Poverty May Apologize for a dirty dress or an un- 

 shaven face ; men may be negligent of their person ; but 

 the sentence of the whole nation is. that he who is a 

 sloven in his garden is a sloven indeed. The inside of 

 a laborer's house, his habits, his qualities as a workman, 

 and almost his morality, may be judged of from the ap- 

 pearance of his garden. If that be neglected, he is, 

 nine times out of ten, a sluggard or a drunkard, or both. 

 COBBETT, 1826. 



Montlucon Sugar Pear. — European apples have 

 rarely been found as good for America as seedlings raised 

 on our continent, but with pears it is different, most of 

 our popular ones being of foreign origin, ^ny new and 

 good introduction to the old world is worthy trial here. 

 The Belgian BitUclin d' Aboriciiliurc ct de Horticulture 

 recently gives a colored plate of Le Poire sucree de 

 Montlucon, which though discovered on the college 

 grounds of Montlucon in 1812 by the gardener. Rochet, 

 has not come into general cultivation. It is a very large 

 russety brown and yellow pear, of excellent flavor, and 

 very productive, and we should imagine from the de- 

 scription, well worthy of American trial. — Thomas 

 Meehan. 



Trees for California. — The trees and plants of other 

 countries suited to the peculiar climate of California 

 have been introduced to a very limited extent. There 

 are no doubt thousands of these that would prove of the 

 greatest value to the state. All, or nearly all, of the 

 flora of the higher Andes would undoubtedly flourish 

 here, and many from other high dry mountainous re- 

 gions. The species from which the indispensable qui- 

 nine is made would probably flourish here if proper se- 

 lections were made from the start. The great Mohave 

 desert in the southeastern part of the state might be con- 

 verted into a grand, most valuable forest by making 

 proper selections of the best from other hot arid regions 

 of the world. Robert Douglas, the forest king of Illi- 

 nois, is confident that we have in our own flora most 

 valuable trees that would flourish there like a green bay 

 tree.— D. B. Wier, Cal. 



Jersey Notes. — Remedy for Cabbage Worm. — A friend 

 who kept Guinea hens last season and allowed them to 

 run in his cabbage patch says they kept the plants en- 

 tirely free from worms. 



I.ee's Favorite Potato. — We planted, the last spring, 

 Puritan, New Queen and Pearl of Savoy, all of which 

 were sent out as extra early varieties, and found Lee's 

 Favorite earlier than any. We have before tried it with 



Beauty of Hebron, Ea 

 and E. Vermont with a li 

 and we shall plant it next year in 



preference to any other early potato we have ever tried. 



Red Cedar as an Ornamental Tree. — Thered cedar grows 

 rather slowly and when quite young is inferior to many 

 other evergreens, but when 25 or 30 years old it im- 

 proves greatly, and from that on for an indefinite length 

 of time it acquires new beauty, and after more rapid 

 growing trees begin to fail from old age its rugged trunk 

 and dense masses of dark green foliage give it a pictur- 

 esque beauty which no other evergreen can claim. 



Ruellia Macrantha. — When we first tried this plant it 

 was very much inclined to throw up long-jointed shoots 

 and at flowering time the leaves turned yellow and 

 dropped, leaving bare stems with only a tuft of leaves 

 at top. Last spring we decided to try a new plan of 

 growing it. When it had done flowering, we cut back 

 all the shoots to about four or five inches and allowed 

 the plants to remain in the same pots in which they had 

 flowered. The object of this treatment was to obtain a 

 larger number of shoots and a slow growth, which would 

 give short-jointed wood. We kept them pinched back 

 and sufficiently crowded for pot room to continue this 

 style of growth all summer, and when the weather re- 

 quired them to be removed to the greenhouse in autumn, 

 we gave them pots two sizes larger and a very rich com- 

 post, and the result has been fully satisfactory. They 

 are now (middle of December) full of buds and bloom, 

 the foliage full and dark green, and the flowers are 

 much deeper colored than they have previously been. 

 If allowed plenty of room while growing through the 

 summer they must have correspondingly large pots to 

 flower in or they will become so filled with roots as to 

 need watering largely and often, and if neglected at all 

 will shed their leaves. — Wm. F. Bassett. 



Lemons in Sicily. — Residents in our citrus regions 

 will be interested in the following excerpt from Fruit 

 Trade Journal : Lemons in Sicily are divided into two 

 classes, the true lemon and the bastard lemon. The 

 true lemon is produced by the April and May blooms ; 

 the bastard by the irregular blooms of February, 

 March, June and July, which depend upon the rainfall 

 or regular irrigation and the intensity of the heat during 

 the summer and winter seasons. The true lemon re- 

 quires nine months to reach maturity, from the bloom 

 in May to the mature fruit in January. There are but 

 three harvests of true lemon. The first is the Novem- 



