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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Hot Be7>s. — The size of the hot-bed will depend upon 

 the size of the frame that is to stand upon it. The bed 

 should be about one foot larger every way than the frame. 

 If for an early bed it should be sheltered in every way 

 from cold winds, yet exposed to the sun. The manure 

 should be prepared at least two weeks before wanted to 

 make into the bed. It should be well mixed in an old 

 shed, or if out of doors, well protected with old boards and 

 long litter, or it will not ferment well and evenly, which 

 is very essential. It should be turned and mixed twice, 

 with the manure fork, before making up into the bed. If 

 the manure be prepared about the fifteenth of February it 

 will be ready to make the first of March, and ready to sow 

 upon in one week from making up. It should be made 

 about three feet high at that time of year, which will set- 

 tle down to two feet. It must be well mixed and beaten 

 down with the fork, not trodd.n with the feet. There ia 

 nothing better than good stable manure well prepared. — 

 The frame should be a box made of two inch boards, nice- 

 ly fitted and tight, twenty inches deep at the back, aud one 

 foot deep at the front. The sashes should be well made 

 EVnd nicely glazed. 



Packing Trees — (C. Terbill, Kingsville, Ohio.) — 

 You had better lay your trees in fine, soft earth or moist sand, 

 in a cool cellar, where the mercury will be about the 

 freezing point. You can then get them at any time in the 

 winter to pack. If their roots be just covered with the 

 earth it will be enough. When you aove to Iowa pack 

 them in cases in dry moss, if you can get it, or very dry 

 leaves, or dry litter. They will then remain safe for two 

 or three weeks. 



English Agricultural and Horticultural Pa- 

 pees. — (W. Emmons.) The Mark Lane Express is pub- 

 lished at 2-iG, Strand, London. It is the best English ag- 

 ricultural paper, and the very highest authority on the 

 grain market. Price, 83 per annum, sent pre-paid by mail. 



The Cottage Gardener we regard as one of the best 

 English horticultural journals. It is published weekly at 

 No. 20, Paternoster How, Loudon. Price, $1.25 per an- 

 num. Sent prepaid by mail. 



Back Volumes. — (M. S.) We have but few of the 

 back volumes of the Genesee Farmer on hand; but if 

 members of your club wish the unbound volumes for 185G 

 or 1857, they can be supplied for the present at 50 cents 

 per volume. Bound in paper, they will be sent, postage 

 paid, for 75 cents per volume, and bound in cloth, for $1 

 per volume. 



Gum in Peach Trees. — (Alex Temple, Victoria, 

 C. W.) — The gum exhuding from the collar of peach 

 trees is caused by the grub you have found there ; and the 

 only effectual remedy of ridding the trees of them is to 

 cut them out with the point of a strong knife, in early 

 summer, say last week in June, and first of July. 



Candle Wick. — (R. S.) Steep wicks in lime-water 

 and [^saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and 

 the tallow will not run. First-rate cotton wicking, and 

 clear, pure tallow, are all essential. Lamps will have a 

 less disagreeable smell by dipping the wick-yarn in 

 strong, hot vinegar, and drying it. 



Pruning Trees — Will you allow me to ask for infor- 

 mation I cannot obtain in the books within my reach? 



1st. On pruning generally. 



2d. Pruning of forest trees, planted as ornamental, such 

 as maples, birches, beeches, butternut, hickories, &c., and 

 the best time or season" to do it. 



od. Pruning evergreens, such as the pines, spruces, hem- 

 lock, cedar, baJsam of fir, and tumarac. By what name 

 is the latter known in. the old country? What is the bo- 

 tanical name of our white cedar growing so plentifully in 

 Canada — and the best season to prune all these. 



•1th. Pruning fruit trees — such as apples, pears, and the 

 best time to do it. 



5th. Pruning cherries, plums, and all stone fruits. Also, 

 the hawthorns, and the best season to prune. Last spring 

 I lost several cherry and plum trees 1 had pruned the 

 spring before. 



I do not want to trespass on your politeness, but I be- 

 lieve such would be acceptable to numbers of the readers 

 of your Genesee Farmer. A. La Fontaine, ^(///«e;-, Ot- 

 tawa Co., C. E. 



Will some of our experienced correspondents answer 

 the above? The botanical name for the true White cedar 

 is Cupressus thyoides. The tree known as the white ce- 

 dar in Canada and in Western New York is uot prop- 

 erly a cedar. It is the American Arbor Vitffi {Thuja 

 otcidentalis.) 



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