There are many persons who are so partial to poultry as to make their fowls the first and the garden the second consideration, letting their young chickens have free range amongst their plants; and others who, without making any pretension to having a garden at all, are glad to grow a few plants in the poultry run. 1 have always been in one or other of these lists, therefore I have some experience as to what may be grown without injury, where there are fowls.

Supposing the garden is rather confined in space, and the birds have not free range over the adjoining fields, it will be requisite to grow some green food for them to pick at. Nothing answers this purpose better than some plant of the Cabbage tribe, - as Kale, Sprouts, etc., which may cither be sown or transplanted for their use; they are so fond of these plants, that it is useless to attempt to grow them for any other purpose where fowls have access.

Provided a supply of such green food as they like is prepared for them, I have found that the following plants may be grown without being the least injured: - Jerusalem Artichoke, Potato, Broad Beans, Rhubarb, Parsnip, Carrot, Parsley, and most other potherbs; Scarlet Runners and French Beans, at least until the seeds ripen; Vegetable Marrow and Pumpkin, the plants being preserved from injury by a coop over them in their earliest stages; Onions, Lettuce, Turnips, etc.

Bush fruit suffers considerably from fowls, - Currants, Raspberries and Gooseberries particularly. Strawberries are destroyed by being scratched over for insects; but fruit trees generally flourish luxuriantly; and I recollect, in several bad apple seasons, noting that the apple trees in the poultry run were always the most productive of any in the neighborhood.

Of course, these remarks, as to the plants that are not injured by fowls, apply only to those cases in which the birds are freely supplied with food; for if kept in a state of semi-starvation, they devour turnips, beans, and many other things they will not touch if well fed.

I have now sixty Game Bantam chickens, of this year, running in my garden, and four old birds, and 1 cannot perceive that any of the plants in my first list have suffered injury.

I would wish it, however, to be understood, that I am not advocating, as a general rule, the introduction of poultry into gardens, but merely stating what plants can be safely grown where such arrangement is unavoidable.

W. B. Tegetmeiar.