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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUKIST. 



manner. Those who carelessly plant 

 the nuts, especially after they have dried 

 for a long time, will probably fail to get 

 trees; or if any grow, and the owner 

 expects the young trees to take care of 

 themselves, he will be greatly disappoin- 

 ted. Mr. Eagan's directions are, there- 

 fore, to the point, when he says the 

 ground should be prepared in the best 

 manner in the autumn. Furrow the 

 ground off each way as for corn, except 

 that the rows should be seven feet apart. 

 Take the nuts, fresh from the tree, and 

 plant two at each crossing. They are 

 to be covered shallow, just enough to 

 hide them. So much for planting. 

 Then next spring furrow the seven-feet 

 spaces intermediate between the rows, 

 and plant with corn or potatoes. The 

 corn and young trees will be all cultiva- 

 ted alike, and the young trees must be 

 kept clean. The second spring thin out 

 the trees to one in a hill. The thinnings 

 will fill any vacant spaces where needed. 

 Corn or potatoes may be planted the sec- 

 ond, or even the third year, and after 

 that the trees must be cultivated and 

 kept clean until they occupy the whole 

 ground so fully as to keep down by their 

 shade all weeds and grass. Standing so 

 near as seven feet, the trees will not re- 

 quire trimming, but will thus trim them- 

 selves. But when they begin to suffer 

 from crowding, take out every alternate 

 tree in each row, and in a few years an- 

 other thinning may be made by taking 

 out alternate trees in the rows at right 

 angles to the fii'st, leaving them fourteen 

 feet each way. If the trees are to stand 

 until they become quite large, additional 

 thinning may be necessary. But they 

 should always be thick enough to obviate 

 the side trimming of branches. The 

 thinnings will always possess consider- 

 able value. 



At fourteen feet apart there would 

 be over 200 trees to the acre, and these 

 should sell for five dollars each in a 

 quarter of a century, or $1,000 an acre. 



It is not likely that the timber will be- 

 come cheaper in future years. If the 

 good cultivation and management here 

 described are given, there will be little 

 or no failure of a full, even growth. If 

 the work is carelessly performed, and 

 the trees neglected, they will be poor 

 and scattered. The regular planting in 

 rows, and the continued cultivation 

 until they wholly shade down all other 

 growth are indispensable to success, and 

 they are equally necessary in raising 

 plantations of any other trees, as chest- 

 nuts, locusts, or catalpas. — Country 

 Gentleman. 



SOME NEW SORTS OF BEANS. 



The White Marrow is still as popular 

 as ever and is extensively grown for 

 large markets. 



The Early Feejee will always be a 

 popular variety from the fact of its 

 extreme earliness and being very hardy. 

 It is one of the most productive we 

 have, and the quality is excellent. In 

 New England many of the farmers after 

 hoeing the corn the first time plant 

 beans between the hills, and so obtain 

 two crops from the same field, while the 

 latter product is protected by the grow- 

 ing corn, and if a little late is not liable 

 to be injured by early frosts. Yery often 

 from eight to ten bushels are obtained 

 to the acre when the season is favorable 

 and the soil is moderately rich ; for be 

 it remembered that soil for beans must 

 not be too rich since they are apt to 

 " run to vines " instead of beans, hence 

 the soil should not be too fertile. We 

 wish in this article more especially to 

 call attention to two or three new sorts 

 of dwarf or bush beans as being well 

 worthy the attention of all growers of 

 the low growing sorts. 



There are four sorts of wax beans — 

 Black Wax, Dwarf White Wax, Crys- 



