editor's taijle. 



more thoroughly and sucoessfully blonds the useful with the ayrceabh than any other el. 

 nieiitaiy trt-atiso extant. Were Horace now living, and duly /los/r*/ on the subject, I ain 

 suro ho would say of it: "Omnr tulit ptitictum." 



Tho illustrations are as ample, and so complete, so strictly sci(>ntific, yet so plain and 

 familiar, that tho way-faring boy, though a booby, cannot fail to comprehend them. I would 

 therefore advise all the youthful listeners around your editorial table who would provide a 

 store of pleasant knowledge for future enjoyment, to avail themselves forthwith of the aid 

 thus furnished by an accomplished teacher. Yours, truly, Se.nex. 



April, 1857. 



CoBOUBG, C. W., Feb. 18, 1857. 



Mr. Editor : You say the Cloth of Gold is the finest Climbing Rose ! If it is anything 

 like the old Cloth of Gold, we would like to know where it is to be had, and how it is pro- 

 pagated? By layers ? by cuttings ? or by budding? B. Loser. 



Ans. By all. 



Sir : A corresjKyndent in the February number wishes to know a remedy to prevent mice 

 from girdling trees. The best thing I ever found, is to put white birch bark, in June or July, 

 from trees four or five inches through ; it will curl up very readily, and may be placed 

 around the tree in the fall, and earthed up a little. It may also be laid in the spring, for 

 another season, it being very durable. This will prevent the mice from working under. 

 Earthing up twelve or fifteen inches is a very good plan in the fall, and remove it in tho 

 spring. Mice often come out from the rubbish about the fences, such as brush or stone 

 heaps, or from woodlands. Grass should be grazed off about the fences in the fall ; it is a 

 great harbor for mice. Yours, B. Loser, Nurseryman. 



Cohourg, C. W. 



The Reason Why. — ^Various and valuable matter loads our tables, which has accumulated 

 during several weeks' absence in the tropics, and which will receive attention immediately. 

 Those who do not hear from us before this number reaches them, will please to think of us 

 all but literally buried up in books, catalogues, seeds, advertisements, portraits of fruits 

 and flowers, boxes of apples, bananas, oranges, tropical seeds, herbariums, shells, and coral 

 rocks, &c., and then make whatever excuses for omissions on our part they can conjure up. 

 A person who was fired at as a target from the Moro Castle, must be considered privileged 

 to take time to collect his thoughts. 



By a reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that it is the intention of Mr. 

 Caleb Cope to offer at public sale his superb collections of plants, besides the entire estate. 

 Philadelphians are too well acquainted with the latter — its natural beauties, salubrity, and 

 elegant improvements — to render it necessary for us to direct their attention to the announce- 

 ment ; but it will aid our distant friends to observe that such an opportunity to add tho 

 richest floral gems to their collections has certainly never been offered before, and one which 

 we are sure they will not be slow to avail themselves of. The collection of Cactuses alone, 

 has but few rivals in tho world, and probably such another, embracing such fine and rare 

 specimens, could not be got together again without years of labor, and great expense. We 

 cannot close this notice without referring to a magnificent specimen of the Brownea grandi- 

 ceps, which the collection contains ; perhaj^s second only to the renowned Amherstia nolilis 

 in rarity, grandeur, and beauty. Fortunate, indeed, will be the lucky man who secures it. 



