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VOL. XXVTIT. No. 23. I 
WHOLE No. 1215. ) 
PRICE SIX CENTP. 
S 2.50 PEIl YEAR. fc_ 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the 
year 1373, by D. D. T. MOORS, in the office of the Librarian of ('■ ingress, at Washington.) 
ment entirely in the leaves, branches and worms, sluf, 
roots. It promoted the growth of the entire culturist as 
tree. Suckers which sometimes grew up at staut. We 
the side of a tree were out away. These trees hazardous t 
were some five and six years old, and were a source of 
transplanted because they were too thick many insta 
whom the orchard was originally set out. damages of 
The beautiful deep-green foliage, the ver- Ontario, N 
dant branches and the vigorous stocks of our Who will 
orchards flatter us that we will yet “ roll in — 
luxury” with fruit. They are both standard EEMI 
and dwarf. We are not troubled with leaf 
TRANSPLANTING TREES, 
In a late number of Moore’s Rural New- 
Yorker appears the question, “How are 
the trees doing that you transplanted last 
spring ?” "We answer for ours that they are 
doing well. The season has been u ufavora- 
hle, generally speaking, for the removal of 
trees from one place to another. Neighbors 
tell us of many failures in transplanting, 
especially pear trees. We, however, dug 
early in the season the holes for our trees. 
A JAPANESE CONIFER, 
TREES AS HISTORIANS OP THE PAST 
M. Charles Gros has recently communi¬ 
cated a note to the French Academy of Sci¬ 
ences on the study of the yearly rings shown 
when the trunk of a tree is transversely di¬ 
vided. These layers, by which, as is well 
known, the age of the tree may be deter¬ 
mined, do not diminish in relative thickness 
by a constant law. In view of this, M. Gros 
seeks a cause for the irregularity, and, it 
seems, has arrived at the conclusion that the 
data, mean and extreme, of meteorological 
phenomena, when kuowu and tabulated, 
might be compared year by year with the 
annual ligneous layers formed during such 
periods in many different varieties of trees. 
From the comparison it is not im¬ 
possible that some interesting ideas rela¬ 
tive to the laws of development oi’ trees 
may be obtained. But, more¬ 
over, these laws once et *f. -■ 
tablished, the trees in thei -- 
turn might become preoioi: 
collections of meteorologies : Q 
evidence for places and tim< j gp g Bgfey : ~ - 
where observations cannot b ' ' 
made. Ira Mondes suggesi 1 
rather a striking example t 
what might be learned froi -• 
ancient trees, as followsSuj 
pose that there should be fount 
in Egypt a very old though li\ Hpy jF 
mg tree, the origin of which pUSS 
dated back to the time o' 
Joseph. If, on cutting th< 
trunk, the rings corre&pondin; i. _ 
to that period showed sevei |r|. 
thick and seven thin layers • 1 
there would be tangible evi 7 ; I !' s, ‘*'3§ 
dence of the truth of the Scrip : 'h,j gp? ) C 
tural tradition of the seven g g"_ 
years of plenty and seven year^ 
of famine, besides of the im- [ jB£le£="g|g 
mediate causes ox humidity. 
temperature, etc,, to which 
such phenomena might be due. 
~ * 716 m Switzerland .—There is 
n wondrous ebarm about tli.se illimitable 
(erosts ul PUK. wlUch tor miles „„d mite 
clothe the huge buttresses of the Alus The 
charm is intensified at early morning, wheil 
a dehexous fragrance steals up from innum¬ 
erable wild lowers in the various openh^ 
among the trees and (Tom the green moss 
which clothes with such velvet softness the 
rocks lying half hidden in the rich verdure. 
" ’ n i - j — V arie g*ted lichens enrich with 
PS@§i| the colors of the kaleidoscope 
i 2g§| • Lhcse roc k« and river-stumps ; 
wild strawberries peep out wit h 
S ■ : -■ their P retfc y pi«k eyes from the 
- •• shady grass, and if we chance 
11 . . j tu loot upward from the wealth 
, * ,Je : ult y below through the 
-J rifta ijj the dark foliage over- 
head > s «me pinnacle of snow is 
l 8een soa ri«8T into the deep-blue 
s ky, as soft, and white, and still 
- y- as w ing of a sleeping swan. 
Library of Woods .—A cul- 
:*fgg§ig4 ous library may be seen at Cas- 
*®1» Germany made from 501) 
European trees. The back of 
'r ja\Tj each Volume is f,, rmed of the 
’* • _S bark ; the sides of the perfect 
jj -wood ; the top of young wood ; 
-j- and the bottom of old wood. 
,2 1 When opened, the book is found 
: ' to ,J0 a ljox «°ntafning the flow- 
-j er, seed, fruit and leaves of the 
tree > either dried or imitated 
in wax. 
