The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . do not accept his ar-ticle on page 43 as conclusive; nor do I conceive his views will be generally adopted,even out West. I have been a pretty close observer of the habits and requirementsof the peach, and I had come to entirely different conclusions. Hope the Doctor willtake occasion to give his reasons and mode of training at greater length. Monthliesvs. Weeklies—editorial—hits the nail right square on the head. He or she who doesnot prefer a neat handsome-paged magazine, in an ornamented colored cover, to a broadweekly—even if it
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . do not accept his ar-ticle on page 43 as conclusive; nor do I conceive his views will be generally adopted,even out West. I have been a pretty close observer of the habits and requirementsof the peach, and I had come to entirely different conclusions. Hope the Doctor willtake occasion to give his reasons and mode of training at greater length. Monthliesvs. Weeklies—editorial—hits the nail right square on the head. He or she who doesnot prefer a neat handsome-paged magazine, in an ornamented colored cover, to a broadweekly—even if it should not contain as much reading matter—is—well, a queer sort ofa person, thats all. The one can be preserved, and at the end of the volume boundinto a book and placed on the library shelf to take rank with the best of them. Theother is ephemeral—can scarcely be kept whole and intact a single month ; and howevervaluable its contents may be, can not easily be preserved for future reference. Banks of the Mississippi, April, 1869. &RDEliiK^^ Hardy and Half-Hardy. BY R. M. COPELAND, BOSTON, MASS. NO question is more interesting to the horticultural world, and to amateurs truly inearnest to produce all the beauty and variety they can from their grounds andgreen-houses, than what plants are hardy and what tender, when permitted to take theirchances in the open air. Neglecting for the present the fruits and vegetables, the ques-tion is divided by the relations of heat, frost, and wind to vegetable perfection. Com-monly, when we speak of a plant as hardy, we mean that it will endure the winter andspring, and this class of plants is most important to the improver of country places, be-cause if he w^ould make enduring, good effects, he must use the trees and shrubs whichcan withstand all ordinary vicissitudes; but there are other plants which may be useddecoratively which are too tender to live through frost, and also shrink before the heatof the sun. They a
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