. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . o the sugar crop. Both combined have made money extremely abund-ant during the late season of high prices. Eight millions of specie arrived inHavana in March alone, and the rate of interest was but two per cent, per annum ;new banks were going into operation on a speculative scale, and it was seasonablyargued that cash so easily collected as it was, would lead to the ruin of many nowcalled wealthy. Cuba has its revulsions as well as New York and Philadelphia. The cultivation of the island isslovenly in the extreme. There isoften a
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . o the sugar crop. Both combined have made money extremely abund-ant during the late season of high prices. Eight millions of specie arrived inHavana in March alone, and the rate of interest was but two per cent, per annum ;new banks were going into operation on a speculative scale, and it was seasonablyargued that cash so easily collected as it was, would lead to the ruin of many nowcalled wealthy. Cuba has its revulsions as well as New York and Philadelphia. The cultivation of the island isslovenly in the extreme. There isoften as much difficulty experiencedin ploughing the land as in a newclearing incumbered with stumpsin the United States, from the under-lying coral rock ; our own ploughsare occasionally introduced, but theinhabitants give the preference tothe annexed singular and awkwardimplement. The horse, ox, or mule, is geared to the end of the long shaft •*■ Cubau piougb! by a chain, and how the apparatusis made to scratch a little furrow, is a mystery to the EVERGREENS IN THE SPRING OF 1857. BY H. W. SARGENT, WODENETHE, NEAR FISHKILL LANDING, N. Y. In reply to your desire to know the effect of the past winter upon the newerEvergreens, I regret I shall be compelled to give you an unsatisfactory resultA winter so unprecedented in its character as that of 1855-6, followed so
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