The Farm

The Country Gentleman ofters the following sensible suggestions in regard to planting trees for ornamental purposes: In planting, do not plant largegrovying trees whero those of smaller growth would be more appropriate, or where they would not eventually havo full room for development. Do not dot them all over your garden, but confine them to the places where you especialiy want largo trees to grow, and if your garden be small, keep them toward the outer edge of your lot, rather than in the middle of it. An open, unbroken lawn is one of the prettiest features of a garden, and where there are young folks who wish to play croquet, it is one of the pleasantest; therefore do not mar it by planting trees or bushes, or cutting out flower-beds on it. You can have clumps of shrubs, or specimen trees, at the corners, if taste allows it, and you have room for and wish it; and of ten, under similar circumstances, shrubbery and trees may tina a piace around it. In the forest the survival of { the fittest is the law of nature, and j thick planting yielda uslong, clean ( ber and bare bean poles; but that is , not what we want in our gardens. Hcre j we wish our trees to assumo their most ( elegant f orms and beautif ui proportions. , and while, in coniferous trees at any rate, we court straight sterns from the base to the apex, we also desire their well-clothed, wide-spreading branches unrestricted from the ground upward; therefore avoid thick planting in your o-arden. True, from the niiddle of a shrubbery-bed a clean-stemmed thorn, ginko, or other handsome deciduous "tree may arise witb good grace, but never an evergreen conifer. Shrubbery hke mock oranges, deutzias, azaleas and retinosporas may be plantod in clumps in large or smail plats, and, indeed, often with better effect and more appropriate than when teolated. In grouping shrubs, an effort should be made not to mix up the evergreeens, such as juiiipers, retinosporas and rhododendrons, with the deciduous ones iike aluionds and spirrcas, but keep both sets entirely apart," and each kind in the set as much together as possible. For example, it is unbecoming in a bed of evergreens to mix your arbor vitass with your kalmias, or your hydrangeas and snowballs in a bed of deciduous shrubs. But in the latter case lilacs, Siberian pea trees, and the other larger shrubs may occupy the middle or back of the clumps, and the lesser shrubs, Iike forsythias, weigelas and deutzias be planted in front of thmn Do not have them a miscellaneous jumblo, but keep all the spirreas as much together as you Clin; Lllti SililJc vviLU líic uj.uti.i.A, " thffift, and all the rest of them. Toward the outer edge of the shrubbery clumps such pretty little plants as Azalea mollis, mezereon, Daphne cneorum, Calluna vulgaris, Labrador tea, New Jersey sand myrtle and Andromeda speciosa are very effective, and if you wish to finish off with an edging there is nothing better than the green or vanegated Euonymus radicans, which is hardier than box, a ready and neat gruwor, and can be pruned into an edging only a few inclies high. I prefer having azaleas, rhododendrons, Japanese ruaples, and other of tho finer and neater shrtibs in beds by themselves as you would havo roses, and thcn they can be better attended to in the way of summer or winter mulehino- or shading in winter, than when groupedwith other shrubs. In large gardens even the largest trees may be "rmiped with admirable taste, but here again eacli kind should be by itself. For instance, a clump of beeches here, one of oaks there, another of hemlocks, or birches or pines, &C, elsewhere. A noteworthy exnniple of the beauties of tree-grouping may be seen in Spring Grove Cetnetery. near Cincinnati. Indeed this cemeery,on account of its parklike landscape, boautiful trees and shrnbs, and well arranged anddisposed grounds of the same, together with the absence of all glaring and unnatural parapherrialia, hideous curbstones and stupicl iron railings, and the other senseless things so often seen within cemetery fences, is rcgarded as the most exemplary graveyard anywhere, andl am informed that it is in a financia! sense the most prospevous. This is mostly due to its practical landscape-gardener nnnarintfitideht. Mr.Strauch. The groups of shrubs in the gardens of the Agricultural Department at Washington affords a notable example of grouping the different varieties of one species, or the different species of one genus, or the different genera of a family together. Of Interest to Farmers. The Irish harvest for 1882 is $30,000,000 less thiui that of 1881. America produces about oue-fourth of the wheat grown in the world. The evaporation of sweet corn ises to become an important mdustry. The total flaxsocd erop of 1882, of the western and north western states, has been estimated at about 7,500,000 bushelí. Tho reaping maehine came into practical use about the year 1853, and the self-binder made its lirst good record m 1876. Dr. Sturtevant says that potash, whether in the shape of wood ashes or in the form of sulphate or muriato, is a special fertilizer for meions. The English Agricultural Gazettc notes that the cows in dairies for the London milk trade inherit some Shorthorn blood "in 89 cases out of 100. The Scotch, always a thrifty race, are investing largelv in American cattle ranchos During 1882 ten large ranches for herding cattle wcre bought by Scotchmen. Europo has just produced a erop of boet-root sugar estimated attwo milhon tons. Two-thirds of all the sugar consumcd in European coun'aries is produced fr m the sugar beet. A jorrespondentof the New England Fatï 'er asserts that where the land is new and rich in mineral elementa there need be no fcar of black knot in plum and cherry trees. The United States has in round numbers 38,000,000 cattle, 10,500,000 horses, 30 000,000 sheep and 48,000,000 swine, flrst in cattle and swine, second in horses and fourth in sheep. None of tho tuberous rooted grasses, like timothy, are suitable to permanent pastures. They can not stand close cropping nor constant tramping. Pasture ffrasses must be íiberous and rooted varieties. As eonimon red clover matures its seed npon second growlli, failure niay succeed bccause of draught, insects, or becauiethe lirst growth was not enough to perrnit the second to ripen its seeds perfectly. Horticulturisls want a peach a3 early as the Alexandcr.with the lleïh separatino- freely f rom the stone, but none sueh islnown. All the earliest, although with meltiog flesh, adhere to the stone. They are melters, not pavies. Thcre is no reason why farmers should not be the kindest and most culitvatod of men. There is nothing in the flelde to make men cross, cruel, and crabbed. To look upon the sunny slopes covered does not tend to make men uujust. Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves, elevates himself. no matter whether he works in the dark and dreary shops, or in the perfumed fields. ïo work for others as, ia reality, the only way in whioh a man ean work for himse'f. Seltishness is ignorance. Speculators can not make unless somebody loses. In the realm of spsaulation, "every success has at least one vietini. The harvcst résped by the farmers benefits all and injures none. For him to succeed it is not necessary that some one should fail. The same is true of all producers, and of all laborera. I can imagine no condition that carries with it such a promise of joy as that oí the farmer in the early winter. He has his cellar filled, he has made every preparation for the days of snovv and storm, he looks forward to three months of ease and rest; to thrce months offlreside and content; three months with wife and children; three months of long, delightful evenings; three months of home; three months of solid comfort. - Bobert O. Ingersoll.