EDITOR'S TABLE. 



A Greenhouse for Everybody. — Strange as it seems, -while every writer Las been inform- 

 ing the public how to make a pit for wintering plants, no one has mentioned a simple contrivance 

 that is within the reach of everybody who lives in a house with a cellar. If the cellar door is 

 opened and an old or new sash is placed in the aperture, a winter pit is made without more 

 ado. Close all the windows of the cellar, and open the cellar door on clear days, closing it on 

 cold nights. If the door faces the south, it will be better than north! In this "pit," lemon 

 and orange-trees, fig-trees, and, in short, rose-bushes, and almost every plant will be safely 

 protected, and often produce flowers and ripen their fruit. Remember this paragraph. 



The Japan Bean. — Favorable reports regarding this bean reach us from several quarters. 

 In New Jersey it produces well, growing on a woody shrub, about two feet in height, and pro- 

 ducing from seventy to eighty white beans, perfectly round, and of the character of a pea, 

 which it was first called. They are so prolific that it is supposed an acre of land may produce 

 eighty bushels. 



A Wasp Catcher. — Some nice gardeners, especially ladies, will find, in the accompanying 

 sketch, an admirable means of catching wasps 

 and other insects, troublesome to graperies and 

 greenhouses, and even bees where numerous 

 in a neighborhood, in house windows. It 

 is copied from the second volume of Jlackin- 

 tosfi's Book of the Garden, just published in 

 London. 



Seedling Rhubarb. — The Prairie Farmer contains an account of a new seedling rhubarb, 

 raised in the garden of Mr. Cohorn, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he cultivates it on ground 

 that was lately a marsh. One root produced fifty-five stalks, of which the largest was two feet 

 in length from root to leaf, and would girt at least eight inches. Mr. C. cuts from four to five 

 hundred pounds a day, and receives $4 per hundred, in various western markets. 



Nutmegs in California. — The Calaveras Chronicle speaks confidently of having seen a branch 

 of a nutmeg-tree, with fruit on it, grown in California, about fifteen miles from Mokelumnc 

 Flume. Will the California Farmer confirm this ? 



Permanent Impressions of Flowers on Glass. — Mr. Robert Smith, of Blackford, England, 

 has contrived a very ingenious and effective plan of ornamenting glass, by producing thereon 

 permanent impressions of flowers, leaves of plants, and other objects. In this process of 

 ornamentation, the operator goes to work by first preparing the objects to be reproduced on 

 iss surface with a solution of gum. The details of the figure are thus attached 



