MOOBE 
5 BUBAL NEW-YORKER. 
them, almost an impossibility ; for to culti¬ 
vate a plant and prepare it for exhibition it 
must receive its full share of air, light, heat 1 
and space, which can never be given with 
any respect for the tasteful arrangement of 
a conservatory. For instance. Camellias, 
Roses, Pelargoniums, Hyacinths, Heliotropes, 
and Orange trees may well be, for a time, 
exhibited together in a beautifully-arranged 
group ; but they can never be successfully 
cultivated together in the same conservatory. 
From this fact it follows that an “eminent 
amateur,” conceiving the idea of having a 
“flue big conservatory” built, must first be 
willing to have some small, simple, low span- 
roofed houses erected, such as our profession¬ 
al florists and nurserymen use, to rear and 
develop the specimens for the ultimate deco¬ 
ration of the conservatory. 
This may assume one of two, however 
widely differing, characters. One is, to have 
it form part of the residence, a kind of hail, 
in which also statuary, a fountain or two, 
and other plastic objects might find a place. 
In this case its outlines, its proportions and 
general design will of course be purely archi¬ 
tectural, and the arrangement of the plants 
be a mere decorative accessory to the former. 
A conservatory of that description may be of 
very moderate dimensions and still add con¬ 
siderably to the charms of an already luxuri¬ 
ously embellished residence. The other class, 
however, would not form an integral part of 
“the house,” but be merely connected with 
it; and while the former would be more ap¬ 
propriately called a floral hall, the latter 
would rather represent a 
WINTER-GARDEN 
While in the former plants and flowers are 
subservient to architecture, sculpture and 
general design, they reign supreme in this. 
The superstructure, i. e. the roof—and such a 
thing is nothing but roof—ought to be of the 
lightest and simplest construction, without 
any attempt at architectural effect. Even 
the carpenter will do well to keep his un¬ 
meaning, light stealing and insect-harboring 
moldings out. Nothing, in short, that might 
divert the visitor’s attention from the scene 
on the ground, which is to represent a pure 
abstract form of nature, though somewhat 
modified, ought to bo tolerated. Therefore 
is the heating apparatus also hidden from 
view, ami the diversified ground covered with 
a green-sward of Lycopodiums and other low 
or creeping plants ; also rocks judiciously in 
terspersed, not large-sized paving stones, 
heaped into that stupid thing truly misnamed 
" rock-work.” The plants put in singly or in 
natural clumps, more or less densely grouped 
together, and at the same time, as far as prac¬ 
ticable, their natural associations, their geo¬ 
graphical and local (topographical) habita¬ 
tions taken into account. 
For example, the characteristic African 
Euphorbia must not be mixod up with the 
exclusive American Cactus; nor the Asiatic 
Camellia and Orange tree with the Ameri¬ 
can Yucca, Agave, etc.; nor the Calla JEthi- 
opica surrounded with Acacias or Carnations. 
Plants must not be deprived of their natural 
habit by pinching, twisting round wire forms 
or a number of sticks, or being tied upright 
to some support, when their natural habit is 
to creep on the ground, overhang rocks or 
steep earth banks. The rocks to be selected 
must be such as a painter will not object to, 
if requested to copy a successfully-composed 
group. Most objectionable are slags from 
foundries, or tufa, both of which appear as 
if they had been afflicted with the small-pox, 
which is about all the supposed “ pictureeque- 
ness ” about them. Instead of a paltry squirt, 
pretending the name and dignity of a foun¬ 
tain, have an artificial, though natural-look¬ 
ing spring, forming a diminutive brook or 
rivulet, and Anally a little pond in which in 
due season may’ be exhibited those lovely 
Egyptian water lilies, that wonderful Mada- 
gascarian skeleton plant., Uviandra fenes- 
trata; or, if the extent of the conservatory 
will admit of it, the queen of the water lilies, 
the Victoria Regina. 
These few remarks may' suffice for the 
present to give a general idea of what is 
meant by a “ garden under glass,” or winter- 
garden, the maintenance of which will un¬ 
doubtedly be a rich source of real and noble 
enjoyment, to a thinking mind and a true 
friend of nature, science and art. F. w. p. 
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DRAINING A STABLE. 
J. N. T., Sharon, Pa., is informed that if 
there is not fall enough from his stable to 
take the water off by digging a ditch—or two 
or three of them—under the stable floor, three 
feet deep, we would sink a well or cistern some 
distance from the barn and run the drains 
into it. We have seen stables so drained, 
the leakings of the stable thus being saved 
for use as manure on garden or other crops ., 
rdficld (ttrojis. 
PROTECTING WINTER WHEAT. 
I saw a request in the Rural New-Y orxer 
that some one would state, from a practical 
knowledge, the benefit and best mode of ma¬ 
nuring and protecting wheat from Winter or 
Spring-killing. My experience shows me that 
you may r protect wheat by’ sowing oats with 
your wheat in September, or spread straw on 
the wheat before it. comes up ; or spread it 
on late after the ground freezes up, or in the 
Winter, when there is noenow on the ground; 
but you will receive the best results from 
yard manure (if rather course) spread on the 
wheat before it comes up. When the wheat 
begins to show itself, stoj >. If you should have 
a part of your wheat uncovered, ns soon as 
the ground freezes (aud some snow will do no 
hurt) spread on us before. 
1 had four acres of flat land, rather heavy’; 
but being flat and wet, it would heave bad in 
the Spring und the wheat would die out. The 
last crop I had on that piece I spread yard 
manure on about hall of the piece before the 
wheat came up. 1 resumed the spreading 
again as above-stated, and covered the bal¬ 
ance of the piece, except about two rods wide 
through the center of it; the result, was sat¬ 
isfactory'. If there was any' difference in the 
early and late spreading, it was • in favor of 
the early spreading ; but both were excellent. 
I threw my cradle on the wheat in a good 
many places, und it did not go to the ground. 
The strip through the center, that had no 
manure, was mere nothing, a little wheat and 
a fair crop of chess. 
Now, Mr. Editor, should you have doubts 
in regard to this statement, your doubts may 
be removed by try ing one load on your wheat; 
don’t put it on the best ground but give a 
fair show, I receive the best results from top- 
dressing of any crop, even onions. 
1 will mention one more transaction (as 
some may be benefited) in a parallel case : 
My neighbor drew a stack of straw on his 
summer fallow with a view of plowing it in. 
He commenced, but soon ended with some 
swearing and a match, which soon made clean 
work. The result was remarkable. Where 
the straw was spread and burned, the wheat 
was heavy. One foot from where the fire 
run, the wheat was not more than half the 
growth of the other. This was all heavy land. 
My opinion is, that people that sow ashes wi th 
poor results, get too much of the good thing ; 
what say you, Mr. Editor. [We did not know 
any one sowed ashes with poor results.— Eds.] 
Canastota, N. Y. E. Band. 
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SWEET POTATO VINES FOR STOCK. 
A Mississippi correspondent of Our Home 
Journal says:—“As the general opinion in 
regard to the curing of the sweet potato vine 
for hay, or feed for stock, is that they have 
to be dried on a fence or rack, and not on the 
ground, please permit me to give my mode of 
curing the vines. 
“After u good frost, or at the proper dig- 
ing time, I go over the field with a sharp hoe 
and cut the vines loose on the top of each 
row ; put a good, stout horse or mule to a 
turn-plow, and let him walk in the furrow, 
gathering all the vines I can on the plow; 
drive to the end of the row, empty my load 
and return to the same furrow until 1 have 
obtained all the vines, and so on until the field 
is gone over. Shake out. the vines and spread 
them evenly on the ground ; turn them over 
once a day, and if you have good sun you 
can take them in on the third day, or they 
may’ remain out until the fourth day, then 
house them. Milch cows will give more and 
richer milk fed upon well cured potato vines 
than they’ will fed upon the same bulk of the 
best crab-grass hay. 
“ I have cured vines in this way, and my 
cows did eat them as well, if not better, than 
they’ did the best farm gross hay. 
“ Let some of your readers try it, and I do 
not think they will plow in the vines to rot, 
again. If the vines are cut from the potatoes 
before the frost descends to the tubers, there 
is but little danger from the frost (the vine 
being cut even with the ground, or still better, 
a little below the surface).” 
POTATOES IN ST. LAWRENCE CO., N. Y. 
A correspondent of the N. Y. Times says : 
I find the Peerless potato yields a heavy crop 
here, but is of inferior quality. As we feed 
very few roots of any kind to stock, that po 
| tato which is best for the table, and product¬ 
ive withal, is with us the most popular. Con¬ 
sequently the Peerless is no longer sought, for. 
The Harlson also, for the same reason, has 
run out. The varieties tested, and almost 
everywhere hereabouts approved, are the 
Early Rose and the White and Red Peach 
Blow. These seem peculiarly adapted to the 
soil and climate of the West, the yield being 
large and the quality good. That y’our 
Western readers may’ have the means of 
comparing notes with us, 1 transcribe the 
following farm memoranda now before us : 
18?J—Oct. 6, finished digging potatoes. 
Early Rose, a bushel to.18 hills. 
White Peach Blow, a bushel to......I8tf hills. 
Had Pen.cn Blow, a bushel to...U hills. 
Harlson, u hash el to.....UK hills. 
1872—Oct, 12, finished digging potatoes. 
Karty Hose, a bushel to....8 Hills. 
Peerless n bushel to.10K hills. 
White I'e-ich Blow, a bushel to.10 hill*. 
Red Pee.cn Blow, a bushel to.11 hills. 
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GUANO IN TOBACCO CULTURE. 
A Missouri correspondent say's of the ad¬ 
vantages of using guano in tobacco culture in 
Missouri i—Wc are prepared to recommend 
guano in the culture of tobacco in Missouri, 
to remedy the disadvantage of our climate 
and season, for these reasons :—First, it is a 
stimulant to the soil, warms it as any other 
manure, and in a multiplied ratio, as its 
strength surpasses all other manures ; it also 
supplies the young plant with proper nour¬ 
ishment, and also enables the young plant 
to feed from the soil by permeating the entire 
hill, preparing and assimilating the necessary 
properties of the soil to the sustenance and 
rapid growth of the plants, which, aided by 
the June and July suns, brings forward the 
plants to early maturity, well ripened, beau 
tifully yellowed and of good size. Second, it 
gives uniformity; with a little judgment exer¬ 
cised in topping, it will ripen together. 
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WHITE AUSTRALIAN CORN. 
A correspondent of the Western Farmer, 
at Baraboo, Wis., says :—I obtained a quarter 
of a pound of seed, but gave a little of that to 
some neighbors and planted the balance on 
moderately good ground, but badly shaded 
and on uneven ground. The next day after it 
was planted there fell a very heavy rain and 
washed out considerable of it, so I do not 
suppose over three-fourths of it come up. It 
had but very poor attention and consequently 
I had not as large a yield a? I might have hud, 
but the yield was very satisfactory. 1 hud 
about COO pounds in the ear from leas than a 
quarter of a pound of seed I planted two 
grains to the hill, four feet apart one way and 
about two the other way. 1 had u good 
many stalks that bore six tolerably good ears, 
and scarcely any stalks with less than two 
ears. I think it the best corn for fodder that 
I know of. 
ENGLISH POTATOES EXEMPT FROM 
DISEASE. 
Tue Garden (London) says :—Potatoes least 
affected by the disease in Cambridgeshire are 
Myatt’s Ash-leaf Kidney and Rivers’s Royal 
Ash-leaf Kidney. These have gelded crops 
containing full 90 per cent,, of good, sound 
? oca toes, and very tine samples as to size. 
he Nonpareil Kidney has also yielded satis¬ 
factorily, the crop being prolific, and the 
effect of the disease positively insignificant. 
Among the round kinds of Potato the Rock 
has produced good crops, and with but only 
a small share of disease in many instances. 
All other kinds of potatoes planted for use in 
Winter, whether kidney or round, have been 
an utter failure. 
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VITALITY OF WHEAT. 
An Illin ois correspondent of the German¬ 
town ’Telegraph asserts, giving details, that a 
smoke-house was built in Eastern Pennsyl¬ 
vania in 1790; that during the past season, in 
repairing the building, a head of wheat w&s 
found embedded in the cap of the gable; that 
five of the grains thus found were planted, 
and four of them grew “in bare ground/’ 
after having been embedded in mortar 82 
years! Now where is the enterprising seeds¬ 
man who will get hold of this wheat and 
bring it, out as a new variety ? 
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SILVER-HULL BUCKWHEAT. 
A Jackson Co., Iowa, correspondent of the 
Department of Agriculture says this variety 
of buckwheat sent out by the Department 
“has proved to be wonderful—seven pounds 
of seeu yielding thirty-five bushels of beauti¬ 
ful buckwheat, the weight of which is consid¬ 
erably greater than that of the kind ordinari¬ 
ly sown here.” Who of our readers got any 
of that buckwheat and can tell the Rural 
New-Yorker any tiling about its merits? 
! finin'- 'iicnl. 
CHANGING SEED POTATOES. 
In answer to a correspondent, the Cottage 
Gardener says Every fourth or fifth year 
we consider it desirable to have a change of 
seed potatoes ; but if you change the ground 
repeatedly, and that very considerably , you 
will gain tittle, if anything, by ft change of 
seed, for you obtain the benefit of it annually, 
though not to such an extent as if you were 
to have fresh seed from a distance. 
KIDNEY WORMS AND CARBOLIC ACID. 
— 
On the 20th day of February last, I noticed 
that one of my hogs {a large Chester White 
sow) was a little weak in the back. On ex¬ 
amining her I found that it was with great 
difficulty that she raised her fore feet in try¬ 
ing to walk. As I have had very little expe¬ 
rience in raising hogs, I at once consulted a 
number of my neighbors. They all pro¬ 
nounced it kidney worm, and of course each 
had a remedy. Some prescribed soap sud9, 
others weak lye, copperas, blue vitriol, tur¬ 
pentine, etc. I gave each a fair trial with no 
good result, and on the 20th of March she laid 
flat on her side, unable to turn over, and had 
not been on her feet for more than ten days, 
when my father, Dr. Brown, handed me a 
bottle of carbolic acid and told me to use It as 
follows Ten drops once a day in drink, then 
put thirty drops in one gill of hot vinegar and 
bathe the back over the kidneys once a day. 
I gave her the first dose on Thursday, March 
21st. On Sunday, the 24th, when 1 went out 
to feed she raised to her feet and took two or 
three steps to meet mo. By Saturday, the 
30th, she was as well and sound as ever. 
The same remedy is equally good in treat¬ 
ing mange. First wash the hog well with 
soap suds ; then to one pint of lard while hot, 
add one ounce of carbolic acid, stirring it un¬ 
til it is cool. Rub the hog two or three times 
with this and give yourself no uneasiness 
about the mange. Which is the best food for 
sows while raising pigs, ground corn or oats ? 
How old should pigs be to wean and do well 
without milk ?— American Farm Journal 
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PIGS SCOURING. 
W hat is the cause of my pigs scouring and 
wliat can I do to cure them ? They have 
been scouring by times, and aflout two weeks 
ago the small one of the litter died ; now an¬ 
other one is dead, and they keep scouring. 
They have a warm place to sleep in, and run 
out and go where they please. Age, two 
months ; feed, new milk ; sour milk that has 
not had the cream taken off; soulded corn 
meal, and plenty of charcoal. Of late I give 
them nothing but dry corn and water. Gave 
them salt, etc. Tried to keep them well,' and 
us 1 kept others that weighed 200 pounds at 
five months old. I never had other pngs that 
acted in the same way these do. Pigs weaned 
five weeks old.— Jefferson W inship, Butler 
Co., Neb., Jan. 27. 
One of our correspondents has recommend¬ 
ed strong coffee, rnude as for breakfast, only 
a little stronger, fed to the pigs. Another 
has saved pigs so affected by feeding black¬ 
berry root tea. 
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HOW TO HANG A HOG EASILY. 
A Western farmer writes the Tribune: 
Take the hind wheels of a wagon, with the 
reach in ; take a ladder about ten feet long ; 
let one end extend about two feet out behind 
the wheels; tie it with a rope to the axletreo 
and reach ; back the wheels up to the butch¬ 
ering platform, draw the hog onto the ladder 
head foremost, letting the hind parts of the 
hog reach as far back as the ends of the lad¬ 
der. and letting the hog lie on his back; then 
wheel him to the hanging-pole, lower the end 
of the reach, let ting his legs go each side of 
the hanging-pole, putting the other end of the 
gambrel in its proper place ; raise up the for¬ 
ward end of the reach, letting the hog slide 
down the ladder; remove the wheels, and 
you will find that the thing is done with very 
little lifting. 
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PNEUMONIA IN PIGS- 
For this disease a writer in the Prairie 
Farmer recommends to give fifteen drops of 
extract of gelsemium, morning, noon and 
evening, until febrile symptoms disappear. 
Infl amma tion of the lungs of pigs runs its 
course rapidly, and may be considered as a 
disease generally fatal, if not taken in hand 
as soon as the first symptoms appear, such as 
line d, laborious breathing, shivering, loss of 
appetite, cough, etc. Half an ounce of hypo¬ 
sulphite of soda, or two drams of saltpeter, 
should be given in a little gruel every morn¬ 
ing, and the animal kept warm, dry and 
comfortable: with access to green food, apples, 
cabbage, carrots, etc., and fresh, cold water. 
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KIDNEY WORMS-REMEDY. 
A correspondent of the American Farm 
Journal says -.—Put the diseased hog in a pen 
bv itself. The pen should be warm and fur- 
1 mslied with plenty of good, dry straw. Give 
a dram of pulverized indigo in a bran mash 
each day until it affords relief. It generally 
effects a cure in a week or ten days. 
