Goliath

An extra strong growing variety; the flowers, when first opened, are of a brilliant carmine, gradually changing to orange red, frequently mottled with very soft rose.

Good Bedding-Out Plants

Besides those already given in the above answers, you may try Aaclepias curasivica, orange; Pentas carnea, pink; Neirembergia gracilis, white; Ruellia formosa, scarlet; Plumbago oopensis, lead; P. larpentae, blue; Horseshoe geraniums, scarlet or white; Rose-scented geraniums, pink; Heliotropes and Verbenas.

A Good Beginning. Trees On The Illinois Railroad

Dr. Egan, of Chicago, Illinois, has made a contract with the Illinois Central Railroad, to plant three rows of Locust trees on each side of the road for the distance of one hundred and twenty miles south of Chicago. The rows are to be set five feet apart, and the trees about three feet from each other.

A Good Flower For Garden Borders

Dr. McCarthy, in an essay read before the same society, recommends the old fashioned double May pink as the best border to beds in which bulbs are planted. Its firm roots keep the margin well defined; its dwarf habit and bright evergreen foliage make it beautiful throughout the year, while its rich profusion of lovely flowers and its unrivaled fragrance, coming as they do, just as the perfume of the hyacinth, and the radiant glory of the tulip are departing, make it in the highest degree desirable.

A Good Peach Crop

John Horsey, of Sussex County, Delaware, has an orchard of 100 peach trees (set out in the fall of 1868), from which he picked and delivered this season 460 crates of excellent peaches, realizing $1.30 per crate (purchasers finding the crates), or a total of $598 from a single acre.

A Good Protection Against Mice

Take common horse shoe tile, set two of them around the tree, so that the edges will meet, wrap them with twine to keep them in place; let them set close around the body of the tree, sinking the ends slightly into the earth, and the mice are nonplused completely. They can be applied any time, even after snow has fallen.

A Good Time Coming For Nurserymen

Front all we can learn, there is a prospect of an extensive trade in all kinds of nursery stock the coming fall season, and those who are prepared to supply the demand, and have notified the public of their ability to do so, may hope to be well remunerated.

A Good Wash For Fruit-Trees

C. C. Cooley writes The Country Gentleman of what he thinks the best wash for trees to be found in the world. "Take sal soda, which can be had at retail at from three to six cents per pouud; place it in a skillet on the fire. It will soon go to what seems to be water, evaporate, and leave a white powder. Keep it on the fire till it becomes a light brown, when it is done. Use a fourth of a pound, or, if the trees are much covered with moss, or are very dirty, use half a pound to the gallon of water. Wash the trunk and large limbs using a sponge or cloth. It can be used at any season of the year. I prefer the winter. This wash will not injure the foliage of the most delicate plant. Iu a few weeks after using, the trees will look as clean and sleek as though they had been varnished, and the trees will astonish you by their growth and healthy appearance.

"1 consider this the best, as well as the cheapest, wash for trees in the world."