DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



grouping theiii on your lawn about your house, 

 than in making the shrubbery walks you speak 

 of. The large trees, (moved in winter with 

 balls,) will give you shade and foliage immedi- 

 ately — and next year, if you cannot afford to 

 do both now — you may plant your shrubbery, 

 and complete the minor details. 



Village Church. — B. It would have been 

 easy to design a simple gothic church, to be 

 built of stone, and to accommodate the same 

 number, for the same sum that the committee 

 have determined to expend upon the building 

 they have erected. "We have sent you the 

 sketch, and you can determine which would 

 look most like a church. The whole cost would 

 be about $6,500. 



Hedges. — A German Subscriber, (Bucks Co. 

 Pa.) The hardiest and best hedge in this cli- 

 mate, for farmers, is the Buckthorn. You 

 can get the young plants for $5 to $6 per 1000, 

 at the nurseries, or j' ou may buy the seeds, and 

 sow them as you would peas, and after they 

 have grown one year in the rows, transplant 

 them into a hedge. To plant the hedge, clean 

 the ground of all rubbish, plow the space three 

 feet wide, and deeply, (running the plow twice 

 in the same furrow,) and give it a dressing of 

 manure from the barn-yard . The plants should 

 be set in a double row, six inches apart — not op- 

 posite to each other, but alternate. 



Trenching. — .4 Constant Header, (Port- 

 land.) The difficulty you complain of in your 

 garden, arises from want of drainage. You 

 must contrive to run one deep drain through it, 

 at least, so as to prevent the water standing in 

 winter and spring. After doing that, trenching 

 it will work wonders, but not without drainage. 

 The brine-ashes you speak of, will be the best 

 possible manure for it, and you may use them 

 at the rate of 300 bushels to the acre, with 

 great advantage. 



Trees for Poor Soil. — Arbor. ATe know 

 of nothing that will do so well on your dry, gra- 

 velly hills, as the European Larch and the Nor- 

 way Spruce. If you want a great number, 

 you had better import plants a foot or eighteen 

 inches high, from the English nurseries. They 

 may be had for a few dollars per 1,000. 



Green-houses. — i. R., (Richmond.) You 

 have injured your plants by watering them with 

 manure when in a half dormant state, 

 had been growing freely at the time. 



it would have benefitted them. — A 

 (Brooklyn, N. Y.) The temperature of your 

 green-house should not be kept so high at night 

 — but always several degrees lower than in the 

 day time. It is contrary to natural laws to 

 have the nights hotter than the day, even in 

 the tropics, and if your plants are forced to 

 grow most at night, the stems will be feeble and 

 sickly. — B. Jones. Your green-house,we should 

 think, needs more air. If you can contrive to 

 introduce it warm, then you can ventilate the 

 house in all weathers which will benefit the 

 plants amazingly. Cannot you form a little air 

 chamber over the hottest part of the flue — 

 either of bricks or sheet iron, and introduce 

 cold air, by a tin tube, through the outside 

 wall. This air-chamber will then pour in a 

 stream of warm air whenever there is a fire in 

 the furnace, and when there is none, you can 

 shut the cold off by a lid or valve. When the 

 weather is very cold, so that large fires are 

 necessary, you should occasionally sprinkle the 

 the flues with hot water in the mornings. — M. 

 L. P., (Jefferson Co., IST. Y.) You may save 

 one-half the fuel consumed by having light 

 shutters to cover your glass at night. The 

 extremes of cold will also be prevented, greatly 

 to the benefit of the plants. 



Evergreen Seeds. — F. Jones, (Clarke Co., 

 Ky .) Seeds of the Deodar and Araucaria can- 

 not we think, be procured in this country. It 

 is possible that by addressing Messrs. Whitley 

 and Osborne, Eulham, near London, they may 

 be obtained. 



Grafting Seedling Pear Stocks. — A. 

 Birdseij, (Middletown.) It will make no dif- 

 ference as to the liability to blight at what age 

 j^ou graft the seedlings. When they are half 

 an inch in diameter they are large enough, and 

 they may be budded with success when only 

 two years old. Double grafting is not at all 

 necessary for your purpose. The most profita- 

 ble winter pear is the Pound, and the most 

 profitable summer pear the Bartlett. 



Books. — ./l. N. (Louisville, Ky.) Gray's 

 Botany of the Northern States. You will also 

 find Eaton's Manual of Botany a useful hand- 

 book. — Walter, (Buflalo.) The volume you 

 want is Repton's Landscape Gardening. Buist's 

 American Flower Garden Directory will give 

 you the culture of all the most popular 

 exotics. 



