altogether, what was in¬ 
tended by the Creator of man for his com¬ 
fort and profit. Those whom He has 
crowned with uncommon gifts of mind are 
prone to abuse the trust by perverting it to 
bas« uses, or to dim its lustre by indifference 
or excess. Those whom He has adorned 
with peculiar charms of person are too 
apt to employ those charms for unholy pur¬ 
poses. Those whom He has gifted with the 
hallowed influences of poetry, who have the 
power to entrance their fellows with a single 
sweep of the lyre, too often tune the Bac¬ 
chanal note, and write for the hall of revel¬ 
ry, rather than in praise of the King. Wit¬ 
ness the case of Isabella of Spain, of By¬ 
ron, and tell us if these things are not so. 
“ How use doih breed a habit in a man !” 
The Queen who staggers under a load of 
jewels soon learns to despise the brilliant 
things and counts them as dross. The flor¬ 
ist soon casts off the spell which his gorge¬ 
ous array of blossoms first exerted, and re¬ 
gards them as mere matters of merchandise. 
The naturalist soon loses his admiration 
for charms and wonders of the natural uni¬ 
verse, in wild speculation and scientific re¬ 
search. And man, walking in the light of 
God’s material smile, surrounded by the 
loveliness that God has prepared, and par¬ 
taking of the bounties that God has dis¬ 
pensed, soon becomes indifferent to them all. 
Possession is wont to beget neglect, be¬ 
cause we may enjoy the enchanting beauties 
of nature without money, without molesta¬ 
tion, if comes that they pall upon us and 
render us restless and dissatisfied. Every¬ 
thing in nature is so much a matter of course 
that we sigh iorsomething novel, something 
superior, something more gorgeous and ab¬ 
sorbing. And yet neglect it as we will, 
“ There is beauty enough on earth to make 
a home for the angels.” 
THE BOBOLINK. 
A long time since we met with the follow^ 
ing beautiful passage in Washington Irving’s 
last Book entitled “ Wolfert’s Roost and 
Other Papers, and put it in that corner of 
‘ Our Drawer,’ marked ‘ for May.’ If it 
gives others as much pleasure in the perusal 
as it has afforded us, the space will be well 
occupied. After referring to several Spring 
Birds the Author says 
The happiest bird of our spring, however, 
and one that rivals the European lark, in my 
estimation, is the Boblincon, or Bobolink, as 
he is commonly called. He arrives at that 
choice portion of our year, which, in this 
latitude, answers the first of May, so often 
given by the poets. With us, it begins about 
the middle of May, and lasts until nearly the 
middle of June. Earlier than this, winter 
is apt to return on its traces, and to blight the 
opening beauties of the year; and later than 
this, begin the parching, and panting, and 
dissolving heats of summer. But in this 
genial interval, nature is in all her freshness 
and fragrance; “ the rains are over and 
gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the 
time of the singing of birds is come, and the 
voice of the turtle is heard in the land.” The 
trees are now in their fullest foliage and 
brightest verdure, the woods are gay with 
the clustered flowers of the laurel ; the air 
-is perfumed by the sweet-brier and the wild 
rose ; the meadows are enameled with clo¬ 
ver blossoms; while the young apple, the 
peach, and the plum, begin to swell, and the 
cherry to glow, among the green leaves. 
This is the chosen season of revelry of the 
Bobolink. He comes amidst the pomp and 
fragrance of the season ; his life seems all 
sensibility and enjoyment, all song and sun¬ 
shine. He is to be found in the soft bosoms 
of the freshet and sweetest meadows; and 
is most in song when the clover is in blos¬ 
som. He perches on the topmost twig of a 
tree, or on some long flaunting weed, and 
as he rises and sinks with the breeze, pours 
forth a succession of rich tinkling notes ; 
crowding one upon another, like the out 
pouring melody of the sky-lark, and posses¬ 
sing the same rapturous character. Some¬ 
times he pitches from the summit of a tree, 
