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NEW ENGLAin) FARIMER. 



May 



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SCOTCH PLNE — Pinus Sylvestris. 



Most men, and all women, love 

 trees, — and they love those trees, or 

 shrubs, or plants best, that they have 

 cultivated, or assisted in cultivating 

 with their own hands. The person of 

 taste who erects his house in a charm- 

 ing natural grove, though it may be 

 made up of a variety of the most showy 

 and graceful of our forest trees, is not 

 content to stop there. He wants some- 

 thing before him that he has been in- 

 strumental in calling into being himself 

 — something to which he has given 

 thought, and labor, and affection, and 

 which wiU still require his care, and 

 will bud, and bloom, and exhale its ^ 

 fragrance or bear its fruit, especially 

 for him. 



It is this taste that has introduced 

 into our garden and grounds so many 

 beautiful trees and shrubs from our na- 

 tive forests, and so many of the exotics 

 that grace and bless other lands. It 

 was this taste that introduced the Scotch 

 Pine into our collections of ornamental 

 trees, a portrait of which embellishes 

 the page before you. 



This pine is one of the favorite Eu- 

 ropean species, and as it succeeds re- 

 markably well in this country, will be likely to 

 become a favorite tree. It has many varieties, 

 and they are very dissimilar. In favorable 

 situations, the Scotch Pine will grow eighty or 

 one hundred feet high. The leaves are glau- 

 cous, and in pairs ; in young trees they are from 

 two to three inches long, and do not drop from 

 the tree until the fifth year. The cones open of 

 themselves shortly after being gathered from 

 the tree, and spread out in the sun. The 

 seed should be sown on a finely prepared sandy 

 soil, in March. or April, and on land not en- 

 tirely open to the sun. 



We are permitted to copy our engraving 

 from Warder's excellent work on "Hedges 

 and Evergreens." 



AYKSHIRE HERD BOOK. 



The committee on Ayrshire Cattle appointed 

 by the Association of Breeders of Thorough- 

 bred Neat Stock, have made arrangements for 

 publishing the second volume of the Ayrshire 

 Herd Book. J. N. Bagg, of West Spring- 

 field, Mass., has undertaken its editorship, to 



whom all pedigrees, with a fee of fifty cents 

 each, should be addressed till July next. Pos- 

 terity rather than ancestry gets the benefit of 

 a clean record. Every valuable calf should 

 be registered at once, 4est its origin be for- 

 gotten by the time its superior excellence shall 

 give importance to the inquiry. 



Best Kikd of Food for PoRK.^Mr. Wil- 

 lard says that while in England, the past sea- 

 son, he found it to be the universal opinion 

 among those great meat producers where quali- 

 ty and excellence in meat production is carried 

 almost to perfection, that no bacon was consid- 

 ered equal to that from dairy districts, where 

 the feed was barley meal mingled with whey. 

 By feeding barley meal with whey, the dairy 

 farmers of England make their whey pay them 

 in pork from $7 to $10 per cow — an important 

 item, it will be seen, in any diary. 



— The Canada Farmer mentions an exportation 

 of apples from Oxford County, Can., to the Eng- 

 lish market at an encouraging prolit. 



