The Western Pomologist

This is now changed from a quarto to an octavo, and price increased from $1 to $1.50 per year. The January number contains some very excellent contributions from distinguished horticulturists.

The Western Pomologist And Gardener

The consolidation of these two, has been to the mutual advantage of each - and the improvement of literary character. The June No. is much the best yet issued.

Whale Oil Soap

A subscriber requests to be informed where whale oil soap can be procured, and at what price. It is kept for sale by most seedsmen, and also by the principal druggists, and at some groceries. The price is eight cents per pound.

What A Difference

With the mercury running down in these "diggins " (Des Moines) 15 to 25 below zero, in came the following note from Brenham, Texas, under date of January 20. "Quince cuttings put out about one month ago, have now roots two inches long, and rose cuttings about the same. Hyacinths, croons, etc., are coming out, and still we are having a hard cold winter for Texas How will this compare with Iowa? "

What Is Exhibited And Reported

We think every one who reads the following paragraph in a New York daily paper, respecting the horticultural exhibition in that city, must have been at least amused that the reporter should find se little else of interest to himself as to be obliged to say: -

"Among the.audlence, we noticed the Rev. Dre. chapin and Osgood; also, Ker. Mr. Roach, of the Allen Street Methodist Episcopal Church, who has lately settled in this city, and has the reputation, among the members of that church, of being as polished an orator as the other two distinguished divines".

We congratulate the Rev. Mr. Roach upon his reputation, but the bathos is nevertheless peculiarly racy, equalling anything on record in horticultural reports.

What Is High Culture For Dwarf Pears?

What is high culture in its application to dwarf Pears on Quince, on a soil of dry loam of fair depth, free from clay, with a coarse grevel subsoil? A short reply will much oblige - A Subscriber. - Oxford, Mass.

A good fop dressing of say three or four inches deep of compost every autumn, and a light mulching of decayed leaves or some other such substance during summer. To this add regular and judicious pruning, and your dwarf Pears will meet all reasonable expectations, if not far exceed them.

A Railboad has dug a deep cut through some property of mine, and every winter and spring a foot or more of my upland falls down into the gulph, to my great loss. Can you inform me what is the best plant to hold it up, having Interlacing, powerful roots, etc. J.

A great many people experience such a difficulty now-a-days. Will some one who has experience in such matters, answer!

What Is The Most Suitable Age For Planting Fruit-Trees?

Mr. Hodge. Peach, 1 year from bud. Would give more for a yearling than for one 2 or 3 years old. Cherry, 2 years from bud, and only 4 to 6 feet high. Pear - dwarf, 2 years from bud. Standard, 4 to 6 feet high. Apple, 3 to 4 years from graft, about 6 feet high. In small trees we are apt to get all the fibres, the spongioles, which do the real nourishing to the roots and tree.

J. J. Thomas. Peach-trees will bear cutting back better than most other fruits. They have a great power of reproducing shoots. If thoroughly cut back you may remove even a large peach-tree.

H. N. Langworthy. Danger in buying peach-trees older than one year, that you get the peach-borer brought. Never saw the borer in a yearling tree, and if you have not got them you need not have them, only don't buy trees with them in.