Lamentable Ignorance

S. B. Parsons, in his address before the New York Rural Club, said, he had known an intelligent city lawyer call a dahlia a rose. John J. Thomas, says, as an offset to this, that he has known a country doctor call a poppy a rose at a public exhibition.

The Lancaster Farmer

This monthly publication is edited with practical talent, and its articles, we are glad to say, are right to the point, without any waste words. Very few can claim to be superior in quality of information. Its price is very cheap - only $1.25 per year - and, as it is under the auspices of the Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, it undoubtedly is able to command a good local support from the people of that splendid farming country.

Landreth's Seeds

In a former year the Horticulturist gave a somewhat extended description of Landreth's farm, devoted to raising garden seeds, where are now under cultivation for this purpose alone, three hundred and seventy-five acres. His excellent Almanac, with directions how and when to plant, laid upon our table, reminds us to mention that Philadelphia supplies a larger amount of reliable garden seeds, probably, than the whole of the rest of the Union. His and other advertisements, in our supplementary sheet, tell the rest of the practical story. Buist, Morris, and Dreer. also deal largely in seeds, and may be relied on to execute orders with punctuality and correctness. The season for seeds is, of all others, the most agreeable to us - because it is attended by Hope.

Landscape Gardening

I AM glad to see the plan of landscape gardening in the last number of The Horticulturist. It calls to mind the idea of Landscape Farming; or the division of farms into triangular plots, with horticultural effects produced by trees and shrubs. Why could not three to twenty acres be in wheat and oats and corn, as the crop of the year as the rotation comes, as well as the little plot of rods in grass, and all neatly done as to its landscape effects? Let some one rush into a Landscape Farm. Build up Mount Holyoke, Amherst, at the East; and the old sound colleges at the West. Vary the novelties in trees, fruits and seed crop farms on the large scale. S. J. Parker, M. D.

Landscape Gardening In New-England

Mr. Jaques is a bold man, and talks to the point. Our Yankee friends are getting on however. There have been great improvements hi lawn-dressing in New-Sngland, within twenty years past. But they know, practically, nothing of parks, nor will they, until they give up that universal habit they have, of squatting themseves right on to the highway, as if no one could be content without knowing who passed his door overy hour of the day. Mr. Jaques can discourse further on this subject, with profit to all who have to do with ornamental grounds.

Landscape Gardening On A Large Scale

If one of the best efforts of the landscape gardener is exhibited in gracefully appropriating the grounds, Ac., of one's neighbor, a correspondent who has achieved the following, deserves to be considered a master: " But my great work, this winter (concluded yesterday), is an allee, or aisle, Biz feet wide, and three miles long, through my cedar wood, and through three or four of my neighbors' woods, striking the river half-way over, and terminating in a factory at - , which at night looks like Aladdin's palace; and arched over, apparently, the whole distance, it is entirely sui generis for this country, and like the pleached alley of Shakspeare".