DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



with admiration and a feeling of despair of ever being able to equal or surpass it; and was 

 accustomed to say, as he looked up to it, " Like thee I will not build, and better I can- 

 not;" 3^et he ended in building both like it and better. The dome of St. Peter's is both 

 larger and far more grceful in its design. The st^'le of this Cathedral is especially inte- 

 resting, as it marks the point of departure from the Greek and Roman forms, and the in- 

 troduction of the modern style of the Gothic. It is of a mi.xed character, like the great 

 Cathedral of Pisa, (neither wholly the one nor wholly the other — the new, however, pre- 

 dominating very decidedly) — and which, in its more completed forms, has erected the 

 noblest religious buildings in the world." 



Snnirsttr SntitH. 



Timely Hints on Transplanting. — Novices 

 In planting always think it quite sufficient to 

 place the roots of the newly moved tree in the 

 earth again; old planters take care to prepare 

 deep and wide holes — throwing out all the clayey 

 or poor sub-soil, and mixing the good soil with 

 plenty of manure or compost. New planters 

 replant the routs just as they are — broken and 

 bruised by lifting them out of the ground ; old 

 planters carefully smooth the ends of all bruised 

 roots and cut off all broken ones — knowing very 

 well that such roots, if not cut off, lead to a 

 diseased condition of things under ground. 

 Young planters are content with shovelling in 

 the earth upon the roots and tramping it down 

 with the foot till the tree is quite firm — ^by 

 which many hollows are left under the tree and 

 among the roots — whereby mouldy roots, feeble 

 growth and often death ensues; old planters 

 make it a vital point to see with their own eyes 

 and feel with their own fingers that the fine soil 

 reaches every fibre, and that not a single hollow 

 is left among the larger roots. Young planters 

 bury a tree three or four inches deeper than it 

 stood before — by which the roots are put so far 

 below the kindly influences of the air that the 

 tree either dies at once or lives the life of a half- 

 starved mendicant for years, scarcely growing 

 at all ; old planters plant the tree scarcely so 

 deep as before, knowing that the roots will run 

 down easily, though it is hard for them to run 

 up. Young planters plant their trees on alevel, 

 by which, when the ground settles, they find 

 their trees too deep: old i)lanters plant them 

 on a slight hillock, by which, when the ground 

 settles, they stand precisely as they ought. 

 Young planters, with their fine tender-hearted- 



ness, cannot bear to shorten the limbs of trans- 

 planted trees, and hence their trees struggle 

 hard to live, and probably stand still for a year 

 or two to recover; old planters, with their 

 hard-earned better judgment, shorten-back half 

 or two-thirds of the growth of the current year 

 on all the leading shoots, in all cases — and in 

 trees that have been much mutilated at the 

 roots, they head-in the main branches still more, 

 till some of balance is restored, so that their 

 trees push out vigorous shoots the first year, 

 and at the end of three years are far larger and 

 handsomer than the unpruned lieads of the 

 young planters. And, finally, young planters 

 often waste money in staking fall planted trees 

 to hold them up, even in positions not windy; 

 while old planters raise a hillock of earth over 

 the roots eight or ten inches high, thereby 

 steadying the tree, and protecting the roots till 

 spring, when the soil being well settled, they 

 take it away and the tree will stand alone. 



The Hort. Shows and Festivals. — The 

 month of September has been an unusually gay 

 one among both the Agriculturists and Horti- 

 culturists all over the land. Shows have been 

 numerous and fine, and in several instances they 

 have closed with festivals, dinners or balls, that 

 have united the sympathies of the outside pub- 

 lic and the immediate votai ies of the art very 

 happily. New Haven, Rochester and Norfolk 

 County, seem to have been especially fortunate 

 in these festivals. We regret that our nume- 

 rous professional engagements prevented our 

 accepting the many kind invitations to these 

 fairs and festivals, which have been 

 showered down upon us, and for which 



