DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



Bonne de Jersey is one of the most regular and 

 plentiful bearers. Doyenne Boussock is large 

 and delicious. Beurre Gris d'Hiver Nouveau 

 is one of the finest new winter pears, melting, 

 high flavored, and a good bearer. (It would 

 be better to call it simply Gray winler Beurre.) 

 Lawrence is also a first rate winter pear for the 

 dessert, of native origin. Swan's Egg is — good 

 for nothing. The following is the complete list 

 of best pears for general cultivation adopted at 

 the two meetings of the Pomological Congress. 

 It may be taken as the results of leading fruit 

 growers' experience, viz: Early Pears — Made- 

 leine,Eostiezer, Dearborn's Seedling, Bloodgood, 

 Andrews, Tyson. Autumn Pears — Bartlett, 

 Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Buflfum, Fondante 

 d'Automne, Seckel, Fulton, Flemish Beauty, 

 Beurre Bosc, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Urban- 

 iste. Winter Pears — "Winter Nelis, Beurre d' 

 Aremberg. Fine Pears for -particular locali- 

 ties — White Doyenne (Butter pear or Virga- 

 lieu,) Graj' Doyenne. Late cooking Pears — 

 Yicar of Winkfield, Avedale, St. Gei-main or 

 Pound. In selecting a site for pears choose an 

 aspect not too warm or southern, for the direct 

 sun does harm in mid-summer and mid- winter; 

 choose or make a deep soil, keep your trees low 

 and bushy, and always protect the roots in sum- 

 mer by mulching the surface of the ground. 



Shrcbs. — j1 Lady Gardener, (Pittsburgh, 

 Pa.) The best shrubs for small grounds are 

 not those solely remarkable for beauty of blos- 

 som or fruit, for these usually last but a few 

 days, but those with good foliage and fine habit 

 of growth. It is better to multiply such, than 

 to have a great variety — merely for the sake of 

 variety — if your object is picturesque embellish- 

 ment rather than botanical rarity. We recom- 

 mend to you, as answering this description the 

 following: Virginian Fringe tree (grows 6 or 8 

 feet,) Venetian Sumac, (10 feet,) Cornelian 

 Cherry, (10 feet,) Purple Strawberry tree, 

 (7 feet,) Oak leaved Hydrangea (3 feet,) Mag- 

 nolia obovata, (6 feet;) Early white Viburnum, 

 (8 feet;) Eose Weigela, (3 feet;) Rough leaved 

 Deutzia, (4 feet;) Spirea Lindlyeana, (3 feet;) 

 Tartarian bush Honeysuckles, 3 sorts, (3 to 5 

 feet;) Dwarf Horse Chestnut, (3 feet;) Tree 



Paeonies, (2^ feet.) Manure your shrubberies 

 by top-dressing them with manure at this sea- 

 son of the year — rather than spring, and you 

 wi[l find the advantage of it. 



Vines. — Ibid. The best woody vines for the 

 trellis of a vei-anda are the following: Chinese 

 twining Honeysuckle, Yellow trumpet Honey- 

 suckle, Cliinese Wistaria, sweet scented Cle- 

 matis, Tecoma grandiflora and the Virginia 

 creeper. Ivy does better (north of 42° lat.) 

 on the north side of buildings than the south 

 side. The Dutchman's pipe vine is very hardy, 

 with large picturesque foliage and will cover a 

 large trellis or arbor. 



Geeen House Plants. — M. E. Irtvin, 

 (Southbridge, Mass.) The proper soil for the 

 plants you name — Gardenia Fortunia, ^schy- 

 nanthus Hrsofleldii, JE. zebrina, Hoya bella, 

 and Chorizema varium — is the following: one- 

 third pure loam, (say the rotted sods of an old 

 pasture,) one third decomposed manure (old 

 spent hot-beds,) one-third leaf mould from the 

 woods, and add to the whole as much wliite 

 sand as will make the compost light and porous. 

 The plants may all be grown in a common green 

 house temperature, but all of them, except the 

 Gardenia, should be kept in the warmest part 

 of the green-house, with plenty of light, and 

 watered as often as the soil appears in the least 

 dry. Florella, (l<ew-London.) Pot Chinese 

 Primroses in light rich soil — old spent hot-bed 

 mould and silver sand, give them plenty of Ava- 

 ter and keep them as close to the glass as you 

 can. If you plunge your hj^acinths in pots 

 in a hot-bed frame filled with tan-bark, and 

 keep them near the glass, and sprinkle them 

 every day, they will do better there than in 

 the green-house till the weather becomes very 

 frosty. Oleafragrans and Daphne odora are 

 the two most deliciously scented green-house 

 plants. The foi-mer blooms all winter, and has 

 the scent of violets. Begonia fuchsioides is as 

 handsome as any Fuchsia in its blossoms, and 

 in a warm green-house it blooms almost per- 

 petually. In a cold one it thrives but poorly. 

 The little daisy flowered chrysanthemums with 

 flowers no larger than a daisy, are a great ac- 

 quisition to the green-house at this season. 



