Trees for Poor Soil

Arbor. We know of nothing that will do so well on your dry, gravelly hills, as the European Larch and the Norway Spruce. If you want a great number, you had better import plants a foot or eighteen inches high, from the English nurseries. They may be had for a few dollars per 1,000.

Trees For The Sea-Coast

The following are recommended, in the Gardeners1 Chronicle, as suitable trees to plant near the sea-coast: Yew, Sycamore, Holly, Evergreen and Lucombe Oak, Spanish Chestnut, English and Turkey Oak, Elm, White Poplar; and, for shrubs, Aucuba, Tamarisk, Pontic Azalea, Hydrangea, Arbutus, Sweet Bay, the China Roses, Cotoneaster, etc.

Trees In Illinois

J. T. little, of North Dixon, Illinois, sends us a neat descriptive catalogue of his nursery trees and shrubs, bulbs, etc. The fruit department is very full, embracing sixty thousand trees; but of evergreens, one of the great wants of that State, four varieties only are enumerated. Send at once, Mr. Little, to Liverpool or Angers, and get out some thousands. Dixon, we remember, as a most happy, thriving place.

Trees Of California

THE following, the latest account of the trees of this region, is from the letters of Horace Greeley, to the Tribune. Though entirely unscientific, it is worth preserving in these pages. The enormous age of the "big trees" is discredited by the observations of Dr. Gray, as our readers will recollect.

Trees To Plant

If you are designing to plant out any trees the coming fall or spring, now is the time to watch the fruits as they ripen, and make your notes of those you think desirable. Early in September make up your list and send it to the nurseryman, for all honest dealers execute their orders in rotation as received, . and those first received are most likely to be filled with the best trees. .:

Trek Seeds

G. C. Merrifield, (Mishawa-ka, Ia.) Seeds of Pines, Hemlock, and most other coniferous trees, should be gathered in autumn; but many of them do not drop the seeds from the cones till spring, and may therefore be gathered soon. If the cones will not open readily, lay them before the fire for an hour or two. Mix the seeds with sand, if you cannot plant them at once. As soon as the spring opens, make a bed on the north side of a fence, where it will be shaded the greatest part of the day; the bed should be composed of one-third sand. one-third good loam and one-third to prevent the young seedlings from dying off. We think it doubtful if yon could procure these tree seeds now: the only dealers that we know are Buist of Philadelphia and Thorburn of N. Y., and as they collect native seeds chiefly for exportation, they usually ship all they have before this time. Foreign evergreen tree seeds are not, to our knowledge, kept for sale here.

Trellis For Tomatoes

Over each hill of tomatoes place a four-square frame made as follows: Let the upright pieces be about two and a-half feet high, one inch square. Select three pieces of lath one foot to one and a-half long and nail cross ways. One across the top of the upright sticks and the others at distances of nine inches below. Place this over the hill before the plant has grown a foot high, and train the stems upon the lateral supports; thus the fruit is kept from the ground and will double in size and perfection of quality.