thri)U"-li their having boon but little demand for them during the few past years, we can 

 searoely tell in whoso establishment they mey bo found — Crategus Coccinea docs not 

 make a good fence. 



Horned cattle will cat locust trees, though not from preference when they can get an 

 abundance of other food. They would be more troublesome to them in hot weather, by 

 endeavouring to rid themselves of flioi, by rubbing against their branches, if there are 

 no woods already in your vicinity to afford them tliat protection, by which many trees 

 would be trodden down and destroyed. Would it not be better to endeavour to raise a 

 hedge of Osage Orange or Honey Locust, around the lot, before planting. If a ditch or 

 trench could be thrown out first it might protect the hedge a little. 



Mumford asks, what descriptions of fruit are best adapted to be grown in Iowa, whither 

 he designs to remove and enter upon the nursery business. 



The apple succeeds admirably in Iowa, and is the stajile crop. Peaches, Plums, Mo- 

 rcllo, and Duke cherries, the native grape, and in many districts pears, such as the Bart- 

 lett, Yergalieu, Stevens' Genesee, Bloodgood, Tyson, &c., &c. In short, he will find a 

 demand for most good fruits that succeed in his present home.-' 



Geo. W. Fardich, Indiana. — We have written to inform you where the seed required 

 can be purchased. There is no separate book on the cultivation of hedges at present. 



D. N. If your apple orchard does not succeed under the treatment mentioned, give up 

 the trees and try another set, or try an experiment for a y ^ar or two without other crops 

 around them ; but better still, lay on a heavy deposit of stable manure, this fall, pre- 

 viously digging in a peck of charcoal and a peck of lime to each tree. 



B. is informed that though the Holly may not succeed in his hyperborean region it does 

 very well elsewhere. 



JoJui W. Paine. We do not repudiate the Chinese Arbor Yita3 entirely, as a hedge 

 jilant, though the American is so superior as always to be preferred. All hedges should 

 be trimmed hcice a year, as recommended in the August number. See Michaux's Sylva. 



CuUor. Live stock of no description should be permitted in a lawn where there are 

 evergreens. Sheep, tethered, or kept from the plants by hurdles, are admissible ; a wire 

 fence will keep them from nibbling. In the English parks there is what is called the 

 browsing line ; deer eat the leaves as high as they can reach. 



C. n. S. desires to plant, this fall, an orchard of pears, with a view to profit, and being 

 a novice would like a good list of standards for a good mellow top soil, with a sandy loam 

 beneath. He docs not wish trees that bear small crops, or many, the fruit of which 

 would require to be ripened in the house ; also, he asks the most desirable manure to be 

 used at the time of planting; and whether the wild rose would make a good hedge. 



The following are good fruit, productive and free-growing: Bartlett, Duchess d' 

 Angouleme, Glout Morceau, Paradise d' Automne, Alcar of Winkfield, Andrews, Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey, White Doyenne, and Lawrence ; the latter may be packed in barrels 

 like apples. All pears should ripen in the house, to be perfect in flavor. Give a good 

 dressing of barn-yard manure, plough it under and follow with a subsoil plough, if not 

 over the whole, at least for a breadth of ten feet under the rows of trees. Dig out holes 

 5 feet diameter and 18 in. in depth, throw the subsoil aside and plant with the surface 

 mould, first mixing it with superphosphate of lime, using a spade-full to each tree. A 

 little lime and spent ashes, will also be very useful occasionally. Guano water is much 

 used for small orchards, applied whcMi the fruit is swelling. 



We have no experience with the wild rose as a hedge plant, and doubt its applicability 

 uch a purpose. 



