g6 Editor's Letter-Box, 



Dr. H., Goshen, Ind. — There is a Botanic Garden connected with Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass. It is under the charge of the Professor of Bot- 

 any, Asa Gray. We believe that a part of Mr. Shaw's famous garden at St. 

 Louis, Mo., is laid out as a botanic garden. 



S. B., Chicago, 111. — The horse-chestnut with pendent flowers, noticed by 

 Mr. Wilder and his party, and described in our last volume, is supposed to be 

 a new species. 



C. H. C, Newton Centre, Mass. ist. We do not know of any apple or pear 

 trees trained as horizontal cordons in this country, except at EUwanger & Bar- 

 ry's nursery, Rochester, N. Y. They are budded on the French Paradise stock. 

 Any kinds may be budded on it, but you will find a good selection of kinds in the 

 article on "Garden Apples," in our January number. Large apples are eligible 

 for this method of training, as there is no danger of their blowing off. 



2d. We have seen various notices of the cultivation of the opium poppy in the 

 United States, but have not made note of them, and cannot now refer you to 

 any. Indeed, we do not feel very favorably disposed towards the cultivation of 

 this plant, as there is a good deal too much opium eaten already. 



3d. An experienced florist, who has made an improvement in the apparatus 

 for fumigating green-houses, will give an account of it in our next number. 



OxY. — The reason that cranberries are planted in low grounds is not because 

 they will not grow on upland, but that they do better on the low ground 

 where they are naturally found, and by flowing them with water they can be pro- 

 tected from frost and insects. 



Mt«. Tilton. 



I have taken your Journal from the beginning, and would not be without it for 

 ten times the cost. The illustrations of what is new in any number are worth 

 a year's subscription. I find some trouble in getting seeds and plants as early 

 as I could wish. Why can't some of your numerous advertisers take a hint, and 

 advertise these new things ? If any one who has stock should advertise in the 

 numbers succeeding your descriptions, he would find it paying. M. O. F. 



B. T. C. — The best thing you can do with your old strawberry bed, which is 

 so matted together and difficult to weed, is to dig it in and plant a new one. If 

 you have plenty of ground, make it in a fresh place, and keep the old one for the 

 little fruit it may give, and dig in as soon as gathered. If you make the new 

 bed on the same place as the old one, give it a liberal dressing of manure, and 

 trench deeply, so as to bring up some fresh soil. 



T. R. — The insect which has eaten out the pith of your currant bushes is the 

 currant borer. The only way to destroy it is to cut oflf the shoots containing 

 them, — which can be known by their collapsing when pinched between the fin- 

 gers, — and burn them. 



