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QriNCE Trees. — If you want good Quinces manure the roots of the trees in NovcmlxT 

 by forking in five or six shovel fulls of fresh stable manure. In spring dig round iIk; 

 trees, and give a broadcast spread of salt making a light coat sufficient to half conceal 

 the ground under each tree. Prune in the autumn, after the fall of the leaf by cutting 

 out mainly old or decayed wood, or branches which make the head too thick or unsight- 

 ly. The finest Quinces we get are from Newport, 11. I., where either the climate, the 

 salt sea air or some quality of the soil produce both a tree and fruit eminently superior 

 to any known about Philadelphia; where the fruit is almost universally unsightly and 

 knotty. A Quince tree in full l)caring at Newport is almost if not quite as handsome an 

 object as an orange tree at St. Augustine, Florida. 



Magnoli.\ Conspicua. — The finest blooming specimens of this glorious tree are grafted 

 on the acuminate; this gives them a compact habit, and with abundance of flowers. 

 The last spring was particularly favorable to the blooming of the Conspicua ; the cold 

 retarded it, and a profusion of flowers were entirely uninjured. St. Patricks day in this 

 neigliborhood usually produces flowers, and between the Saint and his wife and the snow 

 and blow that are all but universal, we have this favorite often terribly knocked about, 

 but if it bloomed but once in five years, we should consider it indespensable. 



A correspondent who has a deep glen near his mansion inquiries hov/ he shall best fill 

 the deepest parts so as to present to the eye an evergreen appearance in looking down 

 upon it. Inequality of ground is often one of its greatest beauties, and care must Ijo 

 used not to obliterate it entirely. Trees grow taller in the valleys than on the hills and 

 will therefore not answer. A green, grassy appearance may be effectually produced in a 

 deep ravine by planting it with American Arbor vitae, placing larger plants in tlie 

 deepest parts, and the smaller on the sides; occasional shearing off the tops to keep 

 them nearly on a level, will produce the desired effect; the plants brought from MaiiK; 

 may with care, and a year or two preparation in nursery rows, be procured at very 

 moderate cost, and they will prove not only cheap but better than any other description. 

 Planted young with nothing to interfere with its side shoots, the American Arbor vitae 

 forms a charming screen or hedge in a few years, of eighteen feet in height. A slight 

 objection to this plant is that it becomes brown in winter, but its spring and summer 

 aspect is highly gratifying. It will be well not to neglect our native productions fir 

 semi-hardy evergreens which have given little satisfaction during the late hard winter. 

 AVhere the valley is large and deep, the Norway Spruce may be substituted ; this tree, the 

 gardeners say is on the whole the most generally satisfactory evergreen to the purchaser 

 that they sell. The next that comes into full fashion we hope may be the Hemlock, 

 respecting, the treatment of which we shall hereafter allude. 



Will you please to inform me if Poconies will come up the first season planted in May, or 

 Tvlieu is the right time to plant, or if they require to be frozen before they will germinate, and 

 give me a few items about cultivating them. Please to give me imformatiou through the 

 Journal, Richard Speed. — Centreville Iowa, May 20th 1855. 



e seeds should be sown as soon as ripe, and after one season's growth in the 

 may be transplanted into place for flowering. They are easily managed. 



