192 Editors' Letter- Box. 



Gardener. — Your questions are hardly in our line ; but we answer : — 



1. You certainly have no right to go into another man's garden without his 

 permission. 



2. " Nipping off a cutting " is downright stealing, and of the meanest kind. It 

 may be a great object to the owner to preserve the stock of a certain plant ; and 

 you have no more right to take a cutting than you have to take his watch. 



3. Fruit fallen to the ground is as much property as fruit on the tree ; and, 

 unless allowed so to do by your employer, you have no right to give any fruit 

 away. 



4. If you are hired by the year, and for your whole time, you have no right 

 to hire yourself for any outside service. 



5. Gloxinias root readily from leaves pegged into damp sand in a stove. 



6. Acer negjuido vai'iegatum, or A'egtcndo fraxinejlorum variegatnm, is the 

 best variegated tree we have. 



S. T. — The best stock to graft pears on for general orchard-purposes is the 

 seedling-pear. The young seedling stocks imported from France and England 

 are much superior to those raised in this country ; or, when raised here, imported 

 seed is preferred. The best seed is obtained from the hardy and vigorous kinds 

 used for perry. But, of late, the demand for pear-seed has been such, that every 

 thing that looked like a pear-seed has been put into the market : so, unless you 

 are sure of your seed, it will be safest to buy your stocks, and the best stocks 

 are the cheapest, at the highest price. For dwarfs to plant in gardens, the 

 quince-stock is now used altogether ; the Angers variety being preferred. In 

 altering the tops of old trees, it is well, as far as possible, to put each kind into 

 a stock having some affinity to the graft ; but considerable knowledge of varieties 

 is required to do this. 



Names of Plants. Subscriber. — No. i, Linaria cymbalaria ; No. 2, Lu- 

 naria biennis. A. W. T., jun. — The fern \?, Pteris tremula; the v'mt Apios 

 tuberosa; the leaf is undistinguishable. Tyro. — No. i, Calystegia pubescens ; 

 No. 2, Oralis Aceiosella; No. 3, fruit oi Clintonia borealis ; No. 4, Vaccinium 

 Vitis IdcBa. 



A. M. C, Rhinebeck. — The prettiest columbine is Aquilegia glandulosa, 

 blue and white. 



Newton, Mass. — Give your lilies peat-loam and sand, with well-rotted ma- 

 nure, and their growth will surprise you. Keep the bulbs, in transplanting, as 

 short a time out of the ground as possible. 



