We have recommended various plants and trees for hedge purposes, and have often found cases where profit from the fruit was sought to be connected with the usefulness and beauty of the screen in the growth of a hedge. To this end, we have tried the Angers quince, and successfully. It is vigorous in growth; has short stout thorns; and the more it is clipped, apparently the more vigorous and beautiful it becomes. Its fruit is similar to that of the orange quince; and in our little experience the clipped plants have borne more abundantly and earlier than our orchard standards. It is certainly worth trying, and especially do we think so in locations where the soil is of a heavy clay nature, and not well drained.

Hanging baskets serve, at this season, to add cheerfulness and pleasure to the family sitting-room. They are so easily made, or so cheaply purchased, that we wonder any home room can be called complete without one. A simple way of making a right pretty hanging basket is to take an ordinary wooden bowl, about eight inches in diameter at top; gather a few pine cones, acorns, horse chestnut seeds, shells, etc., and fasten them to the bottom of the dish, either by brad nails, or cement glue; then plant one or two small twining climbers in the bowl, embedded in moss and a little soil, and the addition of strings of green or red cord to suspend it with, and the basket is complete. Moistening the moss once each day will keep it fresh, and the vines healthy. In a future number we shall give some illustrations of hanging baskets, with more definite instructions how to make them.

Poultry keepers should not forget that the eggs and chickens are not the only benefits obtained from their keep. The droppings from a poultry roost are equal to the best guano; and every grower of roses or turnips, lilies or celery, should be careful to clean up their poultry roosting-room from day to day, depositing the gatherings in a barrel or box, with a sprinkling of plaster of paris. In the spring work, this resource of manure will be found in almost daily request.

Early peas, early carrots, radishes, and the like, we have grown finely and satisfactorily by digging trenches in light dry soil, of about one foot deep, and the same width, depositing in them about eight inches in depth of fresh horse stable manure, then covering a little soil, sowing or dropping our seed, and covering as usual in practice. If we have on hand some old spare window sashes, their use laid over the trench serves partially to hasten the germination of the seeds. Of course, this will not give as early results as a complete hot-bed; but in its absence, it is a step ahead of the natural course of vegetation.