In the list of new vegetables for the year we notice this bean, but cannot vouch for its goodness as a vegetable, but must say the plant is worth growing for the beauty of its pods, which are more than a foot long, containing a dozen or more beans, which are quite large and pure white. The name has been used before for a branching "Navy." - Queens.

FIG. I. HEAD OF GARDEN MARKER.

A Home-made Garden Marker. For the beam or head (Fig. 1) I use 1½x2 in., and 4 ft. 2 in. long, plowing a groove ½X½ in. in the lower side. I then bore ½-in. holes every 2 in., beginning 2 in. from the end. The teeth (Fig. 2) are made of oak, from a stick like the beam, with a tenon 2 in. wide by ½ in. high and 3/8 in. long. Two inches below this tenon or shoulder, I mortise in a nut to take the joint-bolt, which is inserted through the beam to hold the tooth This joint-bolt (Fig. 3) is 5 in. long, 3/8 in. diameter, and pointed, with a thread turned on the lower end. The hole in which this bolt lies should be ½ in., to allow of easy transference. The lower end of the tooth is sharpened somewhat like a double mould plow. For handles I use two rake bandies about 5 ft. long, which are fastened in the head between the bolt holes. The teeth can be adjusted to any distance in a very short time, and the implement is a useful and durable one. The rings on the top of the joint-bolt allow it to be turned with a stick when a wrench is not handy. - John Jbannin, Jr.

Fig. 2.

Fig. 3.

Some Persona May Think that flowers are things of no use; that they are nonsensical things. The same may be, and, perhaps, with more reason, said of pictures. An Italian, while he gives his fortune for a pict-ure, will laugh to scorn a Hollander, who leaves a tulip-root as a fortune to his son. For my part, as a thing to keep and not to see; as a thing the possession of which is to give me pleasure, I hesitate not for a moment to prefer the plant of a fine carnation to a gold watch set with diamonds. - William Cobbett.

The First Tree of the new Idaho pear in Rhode Island was, through the good offices of J. £. Lester, Esq., planted upon the grounds of the experiment station at Kingston, R. I.