I was very much pleased with an article in the September number on the " Progress of Horticulture," and the question "Is there any?"

If you will allow a little time and space to a plain country farmer he would be pleased to tell you some of his experience.

While a boy, he was fond of good fruits, and whenever he found any or heard from others of that which was an improved variety, he used to get scions, and set them in the old, or rather then a young orchard. Last year he picked upwards of twenty bushels of Rhode Island Greenings from a tree which he budded as a matter of idle pastime when a young man.

In 1830 he had read some of Major Adlum's communications on the native grape, and sent to him for cuttings. But not living much at home for some years after they were put out, and having no practical knowledge of cultivation, no fruit came of them except ridicule. But after having seen vineyards and vine-clad hills, he succeeded in raising a. good supply of the Isabella, and they are as common to his family as apples. A few years, only some ten past, he became a permanent fixture, and then set his heart upon having some choice pears. For the last three years he has had a very good supply, and this year he gathers several bushels, while neighbors have none, for they said when he set out his trees, that it took them so long to bear he would never live to enjoy their fruit. He has had some luscious morsels from his Bartletts, and he has now some fine specimens of the Vergalieu, Stevens' Genessee, Maria Louise, Bonne de Jersey, Seckel, and some dozen other choice sorts, and he finds among them daily enough that have ripened to make him pity those persons who had no faith and planted no trees.

His cherry trees planted the same year have borne for some time, so that he is now well supplied with choice fruit of his own growing, and he can calculate upon having it for the whole year, for his apples keep until the small fruits of spring come in, and there is no cessation of the blessings of a good Providence, during all the seasons.

He is sometimes vexed when his careless neighbors steal his fruit, but takes heart in the hope that the taste may breed a desire to have it of their own growing. He takes great pains to distribute grape cuttings and scions of choice fruits, and strawberry plants, but the demand is not as large as one would suppose. Still there is a marked progress in Horticulture. The Horticulturist is silently and rapidly expanding the public taste upon this subject, and may its readers multiply an hundred fold in Western New York.

[We had our artist to prepare the annexed representation of one of our own Duchess D'Angou-leme Pear trees, as it appeared on the 18th of October, just previous to its being stripped, and after several pears had been taken from it, leaving thirty-two, all of a good average size.

This tree, and several others exhibiting this season equally prolific bearing, was purchased only four years ago from E11-wanger and Barry, of Rochester, New York, and was then one year old from the graft. On three trees we counted one hundred fine pears. Equal results may be recorded from trees of similar age of several kinds, though as a "show tree" the Duchess was the most remarkable. After such results, instead of, as formerly, being obliged to wait a life-time to see your trees in full fruit, there is no longer need to ask, "Is there any progress?" The fruit of this tree, costing less than fifty cents, could have been sold for five dollars readily. - Ed].

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