editor's table. 



ing. Tlio Wappattoo is somewhat similar, but larger, and not bo dry or delicate in its flavor. 

 They are found in immense quantities, and have bright, ultramarine blue flowers. What a 

 pity Mr. Paul Kane cannot tell us what they are. 



Mr. Editok : I was much pleased with the picture of an aviary you lately i)roraulgated. 

 If birds in confinement only would not die, and thus satisfy us they were happy and con- 

 tented, I should be very apt to 

 keep them by hundreds ; but 

 sad experience in losing ray 

 pets, has told mo to keep only 

 the saucy and hardy in con- 

 finement. Parrots are now my 

 hobby, and, after two years' 

 trial, I have not lost one out of 

 twenty. The accompanying 

 parrot-house might very well 

 be combined with a vinery, 

 where, under the shadow of 

 purple grapes, a number of va- 

 riegated (tulip) parrots might 

 find sufficient room to be saucy 

 and happy. The design is in 

 the Moorish style. Sashes or 

 trellis-work, made to fit accurately, would render it secure in winter. A collection of par- 

 rots and paroquets, would have a splendid effect in such a building, and give it a truly 

 Oriental appearance. Figaro. 



Answers to Correspondents. — (A. D.) According to Dr. Gray, the Washington Elm at 

 Cambridge, Mass. — a tree of no extraordinary size — was some years ago estimated to pro- 

 duce a crop of seven millions of leaves, exposing a surface of about five acres of foliage. 

 If, for neatness' sake, or to obtain leaf-mould, you gather this annual harvest of leaves, 

 you will, in time, take away great quantities of mineral as well as organized matter, by 

 which the soil will be impoverished, unless it is restored by manures. 



Moles may be killed easily and safely, thus : Take a quantity of fresh earth worms ; put 

 them in a wooden box with a small quantity of carbonate of barytes, in powder ; lay in 

 the runs five or six worms, and continue doing so as long as the worms are can-ied away by 

 the moles. 



The Horticulturist, in 1847, did state that Stephanoti's floribunda (a native of Madagascar) 

 will answer well as a summer climber in the open border, if protected in the greenhouse in 

 winter. It is difficult, in this climate, to have it so, though occasionally it will succeed. At 

 the South, it would make one of the handsomest vines possible to possess. 



City Trees. — If A. will recollect, he has rarely, if ever, seen a good specimen of an ever- 

 green in the heart of a large city. The air is uncongenial to their growth. 



(W. F. Fall.) Your communication, for the reasons assigned, was laid aside, and is 

 now unfortunately lost. When your present season's experience is perfected, we shall be 

 rejoiced to hear from you again on the former and other subjects. 



A. J. N. had better apply to a bookseller at once. 



(A Subscriber.) It is difficult to keep verbenas over the winter without a greenhouse ; 



