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TRANSPLANTING- LARGE TREES, ETC. 
their work, and no excuse can be offered to pass 
through any rooms, except to sweep them, &c. 
The bedroom, rear of library, is so distant from all 
others, and having a fireplace, as to render it suited 
to sickness. If desired, a passage way may be 
made through the closet, connecting it with the 
library. 
ESTIMATE OF COST. 
1,000 feet hewed timber, at 2c., $20.00 
4,134 “ inch pine boards, planed, 10|c., 44.65 
4,100 “ roof boards, at 7c., , 28.70 
1,200 “ |-inch, for battings, . 12.60 
500 feet l£-mch, second clear, at 13c., 6.50 
200 “1| “ do say, . 3.00 
182 “ 1 i “ for water table, . 1.75 
21,000 shingles, at $2.50, . . 52.50 
968 feet, or 66 pieces, 4 X 4 scantling, 
11 feet long ; 320 feet, or 24 pieces, 
10 feet long; 171 feet, or 8 pieces, 
16 feet long; 168 feet, 3 X 4, 14 feet 
long; 576 feet, or 32 pieces, 2X4, 
18 feet long ; 880 feet, or 80 pieces, 
2x4, 11 feet long; 176 feet, or 16 
pieces, 2 X4, 11 feet long ; 184feet, 
2 X 4 long as possible; 118 joists, 
2X8, 16 feet long; 16 joists, 2X8 
10 feet long ; 54 joice, 16 feet long 
for ceiling joists. Estimate all the 
scantling at .... 
Joiner work, to frame and enclose, 
50.00 
make sashes, &c., 
200.00 
Glass and putty for windows, 
20.00 
Nails,. 
15.00 
Door and window swings, 
10.00 
$464.70 
This is exclusive of the cellar wall and 
underpinning, which, with the chim¬ 
neys, maybe, (inclusive of materials,) 
made for . • . 
125.00 
Flooring,.■ 
20.00 
Inside joiner work and lumber. 
150.00 
Lath, and plastering, . 
200.00 
$959.70 
Extras,. 
40.30 
$1000.00 
This, of course, does not allow for the digging of 
cellar nor hauling of lumber; that must be calcu¬ 
lated according as the distance is far or near. 
To make the house pretty, this way of fronting, 
the manner of finish would have to be more ex¬ 
pensive, and a gable should be raised from the roof, 
and a window to correspond be introduced over the 
entrance door, or a projecting porch forming the 
hail, might be constructed. 
Arrow Root. —Attention was called, in our last 
number, to this important article. Are our southern 
friends aware that this excellent food can be raised 
as well in Mississippi and Louisiana as in any part 
of the world? Mr. Affleck, of Washington, Mis¬ 
sissippi, has raised it, and probably could give some 
Valuable information upon the subject of its culture. 
TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES. 
We find in the “Utica Gazette,” facts showing 
that it is not necessary to select small trees for 
transplanting in order to ensure their growth. Large 
trees may be as successfully planted as small ones. 
The mode and result of an experiment, made by 
Messrs. Pomeroy and Dutton, of Utica, are thus 
given : These gentlemen removed several trees, 
comprising maples, elms, beeches, &c., some thirty 
feet in height, which were transplanted without 
being shorn of any of their branches. The process 
of removal was as follows:—In the fall, before 
frost, a trench was dug around the trees selected, 
from 10 to 15 feet in diameter, and the roots sever¬ 
ed. In the winter, when the ground had become 
solid from freezing, the trees were pulled out by the 
aid of oxen and levers, with a mass of earth 
firmly attached to their roots. They were then trans¬ 
ported erect on a strong sled, built for the purpose, 
and set out. 
These trees grew in open land, a mile and a half 
from the city. They put on their foliage last spring 
as if wholly unconscious that they were not still 
in their native soil; and the enterprising gentlemen 
who undertook this unusual course, are rewarded 
with shade trees, which, by the old practice, it would 
have required twenty years to produce. 
FLIGHT THROUGH CONNECTICUT, CONTINUED. 
Yankee Farming. —After leaving the neighbor¬ 
hood of the “Old-Pond Meadow,” I went on 
towards Boston. Now there are a great many 
other farms in Connecticut and Massachusetts, that 
have valuable tracts upon them, just as badly cul¬ 
tivated, or rather neglected, as the one described at 
page 321 of the last number of the Agriculturist. 
Orchards are to be seen all along the road, that 
look as though they have neither been pruned nor 
manured since “ the year one.” 
There is around some of the old farm houses of 
New England, a peculiar look that is to be seen no 
where else. The house, a large square fabric, with 
a great stone chimney in the centre of the gambrel 
roof, standing upon one side of the road and close 
to it, at that, with an ancient mound, the debris of 
long-gone wood piles, immediately in front; and 
right opposite, stands the barn, with a fine display, 
along the fence adjoining, of old carts, wagons, 
sleds, harrows, plows, and stone drags, while there 
is abundant evidence, in the shape of droppings, to 
show that the cows have nightly possession of the 
road between. 
Upon the right hand of the house, is the old 
orchard, fenced with a post and rail stone wall, 
richly ornamented with elder and poke berry, toge¬ 
ther with a stock of running blackberry vines. In 
the corner next the house and road, and not any 
too far from where the family eat and sleep, is the 
old hog pen, with a door open to the road, so as to 
give the occupants an opportunity to rusticate 
among the thrifty, well-manured crop of “ Jymsen 
weed,” (stramonium), that fills the lane to the 
right and left, affording a fine shade for the old 
sow and pigs. On the other side of the house, 
about half an acre of ground is enclosed by a very 
ancient picket fence, which bears the name of “ the 
garden.” Upon the south side, I suppose with a 
view to give the vegetables a due portion of shade* 
