THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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flower-beds, or other ornaments, can compensate 

 for tlie bad effects. Cut at least once in two weeks 

 through the season, rake oif clean, and you will 

 soon discover you have sowed the true "'lawn 



grass/' 



FxtciT Tp.ee» ox THE RoADSiDE. — Ex-Govoraor 

 Wright, of Indiana, who represents the U. States 

 at one of the courts of Europe, writes to a friend 

 near Indianapolis a very interesting letter, from 

 Berlin, Austria. He speaks highly of the Agricul- 

 tural School at Hohenheim, where practical and 

 scientific agriculture are taught by qualified pro- 

 fessors. Had we space for it, the whole letter 

 •would be interesting. After speaking of a variety 

 of subjects, he says : " Writing of trees, reminds 

 me of another peculiarity of this country, from 

 which Young America might learn an important 

 lesson. Along the public roads, for hundreds of 

 mUes, are rows ot fruit trees, unprotected by ditch, 

 hedge, or fence, yet the ripe fruit may hang in pro- 

 fusion on their boughs or cover the very roadside, 

 and not an apple or pear wUl be pm-loined, not a 

 cherry twig will be broken. Frequently some poor 

 man buys the fruit of one or more trees for a sea- 

 son. All he must do to have it sacredly respected, 

 is to bind a withe of straw about the trunk in token 

 of ownership." 



A Lakoe Peae Tree. — A correspondent of the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle^ Dr. J. Lyell, gives a des- 

 cription of a pear tree growing near Newburgh, 

 Fifeshire, Scotland. The trunk, one foot from the 

 ground, is eighteen feet in circumference ; at four 

 and a half feet, it is thirteen feet in circumference, 

 the height of the trunk to the branches being seven 

 and a half feet. The height of the tree is fifty feet, 

 with a spread of branches of as much. In good 

 fruit years, it has been nothing unusual for this 

 tree to bear a ton and upwards of pears. One year 

 it bore 27 cwt. ; another 77 bushels. It is rather 

 a small-sized pear, of fair quality, and is locally 

 known as the Autumn Gowdnap, The tree grows 

 on the deep alluvial soil on the banks of the Tay, 

 aad is a legacy from the monks of old, who chose 



so well the sites of their orchards. 



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Depth for Sk'itino Tree.s. — Trees should be 

 geaerally set the same depth that they previously 

 stood in the soil, allowing for the settling of the 

 newly stirred earth. On heavy soils, they will be 

 more injured by too deep planting, than on those 

 of a light sandy or gravelly nature, where greater 

 depth is needed to prevent the effects of drouth. 

 On lands inclining to be wet, setting trees upon the 

 surface, and raising the earth upon the roots, has the 

 advantages of the greater depth of soil thus made, 

 and preventing the water settling among the roots. 



HYACINTHS IN GLASSES- 



"Ws know of no more beautiful floral ornament 

 for parlors during our cold winters, than Hyacinths 

 in glasses. Their general appearance may be very 

 well understood by the cut with which this page is 

 embellished. Bulbs of the Hyacinth may be had 

 at any first class nursery, and generally at the seed 

 stores. 



Fill the glass to near the top with rain water ; 

 place the bulb on the glass so that the roots wUl just 

 come in contact with the water, and set the glasses 

 in a dark closet for a week or two, or untU the 

 roots are two or three inches long. After this, 

 place them in a room of moderate tempei'ature, 

 changing the water once in ten or twelve days, 

 and you will be repaid with choice blooms, and a 

 rich, fragrant perfume. Keep them cool, but d'-» not 

 let them freeze. Heat destroys the bloom very 



