1 HQraGUOTML 
Pf_._ 
stone-boat may 1>e placed under the ball of earth, 
and the removal of the earth and roots continued 
until the ball of earth rests upon the stone-boat, 
where it must be well supported with gny-ropes, Ac. 
in the winter of 1861. Mr. George Er.t.w anger 
removed several very line Norway?, and some 
deciduous trees, in this manner, very successfully. 
We watched the operation with a good deal of inter¬ 
est. Mostof the trees suffered hut. little by removal. 
In the horticulturist we find the following imple¬ 
ment described for the purpose, and as it is simple, 
and within the reach ot every farmer and tree- 
planter, we give it to our readers: 
ensure for it. ns great a share of popular favor as 
that enjoyed by its predecessors. 
Some plants which have recently been sent to this 
country, enable us to form an idea ot the state of 
horticulture better than any description could have 
done We had nil heard of the dwarfed trees of 
China and Japan, but few of us ever had the chance 
ol seeing and e.vaminingthem until this last year. It 
is perfectly astonishing to see the amount of indus¬ 
try and perseverance which the Japanese must, have 
devoted to the production of these plants. There 
were some little Hr trees, not more than a foot in 
HOW TO GET A BUSHY HEDGE 
ONCE MORE 
Ox the subject of hedge-making we have for years 
endeavored to give the Information which the ap¬ 
pearance of nine-tenths of the hedges in the coun¬ 
try shows to be so much needed. Our attempts at 
hedge-making, with some exceptions, have been 
failures. In some sections of the West, and occa¬ 
sionally East, a good hedge is to be seen, but, a pic¬ 
ture of an American hedge, such as we usually see. 
would be a comic thing. Although the following 
article from the Gardener's Monthly contains noth¬ 
ing new. its suggestions will be found exceedingly 
valuable to all who will put them in practice. 
“Most attempts at hedging look as if the owners 
would like to invert, them. The top is thick enough 
where thickness is not needed; but between there 
and the base, there is nothing to strengthen the 
moral principles of the passing school-boy, as he 
eyes the Pippius and Spitzenburgs Inclosed within. 
As usually managed, hedges are costly and unsat¬ 
isfactory affairs. Properly treated, they are the least 
expensive of any kind of lence. and cheaper, by far, 
than the great majority of even those who have 
‘faith in hedges' believe. 
All hedges designed for protective fences are, in 
the first, place, too high and too narrow at the base, 
No hedge need have more than a four feet rise, as 
it will do no harm for your neighbor’s horse to see 
what crops you are growing; but it should be be¬ 
tween three and four feet thick at the base, so that, 
unless he ho* served in the cavalry under some bold 
dragoon, and “knows bayonets,’ he may have no 
inclination to try the strength of your spines of 
hawthorns or usage oranges. 
Before planting, sort your plants into three lots,— 
that is, inro strong, stronger, and strongest,—taking 
them first up by the handful, and cutting off 
their heads to within nine or ten inches of the collar 
or point where the root portion commences. This 
is done with a sharp hatchet on a block of wood. 
The tap-root is shortened at the same time. If you 
plant (hem any way. just as they come from the nur¬ 
sery, they will grow only in one way, which, Dar¬ 
win says, is nature’s way. In the ‘struggle for 
existence,’ those which get the start will crowd out 
the weaker ones, and your hedge may have enough 
unevenness to satisfy any lover of pastoral poetry, 
but will fall short of your matter-of-fact expecta¬ 
tions. After sorting, you can give the weaker 
choice the best chance of good soil, the next selec¬ 
tion a little better, and the next the worst soil, if 
any such you have. 
In planting, set them to an angle, as in the follow¬ 
ing sketch, setting the plants twelve inches apart in 
hns. Rural New-Yorker:— For the gratification 
of “Pi if.be ” I send you sister Mary’s recipe for 
^ east Cakes. Pare and boil six good sized potatoes 
in about, two quarts of water; when done, skim them 
out and put into the water two good handlnls of 
hops. Let them boil about ten minutes. In the 
meantime wash your potatoes, turn your hops 
through a colander or sieve upon them, then put all 
back into your kettle and heat up again, that it may 
be scalding hot, then turn upon a sufficient quantity 
of flour to make a good stiff batter. Let. this stand 
until you can bear your linger in it. then put In a 
teacup fill of good home-made or brewer’s yeas. Set 
in a warm pluce to rise. When very light, place 
in your pantry and let it stand until next day. You 
can make the whole or a part of this Into cakes as 
you choose, in this way: Put into it a sufficient 
quantity of Indian meal to make it stiff enough to 
mold with your hands into a loaf; cut tills into 
slices about a fourth of an inch thick, and out them 
SorticuUmiit itotes 
* r VIT vegetables ix TH.K New Yoke 
Market. The following table shows the prices of fruit, 
vegetables. &e„ in the New York market at late dates. The 
people of that great city have inueh the advantage of us, if 
tho.y cau Obtain good Northern Spys at the price quoted : 
POTATO ua. 
Bu r ekeve n<1 ,1plaWa,e Sweet .--P M*. *4,00@4.50 
Prince Albert. .........T..’". « 
1.1 and N. J. Mercer. 
Nova Scotia, on vessel.f) tub 
OTHER VEGETABLES. 
Bouton Tong radishes, £1 dozen hunches.$1,12(30,00 
Rli ii hath, ft dozen, . I jrMii.VO 
Celery, .. j.iakS 1,2s 
Water ererr. ■»» basket. .0,50(511,rtg 
Salsify. V dnzeu. 7fim 1,00 
Spinach titii... 1,IW(5)2,00 
Red calihnee dozen,... 75(31,25 
Savory do. do . . . «x77> 75 
Wioter salad. V basket,. 75®1,00 
Parsnips, hid,.. l.iHKal.fiO 
Horse radish, >1 th.0,06@n.ll0 
Marrow squash, P bW,. . 4.00(3 0,00 
Cabbage, r> dozen. 75(51,00 
Leeks, bunch.0.O.V5 0,00 
Parsley, ft dozen hunches,. S7,„, ga 
Whit.' turnips, $) bbl, . . ...I 71*31,00 
Russia turnips, •• . . .. 1,12®1,37 
Carrots, “ ... 1,25(51,50 
" . -v. ... l.M@l,00 
knub celery. t> dozen hunches. 37 i 5 i 
Rockaway onions. j?bbl. t.CO 55,00 
Yellow onions, •* . .2,50(52,75 
Boston -alad, p) dozen.. 7 r*T, 1,25 
N. J. and N. Y. hot-bed salad, p) dozen. SVa'liKi 
Turnip radishes, jt) dozen. 62(5,0,00 
APPLES. 
Rhode Island Greening, %} bbl.3,50(34,00 
Winter Russet. " ...3,U0®3,50 
Spitzonherg, choice, “ .1.5,00 5 5,50 
Baldwin, choice, " .4,5fr35,00 
Northern Spy. • “ .4,001X4,00 
miscellaneous. 
Hot-house crapes f) tb.2,0030.00 
Do strawberries, p quart,..,. 2,00(30,00 
Shakers' popping corn, ft bushel ears,. 1.00(50,00 
Jersey Cranberries, hid.12,005 14,00 
Western do, •' . 3.00:56.00 
and around it. In this way we have seen some 
examples ol a new species ot Rhynchospermum, 
with much smaller leaves, and nut so strong a 
grower us the old and useful R. jasminoides; whether 
it will prove to be as tree flowering as the latter 
remains to be Seen, but should this be the case, it 
will be a valuable addition to our collections. 
There was also a small-leaved Gaultberia-like 
plant, which had been trained in the same manner 
over a bit of stone. 
The pots in which some of the Japanese plants 
were sent home, were almost as worthy of examina¬ 
tion as the plants themselves. They were of very 
various, and. no doubt, of what is there considered 
very ornamental forms; but we should look upon 
them as being both inconvenient and ugly. In some 
directions, the Japanese seem lavish of their labor; 
but in others they are very economical, if not nig¬ 
gardly. Thus, some of the larger plants were 
trained so as to exhibit one side only, and the sur¬ 
face of the porcelain pot on that, side was decorated 
with paintings in that peculiar style of which the 
willow-pattern plate may be taken as tbo type. The 
bucks of these pots were left quite plain. 
We should hardly have expected that a nation 
devoting =0 much attention to horticulture—a nation 
where every cottage has its own garden, where ave¬ 
nues ol stately trees line all the principal roads, 
and where the whole surface ol the country appears 
The accompanying cut illustrates a very conve¬ 
nient contrivance lor moving large trees. It almost 
explains itself. The truck is backed against the 
tree, the tongue thrown tip against, the body, and 
secured by stout cords. The earth is then removed 
from around the roots, the tongue pulled down by 
means of the rope attached to the end of the tongue, 
a team hitched last, and the tree moved to jts new 
quarters. The truck is placed over the hole in 
which the tree is to be planted, the tongue thrown 
up, and the tree is then in just, the right position for 
filling in the earth. A truck ot this kind would be 
very useful in planting parks and large grounds, 
and a small one would be useful for general pur¬ 
poses. 
IlttlKn FRUITS, 
Apples, new State and Ohio, yl th 
Peaches, wnpeelcil halves. •• 
Peaches, iiiiiieeled quarters, “ 
Plums, prime -tat... " 
Plums, prime Western, 11 
N. Y. ami Jersajy cherries, “ . 
N. Y. amt Jersey raspberries, “ 
N. Y. anti Jersey blackberries, " 
0,06(30, OIBf 
0,07(30.07 
6Sj(<ri),00 
0,12<o 0,12 
0,12(50,12 
0,20-Ml,20 
0,15(50,15 
0.085.0,10 
Catalogues.—A mong the Catalogues received this week, 
is the Descriptive Retail Catalogue ol' Vegetable, Agricultural 
•nil Mower Seeds of McElwain & Bro s, Springfield. Mass.— 
a very full and valuable Catalogue of over sixty pages. 
— Catalogue of Fruit ami Ornamental Trees, from A. J. 
Cat-wood, Modena. Ulster On.. N. Y. 
— From 1, W. Manning, Reading, Mass., Spring - Catalogue 
of Fruit, Forest ami Ornamental Trees, Evergreens, Hardy 
Flowering Shrults, &c. 
A correspondent gives the following excellent 
hints for the management of small gardens:—“No 
one thing connected with the health and happiness 
of a rural life, presents to the minds of the people 
so many considerations of taste and refinement as 
the artistical arrangement of fruits, flowers and 
shrubbery v And in the formation and arrangements 
of walks, parks, bowers and beds in the fruit and 
flower garden, a good share of indulgence should be 
granted the designer, in view of the great diversity 
of opinion existing among the people. One. of the 
most serious errors existing at the present time, and 
most easily committed, is confusion in arrangement. 
It frequently occurs that in agarden originally laid out 
with much taste an I care, the introduction of some 
‘new and beautiful flowering shrub,’or ‘valuable 
fruit,' is suggested to the proprietor, and one inno¬ 
vation after another takes place, until the order and 
beauty of the whole is destroyed. 
If the object of the designer is to produce admira¬ 
tion and loveliness, a spot of ground naturally 
charming should be selected. It is fallacy to sup¬ 
pose that art and effort can supply deficiencies in 
natural beauty of scenery. In a majority of cases 
in par country villages, people build within fifteen 
or twenty feet of the road line, leaving but a short, 
space for walks in front. In this case a straight 
walk from the front door to the gate is in good keep¬ 
ing with taste and order in arrangement. Walks fin- 
the open garden should diverge in curved lines. 
This would avoid the dull monotony of lineal stiff¬ 
ness. in the small curves plant some showy an¬ 
nuals—double marigolds or asters; in the large 
curves or parks, a fruit tree, or some large, showy 
flowering shrub; in the intermediate curves or re¬ 
cesses, some small, modest, bewitching little flower, 
with now and then a cluster of peonies, alternately 
white aud red, to produce diversity of color and 
habit. Never plant marigolds, or other yellow 
flowers, by the side of a yellow or Austrian rose. The 
Queen of the Prairies, a double red. and the Bello 
of Baltimore, a beautiful white rose, (both climbers.) 
make a beautiful show when allowed to mingle on 
the same trellis, or climb some small evergreen tree, 
as cedar or balsam.” 
Brooklyn Horticultural Socif.tv. —The Spring Exhibi¬ 
tion of the Brooklyn Horticultural Society Is to be held April 
23d, 2-ltli and 20th. This Society is now in a very flourishing 
condition and its discussions are interesting and profltahlo. 
Meetings for conversation are held on the second and fourth 
Tuesday evenings of each month. Business meetings on the 
first Tuesday evening of each mouth. The rooms of the 
Society arc at the - AthenaotmY corner Clinton and Atlantic 
streets, Brooklyn. J. W. Dkgrauw is President, and C. B. 
Miller, Secretary. The Secretary's office is 29 Broadway, 
WOODMAN", SPARE THAT TREE 
two rows, quincunx fashion, which will place each 
plant about eight inches from the other. By thus 
sloping the plants, the shoots, as they rise perpen¬ 
dicularly, will give you a miniature forest, with 
every little rising trunk but a few inches apart. 
If your hedge grows as well as it ought to grow, 
by the middle of June it will have made shoots two 
feer. iu length. Then get a sharp scythe, and go 
along the whole line, cutting off six inches of the 
young growth the whole way. This may be cut flat, 
as in mowing a piece of meadow ground. It will 
occupy but a few minutes for every hundred feet, 
and will be all the care required for the first year. 
The sides must not be touched this or any following 
year, until the required width has been reached,— 
three or four feet. If the soil be good, however, 
and the plants strong, it will nearly do this the first 
year. 
The second year the plants iu the middle of June 
will have reached the lour feet we propose, when it 
should again be gone over with the scythe, first cut¬ 
ting off the young tops square to the desired height, 
and then cutting the sides so that the apex is wedge- 
shaped, like an inverted V (a). By cutting in the 
hedge so sharply and severely towards the apex, the 
strength of the plant will be thrown into the 
branches at the base, and enable them to push 
widely aud freely. 
Every thing, it will bo seen, depends on the time 
and manner of pruning. It must be cut while tbo 
growth is active, in order to throw strength into the 
growing side-shoots; and it must be cut iu a conical 
or wedge-shape,in order that the light maybe easily 
admitted to every pat t of the hedge's surface. 
The third year after the hedge is ‘ well set,’— a 
technical term for filled up well from hot out to top, 
— the wedge-shape form may be modified to the 
truncate cone or half-oval, which is more pleasing 
to the eye. 
Sometimes a few strong shoots will again push 
after the midsummer cutting. These should be cut 
away at the fall of the leaf, or they will interfere 
with (he annual scythe-cutting, on which the prin¬ 
cipal cheapness of our style of management de¬ 
pends.” 
Jefferson County Floral and Horticultural Associa¬ 
tion. — We are indebted to the Secretary, Albert M. Utlky, 
for a copy of (lie Charter and By -laws of this Association 
It is a very neat pamphlet, and just the tiling, containing a 
few simple rules that can be remembered or referred to in a 
moment. Our Horticultural friends at Watertown are setting 
an example worthy of general imitation. 
Naples ItoHTrcoLTURAi. Society.— At the annual meeting 
of the Naples (Ontario Co.) Horticultural Society, the follow¬ 
ing officers were elected for 1862: Pritideiit— Abner P. Lyon. 
Fur President — M. B. Reed. Secretary— S. H. Sutton. 
Treasurer —J B. Juhuson. 
HOW TO CURE HAMS. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— In answer to O. S. 
Moklev’s inquiry, “What can bo done with hams 
that have been smoked and are not salt enough to keep 
through the summer” J would give him my method 
of curing and keeping my hams. To cure one hun¬ 
dred pounds of hams, lake twelve pounds of salt, 
four ounces of saltpeter, one and a half quarts of 
molasses, four pods of red pepper; add water enough 
to cover them, and one ounce of saleratus to each 
gallon ol water. Boil, skim, and when cold, put in 
the meat, and let it stand, seven weeks, then take it 
out and partially dry it before smoking. Smoke 
with cobs or hickory; and when smoked, cut it into 
slices lor frying, and fry as for preset) t eating. Pack 
the fried meat in stone jars. If not salt enough, add 
salt to suit, your taste; and when packed in the jar. 
Japan Plants. —Messrs. Parsons & Co., of Flushing. N. 
Y., have obtained through Dr. Hall, of Japan, a colteedon of 
Japanese plants, most of them represented as being new and 
fine; and among them is said to be several with Variegated 
foliage. 
nquiand usurer 
Strawberry Wink— Under the head of “Western Edi¬ 
torial Notes. [ noticed an account of strawberry wine; and 
as we grow enough of the fruit to make our own wine, 1 
should be very glad to get any information in reference to its 
manufacture, either through the Rural or postoffice.— Chas. 
S. FiTHtAX, Bridgeton. _V. J., lstig. 
Moving Large Treks.—C an you tell me the best way to 
remove pretty large trees from the fields to niv grounds. I 
nndei-M.-unl it cun be done very successfully, and I have suc¬ 
ceeded with some, though not very large specimens. Any 
hints on this subject would he very thankfully received.— 
Trek-Planter, Calhoun Co ., Mich., April, 1862. 
For a few hints on this subject, see another column. 
Head Lettuce.—H ow shall 1 have good head lettuce f 
Mine all goes to seed without forming a head. This l dislike, 
as I prefer lettuce with a good tender heart.—S alad. 
In the first place you must obtain good seed, that is. seed 
grown from a plant that produced a head before seed, and not 
from one that, like* those you cultivate, ran right up to seed, 
it' you save seed year after year from these plants, it is not 
strange that you have no good lettuce. After obtaining good 
seed, mlikc the soil very rich, deep and mellow. Sow the 
seeds very early—the earlier the better—in rows, and as soon 
as Up, thin out so that the plants will stand from four to six 
Inches apart ill the rows, and the rows wide enough to admit 
ot hoeing between Keep well cultivated, and iu a dry time 
, "its rucuimy occurred, u tth us the passion 
tor plants having variegated foliage is but the 
growth of the last few years, but in Japan these 
plants have been quite as popular for ages probably 
as they are now here. Many of their favorites have 
already been imported into this country, but it is 
highly probable that there are yet many more to 
come. Thus we had first, the yellow blotched Far- 
lugiurn grande, which found its way to us through 
China. More recently we have had a bamboo, the 
foliage of which is clearly and distinctly striped 
with white; one ol the dwarf fan palms marked in 
the same way; a pretty form of Series a falida, with 
a narrow white margin to the leaves, as well as a 
line along the mid-rib; two variegated varieties of 
Osman thus aquifolius. a holly-like shrub, one of 
which is much more dwarf and dense-growing than 
the other; a pretty little bushy plant called Damna- 
canthus spinosus; a new box tree, introduced tinder 
the name of Buxus obcordata variegata; a varie¬ 
gated variety of the old Illioium anisatum: Sedura 
carneum, the glaucous leaves of which are edged 
with creamy white; a variegated maple (Acer heter- 
ophyllum); two species of Podoearptis, with foliage 
more or less blotched, and several other allied trees 
remarkable for the same thing, as Thttjopsis dola- 
brafa, Rctinosporaobtusa, and R. pisifera, and Salis- 
buria adiantifolta, the fern-like leaves of which, 
striped with radiating white lines, have a beautiful 
effect. We should not forget, too. that the common 
kind of AuCuba, which has been so long a favorite 
shrub iu our gardens, came originally from Japan; 
all the plants, propagated probably from a single 
stock, were males; we have now the fruiting plant, 
and its pale green leaves and orange berries will 
TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES 
Gum Arabic Starch.— Take two ounces of white 
gum arabic powder, put it into a pitcher, and pour 
on it a pint or more of boiling water (according to 
the degree of strength you desire,) and then, having 
covered it, let it set all night. In the morning pour 
it carefully from the dregs into u clean bottle, cork 
if, and keep it for use. A tablespoonful of gum 
water stirred into a pint of starch that has been 
made in the usual manner, will give lawns (either 
white, black, or printed.) a look of newness, when 
nothing else can restore them after washing. It is 
also good, much diluted, for thin white muslin and 
bobbinet. 
As a general rule, we would not advise the trans¬ 
planting of large trees. Most attempts at this work 
have been quite unsuccessful, even with abundant 
means and every other facility for its successful 
accomplishment. We would advise the correspond* 
ent whose inquiry will appear in another column, 
and all others, to have patience, plant young thrifty 
trees, take care of them, aud wait for their bill 
development. It is pleasant to see a tine tree, and 
enjoy its shade, but it is no less pleasant to watch 
the gradual growth of the trees we have planted. 
0 become very much attached to a tree that, wo 
Climbing Plants for Trellis,— The climbing plants I 
consider among the most beautiful and graceful \V have. 
Will you please name two or three ot' the most desirable, to 
aid me and others wlio do not know wliat to purchase and 
plant?— Amateur. 
The Virginian Creeper, Ampelopsis quingu(folia, is an 
excellent running vine, hut more suitable for covering build¬ 
ings than a trellis. 
Tits Dutchman’s Pipe, Aristolochia Sqtho, is a beautiful 
climbing plant, with large leaves, affording most ample shade. 
It has curious purple flowers, somewhat lu the form of a pipe, 
and makes a strong, rapid growth. 
The Chinese Wistaria. FPtsfarut Sinensit, is perhaps the 
most desirable of all our climbing plants. The foliage is of a 
lively greett. and the flowers grow in racemes, often more 
than a foot in length, of a very delicate purplish blue. It 
blooms most ahumlantly, producing hundreds and in large 
plants thousands of clusters of flowers, quite fragrant 
The Scarlet Trumpet Flower, Bignmi in rodfranj, is a very 
desirable climbing plant, bearing large trumpet-formed; bright 
orange flowers, from the middle of the. summer until autumn. 
We cau recommend nothing better for a trellis than the three 
lost named. 
Of course Jhe climhiugroses should not he forgottou. They 
are among the most beautiful of all our climbers. 
WILLOW FENCE 
A Cure for Soft Corn?.—S crape a piece of 
common chalk, ami put a pinch to the soft corn, and 
bind a linen rag upon it. Repeat the application 
during a few days, and von will find the corn come 
off like a shell, and perfectly cured. The cure is 
simple and efficacious.— Godey. 
I have concluded to give you my plan, hoping if 
you have a better you will publish it. I set mine 
six inches apart, and for two years cut them the 
same as for market, in order to obtain a vigorous 
growth of shoots. This spring I intend to cut off 
three or four of the most vigorous shouts in each 
stool, leaving them about four feet high, bending 
and interlacing the remainder with those cropped. 
If necessary to keep them to their place, I will drive 
an occasional stake with a narrow strip of board 
tacked to the top, as is often done in plashing 
thorn hedges. I think in three years, or, in five 
years from planting, I will have a reliable fence, 
IIokse-rA otsfi Sauce.— Grate a small stick of 
youug horse-radish; then with a couple of teaspoon¬ 
fuls of it mix a small teaspoonful of salt and four 
tablespoonfuls of cream; stir it briskly, aud add by 
degrees a wine glass full of vinegar. Excellent to 
serve with cold roast beef. 
[special notice.J 
Luxury. — D. B. Du Land A Co'» Chemical Saleratus is 
truly a luxury, us it makes such nice white bread, luxurious 
biscuit, atul pastry of all kinds. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith 
always use it, which account for their being such model cooks. 
Get some and try it for yourselves. 
