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The first year's growth should not be cut, 
but after the second year’s growth, some 
time between October and March, they 
should be cut as near the ground as possible. 
This crop is worth but little, except to make 
cuttings for a new plantation ; but after this, 
a valuable crop may be cut every year be¬ 
tween December and March, — February 
being the best month, if the weather is not. 
too cold and the snow is not too deep. No 
injury will occur to the roots if the crop is 
secured before the warm days in March start 
the circulation of sap. The canes should 
be bound in bundles of about fifty pounds 
each, and set in three or four inches of 
water. Some time in May it will be found 
the bark will peel off very easily. They 
should then be stripped and sent to market. 
until an area around the house, of a propel 
grade, was produced, on which proper roads 
walks and other necessary features of deco 
ration could he located, the cost of vvhicli 
was more than three hundred fold grcatei 
than the same grading would have been be¬ 
fore the building was erected. 
soapsuds. They are healthy and free from in¬ 
sects. Mr. Carpenter says orchurdlsts have 
learned that red clover has no deleterious effect 
upon orchard trees, while timothy has. A learned 
Professor erected himself at this point, and pro¬ 
ceeded to tell the world the news that New Jer¬ 
sey heat the world iu the production of corn 
according to statistics; and that New Jersey 
(glorious .Statu 1.) used manure; and t hat the time 
might «poedtly come, under t he benign teachings 
of the learned Farmers' Club of New York, when 
Illinois (benighted land!) would learn to utilize 
her manures and become prosperous and happy 
This delightful speech opened the wisdom flood¬ 
gate of tlie Club, and the learned Professors, 
Doctors and Doetresses declaimed garulously 
against the way they do things out West de¬ 
nounced the shiftlessness of Western farmers 
generally, and displayed their own ignorance of 
Western matters particularly. 
Farmer's Club Corn. The proprietor of this 
sweet corn sol t-soaped tlie Chib Into si r. ne good 
nature, assuming all the responsibility of nam¬ 
ing his bantling after so distinguished a body of 
men, nnd jinking wliyit was not as proper as tha t 
he should name his boy afterGEORGi: W.tsnr.NO- 
ton. The learned Club saw tin- point and sub¬ 
sided. A rousing good advertisement of his corn 
was carefully pumped into dilute the soap of 
his communication. 
tipontuncuuH Combustion of Ilav 
isntssions 
NEW TORE FARMERS’ CLUB. 
i- nut In Wisconsin. - A gentleman from Mil- 
ton Junction, Wig., talked, in a general way of 
truit in that State. He said the great lesson 
learned there in fruit growing is that winter pro- 
teeliou Is absolutely essential to the safety of 
fruit culture. This protection is secured by 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
In Connection With Rural Architecture.—I. 
BY J, AVTLKINSON. 
The arts of landscape gardening and rural 
architecture, although, they are distinct, are 
in practice almost inseparable, as each is 
dependent on tlie other in securing the 
highest degree of perfection in either. The 
design and execution in either of these 
branches may be ever so perfect, the effect is 
in a great degree lost if there is a want of 
fitness or congruily and harmony In the 
whole composition. This principle is alike 
applicable to a city residence with a yard of 
the smallest area, the suburban cottage with 
sufficient to secure a fair degree of privacy, 
or the more pretending country seat of many 
acres extent, with its large mansion, conser¬ 
vatory, vineries, extensive, stabling, summer¬ 
houses, prospect towers, rookeries, winding 
European Larch.— A Minnesota correspondent 
asks: “ Will jt. stand our Minnesota winters? Is 
it an evergreen or a deciduous tree?” It will 
stand the Minnesota winters, we think, nnd it is 
a deciduous tree—and a very valuable one for 
the prairies, being a very rapid grower, and 
making excellent timber for farm purposes. 
atiirsrapt fearbrntig 
mm clung. Mulch with .straw or coarse litter. 
Some <>r our farmers mulch with Norway oat 
Straw, which grain, by the way Is dubbed a hum¬ 
bug by some of our growers. The apples recom¬ 
mended for general cultivation are Duchess of 
Olden burgh, Fannsuse, lted Astraohan, English 
Golden Russotand Te l man Sweet. These are the 
tl\ e best hardy and reliable varieties. Some, one 
naked about the Rhode rsland dreimjng but was 
informed it would not stand th deli mate; nor the 
Northern Spy except In the oak Openings where 
there is timber protection atul a attlTor soil than 
on the prairie. Another asked why mulching 
was necessary. The reply was to prevent tin- 
sap from starting in winter ami thus prevent 
RURAL HOME DECORATION. 
BY F. R. ELLIOTT. 
In the fitting of one’s home grounds, the 
comfort of their possession should, among 
other things, be duly considered. It is a 
very annoying thing, while showing a friend 
around, to have that friend, when feeling a 
little fatigued, -<tek some resting place, and 
lie not ready to lead him or her to a seat. 
This feeling of weariness oft detracts from 
due appreciation of view; it lessens our 
own enjoyment alw, and humbles us, as 
it were, because or our knowledge of the 
want of forethought in preparing for a case 
liable to occur daily. And yet how few are 
the, grounds iu which seals are distributed, 
inviting to repose and enjoyment, I think 
I may safely say that not one in ten has any 
place of rest, except it be in some secluded 
nook or in a confined summerhouse. 
•A Mr. Petit 
sends the Club a sample of hay taken from a 
mow which seemed completely uharred, and 
smelled like tobacco. It Is oh!elly clover. He 
asks if spontaneous combustion will mailt from 
storing hay green. The Club's Client leal Profes¬ 
sor says t hut spontaneous combustion eon only 
result when air h;is access to the heated hay; if 
atria excluded decomposition results, as iu this 
ease, but no combustion occurs. Mr. Peters 
lints hay in I he bam as nearly at one time as he 
can, aud, if green, covers it with a layer of dry 
straw to absorb the moisture resulting from 
evaporation, Mr. I'.wii-kvtek does not believe 
that luty will injure If it has not been wet after 
cutting, if put no green. The natural juices of 
Lhc grasses will not. affect Its quality untUvor- 
nlily nor Its keeping. Tight, burns are preferable 
to open ones; aud after the hay is put In they 
should he kept, shut, .Some of the monition* re¬ 
commended tho use of suit on hay; others de¬ 
nounced It as III! Injury to stock- especially to 
sheep fed on hay so salted. There was a radical 
difference of opinion on this subject. 
Prof, (imiigcc writes 
Propagating Evergreen. — We have about a 
score of Inquiries asking for directions for prop¬ 
agating evergreens from seed. Will some of our 
readers having practical experience furnish us 
au article in response? 
loricnllnrf 
ii. in unuuumui viuohoi Eastern tender varie¬ 
ties have been tried. We bury all vines in win ■ 
ter. They are first covered with earth and then 
with lilter. The earth covering alone does 
not protect them from a premature starting 
ol the buds in spring. All grape vines oov 
erod with earth alone were injured and lost 
Inst winter. Corn stalks, straw and any coarse 
litter answers. 
Mr. Caiu-enter called attention to tho fact 
that, the gentleman had named some of the best 
varieties of apples for this section. Fameuse, 
Duchess of Oldenburg and Tuhnan Sweet un* all 
profitable; the Astmehan is superceded by the 
Summer Queen. 
Camilla Thistle*. Mr.V ANDENTJERQ writes that, 
he gets rid of Ibis post by seeding his ground 
heavily in red clover—one peek of seed to the 
acre, cutting It when it blossoms for liny, and 
allowing il to grow an after crop and mature its 
send. In this way bo runs out the thistle after 
two or three years. 
*!'»w to Cue Coal.—s, C. Smith of Chemung 
Co., N. Y„ says farmers in t hat county who have 
cut off their timber will soon be compelled to 
burn coal, and ho and his neighbors desire to 
know how it is used, and the best mode of using 
il,&0. He calls himself nnd his neighbors “old 
fogies,” and wants more light. 
The question was turned over to the Polytech¬ 
nic department of tho Institute by President 
Key for answer. 
Difference Between u Squash amt a Pumpkin.— 
Mr, C. B. Ely of Philadelphia, asks Hie Club 
todellne the difference between u squash and a 
pumpkin. Dr. I Iex amer says there Is no botan¬ 
ical distinction. Thestem of the squash is round ; 
Unit of tho pumpkin angular. Many of the so- 
called squashes aro really pumpkins. 
Fruit from California.—A California agricul¬ 
tural paper was handed the President, who read 
a story of pota toes of marvelous size and length, 
and the announcement that California fruit 
growers are making preparations to ship their 
wonderful fruits to Eastern markets as soon as 
the Pacific Railroad is completed. 
Plastic til ate for Roofing.—Somebody sought 
to adverti. e this roofing substance through the 
agency of the Club; but for some unaccounta¬ 
ble reason this philanthropic body refused to 
perform tho duties of agent for the roofing 
Hie Club to express his 
obligations for the publlQily given to a former 
letter of his, bj menus of which ho had been 
Putin possession of very important facts rela¬ 
tive to the lung diseases of cattle in this country. 
A now disease has recently made its appearance 
to which his attention had been called from va¬ 
rious quarters. It is, says, identical with 
wliut is known in England a-, .stomach staggers. 
It is ft form of indigestion. Tho preventive con¬ 
sists in a change of diet; flic remedy is two 
drachms of ginger in warm water. Vu.v com¬ 
munications relative to cattle diseases of vluit- 
evor character addressed to John Ga.moke 
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.,' 
will bo used by him for tho public benefit. Ho 
writes that Gee. C.uutON, Commissioner, is fully 
alive, to the importance of investigating these 
cattle diseases, and prescribing preventives and 
remedies therefor. 
A Trace Fastener, — s. c. Hawkins, an In¬ 
ventive Long Islander,exhibits a new trace fas¬ 
tener, designed to lake the place ol' buckles or 
tugs and thus add to the durability of the la t ter 
and increase tho ease of adjustment, lie was 
given all needed opportunity to grind his ax. 
This adjustment, will increase the cost of a har¬ 
ness about five dollars over those using the com¬ 
mon buckle. 
A Pulverizing Hui row, —There is such a thing 
as gratitude, however slow it may be in devel¬ 
oping. Prof, f rane had received, two years 
ago, a pulverizing Implement, and lie wanted a 
chance to advertise its merits, lie got the 
chance. He said it wus a “ six .shooter ” at kill¬ 
ing weeds. It never clogs. It operates upon 
much the same principle as Shark's harrow, 
except that instead ol' sleds the cultivators are 
be gained, and which, if modeled after by 
some of our rose growers, might be of great 
service to the public. 
I do not want to occupy space, but per¬ 
haps the following sensible remarks from his 
catalogue are applicable“ The New Hy¬ 
brid perpetual roses, annually sent out by the 
French florists, make up a long list of names; 
out of these, as a rule, but very few prove 
worthy ol attention; the greater portion are 
different shades of crimson—seedlings raised 
from General Jacqueminot — and fatiguing 
Irom their sameness of color. Among them 
all, there is notone equal to Cluvrle* Lefebvre." 
Wc are yearly asked to buy new roses, and 
we do so, with results about as stated, viz: 
We find them extremely alike and only to be 
distinguished by a florist who has made the 
matter a daily study. 
In Rivers’ catalogue there is also a little 
paragraph relative to roses worked on the 
Manetti stock, which, although not new, de¬ 
serves to be yearly brought, to the mind of 
all rose growers. It is “Roses on the Ha¬ 
noi ti stock only flourish when the stock is 
completely covered. The.soil in which they 
are to be planted should be stirred two feet 
in depth and the roses planted so that the 
earth is one inch above the. junction of the bud 
with the stock. They are not, then liable to 
put forth suckers, and will grow finely in the 
stillest clay and the lightest sand.” 
In the catalogue list of roses the new sorts 
worthy of purchase and introduction by 
amateur rose growers, or the people at large, 
are designated by italics, while the best of 
the old sorts are indicated by a star; and as 
each rose has a description of color and form 
attached, the novice iu rose growing can 
readily select without liability of assimi¬ 
lating in color or risk of buying a rose under 
a new name to find it all unworthy. 
F, R. E. 
-4-*~*- 
Keeping Bulb* and Tubers Through the 
Winter.— A correspondent of the Rural World, 
after severe losses, has experimented in this mat¬ 
ter. He buried in sand, in a cellar free from 
frosts, dahlia and gladioli, and also placed a like 
quantity of the same in barrels, as he would po¬ 
tatoes, with ventilation at the bottom, and set 
the same on hanging shelves in the cellar. AU 
came out in good condition In the Spring. Not 
onein one thousand wag lost. Those in sand 
were very much Bprouted and made splendid 
early-flowering plants. He is satisfied that if 
almost, all tender bulbs and tubers are not kent 
must always be borne in mind, namely, that 
the buildings are to be viewed as belonging to 
the grounds, and the grounds to the build¬ 
ings. The writer has thoroughly established 
tlie correctness of his position, by an expe¬ 
rience of a quarter of a century, that these 
arts, generally considered distinct, are so 
nearly allied that the highest degree of per¬ 
fection is not attainable in uniting them 
unless the whole design has its origin in the 
same mind. 
This conviction has been arrived at by the 
comparison of those places on which he has 
supplied every feature of decoration and im¬ 
provement himself, with those where he lias 
been called to execute the work of land¬ 
scaping, after the buildings had been located 
and erected, in which the architect and 
builder had never considered a feature be¬ 
yond the bounds actually occupied by the 
building. A most striking case of this kind 
occurred some four years since by the writer 
being called to decorate the grounds around 
a new brick mansion of liberal dimensions, 
and a corresponding area in the grounds, 
which the architect had perched upon the 
crest of a high, steep mound, descending 
every way from the summit, which was 
graded into a plateau of an area 
scarcely twice that occupied by 
4 '*a. the house. The building was not 
more than two hundred fed, from 
$Vw' 14 '* the highway, and the slope of the 
kf'^ s site terminated at the side of the 
road, at a point opposite the 
house, which happened to he the 
most feasible point for tlie entrance 
gate. From this point to tlie building tlie 
rise was about ten feet to the hundred—a 
grade entirely too heavy for any wagon 
road—and the plateau around the building, 
on all sides, scarcely wide enough to admit 
of constructing a safe carriage wav: and vet 
SEAT AT RASE Ojf TREE. 
A seat at the base of an old tree, as here 
represented, is easily made, and adds greatly 
to one’s comfort at times, especially if the 
tree is at the end of a long walk or furnishes 
a fine shade in a warm dav. 
RUSTIC BRIDGE. 
A little thing often marks a place for good 
or bad, and so the gateway that separates 
the lawn from the vegetable garden is some¬ 
times rude in its design, made by the car¬ 
penter at considerable expense, when the 
owner himself could have built it and pro¬ 
duced a better effect. I offer the design 
herewith as an illustration. 
Again, there is often some little brook to 
cross, ami I suggest, if tlie little rustic bridge 
herewith illustrated, made by springing poles 
and fastening the ends, is not prettier than one 
of planks, however white it may be painted. 
Flower* Desirable for Fragrance.—For I 
ranee, nothing equals tlie- Mignonette S 
Alyssum, Sweet Pea, Erysimum and Stocks 
