The following is from a Philadelphia paper :

"It will no doubt surprise our readers to learn that successful efforts have been made by English capitalists to domesticate in England certain species of cocoanut palm that is now growing there at all seasons and producing fruit, which, if it be true, we shall have efforts made to domesticate the same tree on the Jersey coast, so that the seaside resorts along that shore may in due time assume a tropical aspect with palm trees growing in the open air".

The original paragraph was of course intended, as the English say, as a "rig" on the ignoramuses who do not know that tropical heat, and a temperature never lower than 45°, is necessary to grow a cocoanut palm of any "species." Our Philadelphia friend had better get out of the hole by asseverating that he was simply playing a game on the Jerseymen. Still, with the dense popular ignorance of the simplest facts in gardening which so thoroughly prevails, the nurserymen and seedsmen will soon, as in the case of the famous Eucalyptus, be run down with orders for cocoa-nuts of " a certain species" for planting along the coast from New Jersey to Labrador, and they had better provide themselves with something, even though they be Osage Orange balls, for the silly people who will have something or deem you "one-horse concerns, not up to the times," if you have not what they ask for.