DOMESTIC NOTICES, 



cents per lb.) and water, in the proportion of 

 one measure of acid to eight measures of wa- 

 ter. In ten days, or a fortnight, the bones, or 

 most of them, will De found dissolved — and if 

 any remain, a fresh dilution of acid can be ap- 

 plied to them. Whatever acid remains not ta- 

 ken up, should be poured into the compost 

 heap, as it is a very powerful manure. If you 

 cannot procure acid, you may bury a large 

 mass of bones in a heap in tlie earth j they will 

 heat, and gradually decompose of themselves — 

 to aid which, pour hot water over them before 

 covering them up. They are usually ground 

 in a strong mill, without being calcined — when 

 offered for sale as a manure. 



Grafting Grape-vines. — A.M., (Detroit.) 

 Bury your grafts in a cool, shady place, cover- 

 ing two-thirds of the lower part, till the stocks 

 that you wish to graft have begun to grow, and 

 their leaves are as large as a shilling. Then graft, 

 and you will be successful. The great flow of 

 sap, almost destitute of oi'ganizable matter, in 

 the grape-vine, often prevents the graft from uni- 

 ting with the stock, when set at the usual time. 



Peat Earth. — A. P. W., (Columbus.) 

 The common black earth of swamps is of no 

 value as a fertilizer in its raw state — being 

 " sour," or full of acid. It will, therefore, do 

 your trees and plants no good for the first year, 

 if put on fresh from the swamp. You must re- 

 duce it, either by mixing it with fermenting 

 manure, or by treating it with brine, ashes, or 

 lime slaked with brine. The latter is the best 

 mode. But if you wish to make it ready for 

 immediate use, you can mix it with newly slak- 

 ed lime — two bushels to a waggon load. Mix 

 the lime in layers through the heap, and let it 

 lie for a week — turn it over and let it lie a few 

 days more, and it will be ready for use. 



Insects. — A Novice, (Bangor, Me.) If you 

 spread coarse refuse salt over your garden 

 and field, at the rate of sis. bushels to the 

 acre, as soon as the land is fit for working, you 

 will destroy the cut-worm, (the white grub that 

 destroys your vegetables,) and benefit the 

 land. 



Hedges. — A Massachusetts Subscriber. You 

 inquire about our silence respecting the Arbor 

 Vitae as a hedge plant. "We consider the Arbor 

 Vitae the most valuable and useful of all our 

 native evergreen trees, for an inside hedge, or 



screen- — ^but it is hardly fit for an outside hedge, 

 except in civilised parts of the country, like 

 Massachusetts, where animals are not allowed 

 to run at large. 



Girdled Trees. — Fit in a piece of bark from 

 the limb of another apple tree, either all round, 

 or on one side of the spot that has been girdled. 

 If you do it neatly, binding the whole uptight, 

 and covering it from the air by a plaster of 

 grafting clay, the strip of bark will unite like a 

 graft, and the tree will be saved. 



Plum Tree Warts. — /. G. Pease, (Dutch- 

 ess Co., N. Y.) The brancli you sent is not 

 affected by the black wart. The eggs deposit- 

 ed there would hatch, and the branch perish 

 without any wart occuring. 



Transplanting. — H. H. Coit, (East Cleve- 

 land, 0.) We are not aware that any of our 

 nurserymen grow evergreens for sale by the 

 thousand. Traders in native evergreens are in 

 the habit of supplying large quantities of the 

 most popular .sorts — such as Balsam Fir and 

 Spruce, at about $1 to $6 per 100, one to two 

 feet high — packed in crates. The larger num- 

 ber of these trees come from Maine, and a line 

 addressed to Col. Little, Bangor, Me., would 

 probably obtain for you the details of this trade. 

 Your best course regarding foreign evergreens, 

 will be to import them early next fall, from 

 English nurseries. Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, 

 Skira'ING of Liverpool, and Whitley & Os- 

 BORN, Fulham, all deal extensively in these 

 trees. AYrite for a catalogue with prices, and 

 then send your order through IIarnden & Co., 

 N. Y., or any shipping house with whom you 

 can deposit the money — or buy a bill of ex- 

 change, and .send it in your letter containing 

 the order. The Italian grai)e you mention, 

 (Pitsiotclla) we do not know. /. W. Gray, 

 (New Fairfield, Ct.) Trees are of the best 

 size for transplanting from the woods to the 

 nursery, at from 4 to 6 feet. Shorten back the 

 tops well. If they are to be sent a distance, 

 cover the roots with old cotton bagging, and 

 the tops with straw. The seeds of the Hicko- 

 ry nut should be planted in the fall. 



Special Manures. — An Orchardist, (Mor- 

 ristown, N. J.) The reason you failed to get 

 any good from the toj)-dressing of lime and ash- 

 es that you gave your fruit trees, is, from your 

 account, very plain to us. Your trees have com- 



