286 Horticultural JVotes. 



Horticultural Notes. 



WKfjihiy Trees, 



With a fine, well kept and velvety, green lawn, tastefully planted with ornamental 

 trees and shrubs, such as we have ali'cady named, the grounds around the dwelling 

 may be renderel very charming, but the effect can be increased by a judicious selec- 

 tion of weeping trees. We name some of the most beautiful : European Weei)ing 

 Ash ; Weeping Beech ; Cut-Leaved Weeping Birch ; Camperdown Weeping Elm ; 

 White-Leaved Weeping Linden; Weeping Mountain Ash; Weeping Poplar; 

 American Weeping Willow, and Kilmarnock Weeping Willow. 



Miirhet 'Jarilens neaf T^ontlon. 



It is stated on the authority of the London Garden, that there are 18,000 acres of 

 land devoted to market gardening in the vicinity of London, England. 



Whitei'ing Grapen. 



Orrin Brown, of St. Joseph, Michigan, kept 17 baskets of Diana grapes last 

 winter, by simply putting the baskets in a cool, dry cellar, covering them with paper, 

 and then leaving them alone. It is said the flavor of the grapes was wholly un- 

 impaired. 



Ahont Stfitwlierrles. 



The author of " Daily Rural Life" in the Rural Neiu Yorker — thinks beds of the 

 imjtroved sorts of strawberries should not remain more than two or three years, and 

 is inclined to think it cheapest to destroy them after they have borne one good crop. 

 Although he has tried 500 other varieties, he has found no superiors to Wilson's 

 Albany, and Triomphe de Grand — taking all their good qualities into consideration. 

 lu his soil he has found none so productive as the Wilson's, while there are many 

 better in quality and a few larger. 



Too imich Slinfle V nhenltJi j/ , 



Mr. Greeley, a short time before his wife's death, said to a friend that the bronchial 

 disease with which she was then severely afflicted, and which finally caused her death, 

 was contracted by living in the " old house " upon his Chappaqua farm. That house 

 stood in a forest grove which so overshadowed it that the sun was almost shut out. 

 He said he tried to persuade his wife to let him cut away some of the trees, but she 

 could not bear to see a single tree cut down. In time, however, the fatal disease 

 got such a hold on her constitution, that Mr. Greeley put up a new house on a sunny 

 portion of the farm, where the family lived during the latter years of their residence 

 there. 



Gr<ifthi.<j drape I'iiies. 



I dug the dirt from the roots till I met a smooth place on the stocks, taking care 

 to destroy as little of the roots as possible. I then sawed it off in a slanting cut, as 

 1 am positive it is better than a square one, for this reason, that all the gummy 

 matter which oozes from the cut, together with the excessive moisture, instead of 

 accumulating on the stock to the great injury of the scion, makes its way down the 

 sloping cut, and the scion and stock will unite quicker, and make a healthier granula- 

 tion than on a square cut. I next cut off about one-half an inch of the end of the 

 slope for the scion to rest on. I did not make all the stock smooth, only around the 

 edges. I next got a small hatchet ground as sharp and keen as possible, so as to 

 make a cut instead of a slit, as I think the cut best in all cases. I next prepared 

 the scions with shoulders, leaving just wood enough to keep the bark whole and per- 

 fect. The scion should be a little thinner on the inside than on the outside ; it 

 should be but two eyes long, unless the joints are very short, and then there ought 

 to be three. I next split, or rather cut, the stock, inserting one scion in each. I 

 used no wrapping of any kind, as the stocks, being ten years old, would hold the 



