A lemon girthing, eighteen and a half inches from the footstalk to the flower point, girth cylindrical fourteen inches, and weight one pound nine ounces, has been wonder of a large neighborhood in England and is considered to be the largest on ree ---Mr. Roswell L. Colt, of Paterson, New Jersey, states, in a letter to the Commissfone Patents, that he has ordered from Scotland the spawn of the trout, carp, and salmon, w the view of propagating them in the waters of Mew Jersey. He suggests that the Pat Office should import for distribution the spawn of the fed mullet of Europe, at well as t of the sardines, for breeding in the Middle and Southern States. - N. Longworth, E writes to a Cincinnati paperr "You say, the wine manufacturers of our city contempl raising the price of their wines, in conseaqence of a failure of the grape crop. I have he of no such intention, and believe there will be no such cause for it I, last saving, had wards 40,000 gallons of old wine, which I have been setting, and still sell, at one-fou lees than cost. It is true, that that winter was very destructive to the crop. But many hare a fair crop; and a better yield, in Kentucky and Indiana, south of us. And, I belli increased grape culture will give us as large a crop as we had last year.

But little inj has been experienced from the rot, and I believe the season of danger is past. - -A 1 the Lilium giganteum, is makmg a great sensatien among the English gardeners. It gr ten or twelve feet high the flowering portion measuring twenty inches, and bearing eight superb flowers somewhat resembling the common white lily, excepting that they have ad purplish tinge along the inner edge of each division of the perianth, and measuring five a half inches across the mouth of the tube, Have any of our gardeners received this pla-----Moss roses require a good deal of manure, and a rather cool situation. Many 1 sens are unsuccessful with them for want of this information, and from not mulch their roots. A good, old-fashioned correspondent so well expresses our own views in following paragraph, that we copy it entire; " The common feeling with, some is, that such and such a matter of one's own experience is toe. trifling to be made public; whereas, in truth, such practical instances of the application of principles are often of great value, and. contain precisely the kind of information which we cannot get from scientific works. I regard the readers of the Horticulturist as an assembly of friends, who meet together once a-month for mutual instruction and entertainment.

Among them are a large portion who are not' further along' than myself.; and I consider it a sort of duty in each to impart whatever information will be servicable to others." - -If you want to have your prairie roses in their greatest perfection, mix two or three ounces of guano with a pound of fine charcoal, and. bury it all oyer the bottom of the hole when you plant; the same treatment will be good for all roses, using less guano for the smaller and more delicate. Light waterings of guano are also important once a week. - -It is said that the proportion of persona in New Jersey engaged in horticulture compared with Massachusetts, is as six to one, and, with New York, as three to one. Her soil and situation admirably adapt her to the growth of fruit. A concentrated action on the part of her citizens would prove useful.

Endive is very good boiled, thus: chop it up fine; boil it; .then put it in cold water; then squeese it quite dry; mix a tablespoonful of flour and a little butter, and boil them in a pipkin; put this into the endive and a teacup of water; add salt and pepper, and boil till done. The same receipt is good for spinach. - - The use of cocoa-nut mats, such as are employed for covering floors in public rooms, has been found advantageous for covering greenhouses instead of shutters. Though sufficiently porous to admit light, the warmth is greatly increased by them. The inclosures of greenhouses are not sufficiently attended to; by calculating the number of very small air-holes in a large house, a friend lately came to the conclusion that there was a space, if all put together, of four square feet! for the exit of warm air; no wonder the gardener found it impossible to keep out the frost.-----The "Virgilian Graft" was thus effected: a hole was bored across the diameter of a walnut-tree, and a vine branch passed through it while yet in connection with its patent stem; after a little time the branch was cut off, and it was said by the ancients, it would then be found united to, and growing upon, the walnut.

This has been very properly questioned, not as to the fact, but as to the nature of the union. It was not a true graft; the wood of the tree may have supplied nutriment to the branch, not by union of its vessels, but by the decay of the vessels surrounding it; and, from the nature of the case, such a union must have been Bhort-lived. - - A very excellent marmalade maybe made with pears, to use in moving tartlets. Boil six good-sized pears to a pulp; weigh them; take half their weight of sugar, put into a saucepan, with a very little water, boil it, and skim it while boiling; when thoroughly boiled, add the pulp of the pears; give the whole a boil, and add about four drops of the oil of cloves. - In Italy, baked beets are carried about, hot from the oven, twice a day, and sold in the streets, giving to thousands, with bread, salt, pepper, and butter, a satisfactory meal. By baking them, the rich saccharine matter, which is lost by boiling, is in a great measure retained; this mode is strongly recommended for trial. - A friend, who professes to like our Kew Gardens' articles, invites us to a description of Chateworth. A good description of this regal place of the Duke of Devonshire would fill a number of the Horticulturist, and be then imperfect; the best account we have seen, is in the first volume (1846) of this periodical, page 298. About one hundred and forty men are constantly employed on the grounds near the house.

When we saw it, the old duke, who is deaf as a post, was playing cricket with the Earl of Burlington, the next heir, and a bevy of the sons of the latter, assisted by some of the best cricketers among the workmen. We shall, perhaps, some time look up our notes. - Watering the bark, and not watering the roots, of a transplanted tree, then in a half-dormant state, has been strongly recommended, Downing said somewhere, that there was no doubt half the trees that die annually from the ignoranoe of transplanters, perish from a mistaken notion of deluging their roots with water daily, when their fibres are so feeble as to dread it as much as a patient afflicted with hydrophobia. - The most important recent botanioal works are Seemann's Popular History of Pains, and Dr. Danberry's Popular Geography of Plants, or A Botanical Excursion round the World, each about three dollars in London, and, at the same price, Stark's Popular History of British Mosses. - Some novice in botany lately sent abroad a paragraph on bulbs containing a perfect germ within, which might be examined by carefully unfolding, etc. The article was popular, and ran the circlet of paragraph scissors.

It may surprise some who seized on it, to read the following beautiful lines from Darwin's Botanical Garden, a book of the last century: -

"Lo! on each seed within its slender rind,

Life's golden threads in endless circles wind;

Maze within maze the lneid waves are roll'd,

And, as they burst, the living fiame unfold.

The pulpy acorn, ere it swells, contains The oak's vast branches in its milky veins;

Each ravel'd bud, fine film, and fibre-line,

Traced with nice pencil oh the small design.

The young narcissus, in its bulb compressed,

Cradles a second nestling on its breast;

In whose fine arms a younger embryon lies,

Voids its thin leaves, and shuts its floret eyes;

Grain within grain successive harvests dwell,

And boundless forests slumber in a shell".

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