The California culturist . ffect is, beyond comparison,more attractive then when the flowers are all of one color. Budding has thi^ objection, viz: In its first growth, it is easily torn away by highwinds, by the brush of crinoline and by every accidental contact; then it is a one-sided excrescence, marked by the disfigurment of a wound coarsely healed. After youhave produced a fine symmetrical bush, with richly flowering clusters crowning thehead, budding maybe done, to give increased variety of colors, year by year; sothat ever as your friends pass by, they will see new beauties and novel at
The California culturist . ffect is, beyond comparison,more attractive then when the flowers are all of one color. Budding has thi^ objection, viz: In its first growth, it is easily torn away by highwinds, by the brush of crinoline and by every accidental contact; then it is a one-sided excrescence, marked by the disfigurment of a wound coarsely healed. After youhave produced a fine symmetrical bush, with richly flowering clusters crowning thehead, budding maybe done, to give increased variety of colors, year by year; sothat ever as your friends pass by, they will see new beauties and novel cultivates flowers nourishes the affections-; who loves communion with rosesand dresses her garden with fondling care has a heart, be sure, that is worth youth goes forth meaning matrimony, let it mark where cared-for flowersbloom; there let the young man enter, and he will find a heart worthy of his affec-tions. Lady B. Malva Grove, San Francisco. I 31 PROVED BREEDS OF CATTLE NORTH DETON8. 401. IMPROVED BREEDS OF CATTLE—NORTH DEVONS. FROM that excellent and reliable agricultural journal, the Farmer and at Columbia, S. C, we extract the following in relation to the valueof the Devon breed of cattle as compared with other of our improved breeds, for asouthern climate; believing that, if adapted to the climate and herbage of SouthCarolina, they cannot but prove one of the very best for mauy districts of California,as much of our natural summer herbage is quite similar in habit of growth andgeneral characteristics. That the Devon is perfectly at home on the short, but close,compact herbage of the New England states, has been long since demonstrated; andnow, if experience shall prove their adaptation to the scattered and mostly annual,but highly nutritious grasses of our foot-hills, the Devon cattle are bound to rank sec-ond to none amongst us for general usefulness. So many excellent breeds of cattle now obtain amongst us, that we f
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