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which the pages of the American Agriculturist are 
filled, is of more important usefulness. Not that I 
like this plan altogether, but 1 like friend Solon’s 
object in giving it. But of all contrivances for a 
frame, this one beats every Yankee notion I ever 
heard of. Is it possible that he is serious in re¬ 
commending a two-story house to be built “ with¬ 
out a tenon or mortice in the whole frame .” The 
idea is preposterous and requires an endorser. Can 
you, Mr. Editor, give any guarantee that our old 
friend is serious ? “ Balloon,” indeed ! And pray, 
do they often take the same course in a high wind ? 
I would as soon think of living in a “ cob-house.” 
But that I know the author of this cheap farm-house 
to be possessed of a fund of good nature, I would 
not have treated his balloon with so much gas. I 
hope he will reply seriously and tell us upon his 
word if he would really recommend such a frame, 
or if he actually builds such himself. There must 
be an immense saving of labor, but I fear it is lost 
in durability. Let us down east barbarians have 
light from the West. [Mr. Robinson will please 
answer our captious Reviewer, and if he chooses in 
so doing to blow him higher than any balloon ever 
ascended, we shall not cry.] 
Preservation of Peach-Trees from Borers. —Until 
some way under heaven can be discovered as a pre¬ 
ventive besides the slow process of digging them 
out, they will continue to bore and be a bore to a 
great many peach-tree owners. It is too much like 
the fellow’s “ bed-bug powder.” The trouble of 
catching the bugs and pinching them on the back 
of the neck to make them open their mouths to 
take the powder, is only equaled by catching the 
worms with a “long brad-awl.” So if Mr. 
Ward’s plan of expelling them by sulphur will 
prove effectual, it is a most invaluable recipe. Who 
else has or will try it ? 
A Bog-Cutter. —Perhaps it is because I was 
“ born amongst the bogs” that I am so' stupid that 
I cannot understand this explanation. The draw¬ 
ings may be altogether sufficient to explain to a 
mechanic its structure, provided that he has previ¬ 
ously seen one of the machines. But I have yet to 
find one who can build me a cutter from this de¬ 
scription. 
_ Improved Candle-Wicks. —All editors are con¬ 
siderably in the habit of publishing a considerable 
quantity of just such recipes as this, in which it 
is recommended to steep a considerable quantity of 
candle-wicks in a considerable quantity of lime- 
water, in which a considerable quantity of saltpetre 
has been dissolved. Who can learn anything useful 
from such nonsense ? Thousands will understand 
‘‘lime-water” to mean the common well water of a 
limestone region of country. But the considerable 
quantity of saltpetre will be variously estimated. 
That must have been a considerable quantity which 
blew up seven stores in our good city of New York 
a few years since. No doubt a “more perfect 
combustive” was then “ insured,” too indefinite for 
practical purposes entirely. 
To S. H. R. —Cranberries will not flourish so 
far south as Virginia, and it will be labor lost to 
try experiments. They are decidedly a Northern 
fruit. About latitude 40° is as far south as they 
are found in perfection. But the silk-worm loves 
I the sunny clime, and if you will only practise upon 
what you preach, may you be made happier thereby 
yourself, and be the means of teaching many others 
to be so by your example. 
How to Make Good Tea. —If men can be induced 
to build rain-water cisterns by recommending rain¬ 
water for tea, then some good may arise from tea¬ 
drinking. I have no doubt that rain water is far 
more healthy, and when properly filtrated, is as pure 
as the running spring. Then why is it not more 
used ? In numerous places, a supply of water 
could be had from the roofs of farm-buildings, at 
one-half the expense that it is obtained at from deep 
wells. I hope every tea-drinker in the country will 
become perfectly convinced that good tea can only 
be made from rain-water, and then cisterns will be¬ 
come fashionable. Let the Canton Tea Company 
have it printed upon all their labels, that good tea 
can only be made with purified rain-water, and they 
may do good enough to counterbalance a share of 
the evil chargeable to them for introducing so much 
“yarb tea” into the country. But give me pure 
water and I will give all my share of the green leaf 
to the “ lovers of strong drink.” 
Boys' Department. —Let it be a lesson to boys 
and girls too, never to speak harshly, nor treat un¬ 
kindly, even a dog; a good lesson, which con¬ 
veys so much of my own feelings, that I will close 
my present article with it fresh in my mind 
as well as to all those who read the comments of 
the American Agriculturist by a Reviewer. 
TO TRANSPLANT LARGE TREES. 
I have these taken up with roots as large as 
possible and with as little injury as I can; with a 
sharp saw, or pruning-knife, according to the size 
of the roots, the bruised ends are nicely cut off, 
which enables them, when planted, to throw out 
numerous little rootlets from the ends, thus giving 
a quick and vigorous growth. The holes were 
dug 4 1o 6 feet in diameter, and H to 2 feet deep, 
a good layer of soft rich mould was then laid 
on the bottom for the roots to rest on, and filled in 
with the best soil to the top, and the earth carefully 
laid up somewhat rounding about the trunk. I 
have set thousands of trees in my life, and wher¬ 
ever I have pursued this method, with proper at¬ 
tention afterwards, I have rarely lost one. Let 
every one remember that a fruit or shade-tree, well 
set out and started to grow, is worth at lest from 
one to five dollars the moment its life is secure ; and 
all due pains in planting is the strictest economy- 
in the end. L. 
AMERJCAN FOREST-TREES. 
Noticing the parks of England in the March 
number, Vol. 1, of the Agriculturist, you remark 
with much severity on the “spirit of ruthless destruc¬ 
tion” existing among the new settlers of this country 
in destroying their noble forest-trees. I am aware 
of the general want of good taste in many of the 
American cultivators in selecting shade-trees, by 
the appearance of which their farms and estates would 
be ornamented and rendered more valuable, as is 
abundantly seen in the naked and cheerless aspect 
of too many otherwise beautiful homesteads all 
over the country. Let me however give a word of 
