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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ April, 
One great advantage of noblemen and gentlemen rendering this small service 
to the cottagers would be, that only choice varieties would be grown. The best 
apples, such as the Eibston Pippin and Cox’s Orange Pippin ; the beat pears, 
such as Marie Louise, Easter Beurre, and Winter Nelis ; the best peaches, such as 
Noblesse, Royal George ; Pine Apple and Pitmaston Nectarines ; the Moorpark 
Apricot, and choice Cherries, Plums, &c., would always command a good price. 
Where fruit-growing is introduced among cottagers there is a wonderful 
tendency developed among them all to grow one thing. This is not wise, as it 
brings down the price of that particular fruit, by causing a glut of it in the 
market. I noticed last summer this tendency very strongly manifested in a vil¬ 
lage on the way to Nuneham. The end of every cottage, as far as I observed, was 
furnished with an Apricot tree ; in some cases they were dead, or dying, but still 
another Apricot tree was put in to take the same place. Possibly there is a special 
demand for this fruit in that locality, within a few miles of Oxford ; but it seemed a 
pity that Plums, Peaches, Nectarines, Pears, &c., were not also attempted, at least 
on other aspects, if the south gable end must be devoted to the golden Apricot. 
This suggests another weakness of our cottage friends that needs rectifying. 
It seems almost impossible to persuade them that their walls are of any use for 
fruit-growing, unless it be a south wall. Some may also try a west wall; but 
as for east or north, who ever saw those sides of a cottage covered with fruit 
trees or bushes ? And yet the whole house may be furnished with perfect 
success. Cherries, Plums, or even Pears succeed, indeed often best, on north 
and east walls; and Gooseberries, Currants, and Raspberries will fruit gloriously 
though their outlook be towards the north pole. It is seldom that cottagers train 
these fruits on their cottages, but for low walls nothing can be more useful, and 
few fruits more profitable than Gooseberries, Currants, or Raspberries. The finer 
yellow or white varieties of the latter are most valuable when grown against 
walls. And then, in warm localities, what can equal the Grape Vine on cottage 
homes, for beauty, poetry, or use ? The Muscadine, Black Cluster, Claret, and 
many others, ripen well throughout large districts; the fruit is most refreshing 
and nutritious, and it generally commands a ready sale. It is now too late to 
plant oottages all round with fruit-trees, but I trust it will be set about in 
the autumn, so that the boys and girls of England may have a happy period, 
in the good time coming.—D. T. Fish, Hcirdwicke. 
CANNELL'S BOILER. 
HIS new Boiler, or Hot-water Circulator, as Mr. Cannell calls it, is, he tells 
us, the result of twenty years’ careful study of what a boiler should be. 
It is so constructed that it extracts all the caloric from the fuel, conveying 
it to the water, and only allowing just sufficient to escape to take away 
the smoke. Any length of flue can be added to it, or it can be worked without 
any flue, and as the glass houses or buildings are extended, so can heating power 
be added:— 
