DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



butter made from the milk is finely colored and 

 highly flavored. 



Ill soils containing proper proportions of 

 boiic-dnst, .sulpliuric acid, potash, and com- 

 mon salt, 800 bushels of long orange, or 1100 

 bushels of^ white Belgian carrots may be easily 

 raised per acre, while the same land will not 

 produce one-tenth the quantity of oats. We 

 have sold our crop of carrots this year to the 

 livery stable keepers of Newark, at 50 cents 

 per bushel, and we could have sold another 

 thousand bushels or more at the same price." 



Evergreen IIjedges. — j1 Friend to Improve- 

 ment, (Northampton, Mass.) We prefer the 

 Norway Spruce to the Hemlock, for a hedge, 

 because it grows faster, and makes a stronger 

 barrier. As the shoots of the latter tree are 

 slender and pliant, they require to be sheared 

 many years before they form an impenetrable 

 hedge. In point of beauty, there are few 

 hedges that surpass a hemlock — as some fine 

 hedges near Philadelphia bear witness. Plants 

 six to eighteen inches high, are the most suita- 

 ble. Your soil would be improved by trench- 

 ing, or sub-soil ploughing. 



Painting. — E. B.P., (Springfield, Illinois.) 

 You have painted your house a drab, and the 

 cornices, window-dressings, &c., a brown-stone 

 color. The best effect, then, for your blinds, 

 will be obtained by painting the frame of the 

 blinds the same dark brown, and the slats, or 

 lufTer boards, the same drab as the house. 



Rose Seedlings. — ^ Lover of Roses, (Frank- 

 lin Co., Pa.) To raise roses from seed, you 

 should gather the seeds when fully ripe, divest 

 them of the pulp, mix the seeds with sand, and 

 put this sand in a flower-pot or box, covering 

 the surface with something to prevent the mice 

 from devouring the seeds. Then place the pot 

 or box in the cellar, and keep the sand moist. 

 "VYhen the spring opens, sow the seeds in a com- 

 mon hot-bed, and when the plants are about an 

 inch high, transplant them into a rich, light bor- 

 der, shading them till established. When the 

 seeds are sown in the ordinary way, they fre- 

 quently lie two, and sometimes three years, be- 

 fore vegetating. 



Grape Border for Yineries. — /. (Phila- 

 delphia.) Your border must not be less than 

 wide and 2^ feet deep. If the sub-soil 

 ous, so that it drains itself, that will an- 



swer; if clayey, you must make the border 

 three inches lower, filling the bottom with 

 brick-bats and oyster-shells, and cutting a drain 

 from the lowest side of the border, to carry off 

 the wet. Taking it for granted that the natu- 

 ral soil, where the border is to be made, is a 

 good loam, let your border be composed as fol- 

 lows: One-half loam, one-fourth stable ma- 

 nure, one-eighth broken oyster-shells and bones, 

 and one eighth decomposed vegetable matter — 

 such as decayed leaves from the woods, decom- 

 posed black earth from swamps, or sods chop- 

 ped up. To a border of this kind, 25 feet long, 

 add a cart-load of leached wood ashes, and a 

 peck of plaster of Paris. The whole should 

 be mixed very thoroughly together. The best 

 three or four sorts for a cold vinery, are the fol- 

 lowing — Black Hamburgh, Muscat of Alexan- 

 dria, Royal Muscadine, Grizzly Frontingnan. 



Stowell's Sweet Corn. — R. S. Knight, 

 (Waterloo, N. Y.) If you refer to the article 

 again, you will see that the seed is to be had of 

 Prof. Mapes, Newark, N. J., and not of us. 



Pruning. — (West Jersey.) The best time to 

 head-back the old forest trees you describe, is 

 immediately before the sap starts. Brush over 

 the wounds, in all cases, with the liquid shel- 

 lac, (gum-shellac dissolved in alcohol, to the 

 consistency of thin paint,) described in our 

 work on Fruits. 



Cherry Tree Grubs. — C. P., (Granville, 

 0.) Push a small wire into all the holes con- 

 taining the grubs, and thus kill all you can. 

 About the first of May, coat ovei* all the trunks 

 and larger branches of the trees affected, or li- 

 able to be attacked, with a mixture of soft-soap 

 and tobacco- water, put on as thick as it will 

 work easily from the brush. If you leave it 

 till June, it will be too late — the grub coming 

 out in a winged state then, and depositing its 

 eggs in the bark. The same treatment for the 

 apple-tree borer. Dont prune your apple trees 

 for the mere sake of pruning. If the limbs do 

 not actually interfere, you had better let them 

 alone. 



Dissolving Bones. — /. R. S., (Clarksville, 

 Ga.) To dissolve bones, provide a strong cask, 

 fill it three-fourths full of bones — (broken into 

 pieces if you wish to save time.) Pour over 

 them a mixture of sulphuric acid, (oil of 

 ol, which may be had at the druggists 



