2. Chestnut and English walnut-trees should be planted as far apart as standard ajiples, 

 and filbei'ts as near as dwarf pears. 



3. Ants may eflfectually be driven away by a solution of copperas, or by sulphur. 



4. You had better not employ any grass or grain among your fruit-trees. A crop that 

 requires manuring and working, such as potatoes or other low crops, that demand the fre- 

 quent use of the plough or hoe, will not be detrimental for a few years ; but, if well stirred, 

 will be useful until the roots have spread over the whole ground. 



(H. S. C.) See former volumes for the cultivation of the blackberry ; it is an established 

 favorite. The best agricultural work is Stephens's Book of the Farm. 



(Eastek Becree.) This old variety is a very uncertain fruit ; sometimes very line, 

 mostly partially good. If the fruit of " Subscriber," instead of remaining in the barrel, had 

 been removed and put on shelves in a dry cellar or closet, out of reach of frost, no doubt 

 more than half of them would have been saved. Pears, with the exception of a few varie- 

 ties, do not keep well in barrels ; they want a cool, rather dry cellar, or basement where a 

 cellar within a cellar — say a closet, with a window eastward — can be constructed. In such 

 a place the writer took oiit some summer apples and two Andrews' pears, which commonly 

 ripen in September, on the 4th of last January, sound and delicious. They were overlooked 

 on a low shelf in a common provision cellar. 



(An Original Subsckibek.) Edgings. — There are few plants that make a better edging, 

 where box is not used, than the Sea pink. Tlie common garden thyme makes a pretty 

 edging, the lemon-scented species especially so. The small periwinkle ( Vinca minor^ is 

 very good for this purpose, besides growing well in deep shade. 



Dwarf Climbing Vines, " not growing over three or five feet, and not liable to be infested 

 with red spider, and which will retain their verdure till frost," are not common. The seve- 

 ral varieties of thunbergia, maurandia, and cypress-vine come nearest to your wishes, 

 though the red spider occasionally preys on the first named. Tropteolum canariense is a 

 good yellow, and Lophspermum scandens, pink. 



Bedding Plants, "one and a half feet high, to stay green till frost, and blooming early." 

 The Madagascar periwinkle, pink and white, has as " pretty a habit and as showy bloom 

 as can be desired, and flowers profusely. Cuphea platycentra, scarlet, and the dill'erent 

 varieties of Petunia do well. Lantana sellowii and other kinds of Lantana are very fine for 

 this purpose. All these have to be raised in the fall, and kept over the winter in pits or 

 greenhouses. There are not many annuals that can be sown out in spring and retain their 

 verdure till fall. The escholtzias wiU sometimes (yellow and orange). The globe amaran- 

 thuses (white, purple, and yellow) do very well. The following list of annuals are those 

 which retain their verdure the longest, and do not exceed two feet high : Ageratum Mexi- 

 canum, blue ; Browallia elata, blue ; Cacalia coccinea, scarlet ; Chrysanthemum euryoides, 

 yellow ; Erysimum Perofl"kianum, orange ; Gaillardia picta, yellow and red ; Candy tuft, 

 white and purple ; Phlox drummondii, pui-ple and white ; Migniouette, buff ; and the new 

 cut leaved, white. 



Good Bedding-out Plants. — Besides those already given in the above answers, you may 

 try Asclepias curasivica, orange ; Pentas carnea, pink ; Neirembergia gracilis, white ; 

 Ruellia formosa, scarlet ; Plumbago copensis, lead ; P. lai-pentse, blue ; Horseshoe gerani- 

 ums, scarlet or white ; Rose-scented geraniums, pink ; Heliotropes and Verbenas. 



(D. B.) Frosted Plants. — Thaw them gradually, and in the dark. If but a single plant, 

 immerse it in cold water and set it under the greenhouse stage ; if tlie whole house be frozen, 

 put up the shutters, or throw on mats over the glass and syringe well with cold water. 

 Plants which, under ordinary circumstances, are killed by a degree of frost, can often be 

 recovered from severe injury by this treatment. 



Death of Dr. Harris. — Dr. Tliaddeus William Harris, whose death has recently occurred, 

 will long be remembered for the benefit which his labors have conferred on the i)ublic. He 

 was widely known as an entomologist, and his work on Insects Injurious to Vegetation, made 

 in pursuance to an order of the Massachusetts Legislature, possesses a practical value of 

 immense importance. At tlic time of his death he was the Librarian of Harvard College, 

 from which institution ho graduated in 1815. He was a member of various scientific au(i 

 other societies, and in all the relations he occupied he sustained the character of an alile 

 honest man, and has left a name which will be cherished by all who knew hi 

 Cultivator. 



