in the game way as the citizens of a town entrust are right to a certain extent. I might instance 
the embellishment and care of public parks or many such cases. I could name a man in a 
grounds to a competent person, rather submit- Western State, whose business reputation is 
ting to be taxed for its support than that each actually not in the highest standing with some of 
should perform a certain portion of the work his eastern acquaintances, because he Mas un- 
themselves? Every man’s lot might be indicated lucky euough to observe that he had no difficulty 
by inconspicuous objects placed at the corners; in raising in the same season peach trees from 
the surface mighi be all an unbroken lawn, and stones sown in the spring, without previously 
the trees planted in mich a manner as to produce cracking them; and yet any man may do the 
the best effect in harmony with the general de- same for himself—he may raise either sweet 
sign. This would not prevent lot owners from gums or peach trees in either one year or two, 
indulging a fancy in the way of planting some and yet in either case sow the seed in the sprjug 
favorite tree, or shrub, or plant, near the grave, of the year. We have only to understand two 
and it obviously would be a great economy in things: —1st, What preserves the vitality of 
the management. Ditferent parts of the ground seeds? 2d, \V hat induces their germination? 
might be laid out and kept iu a less costly or a The vitality of seeds is an interesting study, 
more expensive manuer, as might be required to There is probably no inherent reason why any 
accommodate people of various means and d!f- kind of seed may hot be preserved sound to an 
ferent degrees of taste and liberality. It strikes Indefinite period. Wheat and other cereals 
8aviso Causations, &o. — Will my Carnations nnd 
Picoteti that t have purchased this pprinir live over the 
winter? Some pay they arc hardy, and others that they 
will die. W hat Is the truth? Amateur. 
Yonag plants will live over the winter well, but old 
ones that have (lowered suffer more or less. You can 
layer your plants about the last of Juse, and you will have 
DOMESTIC RECIPES, 
RURAL CEMETERIES 
Boiling Potatoes— This is a formula: Let 
each mess be of equal size. Let the water boil 
before putting the potatoes in. When done, pour 
otl the water and scatter three or four tablespoons- 
ful of salt, cov 
return it to the tire for a short time. 
A wrll-knowx contributor to our columns, 
who has numbered more than three-score years, 
and whose long experience and wise counsels 
have been of great advantage to the young and 
inexperienced fruit growers of the country, wishes 
us to give some hints for the better management 
of Rural Cemeteries. To this request we com¬ 
ply most cheerfully, and in the tirst place give 
below some good suggestions by Mr. Barry. 
In a future number we will furnish a list of 
plants, slimiis. and trees most suitable for ceme¬ 
tery decoration: 
The cemeteries of the larger cities, where 
competent artists and workmen are more easily 
obtained, exhibit in many of their embellish¬ 
ments both taste and harmony, though in the 
best there are very many exceptions. In the 
interior, however, where the grounds have been 
laid out by mere land surveyors, and wbere every 
improvement has been made under the direction 
of persons not having the shadow of a qualifica¬ 
tion, one finds, as might well be expected, 
scarcely anything but a repetition of blunders— 
violations of taste the most aggravated, and a 
worse than waste of both labor and material 
When a city, or a village, or a company of indi¬ 
viduals, resolve upon founding a rural cemetery, 
and expend their money upon a tract of ground 
which we will suppose t.be most suitable that can 
be had, their first step should be to secure the 
assistance of a person properly qualified to ap¬ 
preciate every feature of it, every outline and 
undulation of its surface, and every tree and 
shrub that nature may have planted on it. 
It seems very singular that people should not 
act in these as in their ordinary business affairs. 
If a company of capitalists unite in constructing 
a steamship, they will not be likely to employ a 
blacksmith, or a shoemaker, or gardener, to build 
it. If they would do so foolish a thing, they 
certainly would bo placed in an insane asylum 
directly. Now, the building of a ship is just as 
the pot with a coarse cloth, and 
Watery po¬ 
tatoes are made mealy by this procuss. How 
simple is the process, yet how few understand it. 
Sirup korCooking. —In making gingerbread 
with sorghum molasses, mix the soda with the 
molasses; then warm, stir till light, then mix 
with flour in the usual way, which will make 
light bread. 
Raspberry T’inegar, —Pour 1 quart vinegar 
on 1 quart fresh-picked raspberries; the next, 
day strain it through a sieve on another quart 
of raspberries, and so on 
five or six days; then 
to every pint of juice add 1 pound white sugar, 
set it in a jar, which must be placed in a pot of 
boiling water, until scalded through. Bottle. 
Ginger Beer— 1 gallon cold water, 1 pound 
white sugar. 4 ounce race ginger 1 sliced lemon, 
1 teacup yeast. Let it stand all uiglit to ferment; 
then pour itofT witboutstirring, bottle it, and add 
1 raisin to each bottle. 
Substitute for Cream. — If you have not 
cream for coffee, it is a very great improvement 
to boil your milk, and use it while hot. 
young plants in September fit to put in plnce for flower¬ 
ing. Thcso will not suffer in the winter. The process ot' 
layering is shown in the engraving. Bach of the branches 
placed under tins soil form roots at the cut. Good plants 
can also lie grown from seed, and they will flower the 
next summer. The best of them can then he layered and 
preserved 
Plant kor Name. —I have had so many ask me the 
name of my bush, and being unable to tell them, thought 
perhaps you would be willing to tell mo through the 
Rural, so I send you a flower-stem and a pieceof ln-st 
year's wood. It grows freely from the layer or cutting, it 
throws up shouts higher than I can reach ami the next 
year is a perfect wreath of (lowers, It. Is now in full 
bloom, nnd I think very pretty. -Mu8. Harriet Sheldon, 
Cherry Valley, III, 
Your plant. Is a Sptrea— probably Spirta opuUfolia. 
WHOLESOME DRINK FOR FARMERS 
low years ago I saw it stated, iu one of our 
Patent. Office Reports, that the great yellow 
mullein ( Verbascum thapsus) commonly made 
its appearance after fires on the prairies. Yet 
the seeds of all the plauts I have mentioned, 
under ordinary circumstances, germinate in a 
few weeks, and some of them even in a few days 
after sowing. 
On this subject we will present a few more 
facts next week. It3 importance cannot be over¬ 
estimated. 
is left, to indicate the grave. This thing has puz¬ 
zled us a thousand times. We would not divest 
a burial ground of its natural and essential char¬ 
acteristics—we would not have it appear as a 
mere park or pleasure ground—but we would 
seek, by judicious arrangement, to give greater 
force and expression to its various embellish¬ 
ments, whether artistic or natural, and to increase 
the evidences of taste without increasing the ex¬ 
pense. 
“ Intuit riot Nature with absurd expense, 
Nor spoil her simple charms by vain pretense; 
Weigh well the subject— bo with caution bold; 
Profuse of genius— not profuse of gold.” 
In the selection of trees for cemeteries there 
committed 
sweltering heat ol summer, otten results in seri¬ 
ous and alarming illness. Jt is therefore ad vis a- 
blo that some beverugo should he substituted for 
it, of which those opposed to thirst should or can 
partake with safety. For this purpose I am 
aware of uo better or more refreshing drink than 
the following:—Take the best white Juumleugin¬ 
ger root, carefully bruised, two ounces; cream of 
Lartur, one ounce; water, six quarts; to be boiled 
for about five minutes, then strained; to the 
strained liquor add one pound of the best white 
sugar, and again place it over the fire; keep it 
well stirred till the sugar is perfectly dissolved, 
and then pour it into an earthen vessel, into 
which you have previously put two dracbuis of 
tartaric add, and the rind of one lemon, and let 
it remain till the heat is reduced to a luke-warm 
tomparature; then add atablespoonful of yeast, 
stirring them well together, and bottle for use. 
The corks must be well secured. The drink 
PI.VM and CURCTUO.— I should like toast: yourself and 
your numerous aidii in the business of answering quo* 
tious a few questions about UlO Plum. 1st. Is It true that, 
plum trees planted so as to lean over water running or 
stagnant, escape tho ravages ol the cure olio? 2d. Does 
any one Snow of an instance where plum trees so situated 
have failed to hear healthy plums ? ad. Aro instances 
frequent where plum trees which are so situated do hear 
well?— Onk who uah an Interest in Knowing, near 
Cincinnati, Ohio, 
JAMINETTE PEAR, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: — I have just 
received through the kindness of some unknown 
friend in Ohio, a copy of the Transactions of the 
State, Fomological Society. In the discussion 
on gathering and ripening pears I notice Mr. 
Buchanan says, “he finds the JamineUe, one of 
the best and most profitable winter pears for this 
climate, — superior to its Eastern reputation.” 
Some five years ago you recommended this pear 
in the Rural so highly that, though it was then 
unknown to me, I determined to give it. a trial, 
i purchased three large trees on tho quince root, 
and 1 must say that I have nothing in my col¬ 
lection that I consider superior. Tho fruit, 
although not first rate perhaps, is very good, the 
tree very hardy and healthy, making a fine pyr¬ 
amid, and giving a large quantity of fruit every 
as little trouble as 
simply because 
errors 
are many 
people who have not had opportunities of know¬ 
ing what is or is not suitable, prefer their own 
choice to that of a person properly qualified to 
choose. We lately, saw some lots “improved” 
by planting around them such trees as sugar 
maples and mountain ash in something the style 
of hedge rows! Can we see such aggravated 
cases of mismanagement without protesting 
against them? Not, certainly, If wo do our 
duty or obey our impulses. 
How to Blanch Celery kor Exhibition—O f all tbc 
exhibitions tvo have over seen, Iioltorf, lu Lancashire, 
takes the lead for the admirable manner in which tho veg¬ 
etables are staged, everything being so clean and orderly, 
even the potatoes, locks, and eelery are clean as new pins. 
What, however, struck us most, wax the clear, white color 
of tho celery, from tho root to nearly the. top being quite 
IVec from disnanail specks and discolorations. 
Ou inquiry J 
we find it Is the practice not to earth up the celery nt all, 
but simply to tie it up us it grows, anil wrap course paper 
round it, occasionally removing it fur the purpose of see¬ 
ing that tho stalks are growing straight, or to assist them 
in doing so, when wanted for exhibition purposes. The 
flavor may not bo quite so good, or quite so crisp os whan 
grown lu tho ordinary way, but t he color Is certainly much 
better for exhibition purposes when grown in this way, 
and is not inferior. The new imperial pink celery appears 
to us to be the best of the pink or ml kiutls for showing, 
as it produces very little heel, anil is a large, growing, sol¬ 
id, crisp, fine llavored klntL Tho new imperial white is 
fully equal to it, tho only difference being in the color. In 
fact, the former, as shown at Holton, was bleached to al¬ 
most a clear white.— Gossip of Ihe Gar Jen. 
SAVING AND GERMINATION OF SEEDS 
Mixture for a Cough or Cold. —Take one 
teaeupfui of flax seed and soak it all night. In 
the morning, put into a kettle two quarts of 
water, a handful of liquorice root split up, one 
quarter of a pound of raisins broke in half. Let 
all boil until the strength is thoroughly exhaust¬ 
ed; then add tho flax seed which has been pre¬ 
viously soaked. Let all boil half an hour or 
more, watching and stirring, that the mixture 
may not burn. Then strain and add lemon juice 
and sugar. 
season. They ripen with 
apples, and I have only to put them in a barrel 
or 4 box, and they are lit for eating about Christ¬ 
mas time.r.They ripen a few at a time, and some 
are found fit for use about the first of September, 
while others will be good in January. I thmk 
this pear*is worthy of far more attention than it 
receives, and will be found as good East as 
West. It is an excellent farmers’ winter pear, 
and when better known I have no doubt will 
become popular. w. t. 
Genesoc Co., N. Y., Juno, 1863. 
We can indorse all that our correspondent says 
of the value, of this pear, and have several times 
called attention to its merits, but it seems to have 
been forgotten among other newer, yet in some 
I cases, less meritorious varieties. The tree is 
On no subject is information more needed 
than on the vegetation of seeds. It is for this 
reason that we have always endeavored not only 
to give our readers correct views of the impor¬ 
tance of the subject, but Buch facts as w« have 
gathered from our own experience and observa¬ 
tion, and tho suggestions of all practical men 
that would be likely to prove valuable to our 
readers. It has been said that not one-quarter 
of the trees sold from the nurseries live to pro¬ 
duce fruit, being destroyed by the ignorance or 
carelessness of the purchasers. We do not know 
that this is strictly true, though many perish 
from these causes, l’ethaps notoue-haif of the 
flower seeds sold ever repay the purchasers with 
the desired blossoms. In some cases, though not 
iu all, the disappointment results from a want of 
knowledge of the uatnre and requirements of tho 
seeds sown 
To Grow Sals iky —To grow good Salsify choose 
ground which has not received any munure for at least 
two years. Bastard trench this ground some eight. incheR 
deep. At the bottom of the trench place a tolerable 
good thickness of well decomposed manure: ‘lightly mix 
it up with the soil at the bottom of the trench, returning 
the soil tightly upon the same. Let this Kamo upper soil 
be slightly forked over occasionally, as it needs pulver¬ 
izing well to admit the ready access of the first root into 
and through It; when you have sown the seed, slightly 
tread tile whole of the soil down firmly. 
Tho time of sowing Is an essential point.; Indeed, one of 
the many trifles the persevering study anil performance of 
which Invariably furnish the master key — success. 1 
would not wish to fix a certain date upon which to sow ; 
it would at all times bo far better to ben week behind, 
than to be one day too soon, for the whole after groe th of 
the. crop depends upon the ready way in which the seed 
vegetates. If it germinates healthily, the plauts generally 
grow strongly, and the embryo root the same. But when 
you consider the weather settled, and likely to continue 
tiue, with soil properly dry, tke., sow by all means as early 
as possible, but under those conditions. These remarks 
apply to the iLsual time of sowing, from middle April to 
first May— Gat’d. Chronicle. 
[special notice.) 
A Great Discovery —It has been discovered by thou¬ 
sands of housewives In all sections of tho country that 
D- B. DkI. and & Co,’a Chemical Sateralus is tho only sal- 
cratns that will produce a uniform result aud give perfect 
satisfaction every time. If once you try it, you will al¬ 
ways buy it. 
We cannot accuse the lovers of 
flowers with negligence; for, as a general rule, 
we think they give all the time and labor that is 
required, and often much more than is actually 
necessary. The growing of flowers, however, is 
an art, and one not acquired in a week or in 
a season. Although instruction is not only im¬ 
portant but necessary, yet experience will be 
found the great teacher. With a true love of 
sitt guMislur to flu fuMic 
Aiioitt Clcb Terms. Ac.- We eudeavor to adhere strictly 
to our club rates, which require a certain number of sub¬ 
scribers to get the paper at a specified price—say ten to 
got it at 41,50 per copy. Ado. But, in answer to frequent 
inquiries, we would statu that, iu casus where Irom four to 
six copies are ordered at 31,SO each, with a reasonable pros¬ 
pect of filling up a club of ten, we will send them —and 
when the Club is completed shall send extra copy, ha. This 
will accommodate those wtio do not wish to wait for otherB. 
Any person who la not an ngunl, sending the club rate 
($1,50) for ft single copy llhe price of which is 32.) will only 
receive the paper the length of time the money pays for at 
full .-ingle copy prion. The otllv u>av to get the l-liRAL for 
loss than $2 a year, Is to form or join a club. 
Keeping tur Ball in Motion.— We continue to receive 
the most encouraging letters and remittances from agents 
in all parts of tho country tho border States, California, 
aud Canada not excepted. Thanks, friends. No paper in 
the land has warmer or more Influential and successful 
Agent-Friends than the Rural, and wo are proud of the 
Recruiting Ollicers of the Brigade. Almost every man and 
woman, lad and la--, among them is entitled to promotion. 
Wish we lmd spare to give extracts from scores of letters 
from recruiting stations. 
Baoic Volumes. Bound copies of Volume XIIT, for 1862, 
are now ready for delivery — price, 43. W« would again 
(date that neither of the first five volumes of tfie Rural 
can be furnished by u* at any price. The subsequent vol¬ 
umes will be supplied, bound, at 43 each — or if several are 
taken, at $2.A<J each. The Only volumes we can furnish, 
unbound, are those of 1859, ’60, ’61 and ’62 —price, 42 each. 
The Cash Sy stem is strictly adhered to in publishing the 
Rural— copies are never mailed to individual subscribers 
until paid for, and aticaus discontinued when the stihscrijp- 
tinn term expires. Hence, we force the pac-r upon none, 
aud keep no credit books, long experience having demon¬ 
strated that the Cash Plan is the best for both Subscriber 
nnd Publisher. 
Associated Effort leads to success in canvassing for 
periodicals, us well as in other enterprises. For Instance, 
A BEAUTIFUL CITY 
the capital city of the island of Java 
splendor. The houses—which arc as white as 
snow—are placed oue hundred feet back from 
the street, the intervening space being tilled with 
trees, literally alive with birds, and every variety 
of plauts and flowers. Every house has a piazza 
in front, and is decorated with beautiful pictures, 
elegant lamps, cages, Ac., while rocking chairs, 
lounges, and ottomans, of the nicest description, 
furnish luxurious accommodations for tho family 
—who sit here mornings and evenings. At night 
the city is one blaze of light from the lamps. 
The hotels have grounds of eight aud ten acres 
in extent around them, covered with line shade 
trees, with fountains, flower gardens, Ac. In¬ 
deed, so numerous are the trees, that the city al¬ 
most resembles a forest. The rooms are very 
high and spacious, without carpets, and but few 
curtains. Meals are served up about the same 
as at iirst-class hotels Lu the United States, alllio’ 
the habits of living are quite different. At day¬ 
light coffee and tea are taken to the guest’s room, 
and again at eight o’clock light refreshments. 
At twelve breakfast is served, and at seven, din¬ 
ner. Coffee and tea are always ready, day and 
night. No business is done in the streets in 
the middle of the day, on account of the heat. 
The nights and mornings are cool and delightful; 
birds are singing all night. The thermometer 
stands at about 82 degrees throughout the year. 
The Island of Java contains a population of 
10,000. The island abounds with tigers, leopards, 
anacondas, and poisonous insects of all kinds. 
The finest fruits in the world are produced in 
great profusion. 
ceed as they could desire. Failure is success if 
we only profit by its teachings. We have now 
before us a good article written some time since 
by Thomas Meehan, of Philadelphia, a part of 
which we give onr readers, feeling satisfied it 
will well repay perusal. 
There are probably few branches of Horticul¬ 
ture so ill understood as the management of 
seeds. A package of seeds may be placed in 
the hands of two men, divided between each, 
and sown by each in his own peculiar way; and 
while one succeeds in raising plants, the other 
fails. Sometimes the individual who succeeds in 
raising some particular seed one season, will 
himself fail in another, though to all appearances 
the seed was gathered, preserved aud treated 
exactly in the same manner. For want of atten¬ 
tion to these variations and their causes, many 
erroneous notions respecting the vegetative 
powers of seed have arisen, and many contra¬ 
dictory statements made by various writers, 
which needs only a slight reflection on the prin- 
Tmi-kovkd Persimmons— Dr. Kirtland has boon ex. 
perimentitig with them*, lie say** iu Ifuoey'i i Magazine, and 
finds them vary considerable from seed, and capable of 
great improvement. He remarks“The persimmon Is 
perfectly hardy hero, (Cleveland, Ohio,) but whether It 
would bear your climate is questionable. It i* found native 
at fleavertown, 80 miles from Pittsburgh My trees were 
raised from seeds planted in 1840. They began to bear 
fruit in seven years. This tree is duioious, and at least 
three out of every four are barren or staminate; the fruit 
of uo two being alike in size, form, flavor, and time of 
ripening—nnd they come into maturity, in succession, 
from the 20th September to the 1st of March. Greatly 
improved varieties will no doubt be produced by crossing 
and cultivation. The foliage is rich and beautiful; hence 
the tree is ornamental on a lawn,” 
Then see what all these things cost. Tu a ceme¬ 
tery we might name, and in all our cemeteries, 
we dare say, thousands of dollars have been 
expended in these so-called improvements. How 
common it is to see four or six trees, balsam firs 
or spruce, and perhaps a weeping willow, and, 
it may be, two or three other trees, planted on a 
small lot some twenty feet square, where a single 
appropriate tree would have been infinitely more 
] f pleasing. Where every lot owner is thus allowed 
^ to plant how and what he pleases, to exercise 
I’ his own individual taste or rather whim, regard- 
* less of the general effect, it is quite impossible, 
A whatever the origiual design may have been, to 
T produce any pleasing results. Why not proceed 
6] upon the plan that all embellishments, in the 
V way of trees, shrubs and plants, shall be made by 
y the superintendent of the grounds, who, we will 
H presume, to be a competent man, working upon 
\ a well understood and approved general design? 
Love of the French for Flowers—T lic passionate 
love of flowers Is a marked characteristic of tho Parisians, 
and the sale of flowers is in Paris an extensive and lucra¬ 
tive branch of trade. It is computed that tho various lit 
tie patches of ground in the vicinity of the French capital, 
appropriated to floral cultivation, realize an annual income 
of .’52,000,0001’, and give employment to 500,0o0 persons. 
In Paris alone there are uo leas than 284 florists, and on 
occ, "Ions of public festivity, their conjoint, trallic not (in¬ 
frequently ^mounts to -0,000f. At a fete given last season 
by one of the foreign ambassadors, the cost of the flowers 
was 22,0001’. 
reconcile. For instance, some old writer, I 
think Han bury, asserts that seeds of the Sweet 
Gum (Liquidantbar slyraojlmj will germinate 
the same season of sowing; while another old 
writer, I am not certain, but think Philip Miller, 
flatly contradicts this, satisfied that they will not 
grow under two years. Succeeding writers have 
followed the one or the other, according to their 
Cement for Glass. —In these days of Aqnarinms, 
ferneries, and other glass-plant fixtures, it may be inter¬ 
esting to our readers to know that a strong notation of 
silicate of potash forms a perfect cement for glass. 
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