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DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



Manures. — B. Williams. You should apply 

 guano, to obtain its full benefit, only where the 

 plants are in a growing state. T. G. Y. — (Wal- 

 worth, N. Y.) A light top dressing of leached 

 ashes is highly beneficial to strawberry beds. We 

 have no doubt that copperas may be substituted 

 for oxide of iron in preventing the leaf-blight ; but 

 experience is wanted as to the quantity. We 

 would advise you to use leached ashes heavily, as a 

 manure in preparing your seed-beds for pears, and 

 see if this will not remedy the evil. 



Plums. — D. D. J., (Hamden, Ct.) If you have 

 a heavy soil, take the following six kinds : Ear- 

 ly — Imperial Ottoman, Yellow Gage ; 7nedium — 

 Bleecker's Gage, Jefferson; late — Coe's Golden 

 Drop, Frost Gage. We do not know the " Pot- 

 ter" Plum. The Canada Plum makes a good 

 stock for slow growing varieties ; bat many sorts 

 out-grow it, and this renders the tree short lived. 

 The stocks generally preferred for working plums 

 on, are those raised from seeds of the common 

 blue " Horse Plwn." There is also a yellow va- 

 riety, well known and largely cultivated in west- 

 ern New- York, which give^ good stocks. We do 

 not know its name. The Apricot, as we find by 

 experience, gives better flavored fruit, and is more 

 hardy when worked on the Horse Plum stock than 

 when budded on Apricot seedlings. J. F. — The 

 three best late plums for Pennsylvania are the fol- 

 loM'ing : Coe's Golden Drop, Coe's Late Red, and 

 St. Martin's Quetsche. 



Apples. — /. Fulton, (Pa.) Winter apples, to 

 keep long, should be picked from the tree before 

 frost, and carefully laid upon the floor, by hand, in 

 an airy loft or out-building. Here they should be 

 allowed to lie a fortnight; after which, on a dry 

 day, they should be put up in barrels. The latter 

 should be stored in a cool dry cellar ; the cooler 

 the better, so that severe frost does not enter. 



Vinery Grapes. — j1 Connecticut Subscriber. 

 The grapes about Boston are chiefly pruned in the 

 spurring-in mode ; and a good deal of recent ob-er- 

 vation inclines us now to recommend this as the 

 preferable mode for this climate. Whether the 

 vinery is a cold one or not, does not afTect the 

 pruaing ; the same rules apply in either case. In 

 cold vineries it is better to plant the vines inside 

 the house, but with the front wall supported on 

 piers, or open below the surface, so that the roots 

 can pass freely into the border outside. R. W. — 

 (Baltimore.) Plant Black Hamburg, Chasselas, 

 Musque, Grizzly Frontignan. and Muscat of Alex- 

 andria, — four of the most delicious grapes. 



Upland Rice. — A friend at Cincinnati desires 

 information, regarding the growth and culture of 

 this plant. Will any of our correspondents, fami- 

 liar with it, communicate with us on this subject? 



Cherries. — S., (Philadelphia.) Coe's Trans- 

 parent Cherry is very beautiful and delicious, — 



one of the most delicate flavor for the dessert ; it 

 is in the way of Belle de Choisy, but finer. T. O. 

 Y. — The great Bigarreau of Mezel is already in 

 the possession of dealers in this country. Several 

 of the larger nurseries can, doubtless, furnish you 

 a tree in the bud. J. F . — For three of the best 

 late cherries, take Sweet Montmorency, Battner's 

 Yellow, and Belle Magnifique, 



Pears. — ^ New-Bedford Cultivator. Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey, (on quince,) Heathcot, Law- 

 rence, and Flemish Beauty, will, we think, all do 

 well ■ on the north side of a high wall" m your 

 climate, and will bear good crops if the soil is well 

 drained and prepared. D. D. /.-^Pear seeds must 

 either be sown in th.e fall, or kept in earth or sand, 

 (so as to prevent their losing their vitality,) till 

 spring. 



Red Spider — H, (New-London, Ct.) The 

 most effectual remedy, (says Buist,) is a thorough 

 syringing with water under the foliage. This 

 being done to the plants infested, every evening, 

 will effectually subdue and banish them. 



Plants in Cellars. — W. R., (Milwaukie.) 

 Oranges, lemons, pomegranates and hydrangeas, 

 may be kept in good condition, in any cellar where 

 there is a little light, and where the thermometer 

 does not fall more than three or four degrees be- 

 low the freezing point. But they should be kept 

 quite dormant, by not watering them more than 

 once or twice a month, and then only moderately. 

 Admit air freely to the cellar every mild day in 

 winter, when there is no frost. 



Dwarf Trees. — Y. Dwarf pears and apples 

 may be planted from six to ten feet apart, as you 

 have room to spare. They are not so long lived 

 as when on pear roots, but have other great ad- 

 vantages, — such as coming very soon into bearing, 

 occupying a small space, and thriving in many 

 soils where pear stocks will not. They come 

 inio bearing as soon as they get established. It 

 is not necessary to bud them close to the ground ; 

 though it is better that the junction should not be 

 more than four or five inches above it. 



Books. — /^., (Marietta, O.) We shall give alist 

 of the most desirable horticultural books in our 

 next. The American edition of Lindley's Theory 

 of Horticulture is out of print. The " Tree Lifc- 

 er,'"' is an English work, of little or no practical 

 value. IV. H. — (Philadelphia.) Consult Loudon's 

 Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs. The " Guide 

 to the Orchard," by George Lindley, is the best 

 English work on fruits. 



*»* Correspondents who are subscribers, will 

 hereafter find replies to any questions on subjects 

 within the scope of this journal, in this depart- 

 ment, (unless otherwise requested) — and all que- 

 ries put ill a brief shape, and sent to us free of post- 

 age, shall receive attention. Ed. 



