Cost And Profits Of An Apple Orchard

A. Preble, of Lincoln Co., Maine, makes the following estimate, which will be nearly correct in all good apple regions, allowing for some variation in prices:

One hundred trees planted on an acre of land will cost, on an average, $25- The land should be kept in a state of cultivation whilst the trees are coming into bearing. About $25 expended in care and labor, besides the crops taken from the land, will bring them into a bearing state. When an acre of trees is in its prime it will average 400 bushels per annum, provided the land is kept rich and loose, and the trees well managed. Average price, 66 cents per bushel. Our surplus apples are valuable for all kinds of stock. particularly to winter store-hogs. Sweet apples are worth about as much as potatoes.

The Cost Of Shade Trees In Paris

A Paris journal states that the annual cost of securing shade trees, flowers, and rare plants for the parks and public walks of Paris is as follows: Bois de Boulogne, keeping, 387,000 francs; Bois de Vincennes, keeping, 270,340 francs; squares, 545,220 francs; cost of plants, flowers, etc., 40,000 francs; expenses of the houses, 12,000 francs. Total, 1,253,560 francs, or $250,000.

Cotoneaster

Dwarf shrubs of procumbent habit, much used in covering rockwork or low walls; small foliage; white flowers, succeeded by scarlet berries, that are as brilliant as garnets during winter.

Cotoneaster #1

The cotoneaster is a family of plants that for rock-work and positions where they were not exposed to the south, we have found in use very attractive and effective.

There are three or four varieties, all with white flowers, and all of a low, rather pendant and creeping habit, and their use should be more generally adopted, especially in rock-work, or as undergrowth in shaded situations.

Cotoneaster Fontanesii

A handsome shrub, with oval leaves and numerous small white flowers, which are succeeded by spherical-shaped fruit of a coral-red color (Revue Horticole, 1867). The cotoneasters are very pretty shrubs, with small but numerous flowers. A number of the species are evergreen in the Northern States, while the deciduous varieties retain their leaves until quite late in the autumn. Most of the species and varieties are readily propagated by ripe wood cuttings, taken off in the fall, and preserved in sand or moss during the winter.

Cottage Life

"How I should like," said Grattan, one day, to Rogers, "to spend my whole life in a small, neat cottage! I could be content with very little; I should need only cold meat, and bread, and beer, and plenty of claret." The idea of a well of Bordeaux, in place of the "Willowy brook that turns a mill," is capital and characteristic.

Cottage Stable

Below is the design for & cottage stable, in a very compact and economical form, and jet with not an unattractive exterior. It is 18 feet by 22 feet on the ground. The posts to be 13 feet high. The roof a right angle, projecting the walls one foot The boarding to be put on perpendicularly, with close joints, and battened. A cellar beneath the whole.