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justice or injustice of the freeholder's 

 right, but simply explain the requirements 

 of the law ; and for that purpose we sub- 

 join the statement furuisbed by the gentle- 

 man to whom the letter of W. M. was 

 submitted. He says : — "A mei'e tenant 

 (not a nurseryman by trade) has no right, 

 in the absence of any special agreementj 

 to remove trees or shrubs of any kind, 

 and certauily not fruit trees, although 

 planted by the tenant, nor border box, 

 and not even flowers, according to the 

 authority of the cases, Wyndham v. Way, 

 reported in the 4th vol. of ' Taunton's Re- 

 ports,' p. 31G,and of Empson v. Soden, -ith 

 vol. of 'Earnewall and Adolphus,' p. 655. 

 " You can refer in your answer, also, to 

 the work of Messrs. Amos and Ferard on 

 'Eistures,' 2nd edition, p. 313. One 

 thing is very clear, that, supposing a 

 tenant might remove shrubs or bushes 

 (which, it appears, he cannot do), he 

 certainly would not be justified in reducing 

 fruit trees to the dimensions of shrubs or 

 bushes for the purpose of sale or removal ; 

 for it is quite certain that no private per- 

 son can remove fruit (rees •without leave," 



The Season of Butteectjps. — Hail 

 beautiful Season of Buttercups ! thrice 

 beautiful in thy timid gentleness, thy 

 confiding innocence, and thy fulness of 

 rich promise! Welcome, fragrant season 

 of slanting sunbeams, fresh birth-time of 

 yellow flowers ! When the dear children 

 go with hearts full of spring-time, and 

 hopes yet in the unfolding bud, search- 

 ing for the snow-flakes and the spangles, 

 the daisies and the butter6ups, which they 

 think Heaven has let fall as manna ; then, 

 wearied with prattle, to loiter home, in 

 twos and threes, laden with their flowery 

 spoils, to lie and dream all night of worlds 

 made of flowers, and people with yellow 

 faces and white daisy eyes, and yellow hair, 

 walking upon yellow ground, on which 

 there is not room to trf ad without crush- 

 ing the buttercups. AYelcome, bright birth- 

 day of flowers and song ! soft season of 

 verdurous freshness, bringing back the 

 growth and glory of the world, and filling 

 manhood's heart with dreams of boyhood, 

 and the fairy pictures of the past.— 

 Hibierd's Brambles and Bay Leaves, 



CUERO GIJANO, AND HOW TO USE IT. 



I HATE a poor, shallow soil, mixeh ne- 

 glected, and I used cuero guano freely. I 

 sowed peas the first week in May, cover- 

 ing them well with this manure, and had 

 a splendid crop. It was too late for the 

 first crop, and also for most other seed- 

 lings, but I stirred it in freely on both 

 sides of the rows of growing crops with 

 excellent effect, and, whenever I trans- 

 planted anything, I applied a handful 

 directly to the roots, and always with 

 good results. I believe there is not the 

 slightest fear of doing any mischief by an 

 over-dose, though, of course, you may 

 waste your manure by applying it in unne- 

 cessary quantities. I left a small patch of 

 peas unmanured, and it proved a total 

 failure. 



My garden is a very small one, being 

 scarcely one-eighth of an acre, and a large 



part of it turf; it has never been properly 

 dug, only just "titivated" (thanks to you 

 for teaching me the word), until I came to 

 it, early this year ; since which I have 

 at my leisure dug it two spits deep myself^ 

 being quite an amateur, thanks to your 

 hints. 



I should like to know who is your 

 correspondent here, and how he uses 

 cuero guano, and if he has outshone all his 

 neighbours by using it. For my part, I 

 cannot boast of my produce, having been 

 quite burnt up during the late summer. 

 My soil is gravel. E. F. E. 



[R. F. K. does not give precisely the 

 information that was requu-ed. How 

 much of the manure did he use per acre, 

 rod, or square yard — a spoonful, a bushel, 

 or a ton? People want to know the pro- 

 per quantities in all such cases. — Ed.] 



BOOT'S METALLIC PLANT LABELS. 



Is there a gardener anywhere in the four 

 quarters of the world who lias not many a 

 time lost his patience over labels and 

 talhes, and sighed for something which 

 should put an end to the worry of writing, 

 losing, and misplacing them, and of getting 

 their inscriptions effaced by soil and wea- 

 ther ? In the nurseries, where the master 

 and foreman have each a pocket catalogue. 



and sorts are kept together in quantities 

 with a large numbered tally to each lot, 

 the thing can be reduced to a system ; but 

 private growers want lots of single tallies 

 of a kind that will not disgrace their 

 plants, whether in pots or the open ground, 

 and after all the attempts to supply the 

 desideratum, the want still exists. Even 

 the glass tallies, into which the name 



