Mr. Austin, though admiring, and to a considerable extent cultivating, flowers and ornamental shrubs, has devoted himself, especially, to the growing of fruit, the Pear in particular; in the cultivation and treatment of which he has been singularly successful.

"The grounds contain two acres, one-half acre of which is occupied by buildings, ornamental trees, hedges, Ac, etc, - leaving one acre and a half for fruit trees - in number about 600. Of these, some 600 are dwarf Pear trees, about two dozen standards, as many, each, of Cherry and Peach, eight Apple trees, and six Plum trees - which last Mr. Austin is about to attempt to cure of the black-wart, by heading down two or three inches above the surface of the ground, and digging out every trace of root This he considers a radical cure for the black-wart From our experience of this pest, we doubt if he gets rid of it so easily, - it may break out again, on the pump-handle, or the cord wood in the cellar - there is no knowing where 1 We once headed down a Plum tree (not quite so low down as Austin proposes to do), and forth came a vigorous young growth, that, the first season, made a fine new head for the decapitated tree; but, bless your sympathizing souls! every branch, and limb, and twig, - fresh and green as they were, - were coated with excrescences, as is the bottom of an old ship with barnacles; - -some small and round, like peas - some extending along a limb for several inches, and completely enveloping it - some smooth and swelling, like a young boil - others cracking open, like an over-ripe nutmeg melon; - the whole head looking as if it had the goitre, the kings-evil, the mumps, and the hydrocephalus, besides being badly effected with boils, carbuncles, pimples, and erysipelas, diver. sified by a profuse scattering of warts and wens.

This experience convinced us that there was no worm in the ease, unless it be a 'worm in the tail' of the tree.

"But it is with Mr. Austin's Pear trees that we have now to do. The Pear plantations (500 trees) contain forty-five varieties of Pears, and of these fully one-half - about 800 - are of the nine sorts following: - Louise Bonne de Jersey, Duchesessd'Angouleme, Beurre Diel, Urbarists, Bart-It it, Vicar of Winkfield. Glout Moroeau, Pane Colmar, and Matter Beurre. A few of these trees « were set out in 1845 and others in each subsequent year, until 1849, when about 800 were planted and the garden fully stocked. The manures U9ed were solely barn-yard manures, some seven cords being applied to the two acres - a very moderate dose. One man only was employed upon the garden, and he had also charge of two horses, cow, pigs, carriages and the Chores - enough to busy one pair of hands, with the errand department of the household - sufficient, usually, to monopolize one set of Irish legs. But mark the proceeds of the garden:

"Mr. Austin, as may be seen, does not manure highly; his land is good, to be sure, but his success with the Pear he attributes mainly, if not solely, to his system of pruning - watchful - constant - preserving the wine glass form, instead of the pyramid. His trees are, indeed, a marvel of human patience and horticultural skill. Here are sixteen Dnchesess, 'all in a row' and all as like to one another - in height, breadth and shape - as twin peas in a pod; and there stand sixteen Vicars, erect and uniform as Life-Guardsmen. Every tree of each variety extends its limbs at Austin's direction, like a well-trained poodle, - only the tree 'stays put/ while Pug soon 'puts out'".