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and their works would soon exhibit that the 
visit was not in vain. Rochester possesses won¬ 
derful advantages in natural scenery,—but when¬ 
ever the city is mentioned with admiration it is 
not because of its cataracts, or the grand old 
banks which hem in the Genesee, but, rather, of 
its shaded av-nues, its small yet handsome parks, 
he tasty gardens, its trees and shrubs and flow¬ 
ers. These are here in profusion, and these 
have led to that, air of neatness arid care which 
bo prominently marks the city. Verily, Roch¬ 
ester ic un exceeding pleasant place to live in. 
And Bay City can attain all this 8greeableoess of 
feature it the people only will it. During the 
past fall and spring ranch was done,—very many 
trees were planted, and the good work evi¬ 
dently begun. But do not let it lag. Keep at it. 
After planting, give to what you have set out 
the care it. requires. Fence in the parks, attend 
to them, and keep them in order. Beautify the 
grounds surrounding your homes,— make them 
“pleasant places” for the little ones who sit at 
your board and grace your fireside. Ten years, 
by surrounding it with an abundance of thei 
PRACTICAL HINTS, 
VARIOUS RECIPES, 
Thousands of our readers have planted fruit 
trees the past spring. We will suppose, of 
course, that the necessary pains were taken to 
secure good trees of the hest varieties—those 
best suited to the purpose ior w hich they were 
designed, whether for family use or market. We 
will also take it for granted that the nurserymen 
furnished the varieties you ordered, and good, 
healthy trees that will grow and produce tine 
fruit, if they have a fair chance for life ; for, not¬ 
withstanding the grumbling of some, and the 
reckless charges of others, as a class we believe 
the nurserymen to be intelligent, careful and 
honest. This opinion is the result of our own 
experience and observation. Of course, errors 
occur in all trades and professions. The phy¬ 
sician sometimes injures his patient when he 
designed only to do good, and through the blun¬ 
ders of the apothecary a valuable life Is some¬ 
times lost. The tailor occasionally makes a Bad 
misfit, and whoever builds a house and is sat¬ 
isfied that he nas no cause to complain of the 
architect or carpenter is fortunate indeed. 8uch 
a man no doubt formed his plan carefully and 
wisely, and knew just what he had a right to 
expect. 
In the lust number of the Gardener's Monthly 
a correspondent gives a chapter of his experi¬ 
ence in dealing with nurserymen in various 
parts of the country— Geneva, Rochester, Pough¬ 
keepsie, Elizabethtown, &c.,—seven cases, in 
all of which he was cheated badly. Now, we 
know nothing of the complaint, nor have we au 
interest in the nursery business to the amount 
of a dime, yet we have no hesitation in saying 
that the person complaining is one of those 
11 natural grumblers ,” with whom nurserymen 
and all other tradesmen like to have as little to 
do as possible. There is another class, the care¬ 
less, with whom it is very unsatisfactory to have 
dealings. They never keep copies of their let¬ 
ters, and Intended to order a great many things, 
but ordering was omitted to the last moment^ 
and then a few lines were scratched off, hardly 
readable, and hall was forgotten. No # copyof 
the order was kept, of course, and when the 
articles arrive there is a great “hue and cry.” 
"Hardly a thiug gent that I wanted.” “Just 
what I wauted the most is left out.” An angry 
letter is written back, and perhaps the Post- 
office or State, or evea the writer’s name omitted. 
Of course there Is no response. And this Is 
considered conclusive evidence that the nursery¬ 
man is a knave. 
We have before us three letters, which will 
show the wnybusiutss is often done, the way 
business men are annoyed, and one great source 
of complaint. The first is an order from a lady, 
who gave her Post-office, but omitted her name 
r bench Cake.—H alf cup butter; 2 cups of 
sugar, 3 of flour; 3 eggs; 2 teaspoons cream 
tartar, 1 of soda; l cup of milk; beat the eggs; 
add the milk; then the butter 
together; then the flour 
bed in; then the milk 
Fried Cakes.— One 
four tablespoonfuls of butter. 
A_AX - _ 
and sugar beaten 
with cream tarter rub- 
and soda last of all. 
cup of sugar; two eggs; 
--i heat them well 
together; add one cup of buttermilk, one tea¬ 
spoon of soda; mix soft; spice, &c. 
Cream Pudding.— Take 6 eggs; 6 ounces of 
sugar; teacup flour. When well stirred add one 
cup sweet milk; salt to taste; then add 1 quart 
sweet cream, and hake 20 minutes. -Farmer’s 
Daughter. 
To make Pot-Pie.— Take one chicken, cut in 
pieces; boil until done; add a dozen oysters, 
some potatoes sliced; let it come to a boil, put 
in your crust; let it boil hard 10 miDutes. 
Bean Sohp.— Take one pint beans, boil till 
soft; add one parsnip sliced; three or four sliced 
onions; piece of red pepper. You can boil it 
with a piece of salt pork, or season it with but¬ 
ter. It is nice. 
Potato Yeast.—P eal and boil six or eight 
potatoes, mash them, pour on two or three 
JOHNSON S CHAMPION FORCE PUMP. & 
HINTS ON TRANSPLANTING, 
Transplanting beiDg an artificial operation 
some general laws of nature should be followed, 
in order that nature may perfect herself in the 
plant transplanted. In garden and field culture 
some varieties of plants and vegetables are best 
started in beds, for various reasons; some are 
slow in vegetating, and remain small till the 
wurm weather of June brings them forward; 
such are better cared for massed in beds; there 
they are more easily kept iree from weeds, and 
less liable to be destroyed before they attain a 
sufficient size for field or garden culture. In 
order that a plant transplanted may thrive, cer¬ 
tain preparations of the soil are necessary previ¬ 
ous to putting it out—such as pulverizing, 
enriching, etc. A good bed should be prepared 
of fine rich soil, devoid of clods, stone or lumps; 
it not naturally in this state, make it so by 
plowing or spading, harrowing and raking, 
mixing in good rotted stable manure or compost; 
sometimes Ihese are properly put in the hill, 
here they need covering two or three inches 
with fine soil and compressing by a spat of the 
boo, or like. The soil being in readiness to 
receive the plant, that having attained a proper 
size, the next step is to transfer it thereto, and 
affix it in as near a natural position as possible; 
lo doing this certain other natural laws are to be 
borne in mind. 
Plants absorb moistnre by their roots, and 
give it off through their leaves; it follows, 
then, that if the roots are pls/ed in a dry soil, 
the leaves will part with their luoisture, aud, as 
a consequence, wilt; so if the’roots or leaves 
are very much cramped or mutilated, they can¬ 
not perform their proper offices. Thu best time 
for transplanting, then, it would seem to me is 
_X AX »• ■ 
Farmer: — “It is a force pump for extinguish¬ 
ing fires, washiug windows, watering plants, or 
any of the numerous uses to which such an ar- 
gga tide may be applied. It is of 
1 vei 7 compact and neat conBtruc- 
I tion, and its capacity is much 
greater thau would be supposed 
Till from its out ward appearance. All 
Snjfc know that, with the common gar- 
f.f fjt? den syriDge, the stream of water 
i ; H ceases when the pressure is with- 
j j| drawn from the piston. In John- 
' || SON’S pump, the piston rod is 
j Ig hollow, and by an ingenious ar¬ 
rangement of valves serves as an 
air-chamber, thus converting the 
machine Into 
ford, Illinois, 1865. 
to Keep Eggs.— Eggs can be kept for two 
years, by dipping them in a solution made of 
one pound of quick lime, and one of salt, to one 
gallon of water; take an old pail and put in your 
lime aud water, aud then stir until it is all dis¬ 
solved, then add salt as above, (keep in the cel¬ 
lar,) when cool enough, it is ready to use. Dip 
in the eggs, and see that they are all covered 
with ihe solution, which must be stirred from 
the bottom occasionally. Pack them, small end 
downwards, in bran or salt, or without anything. 
When wanted for use or market, a little warm 
water will wash them clean. Some dip eggs in 
boiling water, some grease them and pack them 
ia bran. I packed 15 decen (as I eoa’d gather 
them,) in August, in salt, and kept them until 
spring, just as good as fresh. They must ail be 
kept in a cool cellar alike moist rather than dry. 
—Mrs. M. F. C., Waterford, Dacolx Co., Minn. 
Plain Rice Pudding.—Two quarts of milk; 
1 teacupfol of uncooked rice; a piece of butter, 
size of an egg; 1 egg, well beaten; salt and su¬ 
gar to the taste. Bake two hours, in well heated 
oven, stirring two or three times thoroughly, as 
it begins to hake. A teacupful of raisins can be 
added if desired. Or the above with a little less 
milk and no egg.— Mrs. H. 
a regular force 
t pump, aud rendering the stream 
of water as steady and constant 
as that thrown by a fire engine. 
This feature constitutes the great 
value of the pump. Its force is 
such that it will throw a stream 
of water from thirty to forty 
feet, horizontally, amply suffi¬ 
cient to carry it to the top of any 
ordinary dwelling. In many instances in our 
knowledge, buildings have been set on fire and 
consumed by sparks from burning buildings 
falling upon the roof, where one of these unpre¬ 
tending little pumps would have saved them, 
aud perhaps even prevented the larger fire of 
which this was one consequence. 
In the case of lire iu a dwelling, ihe first half 
hour, sometimes the first five minutes, is the 
decisive time when the destruction or the safety 
of tho building is to bo settled. Fire often 
breaks out iu such a situatlou that water cannot 
be thrown on It from a pail, or any ordinary 
appliance, 
Cabbages.— One of tho greatest difficulties en 
countered In raising cabbages, is the ravages of 
the cut-worm. We have completely outwitted 
them for two or three years past, in a very sim¬ 
ple manner. We take pieces of uewspaper six 
inches square, tear a slit in one side to tho center 
and insert the plant. Bring the slit edges to¬ 
gether, and place a little earth or a pebble on 
tho corners, and the work is done. A platform 
of paper is formed around the plant through 
which the worm cannot penetrate. We did not 
lose more than two or three plants from that 
cause the la3t two years. We always think it a 
great point gained when an effectual safeguard can 
be obtained against tho ravages of insects, and 
we regard this as one of the discoveries of the 
age .—Maine Farmer. 
moisture. In removing plants from the bed, the 
latter should be well soaked, so that the roots 
will part from the soil with as little tearing or 
breaking as possible; the most careful lifting 
will deprive them of some of the roots or root¬ 
lets, which if not serious is of no detriment, but 
will rather hasten the maturity of the plant. 
As before remarked, the best time for trans¬ 
planting is when the weather and soil are moist 
or wet, bnt with proper precautions It may be 
done safely at any time. When the plants" are 
getting large, water the bed thoroughly with a 
good sprinkler, remove the plants carefully and 
agaiu water the bed; water the hills where the 
plants are to he set and let it soak in; set the 
plant with care and immediately water again, 
govtiruUuvatgotts attfl ejucvi ts 
In such a ease, for instance, when 
the flames are working behind a partition, the 
hose may be quickly introduced through a hole, 
and the fire reached aud subdued by a few pail¬ 
fuls of water. 
For use in the garden, iu applying solutions of 
Whale oil soap or other articles to plants, to pre¬ 
vent the ravages of insects, or in watering flower 
beds, the convenience with which it can be put 
in use, and the ease with which it is worked, will 
commend it to all. The large cut will show 
the manner iu which it is operated. 
In families, the pump will also be found, as 
Mrs. Toodles says, “ very handy to have in the 
house” during the period of house cleaning, 
which comes, to every good housekeeper, at 
least as often as once a year. When the soap 
suds and brush have started the dust and smoke 
frotu the windows, then the stream of water 
from the pump haudsomely finishes the work, 
and leaves the glass thoroughly cleansed, aud 
the light tree to enter without obstructions. 
This machine, we commend to our readers as a 
valuable machine, aud should the purchaser save 
Petroleum as a remedy for :he striped hug. We 
thought it ••sound,” and think so still, if the direc¬ 
tions are properly followed. But a correspondent in 
Livingston Co., N. Y., says his landlady—who has 
read and prized the Rural tor years, and siwavs reads 
it first of six papers that arrive by same mail—after 
reading the article, applied jfcsuiiw to her plants, cr 
vines, and that one application frilled (hem. [We 
quote from memory, having mislaid our correspond¬ 
ent's note.) He then proceeds to state that tho writer 
for the Rural [a mistake! was either ignorant, or 
Intended to deceive—and says he presumes or Tears 
twenty thousand people have suffered from followtrg 
the advjcc. To which we reply that if so many, or 
any people applied a strong dose. of Benzine to their 
plants or vines —instead of Petroleum ia the careful 
Daniel Webster’s Chowder. — Four table- 
spoonfuls of onions, fried with pork; one quart 
of boiled potatoes, well mashed; one and a half 
pounds of sea biscuit; one teaspoon of thyme, 
mixed with one of summer savory; half bottle 
of mushroom catsup; one bottle of port or clar¬ 
et; half nutmeg, Igrated; a few cloves, mace 
and allspice; six pounds of fish, sea bass or cod, 
cut in slices; 25 oysters; a little black pepper 
and a few slices of lemon. The whole put in a 
Fine Straw berries.-M r, M. Sutton, gardener, of 
Irondequoit, near this city, last week favored us with 
specimens of the British Queen Strawberry which 
were very tine flavored and large—of the largest aver¬ 
age size we had then seen, of any variety, this season. 
The family "tasting committee” pronounced them 
superior. 
Mr. E. M. Conklins of Parma, has left at this office 
some specimens of the Triomph de Gaud of extraor¬ 
dinary size. One of them measured o’, inches; and 
twenty-three of the berries weighed one pound I 
To Keep Butter Sweet in a Cask.—A com¬ 
pound of one part sugar, one part nitre, and two 
parts of the best Spanish salt, beat together into 
a fine powder, and mixed thoroughly with the 
butter in the proportion of one ounce to the 
pound, has been found to keep the butter in 
every respect sweet and sound during two years 
that it was in cask. It is also said to impart a 
rich marrowy flavor that no other batter ever 
requires, and tastes very little of the salt. 
Fruit Gowers' Association of Upper Canada.— 
A Special Meeting of this Association will be held in 
the Couacii Chamber, County Buildings, Court-House 
Square, City of Hamilton, on Friday the 23d day of 
June, 1965, at one o’clock P. M. 
The business of this meeting will be the dlscnssion 
of Strawberries and Cherries; and to consider wheth¬ 
er the Secretary shall issue notices for a meeting on 
the thud Wednesday of July next. By order— D. W. 
Beadle, Secretary. 
Packing Apples in Saw oust. —You ask yonr read¬ 
ers to verify a statement concerning sawdust for pack¬ 
ing apples. Have nsed dry white oaa (more readily 
procured than walnut.') for three years, with food suc¬ 
cess. By drying have used the same dust so far. 
Found fresh black russets when overhauling barrels 
last October. We formerly nsed papers, bnt prefer 
sawdust.—J. L. Gbrrpsl, .Vast Yard. X, IT. 
ROCHESTER WORTHY OF IMITATION, 
Capt. Kennedy, editor of the Bay City 
(Mich.) Signal — whilom a Rochesteriau, aud 
lor some years couuected with this journal — 
lately re-visited Rochester, and took and 
printed seme sensible uotes thereupon. We 
quote a paragraph describing wherein or for 
what our city is most generally and truly ad¬ 
mired, aud Intimating how Buy City — and 
scores-of other cities and villages, we may 
add —can bo roudered equally beautiful and 
attractive to both citizens aud strangers. While 
we are justly proud of Rochester, wo say to 
other towns, “go and do likewise,” and exeel it 
it possible in ttie beauty and arrangement oi 
streets, residences, trees, shrubbery, flowers, 
etc. But to the extract-. The Signal says: 
“ Rochester is entitled to tho appellation of 
1 Beautiful ’ among the cities of the laud. Could 
we transport the deulzeus of Bay here for a 
lew hours we wou(d gladly do so, for we know 
they are appreciative aud would be influenced, 
Iheue was sound philosophy 5u the advice 
of the old Laird of Dombiedikes to his son. 
“When ye hae naething else to do ye maybe 
sticking in a tree, Jock, it will he growing Jock, 
while ye are sleeping.” The old miser knew 
very well that great profits might thus be real¬ 
ized with the smallest possible outlay. It would 
perplex a lawyer to enumerate the many good 
arguments that might be urged in lavor of this 
practice of planting an abuudanee of trees around 
the home spot. 
Tbe children who grew up under their shade 
arc more refined iu their tastes, and far less 
likely to settle down into mere “hewers of 
wood and drawers of water,” thau those whose 
doorway opens out ou a clay or sand bank, or a 
bare, parched and shadeless yard. Whut a lit tle ef- 
fo rt it requires to set out a truit tree in some waste 
corner of a yard or garden, and yet what- large 
returns it will yield! Even the humblest home 
may bo made to look smiling and comfortable 
To Preserve Berries.— Take good ripe ber¬ 
ries oi any kind—put them into a jar having a 
cover to fit closelv 
put on a heavy weight to ! 
I press them down under the juice, which will 
[ soon be pressed from the berries. Preserved 
thus, they will keep good auy length of time, | 
and may be used with sugar as sauce; or with- ^ 
out, as tart.— Selected, r 
Hk'kok’s Cider and Wins Mill.— The attention of 
those of our readers engaged lu fruit growing, and es¬ 
pecially such as make cider, wiue, etc., is directed to 
the announcement of the manufacturer of this popular 
machine. Mr. Hickor y machines have been so long 
before the public, aud so generally used and approved, 
that we consider this simple reference sufficient. 
t berry Crop is large aud excellent 
y, aud we are having an abundance 
•ries in market. 
Sugar Biscuit.— One quart milk, quarter 
pound of butter; quarter pound of sugar; a 
teacupful of home-made yeast. Set to raise in 
the evening. To be mixed not too stiffly. 
