(D. E. G., Haviland Hollow, N. Y.) Transplanting Evergreens. — We prefer the spring for all, 

 when the groimJ is diy and warm, and the season of growth near at hand. The "Common Wood 

 Laurel," by wliieh we suppose you mean the Kalmia, can be transplanted very well. You will 

 see some hints respecting it in our last volume. 



Scions or trees of the American Weeping Willow can be had in most of the nurseries now. 



(W. B., Salem, Wis.) Aspauagus. — We will have an article soon, that will give you the desired 

 information; meantime we will say, that to have it '^ early without forcing, hardy and produc- 

 tive," you must have a deep, rich, dry and warm soil. It should be trenched eighteen inches or 

 two feet deep, and highly manured; cold manure is the best. The plants should be a foot apart 

 each way, and the beds should be about four feet wide, with a path between. The plants should 

 be one or two years old from the seed, and when planted should be covered about four inches 

 deep with fine surface soil. Details will be given hereafter. 



(P., Hamilton county, Ohio.) Evergreens. — As we have answered another correspondent, we 

 should prefer spring for transplanting, when the ground is dry and warm and growth about to 

 commence. Where they can be moved with a ball of earth, it may be done at any convenient 

 time, except the very hottest of mid-summer weather. For a belt of evergreens to shelter a fruit 

 garden, we would advise Norway Spruce, White Pine, Austrian Pine, and Hemlock, one half to 

 be Norway Spruce, the others in equal numbers, or as near that as might be convenient. Plant 

 in double and tripple rows, placing the trees in one row opposite spaces in the other, and mix- 

 ing the sorts so as to produce pleasing contrasts between their various shades. You might plant 

 ten or twelve feet apart, and thin out afterwards, as growth would render it necessary. European 

 Larch, though deciduous, might be mixed in to advantage. 



(J. G., Clark county, Ohio.) Remedy for the Peacr Worm. — Lay around each tree, early in 

 spring, say April, half a peck to a peck of air-slaked lime, or wood-ashes. Spread them over 

 the ground in the fall and it will make a good dressing. Renew again in the spring. Besides 

 this, examine the trees several times during the season, and if the grub has made its way into 

 any of tlie trees, cut it out. Covering tlie tree with muslin at the time the fly lays her eggs, 

 might be effectual, as you say. The point attacked is generally at the suriace of the ground. 



Six most Valuable Hardy Peaches. — Early York, Crawford Early, Crawford Late, Cooledge 

 Favorite, Old Mixon Free, Red Cheek Melocoton, or Morris White. 



Six most Valuable Orcuard Winter Apples. — Ramho, Yellow Bellflower, Vandcrvere, {Newtoien 

 Spitr.enburg, in Ohio,) Winesap, Newtoivn Pippin, Talmaris Sweeting. These all succeed well in 

 your locality — should not recommend such a list for New York or Eastern States. 



Five most Profitable Cherries — May Duke, Black Tartarian, Napoleon Bigarreau, Monstreuse 

 de Mezcl, Tradcscaxt's Black Heart. 



Five MOST Profitable Winter Pe^vrs. — Vicar of Winkficld, Lawrence, Easter Beurre, Olout Mor- 

 ccau, and Princess St. Germain. 



For Cooking. — Pound or Cattillac. The first is the best keeper. Chaptal and Easter Bergamot 

 are both very profitable cooking Pears. 



Tour correspondent IIoettcola touched on an interesting and important subject, in the December number, when 

 he spoke of hardy J^uropean shrubs. Cannot some one give us the light we so much desire on this point ? The com- 

 mon Privet tries liard to be an evergreen here, but has to give it up about mid-winter. The Mahonia, Box, Savin, 

 and a few other low plants, help the matter a little, but our poverty in this line is very ai)parent. Have not the 

 Chinese a method of dwarfing trees, as well as the feet of their fair ones? If there is such a method, (consisting 

 chiefly, I believe, in a scries of root-prunning,) can wo not apply it to evergreen trees, and thus provide ourselves 

 with a class of dwarfs as substitutes for shrubs ? (1.) The Hemlock, English Yew, Ked Cedar, Swcedish Juniper, and 

 some of the Arbor Vities are bciutiful when young ; and if art can make them permanently small, would they not 

 in some measure compensate for the absence of the Hollies, Laurels, and Ehododendrons, the charm of the English 

 country landscape ? 



1 have a cast-iron article standing on my lawn, which was bought for a vase. It is painted white, in imitation of 

 marble. On visiting a cemetery in a neighboring city, shortly after this purchase, I observed several of the articles, 

 precisely like mine, standing .at the head of graves, and I was told ihat they were called urns. Will you tell 

 ditference between a vase and an urn ? (2.) Is a vase an urn when it stands in a burial-ground, and an urn 



