editob's table. 



Keeping Latk Pbaes in lar^'e glass jars auswers a good purpose. When the pears are 

 gathered from the trees they are laid iu the fruit-room for a week or ten days until they 

 are qnite dry. Kach pear is then wrapped in paper and placed in the jars. When there 

 is not sufficient fruit of one sort to fill a jar, then a late kind is put at tlie bottom and an 

 earlier sort at top ; when the jars are filled, they are 8toi)ped up and sealed ; the name of 

 the sort or sorts is written on a label, which is fastened to the handle. They are then all 

 placed in the fruit-room, where they remain until used. Late kinds kept iu this way, 

 when used in March and April, were most excellent. 



Albany Seedlixo. — Mr. John Wilson, of Albany, N. Y., will accept our thanks for fine 

 plants of the Albany Seedling Strawberry, to give an opjiortunity of testing its merits, which 

 we shall do. 



Vine Disease. — In Mr. Buchanan's valuable " Calendar" of last month, he gave a melan- 

 choly account of the loss of the crop of grapes at Cincinnati ; the news from Portugal is 

 also unfavorable. 



Answers to Correspondents. — Cemeteries. — " In a cemetery in the country, where the 

 population is limited, and where it will be necessary to depend mainly on beautifying and 

 improving the natural advantages of the grounds, and not on extensive inclosures and 

 monuments," it will be well, in the first place, to remove all unsightly trees and objects of 

 every kind ; to make only the necessary walks, as future expense will be thus avoided, 

 and to plant such trees in variety as will permanently adorn the place, and be suited to 

 the climate ; the greater the variety, provided they are properly chosen, the better. Neat- 

 ness and cleanliness follow as a matter of course ; select a superintendent who has a good 

 eye to order, and who possesses some knowledge of trees ; if he has not this requisite, he 

 must be overlooked by a president or manager who has. 



"The best mode of inclosing the outward boundaries" will be found to be stone, and it 

 will be the cheapest in the end. It may be either a dry wall, or made with ordinary 

 mortar ; where it supports a bank of earth it should be laid on a deep foundation, and be 

 made amply thick; such banks are constantly pressing outwards, and this process is 

 assisted by the alternate freezing and thawing. 



" Indicating single lots without inclosing with a fence, railing, or hedge," may be simply 

 effected by placing a square marble block at one or two corners of each lot with the name 

 or number carved on the top. This block need not project more than an inch or two, and 

 if it is sunk to a level with the ground, it will be out of the way of the scythe — an im- 

 portant consideration in a place that of all others should be kept regularly mowed. 



" For a hedge for single lots," the holly, if possible ; if not, the various arbor-vita?s, 

 especially the American and Siberian. See our former essays on cemeteries, in the Ilorti- 

 culturist for last year. 



(W. W.) The plant No. 1 is the Stagger-bush, Andromeda Mariana, growing in sandy, 

 low places from Rhode Island to Virginia ; the foliage is said to poison lambs and calves. 

 No. 2 is Samphire, Salicornia herbacea. It is found along the Jersey sea-coast, in salt 

 marshes, and at Salina, N. Y., and at other interior salt springs; so that Shakspeare's 

 " dreadful trade" can be followed in America without risk. Name from sal, salt, and cornu, 

 a horn : saline plants with horn-like branches. It is used on the English coasts as a pickle, 

 and is quite good for that purpose ; with the vinegar, it turns to a lively red color, some- 

 thing like red cabbage. 



Training the Dog. — Col. Hutchinson's new work on training the dog (respecting which, 

 several gentlemen have written to us, in consequence of a former short notice), is an Engli 



