Length Of Thread In Silk Worm Cocoons

According to the statement of C. V. Riley, St. Louis, the length of the thread in the cocoon of a mulberry silk worm is generally 1,000 yards, and a mile of it weighs 15½ grains. •

Lenoir, Long, Devereux, And Thurmond

Under the above- names, grapes much resembling, in character, Herbement, are grown in the Southern States, and we have kitchen considered them synonymous of it; but all our Southern friends claim that Lenoir is a distinct variety, and much earlier than any of the others, and also, at least, that some of the others are distinct. The matter is now under investigation, and we must wait the result before deriding." By a eurious coinoidence, the ad interim Report from Georgia, and Mr. Downing's book, reached our table on the same day.

The Lentiscus-Leaved Weeping Ash. Lentiscifolia Pendula

A tree of later introduction than the two preceding. Equally rapid in its growth, but with branches more slender and graceful. It is much the most beautiful in appearance, but in some locations is not perfectly hardy, losing occasional branches, which destroy its symmetry. There are two other varieties of Weeping Ash, viz., the Gold-Striped Bark Weeping, with variegated foliage, and the Weeping Black, with very dark-green foliage. We have never seen either of them of any size, and therefore can not speak of their values.

Lepere's Method Of Cultivating And Pruning The Peach

We commence in the present number the publication of a treatise by M. Lepere, translated for the London Hori-Society's Journal, describing his system of managing the Peach tree. It will not, we are aware, be of general interest to cultivators in this country, where the peach is cultivated only, or principally, as an open ground standard tree. There are, however, a few exceptions. In some parts of the North the culture of peaches and nectarines in houses and on walls is attracting attention; and the explanation of the principles on which Lepere's system of pruning and management depends, must be instructive to every one who cultivates the peach in any form, or under any circumstances: for the habits of growth and bearing are always the same.

The Lesson Of The Garden

A garden is a beautiful book, writ by the finger of God; every flower and every leaf is a letter. You have only to learn them - and he is a dunce who cannot, if he will, do that - and join them, and then go on reading and reading, and you will find yourself carried away from the earth' to the skies by the beautiful story you are going through. You do not know what beautiful thoughts - for they are nothing short - grow out of the ground, and seem to talk to man. And then there are some flowers, they always seem to me like over-dutiful children: tend them ever so little, and they come up and flourish, and show, as I may say, their bright and happy, faces to you. - Ibid.

I say, Mick, what sort of potatoes are those you are planting?" "Raw ones, to be sure - your honor wouldn't be thinking I would plant boiled ones".

A drinking man bad a loose potatile look. It was plain, said a wag, that his face, like hot house fruit, had ripened under a glass!