530 editor's table. 



followiug paraeraph, that we copy it entire : " Tbo common feeling with some is, that such 

 anil siuli a matter of one's own experience is too trifling to bo made pnhlic ; whereas, in 

 tmth, snch practical instances of the ai>pliuati(!n of principles are often of great value, and 

 contain precisely the kind of information which wo cannot get from scientific works. I 

 regard the readers of the Horticulturist as an assembly of friends, who meet together onco a 

 month for mntiial instruction and entertainment. Among them are a large portion who are 

 not ' further along' than myself ; and I consider it a sort of duty in each to impart whatever 



information will be servicable to others." If you want to have your prairie roses in their 



greatest perfection, mix two or three ounces of guano with a pound of fine charcoal, and 

 bury it all over the bottom of the hole when you plant ; the same treatment will be good 

 for all roses, using less guano for the smaller and more delicate. Light waterings of 



guano are also important once a week. It is said that the proportion of persons in 



New Jersey engaged in horticulture compared with Massachusetts, is as six to one, and, 

 with New York, as three to one. Her soil and situation admirably adapt her to the 

 growth of fruit. A concentrated action on the part of her citizens would prove useful. 



Endive is very good boiled, thus : chop it up fine ; boil it ; then put it in cold water ; 



then squeeze it quite dry ; mix a tablespoonful of flour and a little butter, and boil them in 

 a pipkin ; put this into the endive and a teacup of water ; add salt and pei)per, and boil 



till done. The same receipt is good for spinach. The use of cocoa-nut mats, such as are 



employed for covering floors in public rooms, has been found advantageous for covering 

 greenhouses instead of shutters. Though suificiently porous to admit light, the warmth is 

 greatly increased by them. The inclosures of greenhouses are not sufficiently attended to ; 

 by calculating the mamber of very small air-holes in a large house, a friend lately came 

 to the conclusion that there was a space, if all put together, of four square feet ! for the 



exit of warm air ; no wonder the gardener found it impossible to keep out the frost. Tlie 



" Virgilian Graft" was thus effected : a hole was bored across the diameter of a walnut-tree, 

 and a vine branch passed through it while yet in connection with its parent stem ; after a 

 little time the branch was cut off, and it was said by the ancients, it would then be found 

 united to, and growing npon, the walnut. This has been very properly questioned, not as 

 to the fact, but as to the nature of the union. It was not a true graft ; the wood of the 

 tree may have supplied nutriment to the branch, not by union of its vessels, but by the 

 decay of the vessels surrounding it ; and, from the nature of the case, such a union must have 



been short-lived. A very excellent marmalade maybe made with pears, to use in making 



tartlets. Boil six good-sized pears to a pulp ; weigh them ; take half their weight of sugar, 

 put into a saucepan, with a very little water, boil it, and skim it while boiling ; when 

 thoroughly boiled, add the pulp of the pears ; give the whole a boil, and add about four 



drops of the oil of cloves. In Italy, baked beets are carried about, hot from the oven, 



twice a day, and sold in the streets, giving to thousands, with bread, salt, pepper, and butter, 

 a satisfactory meal. By baking them, the rich saccharine matter, which is lost by boiling, 



is in a great measure retained ; this mode is strongly recommended for trial. A friend, 



who professes to like our Kew Gardens' articles, invites us to a description of Chatsworth. 

 A good description of this regal place of the Duke of Devonshire would fill a number of 

 the Horticulturist, and be then imperfect ; the best account we have seen, is in the first 

 volume (1846) of this periodical, page 298. About one hundred and forty men are con- 

 stantly employed on the grounds near the house. When we saw it, the old duke, who is 

 deaf as a post, was playing cricket with the Earl of Burlington, the next heir, and a bevy 

 of the sons of the latter, assisted by some of the best cricketers among the workmen. We 



shall, perhaps, some time look up our notes. Watering the bark, and not watering the 



roots, of a transplanted tree, then in a half-dormant state, has been strongly recommended. 

 Downing said somewhere, that there was no doubt half the trees that die annually from 



