EDITOR'S TABLE. 



(J. D., Warren, R. I.) Grapery — Vines can be obtained at any of the nurseries, at fifty to 

 seventy-five cents each. Any nurseryman -will send you a priced list. We never recommend. 

 The border may be partly inside and partly outside, or all outside if more convenient. The 

 water should be pumped into a barrel or tank a few hours before it is used in watering the 

 inside border ; but we do not think it would do any serious harm to pump directly from the 

 cistern upon the border. A good border may be made by putting a layer of broken bones, shells, 

 &c., six inches deep in the bottom, and filling with a compost of about three parts of turfy loam 

 from an old pasture, and one of well decomposed stable manure. 



Chorlton's Treatise can be had of Saxton, in New York. 



Graiting Evergreens. — Grafted evergreens are generally not of much value. The Spruces 

 may be grafted on one another, not on Pines. 



We wish to obtain a description of the size, color, and quality of the following varieties of Plums : 1 , Italian Prune ; 

 2, Xorman Perdrigen; S, Sugar ; 4, Belle cle Piom; b. Large Ped Thonlouse; 6, Merveille de Kew Kent; 

 7, Crtithrie's Topaz; 8, Leicintovyn Egg. We have examined all the works on the subject in our possession, but can 

 find no mention of them. We might, we presume, get all the particulars from the nurserjman from whom we obtained 

 them, but we have already been sufficiently " tricked " by him, to destroy all faith in the correctness of any descrip- 

 tion he might furnish us. An Old Subsckibee. — Ilamilton, C. W. 



The only one in the list which we can speak of from experience is the first. Fellemberg, Italian 

 Prntie, aud Swiss Prune, have proved identical with us ; a large oval, dark bluish purple Plum, 

 of excellent quality ; tree, a stout grower, of low, spreading habit, and very productive. Nos, 3 

 and 8 are American sorts, which we have only heard of Ko. 7 is an English or Scotch sort, 

 found in the English catalogues and described "a late, yellow, good Plum." Nos. 2, 4, 5, and G, 

 are strangers to us, even in name. Will some one else supply the information? 



PEuinT me to ask you two questions I anxiously desire to have answered. 



Will the Norway Spruce shear handsomly for a hedge four or five feet high ? Have you ever seen a specimen ? (1) 

 What is a good hardening substance for paths on a sandy soil, in lieu of gravel, which is very scarce here ? (2) 

 Coal tar is easily procured. Can a good path be made by mixing it with sand ? A &uBacRiBET..—Spri7igJield. 



(1) The Norway Spruce bears the shears as well as the Arbor Yitce. We have frequently 

 seen trees shorn, but not hedges. 



(2) You can no doubt make a good hard walk with coal tar and coarse sand ; but we can not 

 recommend it. The color will always be disagreeable, and if concealed by a thin coat of gravel 

 on the top, the walking will not be pleasant. With a foot deep of small stones in the middle of 

 your walk, a thin coat of gravel wiU suflice. Walks made of tar and gravel, or any of these 

 materials, which form a concrete, are good on hill-side?, where gravel washes by heavy rains. 

 Considering the influence that a good gravel walk has upon both the beauty and comfort of a 

 garden, it is worth while to incur some trouble and expense to secure it. 



Grapes.— I wish you would tell me if you know what to do with my Grape vines. They are of the iMlella and 

 Cataicha varieties, planted in not very stiff clay, or red soil. I have tried every experiment, and worked them in 

 every way recommended by the most approved cultivators, and yet can not succeed in getting a crop of Grapes. I 

 have pruned them close and moderately ; 1 have also suffered them to go without pruning; I have manured them in 

 every way that I can think of— with fresh, and old stall manure — with muck, ashes, lime, plaster, bone-dust, and 

 guano ; I have worked them deep and shallow, and suffered them to grow without working ; I have kept them clean, 

 and left them in the grass ; I have them in close soil, and in gravel — and yet I can get no fruit. They put out pro- 

 fusely, and grow off thrifty, ever)' spring- are loaded with fruit until it obtains its full growth, and promises an abun- 

 dant croR, and then begins to rot A black speck first makes its appearance, and then spreads rapidly, until the whole 

 become perfectly black, and then drops or dries up on the vine — most commonly the latter. What do not take that 

 course, remain on the vines perfectly green until near Christmas, and then gr.idually dry up. Last fall the larger por- 

 tion of my crop was in tliat condition — so fair and flourishing, apparently, that I did not despair of their ripening, 

 until winter fairly set in. I have searched various works to find something on the subject, but have found nothing to 

 throw any light on it. If such a state of things has ever come under your notice, and you can give me any informa- 

 tion on the subject, it will be thankfully received. J. C. — Hanover Co., Va. 



We submit this case to our readers ; perhaps some of them may have had similar experience 

 bund a remed}'. For our own part we think the chief difficulty lies in the soil A red 

 not suited to the Grape. 



