2EI£>221^<1>^®^ 1i?^Is^l£»^a 



Anstters to Correspoxdexts. — (G. F. S., Battle Creek.) By the portion of a leaf and 

 tlic description sent, your Strawljcrry would appear to belong to the "Boston Pine," but 

 fur your assertion that the fruii is "much more delicious than Burr's Pine," which in our 

 opinion the Boston Pine never is. Send us a few berries at the proper season, and you 

 shall have a more decided answer. 



(T. M.) If you want a rapid, even rampant grower, plant in tolerably rich soil the 

 Wistaria Sinensis, and give it time to get a good root. It exhibits best its rare beauty 

 when trained up the trunk of a tree, or better still, a strong pole or upright wire trellice, 

 so that many of its smaller branches may hang loosely in "graceful negligence." Ex- 

 posed to the light on a trellice the flowers are of a brighter color than when in the shade. 

 If the young shoots are pinched back in the spring, this plant will flower again in the 

 fall. Framed on the walls of a house to extend round several sides, a succession of 

 flowers, commencing from the warmest aspect, may be had for weeks. The honey from 

 the flowers is poisonous to bees and bumbles. 



(J. II. B.) The vine you find so much to resemble the Grape in leaf and habit is the 

 Ampelopsis cordifolia; it attains a great size, running over the highest trees in the man 

 ner of the wild Grape. It is not considered either useful or particularly ornamental, but 

 it is curious for its remarkable "imitation," if we dare to use the word, of a productive 

 vine. 



(P. T.) Gold Fish. — It is true that the gold fish has become naturalised in the 

 Schuylkill above Philadelphia, or rather perhaps we should say in the Fairmount dam — 

 a distance of miles. They were introduced by the breaking of a fish pond many years 

 ago. The boys offer them for sale in winter of a large size, and fit for stocking your 

 lake, at from ten to fifty cents each. There are hundreds of natural lakes and artificial 

 dams where they would multiply enormously. Last winter, while constructing some 

 dams on a small stream of spring water which empties into the Schuylkill, we requested 

 the Irish laborers to purchase any gold fish that might be offered, and place them in the 

 dams. A few days only elapsed before the works were completed, and on taking a view 

 of them our intelligent superintendent related the following adventure. The cold had 

 been intense, and had frozen the river to an unusual depth ; the gold fishes, big and 

 little, repaired to the mouth of our little stream in great numbers, probably for the 

 greater warmth of the water ; the freshet having meantime subsided, the man went to 

 the river to see its effects, when lo ! the ice had fallen and had caught in a trap at the 

 creek's mouth, ten dozen fine large "goldies," which were taken by the hand, filling a 

 large washing tub, and thus our new water was stocked at once. Why should not the 

 smaller lakes of Western New York be stocked with these beautiful pets? 



(L. D. DuRGiN, Washington Territory.) We have sent you catalogues of seeds and 



scions may be sent by careful packing, if you indicate the route by which they 



travel. 



