a few localities. Both trees and fruit buds are plant, will be found much stronger after winter, tender. The young trees are very thrifty, beauti- than those that have been separated before winful and salable. But of thousands of dollars ter, either for planting out in nursing beds, or at worth annually "worked off" on green, careless once in the plantation. When carefully taken up buyers West by their Eastern "friends," we doubt with all their fibres in spring, they soon take if one in five hundred have ever borne a cherry! root, and grow vigorously in well prepared They do best on our poorest, dryest soil; and if newly dug ground; and in June or July they to be set on rich, black land, should be planted in produce as much fruit as those that have been the sod and kept with very low heads. But the detached in a young state and planted before Duke, Kentish and Morello families, the last two winter. especially, are far more hardy and fruitful. The On taking up some young strawberry plants, Kentish and Morellos may be pruned up, but all it will be observed that the very slender fibrous others are best on the prairies, with very low heads roots extend obliquely in the soil, in all directions and moderate or no cultivation. "Dwarf" Cher- around the parent plant. From this fact, the ries are grown on Mahaleb stock, "Standards on cultivator should infer that in transplanting he the Mazzard stock; but we believe there is very ought to extend the roots in a similar oblique dilittle difference in the ultimate size of dwarf and rection, covering them with soil up to the necks standard Cherries when treated alike—although of the plants. On examining these a fortnight the Mahaleb is considered the more hardy after, it will be found that new spongioles have stock-while the common Morello is far hardier been formed all along the roots, a circumstance than either, and the better sorts of it are richly which shows the utility of preserving all the worthy of cultivation-sprouts being the sole ob- fibres when taking up the plants.-Exchange. jection." Everblooming Roses. If there is one species of plant in whose cul The catalogue from which the above extracts are copied ought to be in the hands of every land holder, even if he has only a garden. It contains a fund of concise, practical information, which ture we excel above the people of other nations,— is cheaply obtained by sending stamps to prepay if there is a species that gives more gratificaits postage. L. L. FAIRCHILD. ROLLING, PRAIRIE, Wis. Planting Strawberries. tion and lasting pleasure than another,-or, if there is a species that is at home in all places and with all people, under proper care, it is the Everblooming Rose. If a person grows but one plant, Some advise that strawberries be planted in let it be an Everblooming Rose. With good soil the end of August, or in September, or better and usage it thrives and blooms in an old tea-pot, still, between the 1st and 15th of October; others in the window of the poor, as well as it does in prefer the months of March or April. Those the costliest vase in the conservatory of the who advocate the former period, say that the wealthy, as well at the door of the plain, humplants put out in the end of summer or begin- ble cot, as on the ornamented verandah of the ning of autumn, have time to establish them- magnificent mansion. selves in the soil before winter, and to gain suf- If there is perfection in the vegetable kingdom, ficient strength to bear a crop in the follow- it is the Everblooming Rose. Its varieties are so ing summer. This reasoning, it must be ad- numerous, their colors so various, and natures so mitted, appears plausible. The success of plant- different, that they are arranged into five differations made at this season depends, however, in ent classes. Some can be grown in all climates a great measure, on the soil being well worked, and altitudes, and upon nearly all kinds of soil. and in proper condition as regards moisture; They are fit to make a diversified garden of themon the plant being sufficiently strong and fur-selves-growing as dwarf bushes, as tall stately nished with good roots, and on their being plants, and clothing arbors, bowers, trellis-work, carefully transplanted. I agree with the opinion &c., and even making hedges to fence in and of those who prefer spring planting. For more shelter the garden. They are the monarchs of than a quarter of a century, I have planted at the flower-bed, and reign triumphantly glorious all seasons, but the spring plantations have al- over all other flowers; and blessed are they who ways proved the best. The cause of this suc- possess the means, the liberality and the fine taste cess lies in the following facts: to purchase all kinds and the space to grow them in perfection. The plants established around the stools since last summer, without being detached from their parent The Hybrid Perpetuals or Remontantes, are generally of a stately, robust growth; thrive the hoe, trowel, or other scraper; a trowel or equally well upon heavy and light loams, and short handled hoe, however, is very good, when withstand a northern winter without protection. the other may not be possessed. After the bark The Bourbons are next in hardiness, and do is removed, the trunks should be washed thorbest upon loamy soils, yet a slight covering of oughly with a preparation of whale-oil soap and straw tied around them in winter, north of New water, say in proportion of a pound of the soap York, is of advantage to them. The Bengal, Chinese or Daily, is next in hardiness, thrives both in loamy and sandy soil, and is preserved better by having a little straw tied about them, north of Philadelphia. to four gallons of water. It can be applied to large trees with a hickory broom or stiff whitewash brush; and to small trees especially dwarfs, with the hand scrub brush. Sickly trees, which can at this season be easily detected by being covNoisette is of the same hardiness as the Ben- ered with a species of fungi, or perhaps more gals, and thrive upon the same kind of soils. The properly a peculiar insectiverous deposit-should varieties are nearly all of a rampant growth; be scrubbed so as to completely remove this. and useful for training upon fences, ends of The mixture will of itself benefit the tree, while buildings, arbors, trellis-work, pillars, verandahs, the removal from the stem of all extraneous and frames, &c. The flowers are generally small, injurious substances will give to it new health double and very fragrant, and produced in clus- and vigor the ensuing season-in some instances ters of twenty and upward. to a surprising extent. When whale-oil soap is The Tea-scented is generally of dwarf growth, not obtainable, ley may be used, but it should not profuse in bloom and of the most delightful be very strong, or it might be injurious to the fragrance, which is diffused to a great distance. roots of the tree if applied plentifully and the They are less hardy than the other classes, and tree small.-Germantown Telegraph. need a covering of straw in winter north of Baltimore. They thrive best upon light and sandy loams. They grow to perfection out-doors south of Maryland and are the best for pot culture. Novel Mode of Growing Squashes. An excellent method of growing squashes, melons and other such vegetables, where a person has but little room and wishes to make the most All the varieties of the five classes can be grown of it-as in a small city plat-is to plant them so in the most northern climate by digging them up they will run on a trellis. Set four upright stakes and potting them in fall, and keeping them in or small posts about two feet apart each way, in cold frames or pits half sunk and half banked the center of which plant the melons, squash, or whatever else is wished. As the vines begin to up, and with glass sashes, and covered with mats run support them upon the trellis by nailing in very cold weather, shading them from bright across small slats of board, and when the melons sun in the winter time. As hundreds are yearly set and begin to form fruit, erect a shelf for it by putting up cheap glass structures in which to placing short pieces of boards across. the slats previously nailed on. Pinch off the running grow foreign grapes, they are the best places shoots of the vines so as not to have too heavy a to winter roses that cannot stand the severity of growth, and as they run higher place additional the winter, as the grape vines are dormant in slats for the purpose of supporting them. There winter, and the roses would not be in their are two advantages to this plan, and so far as we are acquainted, no disadvantages; it economizes way, and they get the full light. With these ad-space in the garden, and the fruit ripens earlier vantages people in northern latitudes can grow all kinds, and well will they be rewarded for their care.-Gardener's Monthly. Scraping and Washing Trees. than when upon the ground half covered with leaves. Those of our readers who have small gardens would do well to "make a note" of this plan and give it a trial another season. [The best squashes we had last year, both summer and winter varieties, were planted where It is well known to all observing fruit-growers they had room to run, but so near a high fence, that the loose bark of trees is the winter quarters which they seemed to prefer to the ground, that of myriads of insects, where they securely remain the very finest of them were ripened on its top, until the ensuing spring, when, genial weather and in the branches of small trees that were invites them to quit their cozy homes, and begin near.-ED. FARMER. their destructive operations for the season. We have found a narrow saw, rather fine-toothed, to THE Rural New-Yorker advises its patrons not be an excellent tool in rasping off the superflu- to purchase white willow cuttings for live fences pus bark. It accomplishes it more uniformly than on upland. This is a very showy, and in every way an in- Several varieties of squashes have been favorteresting and beautiful genus of hardy peren- ites with the public from time to time, but we nials. Flowers curious and fine, of every shade are acquainted with none that has so many good of blue, purple, white, straw-color, redish-brown, qualities for the table as the Hubbard. Many vastriped or variegated; with single, semi-double, rieties are larger and more prolific, but most of and full double flowers. In bloom in May and them are more or less watery and have a rank flaJune; two feet high. Propagated from seed, or vor that is quite objectionable. The pure Hubby division of the root, which should be done bard is small, with rather a rough exterior, soon after flowering, rather than in the spring. a hard shell, and is of a dark green color. Those Scarcely any flower equals the airy beauty of that have been raised from impure seeds are larger the Columbine, when growing in its native wild; and much handsomer in appearance, but all below but it has, nevertheless, been much improved by the shell is greatly inferior to that from the pure cultivation. seed. The pure Hubbard, when cooked, ap Rhubarb. proaches very nearly in flavor and quality to the sweet potato. It is dry, mealy and rich The different kinds of rhubarb are raised from meated. Like the Seckel among pears, it is small, seeds, and increased by that means, or by dividbut nevertheless the prince of the squash tribe. The Boston Marrow, is an excellent Squash, ing the roots; the latter is preferable for increase, as there is a much greater advantage in getting small, of a reddish yellow, and with meat something like the Hubbard, but not equal to it. It is good strong plants in one-half the time they could If raised from seed, sow in more prolific and the vines have "less loco-be had from seed. motion," or, in due time will stop running, which sixty-sized pots, very thinly, in a mixture of earth the Hubbard is not inclined to do. Both varie- consisting of one-half leaf mould and one-half ties keep well and may be had all through the| rich loamy earth; place the pots in a cucumber winter and spring, if a little care is taken in frame, or hot-house, until the plants make their properly storing for winter use. appearance, which will be in a very short time, The squash As soon as should be gathered before frost; it dislikes cold provided the seed is sown in April. the plants have attained the hight of one inch, let and a very slight frost injures its keeping qualithem be thinned out to a single plant, and in two ties. They should not be stored in damp cellars, or three days move the pots into the green house, for here they soon deeay-they keep best in a or other cool place, to harden the plants. As soon moderately warm and dry atmosphere. The "courtin" scene in the Bigelow papers, be the case in two or three weeks, let the plants as the pots begin to be full of roots, which will where Zekel crep up unbeknown, An' peeked in thru the winder An' there sot Huldy all alone 'Ith no one nigh to hinder." be moved into pots a size larger, and in two or three weeks time the plants may be placed in the rows where they are to remain. If increased by dividing the roots, take care that He saw among the various articles of interest in there is a bud on each part you intend to plant; the kitchen: "Agin the chimbly crook-necks hung." Which shows that "Down East" farmers have a due appreciation of this vegetable, either for ornament or use. But these doubtless were summer varieties, and if so, we get a hint of their manner of saving the seed. If you have a closet warmed by the kitchen stove, or some place where the air is uniformly warm and dry, the squash may be easily saved through the winter. We have kept them in this way without trouble until April, and to all appearance they might have kept much longer. The Hubbard squash is a delicious vegetable and is worth a little extra trouble in storing-Utica Herald. let one of those buds be placed in the center of each pot, and as soon as they begin to be filled with roots, &c., treat them the same as the seedlings. In making the ground or rows ready for planting, throw out the earth two feet in breadth, and to the depth of twenty inches; let this be filled up with equal parts leaf mould, rich loamy earth, the soil which is thrown out of the trench, if of a moderate quality, and one part of good rotten dung, to which add a small quantity of sharp sand; let all these be incorporated together. Fill up the trenches sufficiently high to allow for setting. When the earth has sunk down, turn the plants out of the pots into the middle of the trench three feet apart in the row, and if a double row let them be four feet row from row. If the abov rhubarb o The onl [No objection to the Hubbard and Boston Marrow; they are excellent squashes; but there is an- instructions be properly attended to, other variety that not only beats them both, but a first-rate quality will be produced. it superior to any squashes we have eaten. We management required afterwards is to keep th mean the "Acorn Squash." A superior summer rows clear of weeds, and every autumn to for squash and far ahead of any other we have tried the ground over to the depth of four or five incl for winter.-ED. FARMER. es, covering the same with a good coat of rotte. manure; take care not to injure the crowns i As soon as any of the plants begin t THE first sugar plantation at Hawaii was forking. started by a Chinaman, over sixty years ago, on run up for flowering, let the stem be immediatel the small island of Lauai. The land was pre-cut off, which will be the means of keeping th pared and planted by natives, with a hard-wood plants in a much stronger growing state; fo implement like a lance, and the cane was crushed when they are allowed to retain the flowe between two dressed stones, somewhat thicker ing spikes, it weakens the leaf stalks vei than a grindstone. much.-Gardener's Monthly Magazine. Culture of Asparagus. Mechanical and Commercial. Peace, Prices, and Prospects. The seed should be collected in the fall, may be ing. The seeds may be sown at once in the In the examination of the subject we must tak when the weather is mild. posure. These two conditions being established, th In choosing a location for planting, it should be country will have peace, national credit and un the best soil that can be obtained; it must not be versal confidence will be restored. As soon a wet or heavy, but moderately light and sandy, this state of things has arrived, as soon even as so that it will readily fall to pieces in digging is certain that the conflict has ended, the whol or raking, and it should have a southern ex- industry of the nation will receive a sever shock. That is inevitable. The war paralized in Before planting the ground should be well dustry, and for a while all was stagnation. Peac spaded, and a large supply of manure dug in to will produce a similar effect, because the industr the depth of twelve to fifteen inches, after which of the country must be changed from a state c the ground should be raked and divided into beds war to a state of peace. Those who have bee, with four and a half feet alleys, two feet wide be- engaged in manufacturing the appliances of wa tween them. Four rows of asparagus should be and the instruments of human destruction, mus planted in each bed, and ten or twelve inches be change their occupation. Thousands and hun allowed between plant and plant in the row. The dreds of thousands must be transferred from on kind of plants to be set out should be raised branch of industry to another. Half a million from the seed, and not more than two years of men now in arms must return to thei old, but most gardeners prefer those that are homes and find employment in peaceful pur but one year old; and when there is no haste suits. All this cannot take place without tem to have a bed, they will be found to do better porary derangement and consequent paralysis. But the greatest shock will be felt upon prices! Dig the trenches about six inches deep, and Everybody knows that these are at least double place the plants upright ten or twelve inches dis- their usual average, and must, to a certainty tant in the row, and cover them with two or three come down to their natural standard, that the inches of earth, after which the beds should be currency sooner or later will be restored to than when older. raked smooth. If an asparagus bed is properly attended to, it will continue to produce good buds for ten or twelve years, or even more. specie basis. A great panic of course will take place on the announcement of peace. Every man having property of any kind which he de sires to sell, will wish to be rid of it as soon as In the fall, remove the plants, weeds, &c., and possible. And what is worse, everybody will be cover with straw or long manure, which should afraid to purchase, because they are sure prices: be removed in the spring, or dress in the spring must go down and down until they reach the with short manure.-Germantown Telegraph. lowest possible point. But the general consump |