Prices ok Frcit and Vegetables in New York.— We 
give below the prices of fruit. &c., in the New York market. 
It will be seen that the Spitzenberg and Baldwin apples sell 
at a much higher prioe than any other varieties in the market: 
TOTATOES. 
Jersey and Delaware Sweet. 
Buckeye. . 
L. I. and N. J Mercer.. 
Peachblows. . 
Nova Scotia, on vessel. 
OTHER VEGETABLES. 
Celery, fl dozen. 
Salsify. do. . . 
Spinach ^ bbh. 
Red eabbaye. ¥> dozen,. 
Winter salad, >4 basket,. 
Parsnips, ^1 bb). . 
Marrnw squash, if} bbl,.. 
Cabbage, » dozen. 
Parsley, p dnren bnnches,.. 
White turnips, f) bbl. 
• Russia turnip*. *' . 
Carrots, “ . 
Beets, " --..... 
Rockaway onions, '* . 
Yellowjonions. “ . 
Knub celery. if) dozen bunches,. 
apples. 
Rhode Island Greening, jp bbl. 
Winter Russet, “ 
Rpitzcnberir. choice, 
Baldwin, choice, “ 
Make the 
“A Good, Bright, Unfading Red 
brass kettle as bright as possible. Use Boft water, 1 
and for every pound of cloth or yarn, one OZ. of 
cochineal; 2 oz. cream of tartar; 2 oz. solution of 
tin. Put the cream of tartar in the water when 
cold; when it boils, add the cochineal, well pulver¬ 
ized; boil five mimitos, stirring well, then add the 
solution of tin. Put in the goods dry, or perfectly 
free from soap; boil twenty minutes. This will 
color woolen, silk, or crape, but not cotton. By 
varying the time the goods are in the dye, you can 
have a shade from a rose pink to a scarlet.— Mrs. 
Cady, Cleveland, Ohio, 1862. 
To Color Scarlet — Mrs. # Plowhandle’s 
Recipes. —1st. For 1 lb. yarn, half an ounce of cream 
tartar; one ounce cochineal, pulverized; two ounces 
muriate of tin. Infuse the cream tartar in two 
I quarts warm soft water. Set it over coals, and as 
the heat increases, stir it briskly, and add the cochi¬ 
neal. When well mixed, pour in the muriate of tin. • 
Tako the yarn, wet it in warm water, and put it in 
the dye. Move it about moderately, and let it boil 
ten minutes. Take it out, drain, and let it dry. 
Wash it in weak suds. 
2d. For 4 lbs. of yarn, or cloth, 4 oz. cream tartar; 
20 grains cochineal, pulverized; 3 oz. muriate tin; 
8 gallons rain or soft water. Follow the directions 
in the first recipe. 
Coloring Reo. —For one pound of yarn, take 
one and a half ounces of cochineal; two ounces 
solution of tin; one ounce cream tartar. Dissolve 
| the cream tartar in three gallons of soft water; add 
i the cochineal, and boil it five minutes: put iu the 
1 solution of tin, and stir briskly; then put in the 
yarn, and boil it half an hour. Wash as soon as you 
take it out.—D. J. S.. Clark , Fa ., 1862. 
An Unfadtno Red— Take one ounce pulverized 
cochineal; two ounces cream tartar; two ounces 
muriate of tin; and one pound cloth. Wet the cloth 
in weak soap suds. Put the cream tartar into warm 
water, sufficient to cover the cloth, and beat it till 
it boils. Then stir in the cochineal, and afterwards 
add the. tin, and dip your cloth instantly.— Mrs. H. 
Hodge, Lawton , Mich., 1862. 
Cochineal Red.— To one pound of yarn add 
one ounce of cochineal, ground fine; one ounce of 
mfelted pewter, poured into two ounces of muriatic 
acid, to stand half an hour previous to pouring it 
into the dye. Intusein warm water (soft) half an 
ounce of cream tartar, stirring it briskly. Before it 
boils, add the cochineal, which must be well mixed; 
then pour iu the acid, and stir it well. When it 
boils, put in the yam; continue to stir it fifteen min¬ 
utes, and you will have a bright scarlet, if the yam 
or cloth is clean. It must be colored in brass that 
is very bright.—J. M. J., New town, Conn., 1862. 
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society offer 
large premiums for the best kept ornamental 
grounds, and a committee is appointed to make the 
necessary examination. We have always read 
their report with great interest, as they usually con¬ 
tain many hints of great importance to every one 
who wishes to make a tasteful home. We, therefore, 
give our readers a few condensed extracts from this 
report; 
Estate op Dr. Lodge. — Ab an instance of 
marked success, in this combination of landscape 
gardening and agriculture, the estate of Dr. Lodge 
may be mentioned. The site selected was the 
naturally rough, bleak, rock-bound shore of Cape 
Ann. Yet science and art have so transformed this 
place that now we see an intermingling of beauty 
and luxuriance and grandeur, scarcely to be 
equalled in the country. Verdant lawns stretch to 
the very ocean's edge, which yield two crops, year 
after year, of over three tuns per acre. Successive 
gardens of the pear and apple, of root and other 
Now that the culture of our native grapes is 
receiving such general attention, it becomes impor¬ 
tant to ascertain the best and most economical trellis 
for vineyard purposes. We have never seen any¬ 
thing better than that made of good posts, set well, 
with a scantling at the top and bottom to keep all 
firm, with wire between. F. C. Breiim, of Waterloo, 
N. Y., gives the following plan in the Horticulturist: 
Iu the first place, in making my trellis, I get good 
swamp oak posts, 13 feet long, 5 by 5 inches at the 
butt, and 5 by 14 inches at the end or top. These I 
set in the vineyard where Wanted, 34 to 4 feet 
deep, 30 feet apart The two end posts I braced by 
setting a short post 4 feet long, 34 feet in the ground, 
leaving 6 inches above ground, to which I fasten my 
brace. 
thread cut on it 10 inches long, and a hole or eye 
punched or drilled in it large enough to admit the 
wire. This bolt is inserted by boring a hole a trifle 
larger than the holt, through the post, so as to allow 
it to move freely backward and forward; for if the 
bolt fits too tight, it will rust and get stuck in the 
post, so that it cannot be moved when it is neces¬ 
sary to tighten or slacken the wires, especially if the 
I coat the wires with coal tar; this 
3,.W®4,00 
3.00&3.50 
S.OOCnS.fiO 
3,006.3.50 
posts are oak. 
prevents their rusting, and is cheaper and better 
than paint. 
I place my vines 10 feet apart on the trellis, and 8 
feet between the rows. In the first year of planting 
the vines I allow them to grow one shoot or cane; 
this is cut back the following fall to three eyes. 
These I allow to grow the following spring, training 
the two lower shoots horizontally each way on the 
lower wire until they meet midway with those of the 
next vine. The shoot from the third or upper eye I 
train up vertically, and which produces fruit the 
next season. The two horizontal shoots frorn this 
season will produce a cane or shoot from each eye, 
which is trained up vertically on the trellis, and 
which fills it up completely, forming, as it were, 
a solid wall of vines. By cutting out every other 
cane at three eyes, you can renew your wood every 
I year. 
field crops, all under the lee of the various spurs of 
huge rock, each suggest the luxuriance of the West, 
if, shut out from the sight, we could also shut out 
the sound of the ever-munnuring sea. 
A single fact, that Dr. Lodge has cultivated the 
strawberry for the past four years in hills, without 
removal, and with continuing good results, will bo 
of special interest to cultivators who are just enter¬ 
ing upon this mode of culture. Judging from the 
size of the plot, the yield was about four thousand 
quarts per acre, for this the fourth year—the plants 
indicating perfect health and vigor. This method 
is but an application of Dr. Lodge's theory of 
pruning, which is the removal of all superfluous 
wood, laterals or runners, forcing the plants to form 
fruit spurs, with the least possible amount of wood, 
and no unnecessary foliage. 
Estate of E. S. Rand, Jr.—O n the 3d of July 
the Committee visited the residence of Mr, Edward 
S. Rand, Jr. Mr. Rand’s object in asking this 
examination was in order to show what might be 
This post should be set about. 7 or .8 feet 
from the end post. For the brace I use 3 by 4 good 
pine scantling. WireB I use T in number, placing 
them at intervals of 15 inches apart. For the lower 
or first wire I use No. 9; for the others, No. 10, 
annealed fence wire. The wires are fastened at one 
end by boring a hole through the post large enough 
to admit the wire, and then winding once around 
the post and fastening; this prevents the wire from 
slipping or getting displaced, and is better than to 
wind around alone. The other end is fastened by a 
bolt 14 inches long, made of 1-inch round iron, with a 
Fruit Raising in Baltimore.— Mr. T. Baynes, in a recent 
American Farmer , gives the following account:—“The por¬ 
tion of my garden, eighty-five feet square, gives the following 
result, viz; 
GRAPES. 
763 pounds, at 10 cents______$ 76 30 
200 pounds, at 16 cents_ 30 OO 
170 pounds, at 11 cents... 18 70 
160 pounds, at 10 cents. 15 00 
1.2S3 
42 quarts of strawberries, at 10 cents . 
68la quarts of gooseberries, at 25 cents . 
IT a* quarts of raspberries, at 20 cents... 
4 quarts of red currants, at 8 cents .. 
3 quarts of black currants, at 8 cents 
13 quarts of white currants, at 8 cents 
Rhubarb........ 
varieties, mingled with the preceding colors, are from two to three years. Hence the plant has there 
matchless. Add to this, that many ot the kinds are been said to be triennial, which it is far from always 
deliciously fragrant, and yon have nearly all the being. In Africa and near the tropics, if the 
qualities which constitute a good flower. In treat- suckers are set out every month, the fruit can he 
ing of the Cineraria as a plant for exhibition, or of obtained in every month in the year. In England, 
its value for decorative purposes, (and, in the early some fruit has been raised on the Pine Apple, which 
parts of the season, the plants make a fine display,) weighed eight, and even ten pounds, and very 
we cannot refrain from stating that their cultivation luscious. . 
should be much improved, and indeed must be *' The Pine Apple, or the fruit, is the aggregated 
before they will assume their wonted standing upon seed-vessels, with their bracts and other parts 
our exhibition tables. But a few years back Cine- blended together, and the inside becoming in mar 
rarias were but a lot of poor, starry things, with turity a soft pulpy mass of most exquisite taste and 
narrow, flimsy petals, and Bowers supported by tall, delicious fragrance. Excellent as we consider 
unsighlly stems; but now, thanks to the desire for them, imported into our country in a half ripe con- 
improvement, the best varieties are dwarf and com- dition, a cultivator of them declares the fruit in 
pact, and, when properly grown, produce perfect Africa to be incomparably more delicious, 
trusses of stout, and. in some cases, of almost per- Authors say that the Pine Apple was introduced 
lectly formed flowers. into England, in 1690, and fruit was first raised there 
“When high cultivation is aimed at, peculiar in 1715. In the garden of Sir Mathew Decker, at 
treatment (which we shall presently describe) is Richmond, England, in 1724, forty ripe Pine Apples 
$ 24 so 
$$uo oo 
Grapes. 
$164 80 
$164.80 for 85 feet sqaare is equal to $1,031.25 per acre. 
Labor for digging and hoeing was twelve dollars. Besides, 
my attention (which is pleasure) will not amount to over half 
an hour per day during the season.’’ 
ance. In the spring previous tne eigut acre mi was 
a wild thicket of oak, birch, juniper, and pitch and 
white pine. The site, though uninviting at the 
commencement, was well chosen, being remarkably 
undulating, and giving great variety of effect. 
With a true appreciation of its capacities Mr. Rand 
has entered upon the work ot transforming this 
forest into a garden, with all the ardor of true love. 
The main part of the work has been done with his 
own hands, before and after office hours in Boston. 
It was surprising how great changes had been made 
in so short a time, and at such moderafe cost. 
Instead of the pines and blueberry bushes of the 
previous spring, we saw a garden of herbaceous 
plants—a bed of strawbeiries—specimens of choice 
trees, such as Salisburia, Magnolias, Liquidamber, 
Lycesteria, a hedgerow of Pyrus Japonica, and 
many other evidences that the work of transforma¬ 
tion was going on with great skill and good judg¬ 
ment in every expenditure. It is in this respect 
that the place is specially note-worthy, the results 
in all cases exceediug the means used in producing 
them. 
William Bacon's Pear Orchard. —Your Com¬ 
mittee also visited the pear orchard of Mr. William 
Bacon, in Roxbury, and found the frees in great 
vigor, and well loaded with fruit. The advantage 
of protection from winter winds was very manifest, 
this garden being surrounded by high walls, which 
saved the fruit buds. It is a matter of surprise that 
these trees can continue to thrive in such a location 
—the surface soil being but eighteen inches to two 
feet above the water level, in the driest season. The 
secret is, that a constant and profuse supply of food 
is applied on the surface, obtained from the city 
sewer, which flows through the ground. So long as 
the surface can be so fed and stimulated, the trees 
may thrive, as they have heretofore, in a most 
marked degree, under Mr. Bacon’s management. 
But if, from any cause, the roots should for once 
venture down, quick consumption would be sure to 
follow. As Mr. Bacon’s garden was fully reported, 
and received an award last year, it was excluded 
from the list for this season. 
Goon Ever-blooming Roses. — The Gardeners' Monthly 
gives the following rs the best twelve old and the best twelve 
new roses: 
One Dozen Best Old Roses, Free Bloomers. — Hybrid 
Perpetual .—Grunt des Batailles, Duchesse de Cambsceres, 
Docteur Amnl. Madam Knorr. Bourbon.— Reveil. Imperatriee 
Eugenie, Sotivenier de Mulniaison. Tin. —Devoniensis. Gloire 
dc Dijon. Bengal. —Agrippina. Anisette. —Mad. de Long- 
champs, Amie Vibert. 
Onk Dozen Best New Roses, Free Bloomers. —Hybrid 
Firpet.ums.— Eveqne de Nimea, Madame Boll, Mad'lle de 
Bonneure, Comtesse de Cliabrilliant, Eugene Appert, Victor 
Verdier. Bourbon .—Victor Emmanuel. Ten.— President, 
Mad. Falcot, Mad. Blachet, Homer. Anisette. —Liesis. 
Eds. Rural Neav-Yokker:— In return for the 
many valuable hints gleaned from your “ Domestic 
Column,” permit me To offer a recipe for making the 
true “Yankee Loaf,” handed down from my great- 
grand-mothers, who claimed for their birth-place 
old Plymouth's “sacred soil.” It tvas a “Domestic 
Institution” iu the old Revolutionary War, and now 
it is proper to substitute for our costly viands the 
cheap and healthy broad which formed the chief 
diet of our ancestors in old “’76:” 
Brown Bread.— Take 1 quart of water, boiling 
hot; stir in 1 pint of Indian meal, and add 1 tea¬ 
cup of molasses, 1 teaspoon of salt, and cold water 
enough to cool it Finally, add 1 pint of Indian 
meal, 1 pint of coarse rye meal, 1 teaspoon of sal- 
eratuB, 1 gill of good hop yeast, with Avarm Avater 
enough to form a stiff batter. Butter a boAvl large 
enough to contain it in which let it stand till light. 
Then butter a plate just the size of the bowl, to turn 
over the top, to keep the upper crust from harden¬ 
ing. Let it bake slowly in stove, or brick oven, four 
hours; then cool off the fire, and leave itin the oven 
eight hours longer, (or over uight.) 
This loaf will give satisfaction if there is a drop 
of true Yankee blood in the veins. And my hus¬ 
band (Englishman though he is) has learned to do 
itjusliee, which is more than his countrymen are 
inclined to do to our institutions in general; and 
who cannot quite forget the “tea-party” at Boston 
Harbor..’ A Yankee Subscriber. 
Prospect Hill NiWsery. Hudson, N. Y., 1S62. 
Spurgeon on Gardening,— In a recent lecture on garden¬ 
ing, Spcrueon said that “the human animal needed one sort 
of amusement or another, anil that if you did not give him 
the right sort, he would certainly seek the wrong God so 
adapted man's nature that he should not only attend to the 
necessities of existence, but seek for the enjoyment of some 
pleasures. It was no use his constantly saying in UlO pulpit 
that people must not go to the public house or the theater, 
for the reply would be, ‘ AVe want something of the sort, and 
if you do not give us the right thing, we will certainly take to 
the wrong, 
Mr. Thomas Hogg, the well known horticulturist of New 
York, has been appointed Marshal, and attached to the 
embassy to Japan. Mr. H. will no doubt send home many 
choice plants from that unexplored land. 
Grape Ccltcrk Unprofitable. — Our friend Dr. Hough¬ 
ton, of Philadelphia, is endeavoring to show, in. the Horti¬ 
culturist , that the culture of native grapes is unprofitable in 
that neighborhood. 
gttpiwisi and gttmvw 
Growing Cauliflower Plants. —T. M., Xiagara county 
X. 1 '.—The best way to grow cauliflower or cabbage piauts 
for an early crop is in a hot-bed. The next best place is a 
warm situation, say on the south side of a fight-hoard fence, 
or some out-building; but there is an objection to this method 
as in such situations the little fly, so injurious to everything of 
the cabbage family when young, makes a harbor, and it is with 
the greatest difficulty that the piauts can he saved from its 
ravages. A correspondent, and one of the most successful 
cauliflower growers iu tliis section, iu answer to a similar 
inquiry last year, sent us the following, which we recommend 
to ah as the result of long experience: 
“ The plants can he started, as you reeommeud. either in a 
hot-bed, or on the south side of a fence or building; but if 
plants are raised in a hot-bed, they come into beading during 
the heat of summer, and instead of forming a large, compact 
head, it is small, and splits up into small sprouts. If raised 
on the south side of a building or fence the heat and Shelter 
you seek for your plants is also a shelter and harbor for the 
Jly. and few will he the plants you will have left for trams 
planting. The open ground tire north side of an open hoard 
feuee, or the west side of a building or light-board fence, is 
perhaps the best place out-of doors, but the surest and best 
way is to raise them under a cold frame. If you have not 
hot-bed sash and frame, a common window rush will do. 
Make a frame of inch hoards, twelve inches high behind and 
nine fin front; cut notches in thf stiles and lower part of the 
sash to let the*water run off. or when the suu shines it w ill 
operate as a lens, and burn your plants. Sow in drills three 
inches apart; when up. air freely, and frequently stir the earth 
with the fingers. Sow from the loth to 20th of April; trans¬ 
plant from 20th of May to 1st of Juue. This is the wax I 
have raised them for the last seven years, and you, can tell 
Mr. Editor, with what success. The Early Paris and Large 
Late Lenormand are the best varieties.” 
Cost ok Beauty. —The Gardener's Monthly very 
properly remarks:—There are persons Avho think 
that home cannot be beautiful without a considera¬ 
ble outlay of money. Such poople are in error. It 
costs little to have a neat floAA'er garden, and to sur¬ 
round your dfivelling with those simple beauties 
which delight the eye far more than expensive 
objects. Nature delights in beauty. She loves to 
brighten the landscape and make it agreeable to 
the eye. 
At this season of the year the Cineraria furnishes 
one of the chief mean9 of adorning the greenhouse 
or conservatory; and when plants are well grotvn 
and of good varieties, few things are more interest¬ 
ing or beautiful. In its present improved condition 
the Cineraria is indispensable in every collection of 
greenhouse plants. Its season uf flowering, which 
is late in whiter and early in spring, adds much to 
its value. It is easily grofivn and managed, hy¬ 
bridizes very freely, and therefore well adapted for 
amateurs who, while they love planft, lack the skill 
Eds. Rural Neav-Yorker:—H aving a few val¬ 
uable recipes, I thought I could do no better than 
to send them to you, which, if acceptable, please 
publish: 
Fruit Cake.—O ne and one-half lbs. fat salt pork, 
chopped line; 1 lb. raisins; 1 lb. currants; 4 lb. 
citron: 1 lb. sugar; 1 pint molasses; 4 pint boiling 
water poured on pork; 1 teaspoon saleratus. 
Jelly Cake.—O ne cup sugar; 3 eggs; 1 cup 
flour; 1 teaspoon cream of tartar; 4 teaspoon salera¬ 
tus, dissolved in Avater; butter size of a walnut. 
Soda Cake. —Two eggs, boat whites and yolks 
separate; 4 cup sweet milk; 4 cup butter; 1 cup 
sugar; 4 teaspoon soda; 1 teaspoon cream of tartar. 
Tart Crust. —One cup of lard; 1 tablespoon 
white sugar; 1 white of egg; 3 tablespoons water. 
Railroad Cake.— One cup of sugar; 4 cup of 
butter; 1 cup of sour milk; 3 cups of flour; 1 tea¬ 
spoon soda; 2 teaspoons cream of tartar. 
Newfene, N. Y., 1862. Carrie. 
Pecuniary Profit of Public Parks. —A recent 
report of the New York Central Park shoAvs that, 
in spite uf the great expenditures, it is a source of 
profit to the city. Recent advices from Paris show 
this to be also their experience Avith the Bois de 
Boulogne. The Avhole cost, it is said, has been fully 
repaid by the sale of plots ou the outskirts. 
As many of your readers have little access to the 
Avorks ou this rare plant, and may have very incor¬ 
rect notions about it, the folloAving facts, 
collected from different sources, are pre¬ 
sented to them. 
The Pine Apple is a native of the hot 
parts of South America, and perhaps ot 
the West Indies. It is cultivated, however, 
•Zy.P on the hot coasts of Africa, as at Liberia, 
on the Avest coast, and near Port Natal on 
>-"■ the east coast, in latitude 29° S.; and iu 
the hot parts of Asia. It is raised also in 
& c Qi heated conservatories in 
Bonapartea juncea. —Mr. II. AV Sargent, of AVodenethe, 
on the Hudson, writes as follows in Hovry's Magazine, in regard 
to the Bonapartea 
• l observe, under your Gossip of the Month, an account of 
the flowering of Honapartea juneea, Of Messrs. Ellwanger & 
Barry, in which you say you believe it is the second time it 
has flowered in this country; allow me to make it the third. 
I had a plant which flowered about the same season, hut the 
year before (I860.) It must have been about the same age of 
Messrs. E. & B.'s. as I have had it at least twenty years. My 
flower stem was, however, a little higher, being nearly fifteen 
feet. With this exception, your account of the Rochester 
plant for the past twenty-five years, up to the time of its 
flowering, corresponds entirely with mine. For twenty years 
or more, as one of a pair, it remained iu the same pot. making 
little or no growth—doing duty iu the summer, ou au archi¬ 
tectural balustrade, and disappearing In the winter as of little 
use among flowers. Since flowering (now over a year ago,) 
it has become a little decrepit, not making its usual appear¬ 
ance on the folustrs.de the past summer, but rather seeking, 
from its wan and feeble look, a retirement among the hospital 
plant*. Whether, like most of its aloe cousins, the efforts of 
a century or more, necessary to produce one bloom, will he 
sufficient to destroy it* life. J am not yet sufficiently prepared 
to say." 
England, Ger- 
many, &c., and in the United States. 
■jpSPn-j Its common name is given from the par- 
tial resemblance of its fruit to the well 
fr known pine bur, or cone, and not because 
it grows on any thing like a pine tree or 
on any tree. The height of the plant is 
from two to three feet, and the fruit is on 
its summit, the stem below being covered 
with leaves, Avhich are two or three inches 
wide and a foot or two long, thick and stiff, 
and with rotigb spinous edges, diverging 
as they rise, so as to form a mass two feet 
across and often more. In the middle of 
^ them, and at the top of the stem, rises the 
fruit or Pine-Apple to tho height of the 
leaves, bearing small blue flowers projecting 
between the scales, and having a crested termina¬ 
tion, or a croAvn, as it is familiarly called. 
In Eastern Africa, and probably in other places, 
as Avell as in England. Holland, &c., the plant i 3 
propagated by the suckers which come out at the 
bottom of the fruit or between the leaves, or by ihc 
crown cut oft' from the fruit. Either of these is put 
into rich loam; and the fruit from the suckers is ma¬ 
tured in Africa in about a year, but from the crown 
in a longer period; while in England, the time is 
THC/r.ocGUwORT. — After having tried in vain among my 
neighbors to ascertain what kind of an herb Thornughwort is, 
I at last appeal to yon. from whom I have obtained much 
other valuable information. A full description of the above 
plaut. togetiier with the localities where it may be found, will 
very much oblige — AV P. B . Concordia. Ohio. 
The name Thoroughwort is common to the several species 
of the genus Eupatorium. though usually applied more partic¬ 
ularly to E. perfohatum. which we suppose to be the plant 
referred to by our correspondent. This species is also very 
generally known by the name of Boneset, and in “erne local¬ 
ities is colled Indian Sage. It is common throughout tho 
United States and Canada, growing in low grounds and mead¬ 
ows, aud in some places is so abundant as to be regarded as an 
objectionable weed. The stein is two to five feet in height, 
stout, rough, and hairy , The leaves are lanceolate, tapering 
to a long slender point, toothed, rough, very veiny, wrinkled, 
aud downy on the under side. They are placed at right 
angles to the stem, and each pair is so united at the base as to 
appear like a single leaf, with the stem perforating the center. 
They are four to eight inches long, or, as combined, eight to 
sixteen inches. The flowers are white, produced in large 
terminal clusters. The plant is bitter, and is used as a tonic. 
Cure for Bronchitis.—I f Mr. Moore can find 
space in the Rural for the following, I believe it 
will confer a great favor on those who are afflicted 
with bronchitis:—Take common mullein leaves, dry 
and rub fine, and smoke them three or four times a 
day in a new pipe, taking care to draw the smoke 
well into the throat The pipe should be one in 
which tobacco has not been used.—H. J. V., Tru- 
mansbury, IV. 7, 1862. 
Bluing for Clothes. —Take one ounce of soft 
Prussian blue, pOAvder it; aud put it into a bottle with 
one quart of clear rain water, and add a quarter of 
an ounce of oxalic acid (powdered;) a teaspoonful 
is sufficient for a large washing. 
of the professional gardener. We give an engrav¬ 
ing of a well grown plant in flower. From Turner's 
Florist we take the following remarks on the value 
and Culture of this interesting plant: 
“ Where is there a plant, during the autumn, win¬ 
ter, and early spring months, so gay and beautiful as 
the Cineraria ; or Avhich is so useful for exhibition 
or decorative purposes, or for the embellishment of 
the flower-vase or bouquet? By artificial light, the 
colors of some of the rose, crimson, and purple 
varieties are extremely brilliant; Avhile the Avhite 
Jefferson Co. Horticultural Society.— A Floral and 
Horticultural Society has been organized in Jefferson county. 
The following are the officers: President — JamesF. Starbcck, 
AVatertown. Vice Presidents —John A. Sherman. "Watertown; 
Isaac Munson, AA'atertown; John C. Sterling, Watertown; E. 
S. Sill. Watertown; Chas Smith, Cape Vincent; E. F Carter. 
LeRav. A Tlbbitbi. Rodman. Cur. Secretary —A. M. Utley, 
Watertown. Treasurer —Txlcot II. Camp, Watertown, 
Executive Committee —Oscar Paddock, Watertown; Frederick 
Emerson, Watertown; L. J. Donvin, Watertown; H. Becker, 
Watertown; W, AV. Green, Watertown; G. W. Bond, Adams. 
[SPECIAL NOTICE.] 
Caution.— In calling for that excellent Saleratus, (D. B. 
Dk Land & Co.'s Chemical Saleratus,) be sure that you get 
what you eall for. ns there are. owing to its great success, 
numerous imitations in the market, put up in the same 
colored papers. Bo sure and get that with the name of D. B. 
De Land & Co. upon it, and then you will be sure you arc 
right. 
Budding Peaches.— Please inform me through the Rural 
New-Yorker whether young peach trees can. be budded iu 
the spring and immediately transplanted so as to insure suc¬ 
cess.— H. LaAikman. Drummondvdle. C. IF.. 1S62. 
Peaches are budded the latter part of the summer, and can 
be removed, if necessary, the following autumn or spring. 
