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5th. Mulch for a year or two. In speaking of deciduous trees for street shading, 

 he mentioned the white elm as first in beauty ; the silver and soft maples were also 

 highly recommended, and advocated the action of the town authorities in this matter 

 the same as with sidewalks. The hockberry, tulip and coffee tree should be found in 

 every lawn. 



Prof. Turner also read a short paper, and to the point. For the street he consid- 

 ered the elm the king of shade trees. The soft maples are all of quick growth, but 

 short lived, and apt to be broken down and deformed with ice and winds, and liable 

 to be attacked by borers. The various varieties of the hard maple are also most 

 magnificent trees, but in our county it is a slow grower, and so liable to a fatal blight 

 from some unknown cause, that it is not reliable as a street tree. The sycamore is 

 also a very hardy and reliable tree for the street, and it would add greatly to the 

 beauty of our city if we could occasionally get out of "Elm street" and "Maple 

 street," and ride a short distance in a street lined with a majestic row of sycamores 

 on each side, with their broad, light green leaves, and pendant batten. An occa- 

 sional street, too, lined with the Tyrolese larch, would be a still greater relief, though 

 it furnishes less shade than either of those above mentioned. But for quickness of 

 growth, beauty of form, spray and foliage, I know of no two trees that equal the 

 American chestnut and the tulip tree. The fruit of the former is very valuable as 

 well as the timber, but it succeeds well only on dry, mellow soil, and can be success- 

 fully transplanted only when small. The leaves of the tulip tree are, so far as known, 

 perfectly free from all sorts of insects and blights. Every considerable house-yard 

 in town ought to have one or more of these noble trees in it, instead of those inter- 

 minable rows of soft maple. The weeping willow, Toplady poplar, and white birch 

 were recommended for variety. There is no single tree that contrasts so beautifully 

 and harmoniously with the common evergreens as the deciduous cypress. The bal- 

 sam fir is quite fashionable, but the tree itself bears no comparison to the majestic 

 Norway pine or the spruce. The black spruce of Maine was highly commended. AH 

 evergreens should be transplanted or have their roots cut every two or three years 

 while in the nursery, to render them both safe and reliable for transplanting. All 

 top-rooted trees, and especially the chestnut, need the same treatment. Evergreen 

 hedges and screens are " a thing of beauty" and " a joy forever." Every one of the 

 old cross fences between our city lots ought to be removed, and a beautiful evergreen 

 hedge planted in their places. The hemlock, and the Siberian and American arbor 

 vitae are the best for this purpose. As to shrubs, said the Professor, properly so 

 called, I have come to regard them as but little else than a nuisance everywhere. A 

 few of them, well back, will do, and recommended the barberry, the Japan quince 

 and the snowball. He did not favor the idea of crowding' evergreens so closely about 

 our dwellings as is the custom with people generally. 



flanter of Jfnria <ts <i Manure for Vines. 



A correspondent of The Garden says he had a large quantity of grape vines 

 planted in the open ground, and trained on poles and wires along the gravel 

 walks. " In planting these, I had the holes dug about twenty-five inches deep ; I 

 then threw into each hole five or six lumps of old plaster, about the size of my fist ; I 



