July. Carrot? may t)e sown in the garden until 
the latter part of July. Sweet Corn may he had 
until frost comes, by planting at intervals of two 
weeks until July. Cucumbers maybe planted 
until August; the pickle crop is put in the last 
of the month. Other materials for pickles, such 
as Nasturtiums, Marty mats, and Melons for man¬ 
goes, may be sown at once. Okra is a subtropi¬ 
cal plant, and does quite well if the seed is put, 
in in June. 
By making a succession of sowings, pea 3 may 
be had ail summer. If the weather is dry, soak 
the peas before planting, and water the rows. 
Salsify is bC6t when sown quite early, hut even 
now it will give a good crop. Spinach and Swiss 
Chard may be sown, which give greens all sum¬ 
mer, and “ Herbs ” of all kinds may be put in. 
Salads may be had all the season, by sowing 
Endive now, [Lettuce after the summer heat 
is over, and. Com Salad from July until Sep¬ 
tember .—American Agriculturist. 
NOTES IN THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
VARIOUS RECIPES, 
Two Tender Bullions Flowers. 
Wk call attention to two very pretty flowers, 
not much grown, because they have been con¬ 
sidered too tender for our winters. The past 
two seasons they have succeeded admirably, 
and therefore we feel prepared to recommend a 
trial on a small scale. In fact, thiB is the way all 
new things should be tried. No one should 
plant largely of anything new or comparatively 
untried; then a failure will bring no serious loss 
or unavailing regrets. 
The FriliUaria Mdeagris, or Chequered Lily, is 
sometimes called the Guinea Hen Flower, on 
account of its chequered or spotted flowers. 
There are a good many varieties having various 
shades of brown, purple, yellow, &e., arranged 
in squares, each variety having two colors. The 
flowers are bell-shaped, on stems about eight 
inches in height, and bloom in April and May. 
They look the best in groups of about a dozen 
plants or more. They are uotshowy or brilliant, 
but very singular, and a few plants will generally 
give satisfaction. 
The Anemones are beautiful flowers, the colors 
brilliant, and the markings, stripes and belts 
charming. Both double and single are desirable, 
but the single are the most brilliant in color. 
They are somewhat tender, yet when put out in 
a good dry soil in the Autumn, and covered 
with leaves to protect them from the severe 
frofts, seldom fail. We do not recommend them 
for extensive planting, as we would the Hya¬ 
cinths, Tulips, and Lilies, but believe our read¬ 
ers would be gratified with the trial. 
Tbc Novelties. 
We have already flowered a few of the novelties 
of this season, and some of them have proved 
quite desirable; of others we are not yet pre¬ 
pared to express an opinion. 
Phlox jDntmrnondi IsabeUina , recommended in 
the loregn catalogues as “the first quite con¬ 
stant pure yellow variety of this beuulifui an¬ 
nual," proves to be a creamy yellow; not as 
bright as wc could desire, but we hope is des¬ 
tined to be the parenr of varieties of deeper and 
more desirable yellows. As being the first and 
only shade of yellow in the Phlox, it is an acqui¬ 
sition. 
Tropceolum Minus , KingoJ Tom Thiunbs. This 
was heralded as “ by far the fluest variety of all; 
the lustrous blue green foliage contrasting 
vividly with the intense scarlet of the blossoms, 
produces an unequalled blaze of brilliance, and 
the plant must become a universal favorite.” 
This is altogether the best dwarf Tropteolum wo 
have over seen. The flowers are as brilliant a 
scarlet as can be well Imagined, are very abund¬ 
ant, and held well up above the foliage; not 
hidden by the leaves as in many other varieties. 
The foliage is small and dark, almost a blue. 
The Mart agon Lilies have done finely this 
season. The yellow, purple and scarlet, arc just 
out of flower. Some two years since we saw for 
thelirst time the New Japan Lily Auratum, at 
Mr. Parsons’ place at Flushing. Last Autumn 
we obtained bulbs from Thomas Hogg, who is 
in Japan, and are now enjoying the first flowers 
—a magnificent thing truly. No description can 
exaggerate its beauty, so the most enthusiastic 
description can be relied on. Dr. Lutolby says 
in the T/yndon Hardener's Chronicle :—“ If ever a 
flower merited the name of glorious it is this, 
whether we regard its size, sweetness, or its 
exquisite arrangement of color.” The flowers 
are from eight to twelve inches across, com¬ 
posed of six delicate white Ivory parts, each 
being thickly studded with crimson spots, and 
having a bright golden band through its center. 
As the bulbs acquire ago aud strength, the 
flowers obtain their maximum size, and upwards 
of a dozen are produced on a single stem. 
DWARF FRUIT.1TEEES 
Sometimes our dwarf treeg strike a very 
favorable soil and circumstances, and grow more 
vigorously than it is desirable dwarf trees should 
do. Especially is this so of the Dwarf Cherry. 
The best remedy for this is to carefully dig the 
tree up, and reset it again immediately after. 
Indeed, whether they grow very vigorously or 
not, most dwarf trees are improved by a bien¬ 
nial or triennial transplanting. It is not essen¬ 
tial to good success; but is one of the ineredients 
in perfect culture. 
Dwarf trees can he set from eight to ten feet 
apart, and a great number of ail sorts set in a 
half acre lot. They bear fruit, in a very few 
years, and afford much pleasure to the enthusiast 
in pomological knowledge, by the opportunity 
they afford of testing and becoming acquainted 
with many kinds, and learning what varieties 
are best suited to his place and his taste, and ail 
their little peculiarities. They furnish him with 
material on which to exercise his pruning skill 
—they construe in fact, one of the most per¬ 
fect schools of Horticulture—and one who has 
been through a course of study therein, though 
hut for an hour a day for a year, deserves to be 
elected, without further qualification, a member 
of the nearest Horticultural Society. — Gard. 
Monthly. 
The Sweel William is an old favorite, and poor 
varieties are found in most of our gardens. This 
flower, however, so loDg neglected by florists, 
has been wonderfully improved within the last 
ten years. Some beautiful large clusters are 
produced, a specimen of one being shown in 
the engraving, while the single flowers in the 
clusters are as large as an American quarter. 
They are also of the most exquisite colorings, 
the center being narrow, scarlet and purple, and 
the outer belt of the purest pearly white, resem¬ 
bling the Auricula, more than any other flower. 
There are other varieties of the deepest velvety 
crimson. There are few of our common flowers 
that will give the amateur more satisfaction than 
a good bed of the improved Sweet W illi ams 
was none; and when they had been planted 
nineteen hours and a half, I raised the leaves 
and most all of them had come np, but the leaves 
were not yet expanded. I did not put them in 
the sun immediately, but kept them in the shade 
until the third day. I now have as nice, healthy 
looking plants as any one could ask for. 
Middleville, Mich. Mas. E. C. Pa run. 
shoot out at the same place. He then gives the 
whole surface of ground a coating of manure 
and sawdust on the top of that. 
T. The posts of this (three or four inches 
square, painted,) are set about seven feet apart, 
the center of the trenches being about the same 
distance between; posts about seven feet high. 
Iron rods, round, one-fourth of an inch in diam¬ 
eter, run through the posts, and along the top of 
the arbor. The vines run across the arbor on 
the top, about six or seven inches apart. In 
bearing, the blue sky overhead is scarcely to be 
seen from the bunches of blue grapes. As the 
sun sets and shines in on the 6ides of the arbor, 
mist can be seen falling from the vines almost 
like rain. 
S. No mother ever nursed her child with more 
unwearying and tender care t urn does Mr. Glid- 
den his grapes. But they rupL A1 time, all care 
bestowed. 
0. Mr. Gliddeu’s grapes never blight or rot; 
never fail !—Cincinnati Gazette. 
A FRUIT LADDER 
In a number of the Maine Farmer, we find the 
following suggestion as to the making of a fruit 
ladder: — Split an ash or spruce pole to within 
a few feet of the end; then put on a ring or 
insert a wrought nail and clinch it, so as to pre¬ 
vent the pole from splitting fan her ; spread 
it the right width for a ladder, until near tne 
crotch, where it must gradually curve; confine 
it in this shape; bore and insert rounds the 
proper distance and it is ready to }«>ke ko 
through any little opening, and will rest firmly 
against a small branch where a common ’.adder 
would often cant or twist about. 
We have a fruit ladder different from the 
above, and more complicated and unwieldly; 
but much better adapted to trees that bear the 
weight of a ladder and a man. We took a com¬ 
mon ladder some twelve feet in length, bored a 
five-eighths hole between the first "and second 
rounds a: the top; a pair of legs on supports, 
tilling to the outside of the top, as long as the 
ladder, and spreading six feet at the bottom, is 
prepared, and an iro-i bolt passed through both, 
and keyed. The legs aTe strengthened with ties, 
and afford a perfectly safe ladder to get at the 
outer branches of large as well as small trees, 
beiug self-supporting. The ladder separated 
from these legs, can of course be used for any 
ordinary purpose. 
SHEEP INJURING TREES 
In a late Rubai, one of your correspondents, 
(refering, I presume, to au article of mine in 
which I urged that bearing orchards should be 
pastured by sheep, rather than taxed to produce 
annual crops of hay,) states that according to his 
observation and experience sheep are liable to 
injure trees by barking their trunks. 
Perhaps that is sometimes the case, but we 
have had no difficulty of that kind, although onr 
sheep have been kept in our orchard most of the 
time during the grazing season for fifteen years. 
Onr trees are six inches or so in diameter, and 
not one has ever been barked to my knowledge. 
I think they would be more likely to injure 
small, young trees than those of larger growth, 
still I think it is not natural for them to eat 
bark, but a habit which is acquired usually by 
only a few of the flock. I consider sheep as far 
preferable to any other farm stock for pasturing 
amoDg fruit trees, so much so that 1 would, if 
necessary, adopt some expedient to protect the 
trunks or make the bark distateful to them 
rather than banish them from the orchard. I 
should be pleased to have your readers give their 
experience with sheep and trees. o. 
New Haven, Co., Conn. 
GARDEN SHELTER. 
The importance of garden shelter, is by no 
means enough considered. I do not, indeed, 
name my own method (hemlock hedging) as the 
best to be pursued; flanking buildings or high 
inclosures may give it more conveniently in 
many situations; a steep, sudden hill side may 
give it best of all; but it shou .d never be forgot¬ 
ten that while we humor the garden soil with 
what plants and trees wo best love, we should 
always give their foliage the protection against 
storms which they covet, and which in almost 
equal degree contributes to their luxuriance. 
To the dwarf fruits as well as to the grape, 
this shelter is absolutely essential; if they are 
compelled to fortify against oppressive blasts, 
they may do it ludeed, but they will in this way 
dissipate a large share of the vitality which 
would else go to fruit. Young cattle may bear 
the exposure of winter, but they will be pinched 
under it, aud take on a meager look of age, and 
expend a great stock of vital energy in the contest. 
—My Farm at Fdgeieood, 
ftortifuUuraigotc$ ami QuaUsi 
To Kill the Currant Worm. — I destroyed the 
swarms of worms which infested my currant and 
gooseberry bushes in the following manner:— Took a 
pan, held :: under the bushes, aud with a small s:ick 
hit the twigs a light tap and the worms dropped into 
the pan. The mo ruing is the best time.— Wiggins, .Jr. 
The plan proposed has beea tried, as many can tes¬ 
tify by sad experience. We have devoted many hours 
to the work. It is a slow process. Powdered Helle¬ 
bore dusted on the bushes is the heat thing. 
GRAPE CULTURE 
The following article gives the manner of grape 
culture by Mr. Glidden of Ohio : 
Mr. Gliddeu lets his vinca grow and make all 
the wood he can coax them to—and then “feeds ” 
them to make them produce fruit—feeds them 
every day during the season. 
His ground is hard clay, soil of the Ohio river 
bottom. 
1. He makes it as rich as possible with stable 
manure, to the depth of 15 to 18 inches, mixing 
in lime to a considerable quantity, and sand 
enough to make the ground, after it is prepared, 
light and porous. His ground gives to the foot 
almost like a sponge. 
2. He digs a trench 8>tf feet deep and 3 }i feet 
wide, throwing the prepared earth ou the other, 
and sets in the trench the posts for an arbor. 
In the bottom of the trench he places bones 
WAY I PLANTED MY CABBAGE SEEDS. 
To make Breai>, — We* arc using a kind of 
bread which we like very much, and thinking 
perhaps some would like to try it, I will tell 
them how I make It:—Take one quart of butter¬ 
milk, 1 quart of corn meal, aqd one quart of 
wheat flour; a teaenpful of molasses, a table¬ 
spoonful of saleratus and one of salt. Stir well 
together and bake three-quarters of an hour.— 
B. Bartoo. 
Dear Rural : —In a communication to you 
last summer, 1 told you 1 was trying experi¬ 
ments in my flower garden, and if I succeeded as 
I hoped to, you should hear from me again. I 
have succeeded beyond my most sanguine expec¬ 
tations-not ouly in my flower garden, but also 
in the vegetable garden. I therefore hasten to 
fulfil! my promise of communicating the results. 
First in the order of my experience comes the 
planting of cabbage seed. Your readers will say 
It is a “big yarn,” and will not believe it. 
However, their disbelief will not detract from 
the troth of it. My parents always corrected me 
when a child tor telling falsehoods, and as I was 
truined up in “ the way I should go,” I will not, 
now 1 am old, depart from it, 1 will not ask 
the readers to believe it, but all I ask is for them 
to try it themselves, and if they will do just as I 
tell them I will run the risk of beiug charged 
with telling “yarns.’’ 
I took a box six inches deep and of sufficient 
size to hold all the plauts 1 wanted. Then I 
selected stones of the size of alien’s egg, enough 
to cover the bottom of the box, aud poured hot 
A Monster Snowball. — VTe were shown several 
days since, by James C. Allis, Esq., a blossom from 
a snowball tree, (Fi6ur -’turn Opulus,) of such rare size 
and beauty that we consider it worthy of especial no¬ 
tice. It Is from a tree on the place of Mr. Allis in 
Clarendon, Orleans Co., N. Y, The tree stands in a 
sheltered position, and for a number of years has 
borne profusely, the blossoms always attracting notice 
on account of their extraordinary size. The one shown 
us measured eighteen and one-fourth inches In circum¬ 
ference, symmetrically shaped and of an unusually 
pure a brilliant white color. 
SOW FOR A SUCCESSION 
Indelible Ink.— Dissolve tw*o inches of ni¬ 
trate of silver stick in a little water, aud mix it 
with one gallon of common writing ink in which 
considerable mucilage of gum arabic was used 
in making it. Test it and if it spreads too much 
on the cloth, dissolve some gum arabic in a lit¬ 
tle warm water and add enough to correct it. 
If the right kind of ink is used uogum will have 
to be .added. If the article to be marked is first 
starched and ironed, where the name is to he 
written, it will present a better surface for writ¬ 
ing. Expose the writing to the light for several 
hours. Keep the bottles containing the ink 
wrapped np in dark-colored paper away from 
the light. 
An Enemy in tub Orchard.—I nclosed is a twig 
from au apple tree in my orchard, covered, as you will 
perceive, by an Insect which is increasing in some 
orchard* it> this sectiou of country. What is it? and 
what remedy is there '.‘—A. Cowman, Hamlet, III. 
This is the Apple Bark Louse that wc have described 
a score of times. The best remedy, we suppose, is to 
give the trees a severe pruning. Cut off all the wood 
possible without injuring the trees. Then rasp the 
bark of the large limbs with something like a grater. 
Make a solution of soft soap aud tobacco water and 
give a good washiug. It is a troublesome job, but it 
is a cheap way of saving the orchard. 
from the slaughter house, to the depth of 5 or 0 
inches, upon t he bones ho packs solid about 18 to 
30 inches of stable manure, upon the top of 
which ho puts tho prepared earth, taken from 
the top of the treuch in digging, and the day 
from the bottom is spread over the surface of the 
ground. 
3. He sets his plants. After that, he never 
digs the ground, but applies all “ feed ” iu a top¬ 
dressing. 
4. in the ease of bearing vines, every day 
when it does not rain, the whole surface of the 
ground is freely sprinkled with water, from the 
time, the grapes are formed until ripe. All the 
summer, all his vines are fed with lime water, 
about two-thirds of a bucketful of lime to SO 
gallons of water, and all the soap suds and dish 
water from the kitchens, 
(good, rich, garden mould,) iu au old dripping 
pun, beating ou the top of the stove, which I 
heat hot euough to kill oil seeds of weeds and 
iusects. 
When all was hot enough, I placed tho stones 
on the bottom of the box, aud put the hot earth 
on top of the stones, and then filled the box 
with cold earth. Theu I made a print with tho 
tip of my linger where I wanted each plant to 
istand, put two seeds in a place for fear all might 
uot come up, pressed them into tho earth and 
covered them sufficiently deep. Then I took 
'he green leaves of the pie plant and laid all 
ovtr them, and set tho box in a chair iu my 
cook room. 1 had some fire iu the stove for 
about halt a day, and the rest of the time there 
Trees and tub Nursery Business.-T he Attica 
Atlas says: Nurserymen generally have cleaned out 
their stock of fruit trees unusually close, this season; 
and, of many sorts, the supply has been nowhere near 
adequate to the demand. People are beginning to see 
that fruit yalds a larger return for outlay and labor, 
than any thing else that can occupy soil that is adapted 
to fruit; so, many are setting young orchards for mar¬ 
ket purposes. Then, those who have no idea of raising 
any article for market, having learnt that fruit is ‘good 
for food,’find either that they have uot spare money 
to buy It with, or that it is not to be bonght,—and 
they have decided to make sure of the luxury by plant¬ 
ing trees and raising their own and a taste for favorite 
friends. But of planting fruit 'the end is not yet.’ 
Another season the nurserymen's stock will be larger, 
and it will be sold out cleaner. Already their canvass¬ 
ing agents are m the field for the fall campaign.” 
To Clean Knives. — A small, clean potato, 
with the end cut off, is a very convenient 
medium of applying brick dust to knives, keep¬ 
ing it about the right moisture, while the juice 
of the potato assists in removing stains from the 
surface. A better polish can be obtained by this 
method than by any other we have tried, and 
with less labor. 
is fed to the vines. 
The heavy bunches are tied up with twine to 
support them. 
5, lie nips back the bearing branches, going 
over the vines about three times, to equalize their 
growth, lets them grow no longer than 8 or 10 
Inches, and keeps them there 
0. After bearing, at the proper season, he cuts 
off all the bearing branches smooth to tho viues; 
the next season, the bearing branches again 
Spring Beer.— One pint of dandelion roots, 
1 of spruce sprigs, V pint of burdock root, ‘.j 
do. molasses, 3 tablespoonfhls of gmger. Boil 
in 1 gallon of water J, hour; strain, add 1 gal¬ 
lon of cold water, 1 wine glassful of yeast, stir 
well. This will be ready for use in about 34 
hours. Good for the liver complaint.— Selected, 
