not run into the them, whlcli rather surprised mo, since tho plant cannot 
ties, which almost ,vp11 even the dullest rye, it is *o singular.” 
ich will never be 11 '* difficult 40 convey a correct idea of the plant from 
“ description; but we endeavor to do so from that supplied 
pmpo.es, lueHO by Dr Hook( . r It u a woody trunk) sai(1 t0 attain th e 
L “ caouot 00 ict tot ggl . uf a kundrcd jears, with an obtunlc trunk about two 
11 r correspondent f cc t long, of which only a law inches arc above the soil, 
same, land with presenting a flat two lobed dense mass, sometimes attaiu> 
T 1 is, by no means; ing the size of five feet in diameter, and looking like a 
i other land and Wund table. The surface, when full grown, la hard and 
j anion;' his pear cracked over the whole surface, much like a crust of 
ver, and unless he ' ,r °' rn i , bre " d ' The lower part form, a stout tap root, 
fill in rnisincr fino hurled In the soil. From deep grooves in tho circumfer- 
° cnco of tho top two enormous leaves arc giveu off, each 
1 . \V . L. s ix feet long when full grown, one corresponding to each 
lobe of the trunk; these are stout, very leathery, and split 
to the base into innumerable thongs, that lio upon the 
soil. They are present from the earliest condition of the 
plants, are persistent and replaced by no others. From 
the base of these leaves spring stout, much branched 
cymes, nearly a foot high, bearing small erect scarlet 
cones, which eventually become oblong, and attain tho 
size of the common spruce fir, The scales of the cones 
PLANTING BULBS 
A correspondent in Michigan wishes direc¬ 
tions for planting hardy bulbs. “ sufficiently ex¬ 
plicit to enable an amateur to do or superintend 
his own work, where a gardener cannot be ob¬ 
tained.” The following hints, we think, will 
meet the wants of our Michigan friend, and all 
others who design to plant bulbs the present 
autumn: 
Any good, mellow soil, if well drained, will 
grow bulbous flowers, but most soils designed 
for [this purpose would be benefited by being 
enriched with stable manure thoroughly rotted, 
which should be well mixed with the soil or with 
surface earth from the woods. The manure from 
an old hot-bed is excellent, but not more so than 
cow manure, which may be freely used, even 
when fresh, but should not come in contact with 
the bulbs. To prevent this it should be mixed 
thoroughly with the soil, and a little sand placed 
This practice is 
VARIEGATED-LEAVED TREES AND SHRUBS 
around the bulb at planting, 
always beneficial in stiff soil. 
The mechanical condition of the soil may be 
improved very easily. If naturally very stiff, an 
addition of sand and leaf mold from the forest 
will be of great benefit. The ground for bulbs 
should be dug deep, a foot at least, and be well 
pulverized and drained before plauting bulbs of 
any variety. 
Snow Drop.— The bulbs are quite small ; the 
leaves and flowers about six inches in height 
Plant in the fall, in beds or masses, two inches 
apart, and about the same in depth. Every third 
year, at least, it is well to take up the bulbs after 
the leaves have died, and re-plant in October. 
Crocus. — The proper time for planting is 
about the first of October, though a week or two 
earlier or later will make no material difference. 
Set the bulbs about three inches apart and cover 
with two inches of earth. Hake off the bed 
nicely, and before winter sets in cover it with a 
little straw, coarse hay, or other litter which may 
be convenient. This prevents throwing out by 
the frost, which sometimes occurs, unless the 
ground is very high and dry. Nurserymen and 
gardeners generally take up the bulbs every sum¬ 
mer after the leaves have decayed, and re-plant 
in the fall, but the more satisfactory course for 
amateurs would be to allow them to remain 
where planted for three years, then take them up 
and re-plant in other beds. 
Hyacinths. —Set the bulbs Bix inches apart, 
and four inches deep. Before winter sets in 
cover tho beds with leaves, or if these are not to 
be had, with a coarse manure in which is consid¬ 
erable straw. 
In about five or six weeks after flowering, when 
the leaves are dead, the bulbs may be taken up, 
dried, and packed away in paper for fall planting. 
If the bed is wanted for other flowers, they may 
be removed in three weeks after flowering, the 
flower stem cut. off, and tho bulbs laid on a dry 
bed and covered with a little earth until the 
leaves have ripeuod, when they should be packed 
away as before recommended. 
Many persons ordering Hyacinths from the 
seedsmen and nurserymen entertain the idea that 
none but double ones are desirable. This la not 
the case. The value of this flower depends prin¬ 
cipally upon the form of the spike and the ar¬ 
rangement of the single flowers or bells upon the 
llowei stem. The truss of bloom or spike should 
be pyramidal, and the flowers close enough to 
conceal the stalk. 
Tci.ii’s.—Tulips are divided into two general 
classes, Early and Laic. The early Tulips flower 
in this latitude about the first of May. The earli¬ 
est of the first class is Due VanThOL. single and 
double. They are red, edged with yellow. 
The latter class are larger, more stately, of 
better form anu more brilliant colors. Tulips 
may be grown in any rich, garden soi 1. 11 should 
be well drained, and if a little sandy, all the bet¬ 
ter; if inclined to clay, add a little sandy loam,and 
if poor, add rotted turf, or soil from an old pas¬ 
ture. with any thoroughly rotted manure. There 
is no difficulty, and need be no mystery, about 
the culture of trie Tulip. 
The time of planting is in October. Make the 
bed prepared for them fine and mellow, and plant 
the bulbs in rows from six to eight inches apart, 
each way. Unless the ground is quite light, it is 
well to surround the' bulb with sand at the time 
of planting. This is for beds entirely devoted to 
the Tulip, but they look well if placed in the 
border or on the lawn, half a dozen or more in a 
cluster. 
Lilies— Should not be removed as early as 
those already mentioned, but may be transplant¬ 
ed the latter part of October or in Novemberany 
time before winter sets in. 
Floral Hall at N. Y State Fair. -We have received 
several communication*,— one from a lady exhibitor— 
complaining of the ninnaKoment of the Floral Hall at the 
State Fair at Utica. The arrangement* it seems were im¬ 
perfect, and not sufficiently extensive, and tho manager* 
evidently locked experience. Our correspondents will 
please excuse ns for refusing to publish their communica¬ 
tions, as wo think no good would result from auch a 
course. Those who out flowers early ou Monday and had 
to wait until nearly noon on Wednesday before they could 
give them water or place them on the tables for exhibition 
have our sympathies. Next week we will give an articlo 
Oil the subject that wo hope will be of benefit to Superin¬ 
tendents, Exhibitor* and Societies, with an engraving of 
Floral Hall, as arranged at the State Society’s show when 
held in Rochester last year. 
Our native perennial variety is so good and so 
common that this class of iflowers has not re¬ 
ceived much attention from amateurs or florists, 
but we van with confidence recommend La- 
marckiunn , and a beautiful low-growing snowy 
white variety, Acaulis Alla. For a full descrip¬ 
tion we refer our readers to page 311, last 
number. 
Last week we gave a description of the new 
CEnothera, or Evening Primrose, Lamarckiana , 
and also promised our readers an engraving ot a 
single flower of natural size. This promise wc 
now redeem, and our readers can imagine the 
effect produced by a bed of these plants in tho 
evening and morning, when hundreds ot their 
monstrous golden blossoms are lully expanded. 
Abucvtiscmcnts 
O NE MILLION Al»l*LE SEEDLINGS E<H{ SALE at 
the Elba Ximemtt, M.t $1,A»> and S3.CD per 1,000. AI*|>, 
a large stock and good inmntment of healthy and well 
grown Fruit nod Ornamental Tree., Orapo Vini-H.lShrubH, 
k<&, at exceedingly low juices Order* re*pe«tfully solicit¬ 
ed. Address, E. J. 1 ' I I'll HON K A SON, 
W- 1st _ Elba, Genomic Co., N. Y. 
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for the Autumn of 18IW, is now puldinhcd and will bn ,cnt 
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HTAOJNTUS, anOCVSHS, Tl LIPP, CltOWN iMPERULsi. AXoW 
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Address, |* If . “ A ' 
beautifully variegated tree. Of these before ns, 
the Variegated-leaved Turkey Oak, tho Varie¬ 
gated British Oak, and the Salisburia, look as if 
they would not give way to this falling; and we 
should judge them to bo among the very best of 
the beauties. Fraxinus acuminata “ ponctue,” ia 
Wood Strawberry of the European mountains, 
F. vesca and the Alpine Everbearing varieties, 
produce the smallest berries of any species, and 
they possess but moderate sweetness and flavor. 
The F. Gollina, or C 
hedge plant, as it throws up long, struggling 
shoots in all directions la an incredible short 
space oi time, giving it anything but a neat and 
hedge-like appearance. A. 
of the hedges spoken of. wo 
As for the cultivation 
have seen them in 
all stages of growth and under all forms of treat¬ 
ment, and have yet to [see one that comes up to 
our idea of what a live-fence should be, and to 
what we have seen of Honey Locust. 
The Honey Locust is of a solid and compact 
growth, enduring the winter of our Northern 
and Eastern States without injury, furnished 
with the most defensive thorns Of any of our 
plants, covered during the season with beau¬ 
tiful and delicate foliage, and bearing pruning as 
well a 3 any deciduous plant with which we are 
acquainted, it presents itself to the needs ol the 
American people as the best hedge plant in cul¬ 
tivation. Had the Athenians been seeking after 
a hedge-plant adapted to the wants and needs of 
tho - public” they would certainly have been 
justifiable in looking beyond the Osage Orange 
for that great desideratum. The object of “de¬ 
signing peddlers” we cannot speculate on, as we 
have no interest whatever with that class of men. 
Green Alpine, is scarcely 
known in our American gardens, whereas in 
France anil Germany they possess a number of 
varieties, the three finest of which are grown in 
the gardens here. The berries are small up to 
medium, of a dull brown and greenish hue, pos¬ 
sessing a most exquisite pine-apple or bergamot 
musky flavor. 
it will be seen by'the present cursory review, 
that for a family garden which shall give us the 
most lengthened eujoyment of this, the most 
healthful of all fruits, it is requisite that it should 
combine a few varieties of each class, and I will 
in a continuous article present a moderate num¬ 
ber of each with descriptions, as a guide to those 
not familiarized with the subject. 1 will now 
conclude this by some remarks on transplanting. 
There seems to exist a great misconception as 
to the period for successful fall planting. Many 
suppose that this must be performed in August 
or September, but all the growers of strawberries 
ou this Island, and in the region forming an ex¬ 
tensive circuit around New York, make their 
most extensive plantings from the 20th of Sep¬ 
tember to the 20th of November. We continue 
planting new beds until tho ground is closed by 
frost, and always with success, and do not lose 
five plants in a thousand. Prof. Huntsman says 
his most successful plantings are those that are 
made latest. Such as are planted tho latter hall 
of November we cover with a layer of sedgo, 
straw or hay, not, however, for the purpose of 
keeping Ibe frost out, but lor the purpose of 
keeping it in wheD tho ground is frozen, as by 
thus shutting out the sun’s rays, we cause the 
ground to remain permanently frozen during the 
winter. We find that it is not the permanent 
cold 4 that injures the plants, but the thawing by 
which the plants are drawn out and their roots 
exposed, which are thereby subject to be winter- 
killed. Wm. R. Prince. 
Flushing, Sept. 24,1863. 
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DWARF AND STANDARD PEARS 
A correspond- 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker 
ent inquires the best plan to adopt as to dis¬ 
tances apart and the arranging ot dwarf and 
standard pears. After many years trial of my 
own pear orchard I have not found any plan 1 
like better than my own, and on the plan of which 
I have set an orchard of 4,000 trees. I set my 
standards 2-1 feet apart, and put one* row ol 
dwarfs between—one way—and two rows the 
other—making the trees eight feet one way and 
twelve ihe other. This, of course, would give as 
many trees to the acre as if they were ten feet 
apart; but making them further one way than 
the other giyes more room to work among them 
than if they were in squares. Land set with 
trees after this plan should be highly manured 
and cultivated in order to get proper growth, but 
if properly cared for this distance will be found 
sufficient, and any shorter space will be found 
very inconvenient in working among them. 
In regard to the best varieties for the New 
York market, for Standards you cannot have too 
many Bartlett’s and Seckels, but the Flemish 
Beauty, Lawrence and Swan’s Orange will be 
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THE HONEY LOCUST AGAIN, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker :—The saying of 
Cowfer that “ the growth of all that’s excellent 
is slow,” will be as likely to piove true perhaps 
with the Honey Locust as a hedge-plant, us with 
other productions of merit that have come to be 
recogQized as indispensable to the *• people.” I 
was glad to see E. P.’s lengthy remarks ou my 
former comments on the Honey Locust versus 
Osage Orange, as they were written partly with 
a desire to draw out the opinions of those who 
have experimented with the Honey Locust, and 
partly from a desire to advance a subject of great 
importance to American land-owners. I should 
infer from E. P.’s writing that he had never seen 
a hedge of the Honey Locust, and that he was 
crying up the Osage Orange for want of a better 
subject 
The Osage Orange being a native of Texas 
must necessarily be (as it is) a tender plant; not 
tender in the full sense of the term, but tender to 
stand our Northern winters without injury. It 
is “ rapid in growth,” in fact too rapid for a good 
