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S. L. G., Bangor, Me. — I have purchased some of the famous " Rose Potato," 

 and I wish to know how I can get the largest quantity of potatoes from them. — 

 Place the tubers in a hot-bed or propagating-house, and start the eyes, and let 

 the shoots grow until they have formed small roots ; when these sets may be 

 taken off and potted as you would pot dahlia-plants, and grow them in this way 

 until the time shall come to set them out into hills in the field. The tubers will 

 push out another set of sprouts, and may be cut up and planted as ordinary pota- 

 toes are planted, putting two eyes to a hill. It will be well to manure heavily, so 

 as to get as large a crop as possible ; for, if this variety shall prove all they claim 

 for it, the potatoes will bring a good price for seed next year. 



J. A. H., Northampton, Mass. — My arborvitas and hemlock hedges seem to 

 be badly injured by the winter. How shall I manage them ? — In clipping them 

 this spring, much of the injured part will come off. If any of the plants are 

 actually dead, replace them. We notice that such evergreens are injured more 

 when under trees. 



Idem. — The "earliest Tartarian Honeysuckle " is Lonicera Standishii. It 

 blooms from the middle of April to the middle of May, according to location. 



K. L-, Hartford, Conn. — I have a few large pear-trees in my garden, that I 

 wish to move next fall. It got to be rather late before it occurred to me that I 

 , wanted to remove them. They are thrifty trees. How shall I manage them ? — 

 Dig a trench all round the tree, four or five feet from it ; and cut off many of the 

 roots, so as to induce them to throw out more small fibrous roots ; and then they 

 can be removed in the autumn with greater safety. 



L. G., Rochester, N.Y. — Does the Pemberton Pear, figured in your Journal, 

 succeed well on quince ? — We are informed by Dr. Shurtleff that he tried this 

 pear on the quince-stock, and it has done very well. 



D. W. B., Champaign, 111. — Where can I procure trees of the Foster Seed- 

 ling Peach ? — Of G. W. Wilson, Maiden, Mass. What is the price by the 

 dozen ? and what for a smaller number ? — The price by the dozen, we think, is 

 nine dollars, or seventy-five cents each. Single trees, one dollar. 



