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[Young rook3 usually establish themselves where they were 
hatched; and where they were not allowed to be killed they have 
been kno wn to build as many as six-and-twenty nests in one tree. 
So close were many of them as actually to touch each other.] 
MANAGEMENT OF A LARGE TRANSPLANTED YEW. 
“I beg to ask your opinion about a recently-removed Yew tree, 
which my worthy master had planted in his garden in October last, 
in memory of a deceased friend. It stands about fifteen feet in 
height, with good side-branches in proportion ; and was conveyed 
about half a mile with a pretty good ball of earth to its roots, 
and was stayed with three pieces of wire as soon as planted. It 
looked very well until the cold cutting winds made it turn very 
brown the latter end of March. I have been told it would die by 
several persons; including practical men : but, thanks to the 
invaluable information I have received from time to time by 
reading The Cottage Gardener, I went silently to work, and 
gave it a good syringing twice a-day ever since it began to look 
half dead ; and the result is I am now rewarded by seeing it push 
out new buds, which I consider are sure signs of life, and that 
the sap is in action.”—R. A., A Constant Subscriber. 
[You have done wisely. It is not at the roots that well-planted 
trees require assistance at first, so much as over the surface of the 
leaves and bark, to keep them fresh and free from perspiring too 
much. But as soon as fresh growth comes see that the roots are 
constantly supplied with water, to enable them to make up for 
the reduction of their numbers caused by transplanting.] 
A HOMELY FUMIGATING CONTEIYANCE. 
The present being said to be the age of utility and economy, 
or, in some eases, both united, the inventive genius of our machine 
makers seems to know no bounds to which their various con- | 
trivanoes are made available to lessen human labour. In the 
gardening way we have our full share of mechanical apparatus, J 
which are set to perform the duties before done either by hand ' 
or by some rougher contrivance. Not the least important of 
these are the fumigators offered to our use (I wish they would also 
multiply the materials with which the fumigation is made as 
well). Some years ago there was much contention amongst 
garden mechanics as to which could produce the best fumigator; 
while, more recently, we are told an ingenious friend to the gar¬ 
dening world has set his fumigating apparatus going by clock¬ 
work, which, no doubt, is very good; but I fear many enthu¬ 
siastic horticulturists will have to sigh in vain for this novel 
contrivance, and adopt some homely makeshift to perform the 
duties this singular piece of mechanism does itself. Those whose 
means fall short of their wishes will be obliged to do so. It is, j 
therefore, to the humblest of these that I now beg to describe a 
very homely way of fumigating effectually the smallest structure, 
or, it might be, a large one, as the case may be. I believe I once 
before explained it in The Cottage Gardener, but it may be 
excusable to repeat it. 
Supposing a common one, two, or three-light frame requires 
fumigating, the bed or floor of which is not more than eighteen 
inches from the glass, clear a space in the front about eighteen 
inches square; procure a piece of iron, or a blue slate will do, 
which prop up on inverted pots, or something of that kind, as 
near the glass as convenient, leaving space underneath for a fivc- 
inoh flower-pot. Int(j the bottom of this pot put an inch, or 
more, of sand, sufficient to steady a small piece of tallow candle 
about an inch long. This done, get a piece of old, small wire, 
bend it and crush it in the hand until it become an entangled 
mass about half the size of a cricket-hull. Ibis, being lathei 
flattened, is to be put into the flower-pot to keep the tobacco 
from resting on, and putting out, the candle. Nothing more is to 
be done but to light the candle, put on the wire, and over that 
the tobacco. The wire not being more than half an inch, or so, 
in thickness, so as not to keep the tobacco at too great a distance 
from the candle. To create a quicker combustion I have often 
put in a few small pieces of split deal, which, burning quickly, 
speedily envelope everything in as dense a smoke as is consistent 
with their welfare. In fact, tho contrivance admits of the fumi¬ 
gation being done either quickly or slowly and gradually. To 
the cottager who has only a few plants in his window, it they 
could be set out of doors some mild clay, and some homely 
framework of sticks set over them, on which to rest a sheet or 
other covering, the fumigation could be performed in the same 
manner. Care being taken to moderate tlie quantity of smoke to 
the wants of the plants, and net to overdo them. A very little 
practice will enable any one to manage this. 
The advantages of the above plan over the old-fashioned way 
of putting a few hot cinders ill a pan or flower-pots are obvious. 
The cinders are detrimental to vegetation; besides which they 
speedily get cool, and are useless, and fumigation can only he 
prolonged a certain time with them. On the other hand, a small 
piece of candle will burn fifteen minutes ; or if it be necessary to 
have a thick, black smoke immediately, it is only to put on some 
small sticks, and the candle being below them prevents their being 
smothered out by the damp tobacco. Although the candle will 
melt and run amongst the sand, it generally burns all away for 
all that, and but rarely requires any attention. 
While on this subject I may mention that my opinion is, that 
a quick combustion of the tobacco is the most effectual way of 
destroying the fly where the plants will bear it. A quick com¬ 
bustion is also the more economical; for if the tobacco be too 
slowly consumed, its smoke escapes nearly as fast as it is pro¬ 
duced through the various interstices which all hothouses have. 
But I must not here advocate an indiscriminate use of thick, 
black smoke, which would be all but fatal to some plants ; hut 
when smoke is not accompanied with heat, or with those noxious 
gases emitted by charcoal or coke (which it often is where the 
fashionable fumigators are used), I believe that many plants will 
bear a large proportion of fair tobacco smoke. Nevertheless, it 
is advisable' for the inexperienced to err on the safe side ; and it is 
better to repeat the smoking several times than injure valuable 
plants. To the amateur who is obliged to crowd so many things 
into his only house, where he al;o expects to have a few Grapes, 
I would advise him to be particularly careful not to fumigate 
strongly, or he will injure what is generally the pride of Grape 
growers, “ the large leaves of their Vines,” and then we all know 
when once hurt they cannot bo replaced during the season. 
Melons and Cucumbers are also impatient of much smoke ; 
but if the first appearance of fly be met by a slight smoking, 
and that repeated the following evening, or the one after that, 
the evil may be, in a great measure, prevented ; which in this 
case, as in many others, is much better than cure.—J. Robson. 
FRUITS ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES OE GREAT BRITAIN. 
(Continued from page 126.) 
NECTARINES. 
Fairchild’s. —Fruit small, round, slightly flattened 
at the top. Slim yellowish-green, bright red next the 
sun. Flesh yellow to the stone, dry, and sweet. Stone 
nearly smooth. Flowers large. Glands kidney-shaped. 
Ripens in the beginning and middle of August; hut it is 
of little merit, its only recommendation being its earliness. 
Flanders. See White. 
French Newington. See Old Newington. 
Golden (Orange ).— Fruit medium sized, roundish- 
ovate. Skin fine' waxen yellow in the shade, and bright 
scarlet, streaked with red, where exposed. Flesh yellow, 
adhering to the stone, juicy, and sweet. Flowers small. 
Glands kidney-shaped. Early in September. 
Grosse Violette Hative. See Violette Grosse. 
Hampton Court. See Violette Native. *r 
Hardwicke Seedling. — Fruit very large, almost 
round, and sometimes inclining to oval. Skin pale green 
! on the shaded side, entirely covered with dark purplish- 
red next the sun. Flesh greenish, with a tinge of red 
next the stone, melting, juicy, rich, and highly flavoured. 
Glands none. Flowers large. Ripens in the middle and 
end of August. 
This was raised from the Elruge at Hardwicke House, 
near Bury St. Edmunds, and is one of the hardiest and 
most prolific of nectarines. 
Hunt’s Tawny ( Hunt's Early Tawny) — Fruit rather 
below medium size, roundish-ovate, narrow towards the 
