DECIDUOUS SHADE TREES FOE PRIVATE 
BR0UND8. 
desirable. Its leaves are pnrplish underneath, 
and pale green above when folly expanded; and 
at midsummer, and thereafter until the fall of 
the loaf, every breeze that rn files and disturbs 
them produce-si a singular effect. 
Magnolias. —To this family, many varietirs 
of which are the pride of our Southern States, 
too littJo attention is given by the majority of 
tree planters; whether it is became of good 
plants being difficult of obtaimnent, or from 
their being rather sensitive and unwilling to be 
carelessly and negligently bundled when trans¬ 
planting, we find few planters make room for 
them on their lists or in their grounds; but we do 
not see how any landscapist can form an extensive 
group of evergreens and deciduous trees without 
using more or lees of Magnolias. In our expe¬ 
rience wc have found no difficulty when trans¬ 
planting, provided we kept the roots from cold, 
drying winds, or clear, burning suns; exposure to 
either of which, by reason of their soft, spongy 
texture, is injurious, and often destructive of 
life. Of the varieties, ail arc beautiful; but 
rapidly bought up and put in a state of cultiva¬ 
tion by the hand of industry and perseverance. 
The long Unas of trellised grapes are adding 
beauty to the landscape and prosperity to the 
owners. I further state, on the authority of J. 
W. Clark, Esq., whoso success in cultivating 
atul marketing grapes is not surpassed by any 
fruit grower In the. State, that the Naples grapes 
have steadily increased in price, during the past 
four yeans, from S to 10 cts. iu 1803,12 to 15 cts. 
in 1808, 15 to 18 cts. in 1804 and 18 to 31 cts. In 
1865. They are put up in round boxes, holding 
two and four pounds each, made of wood and 
papered and labeled. 
Mr. Clark, filled large orders from Philadel¬ 
phia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, and in far more sunny 
climes of the South his grapes sold for 37 y t cts. 
per pound. Orders were received from Rich¬ 
mond, Va., for his celebrated Isabellagrapes. Ho 
also sold his Isabella grapes In New York for 25 
cte. per pound before t he frost, and from 13 to 
20 cts. per pound after the frost of 1806. 
Wo will look a little further to our sole of 
grapee at a “low figure.” Mr. M. B. Rkkd sold 
his early (picked the 10th of Kept., 1866,) Dela- 
ware grapes in the Boston market for 25 cts. per 
pound. A commission merchant of Philadel¬ 
phia, says lu a letter to Mr. J. W. Clark, that 
his Isabella grapes sold from 5 to 8 cts. per 
pound higher than the Hammoudsport grapes, 
from the fact of their being put up in nice round 
paper boxes. Wo still continue the record, and 
say that the 13ou. E. B. Pottlk, who has a vine¬ 
yard of 1,500 vines, sold his entire crop of Isa¬ 
bellas in paper boxes for $8,200. Mr. Oliver 
Chapin, the largest fruit grower In Bloomfield, 
while on a visit to Mr. Clark’s vineyard admit¬ 
ted his grapes to be a week or ten days earlier 
than those iu Bloomfield. I have no interest in 
publishing these facts, neither have I grape 
lands to sell, owning but a small vineyard. 1 
could not let the rich expectancy, the realized 
success of an industrious class of fruit growers, 
owning the celebrated Naples Vineyard* “go 
down to a low figure.” 8. IL e. 
Naples, 18G7. 
[Thh February issue of The Horticulturist has on 
excellent and timely paper on this subject. We copy 
a good portion of the article bolow, and will give the 
remainder in a fncure number of the Rural.— Kd.] 
In out last December number we named some 
few varieties of trees that we consider eminently 
FARMERS’ GARDENS, 
VARI0U8 ORIGINAL RECIPES, &c, 
Ws propose writing a few -casonablo articles 
on farmers’ gardens, giving plain, practical di¬ 
rections for their management, accompanied 
.fith suitable illustrations, which shall assist 
any one having a small plot of ground to culti¬ 
vate, to grow thereon n year’s supply of veget¬ 
ables and small fruits for a family. Perhaps 
Ibere is no one thing connected with the cui- 
tare of the soil so badly and universally neg¬ 
lected by farmers as their gardens. How many 
in your neighborhood, reader, have what may 
be strictly termed a good garden from year to 
year? How many grow an abund&ut supply of 
email fruits for the use of the family? How 
many have asparagus, radishes and salads pleuti- 
fnlly or at all, early in the season; melons, 
^cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, cabbages, peas, 
beans, green com, &c., in the summer mouths ; 
aod celery, vegetable oysters, parsnips, turnips, 
horse-radish, &c., in the fall, winter and early 
spring ? All farmers should and can have them 
—nothing which they cat is cheaper, more grate¬ 
ful or healthful than these, together with the 
rummer fruits. If wc can persuade you to take 
tbe pains and incur the slight expense necessary 
to their production, we shall be amply rewarded 
for our labor by the gratitude and satisfaction 
which we known those feel who are dependent 
on you for support, and who eat daily at your 
table. 
S<m you a garden spot? It should be a 
choice piece of land; not large, but rich, dry, 
worm, near the dwelling, and enclosed to pre¬ 
vent the depredations of fowls and animals. It 
the soil is poor you have the means at hand to 
make it rich; if heavy and wet, thoroughly un¬ 
derdrain it—as it is small, you can afford this ex¬ 
pense. We repeat, it need not bo large, for a 
small garden well tiUvi Is much better and less 
costly than a large one overrun with weeds and 
cultivated like your fields. Leaf mold from the 
woods, with ashes, litne and plaster, are the beet 
manures you can use, unless you can spade or 
plow in deep fine barnyard manure. This year 
you should make a compost heap, and have it 
on hand for the next. 
If the garden Is small it is best not to plow 
but rather spade it. First of all lay it out well; 
make a bed or border, os they are called, four or 
five feet wide all round the outside. Next to 
this a walk ; then one or two broad ciobs- walks, 
and reserve the rest for beds and walks as crops 
and circumstances shall dictate. Moke up your 
mind now to have a good garden this year; and 
in our next article we will try and tell you how¬ 
to start the early vegetables and seeds in a cheap 
and simple manner. 
Canned Pickles.—T uko small sized cucum¬ 
bers ; lay them iu brine twenty-four hours; take 
them ont and cover with vinegar; sweeten to 
taste; put in nasturtium, eiunuinon and cloves; 
cook until tender; can as you do sauce. 
Wueat Brea d.— Eight or niue medium Bized 
potatoes ; mash them; take the water they boil 
in—about a quart altogether, stir in the llour and 
one-half teacup of good yeaBt; mix early iu tho 
morning; have the sponge uud llour warm, to 
which odd a pint of sweet milk, and water if you 
wish to make a larger baking. Try it, and you 
will have sweeter and better than any baker’s 
bread.—S. V. F., Schenectady, N. Y. 
Washing Flannel— To Prevent Shrinking. 
—J. S. R., iu Rural of Feb. 9th, inquires how 
to prevent, in washing, the shrinking of “ white 
Uaimelfl and knit underwear.” 
Soak in warm water half an hour; rub lightly 
wheu you wring them out; then rob them thor- 
oughly in a good hot suds; wring them out; 
put them in a tub, ami pour clear boiling water 
on them—the more the better. Let them staud 
till they are cool cnongh to wring out by hand. 
Y ou can use a wringer if you choose. Soft water 
should always be used. No woolen fabric should 
have soap rubbed on it. unless you wish to shrink 
it.—R. B. B., Titusville , IU. 
Another.—M ake a slight suds of soft water 
and soap — hard soap is best; have tho water 
boiling hot when you make the suds; throw the 
clothes in without rubbing any soap on them; 
let them be until cool enough to rub out. They 
will need but little rubbing.—M rs. II. Wixloox, 
Townsend, Sandusky Co., Ohio. 
Fig. 1.—American Beech. 
deserving to he planted for street shades. We 
now designate a few of the. many beautiful trees 
that we regard as especially desirable for plant¬ 
ing in private grounds. First of all, we name 
our American Beech, as corabiniug more ot 
beauty, grace ftud maguiltccuce than porhapa any 
other of the forest trees. True, it has not the 
grandeur of the oak; but, with its stateliness of 
upright, spreading growth, every line and twig 
Is one of graceful ease, aud from the first open¬ 
ing of the buds in spring, onward until in full 
foliage, its glossiness and changing shades are a 
constant but varying feature of beauty. In win¬ 
ter, its delicate spray, combined with the promi¬ 
nence of Its long-pointed buds, make it especially 
an object of attraction and admiration. Borne 
planters object to the Beech ou account of a 
tendency to sucker, but wc have never found 
any such tendency where the roots remained 
unbroken by cultivation. 
Young trees should always be procured with 
branches storting from near the ground, and 
rarely does it need the knife applied to give it 
regularity and symmetry of form. A deep loamy, 
rather moist soil, gives it most vigor and causes 
it to grow to a large size; but it also grows 
freely in poor, thin soils, as the roots spread 
widely and keep near the surface. 
Of fancy varieties of the Beech, the true Pur¬ 
ple - leaved is most desirable. It has rather 
stronger limbs and twigs than the common 
plain variety, and the yoong shoots and buds 
are of a rose color, while the foliage when young 
or half grown is of a reddish purple tinge, and 
when mature becomes dark purple, forming a 
pleasing and attractive contrast with the green 
of otbe.r trees. The Cul-leaved forme, while 
young, a vigorous, well-marked tree, with leaves 
variously cut, resembling in some cases ferns, in 
others, willows; as it gets age, however, these 
markings of the foliage become less and leas 
distinct. The Variegated-leaved, Crested, etc., 
are all singular, but of feeble growth, and only 
desirable in an arboretum. 
The family of Maples arc all good as shade 
trees for lawn or roadside, bat among them, the 
Rubrum , red-flowering, or, as generally termed, 
Fig. 3.— .Magnolia Acuminata. 
some arc not perfectly hardy when grown in our 
Northern States. The Acuminata, or Cucumber 
Tree, as it is frequently called, is upright, almost 
eone-like in its form, and for back grounds or the 
center or groups one of the most desirable of all 
deciduous trees. The Glanca, or Swamp Mag¬ 
nolia, is almost a sub-evergreen, often retaining 
its foliage until January, even in our Northern 
States. Unless grafted or budded on the Acumi- 
nata, It is only a dwarf, growing from six to 
tweuty feet high — more like a bush than a tree. 
In moist, cool situations it often flowers all tho 
season—from June to September. The fragrance 
Ginger Cookies. — Cue cup molasses ; one 
cup sugar; one cup butter; oue-half cup lard; 
onc-half cup buttermilk ; one and one-half large 
teaspoons soda ; one egg ; one tablespoon gin¬ 
ger ; knead soft; cut in squares, and hake in a 
quick oven. Excellent. Try it.— Mrs. B. 
ftortiruliral gotrji atifl incite 
Evergreens for Screens and Fences. —(L. E., 
Cayuga Co.) American Arbor ViUe, or white cedar, 
is probably the best evergreen for a fence or hedge 
which it is desirable to keep rather low; if a wind 
screen, or barrier, ten or fifteen feet In height, 
would not bo objectionable, (and It certainly would 
not around most farmers’ premises,) then plant Nor¬ 
way Spruce. Small or large ones inny be set, but they 
should average as near of oue size as possible. We 
should prefer those about three feet in height, well 
limbed down to the ground, and stocky. Wc. cannot 
give prices; those will depend a good deal ou your 
skill in buying. If possible get them near home ho 
yon can transfer them iu a lumber wagon. When the 
soil will do to work, tu the spring spade up the ground 
where they are to be set. to a depth of twelve inches 
and a width of three feet. Do this work thoroughly, 
putting the bod in us good order as If you were going 
to plant garden seeds on it. Have some leaf mold 
from the woods ready, and mix lu as you spade, and 
also scatter plenty on the top and rake It In. Beware 
of coarse or stimulating manures. Having yonr bed 
prepared, wait patiently until the latter part of spring 
for a warm, foggy, drizzling day, and then transplant 
your trees. Do not let the sunshine touch their rooln 
or the wind dry them. Yon can transplant them very 
fast, having the bed all prepared. Sot two feet apart, 
Reader, Stop and Think.—W e suppose the 
most of our readers buy and use D. B. De Land & 
Co.’s Best Chemical Saleralus, but If there are any 
of yon who do not, just stop uud think ; if you 
buy tho Best Chemical Saleratus you get the Best 
Saloratus made, and full xneujht. 
grape vines for temporary bearing 
Geo. L. Pratt, Orleans Co., N. Y., writes us 
as follows on planting ont grape vines for tem¬ 
porary bearing: — “1 would advise setting 
double the number of vines in the row that you 
intend to let remain permanently. Fruit the 
temporary vines the third, fourth, fifth aud sixth 
years, and then dig them ont of the way. You 
can thus favor the permanent vines by not fruit¬ 
ing them until the fourth year, and then but 
lightly, giving them an opportunity to get well 
established for a long-lived vineyard. Tho past 
season I set two aud one-half acres to Iona, 
Israella, Delaware, and Clinton, planting the 
vinca ten by twelve foot apart. Between each 
vine I Bet an Isabella, at a cost of five dollars per 
hundred, with theintentiou of fruiting the latter 
heavily for about lour seasons, then removing 
them and leaving the first named vines in full 
possession of the ground. With my experience 
I am satisfied that ten feet by twelve is near 
enough together to have strong growing vines 
when they are seven years old." 
A?£ 1LE l .r I ?? CIjU , D,N<3 GENIJINK KING of 
A*. Tompkins (,o., mid Peach Trees, by Die toe or l.ooo, 
and a mineral Nursery Stock Tor PIuuWh. Apple sad 
l law stock* and small Evergreens for Nursery men 
__ K. C: F ROST, Watkins, N v 
rilllic PHILADELPHIA STRAWBERRY 
I- at |uo me; ,i ucnnda'D, $s v too, or *25 i ,<xo wi 
Vi.Ti P 100, or $15 <1 1,000; Agrlcull.ilrl»t*, Downer's’ and 
otherM at low prions. Tile Philadelphia Raspberry, S 3 
u-'lrV ?/' ' vl,8< - m Early, (i do r... or $50 lorW; 
KRtatinny’H , ffl V do/.., or $60 m TOO. A Iko all the differ 
& rrtC8 ,' & P’V’ 1 ;*’ >” Halt tho wholesale, 
I”“-Ja to unit the retail, and laiillly lists sent by mail. 
Fig. 4.— Magnolia Glauca. 
of He flowers, together with the rich, glossy, 
pale green foliage and young shoots, form for It 
a shrub tree that, were it now to be newly intro¬ 
duced, would cause an excitement, in the arborl 
cultural world, that Is rarely known. Some 
sub-varieties, as Bony {folia flordoniana, etc., are 
better because larger In foliage, and perhaps a 
little stronger in growth, but their actual hardi 
hood in all positions we thiuk remains to be 
tested. Magnolia Tripetda , called Umbrella 
Tree, when grown north of Philadelphia, sel¬ 
dom acquires much size, hut sends np numerous 
stems from its crown to replace decaying ones, 
which have perhaps flowered two or more years. 
In the the warmer parts of our country it forms 
a|>rge;trce, and in all grouudB is especially 
desirable. 
A Plea for run Robins.—A lady contributor to tho 
Rural, 8. E. W., Maple lllll, Cozenovla, N. Y., sendB 
us a plea for her favorite robins, the killing of which 
was strongly advocated by some of tho members of 
the ” Frnit Growers’ Society,” lately held iu this city, 
“ What if they do destroy a littJo fruit ? Do (bey not 
more than repay us for the loss by the sweet music 
with which they fill the air of a siinurior morning? 
Is it not just as pure, just as ennobling, to gratify our 
taste for tnusk as our taste for f ruit ? Did lion make 
anything in vain, and are not tho birds ns necessary 
to our happiness as the trees and flowers they lnhab 
it?’’ To which the frnit growers would answer that 
If one’s "bread and butter” depended ou the frnit 
they would prefer that to tho bird music—that they 
do not intend to destroy all the birds, bnt only drive 
the robbers away from the fruit; and that wauy of 
our best singing birds scarcely trouble fruit at all. 
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EARLY WORK FOR A VILLAGE GARDEN 
During the late cold weather and snow storms 
I have got a large pile of the best manure, made 
by a single cow, bedded night and morning with 
leaves, saw-dust, and other refuse. Now, on the 
16th February, the snow is gone uud the frost is 
ont of the ground. Thanks to uuderdrains, that 
part of the lot not ridged in the fall is now dry 
enough to spade into ridges to be benefited by 
coming frosts; hence, Instead of increasing my 
pile, I fill the wheel-barrow with the fresh made 
manure at the stable door and wheel it directly 
to the garden. I spade this in, always throwing 
the soil into ridges, not only to incorporate the 
manure with the soil and to get the benefit of 
the frost, but to save the labor of another fad¬ 
ing if the surface was flat, as the spring rains 
would then make it too compact and hard to he 
planted without it- I always prefer spading the 
soil into ridges, even in the spring, unless it is 
to be planted immediately. The labor of level¬ 
ing when you are ready to plant con he done 
with the hoe at the rate ol a square rod in five 
minutes; the nitric acid the exposed ridges col¬ 
lect ten times pays for the labor of leveling, and 
the mechanical state of the soil is perfect. 
It yonr flower border was not covered with 
stable compost in the fall, now the snow is off 
it should be no longer neglected; for even the 
crocus, the daffodil, and the polyanthus, if thns 
well protected, will put on a much earlier and 
more expansive bloom. David Thomas used to 
*ay, when people came to him for bulbs and 
plants, that it pained him to give seeds and deli¬ 
cate flowering plants to those, who would be cer¬ 
tain to neglect their culture, but it was a pleas¬ 
ure to give to those who loved Flora for hereell, 
for they would not see her suffer either from 
neglect or the lack ol proper aliment- He was 
of tho opinion that no florist could cultivate a 
lily so large, delicate, and beautifully perfect as 
Nature sends up from the rich vegetable deposits 
of a stagnant pool. * 
NAPLES GRAPES IN THE MARKET 
A writer in the Rural, over the signature of 
“Now and Then,” says that the “Bloomfield 
and Naples grapes went down to a very low fig¬ 
ure in the New York market, and that the Dela¬ 
ware and Concord, received October 10th from 
Willard & Burgess, packed in their superior 
five-pound boxes, sold readily at 25 cts., and 
were quite an ornament, in the window of the 
Broadway dealer, and that the liammondsport 
Catawba proved tho best article in the market,” 
“Now and Then” intimating that the round 
paper boxes and the frost greatly lessened the 
value and attraction of other grapes. This has 
the ring of a certain bell from Hammondsport, 
perhaps put up in New York to ring additional 
peals to the acknowledged renown of Uam- 
moadsport as a great grape growing region, 
cither to sell land at high prices or sweeten the 
taste of their grapes. “Now and Then ” let us 
look at facts and figures as they are. 
Upon a geological survey of the lakes we find 
that Crooked Lake and Hammondsport are 
200 feet higher than Canandaigua Lake and the 
grape growing region about Naples. This is not 
all. There is no section in Western New York 
that surpasses this for mildness of climate, 
so protected from the blasts of winter, and 
which, embracing so large a territory of shelter¬ 
ed hill-sidea and valley lands, Is bo well adapted 
to grape culture. The soil is of gravelly drift, 
sand and loam, changes northward to a rich 
clay loam resting ou slate rock at greater or lees 
depths and connects with the rich, alluvial soil 
of the valley that stretches for miles to the head 
of Canandaigua Lake. All the popular and best 
varieties of grapes grown here have found a 
quick Bale in most of our great cities as well as 
in those of the Canadas. The hill-sidea are being 
How to Plant Watermelons.— W. 8. Carpenter 
told how to plant watermelons at a recent meeting of 
the Institute Club. Dig n hole two atul a half feet 
deep aud three feet across. Fill to within six inches 
of tho surface with green stable maunre, and then add 
good soil so as to make a lull six inches high and 
plant from ten to twelve feet apart. Good melons 
and a flue yield may be looked for by pursuing this 
plan of planting. 
Fig. 2.—Scarlet Maple. 
Scarlet Maple, is most to be prized. Its red 
flowers and leaves in early spring or beginning 
of summer, its brilliant shades of red foliage in 
autumn, taken in connection with its rapid 
growth and upright, half-spreading form, render 
it one of the most ornamental of hardy trees. 
Although a native, and abundant In many parte 
of our Northern Middle States, one or more 
trees of it should be found in all grounds of half 
an acre or more in 6ize. In places of considera¬ 
ble extent, wheu variety as well as beanty is 
desired, the following are varieties that possess 
characters rendering their introduction requisite, 
viz., the Tartarian, on account of the early open¬ 
ing of its leaves. The Striped-barked, because of 
the stripes, white and black, upon its young, 
green wood, making it always a curiosity and 
attractive to visitors. The Norway, from its 
Contrast with others iu spring and fall, the 
foliage then being yellow, is deserving a place. 
Next to the Norway, and similar to it, is the 
Sycamore Maple, a variety of rapid growth, and 
forming at maturity a large and stately tree. As 
an avenue tree, or standing by itself singly, it is 
always effective. Of the fancy varieties, the 
Purpurea is the only one that is particularly 
Valuable Strawberry Patch.— Dr. Abbott of 
Centralin, (ID.,) mentions an acquaintance, residing 
near that place, who fruited the last season nine acres 
of strawberries, ne expended in grounds and prepa¬ 
rations $2,MX, and sold berries and plants to the 
amount of $7,881.57. Tho plants remaining ou hand 
were worth, at the rate the others sold for, $2,000, 
making a total product of $9,281.57, or over $1,000 
per acre. 
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wood on special terms, l'lie usual stock of Grape Vine* 
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Grafting Wax— Scions.— Tallow, resin and bees¬ 
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to make the wax softer, are the ingredients of graft¬ 
ing wax. Melt them together and then work it with 
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wint er; they should be cut before the sap starts in the 
least. Keep them in fine soil iu Uie cellar till wanted 
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wood. Soil with a mixture of clay in it is excellent. 
Facts About Pear Blight.—J. V., Elba, Genesee 
Co., N. Y., writes us that he had seventy-four trees, 
part of which stood on sod ground and part on culti¬ 
vated. The blight struck alike on sod and cultivated 
ground and in two years nearly every tree was dead. 
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