Transformed Pears

What will they do next out on the Mississippi 1 I hare seen the prairie plum turn its young fruits into a sort of nodule, as they grew through the summer, something like the galls on the oak-leaf; but this is a new thing altogether.

Translations From The German

Some valuable translations from German periodicals, shared the fate of Calla's questions and answers, retry much to our disappointment. We hope to hear from the translator again.

Transparent White

(Blanche.) Large sweet, superior to White Dutch; transparent and very mild. Messrs. Barry, Saul, and Berckmans: Identical with White Grape.

Transplanting Beets

H. A. Tripp, Maine, writes the New York Tribune: - Seeing some inquiry about the transplanting of beets. I will give my method, which has never failed with me, nor within my knowledge. Make a hole in the ground two or three inches deep, fill it with water (if cold all the better), put the beet into it as far as you wish it to go, then fill in with dirt, pressing it firmly around the plant. That is all; so much and no more. This method might be too expensive and slow where the plants were started in a hot-bed; but where they are sowed in the bed in which they are to grow, I know of no way so good. I have transplanted them in this manner in a clear, hot, sunshiny day, with no loss. A garden trowel is the best tool to use in transplanting. I prefer to have the plants from two to four inches in height at the time. Last year I transplanted cabbages in the same manner that were not over two inches in height, and did not lose one.

Transplanting Evergreens

(D. E. G., Haviland Hollow, N. Y.)

We prefer the spring for all, when the ground is dry and warm, and the season of growth near at hand. The "Common Wood Laurel," by which we suppose you mean the Kalmia, can be transplanted very well. Ton will see some hints respecting it in our last volume.

Scions or trees of the American Weeping Willow can be had in most of the nurseries now.

Transplanting Evergreens. - Evergreen Hedges

A correspondent of the Boston Cultivator describes the hedges of J. W. Manning of Reading, Mass., consisting of Norway spruce, arbor vitae, white pine and hemlock; but for beauty the hemlock stands unrivalled. This correspondent has found that a slight cutting in of the branches once a year keeps them in handsome shape. He removes the trees from the borders of pastures where they grow, when about a foot high, with a good ball of earth. Our own experience is, in transplanting young hemlocks from natural localities, that if a good ball of earth is taken with the roots they invariably live; if the roots are denuded they invariably die. We have found the same result with the white pine. The hemlock (as well as the Norway spruce) will grow better in shade than most trees, and hence the reason that the interior of the hedge is dense with foliage, giving the screens a fine, rich, compact appearance. -Country Gentleman.

Transplanting Raspberries And Blackberries

For the past two years we have annually planted out Raspberry and Blackberry plants in this month, July. We prepare our ground, and then go to the rows from which to remove the plants, having a tub or pail with a little muddy water in it, dig our plants, they being the half-grown ones of this year, pinch off the ends about two inches, set the roots into our pail of muddy water, and from that to their permanent position. We do not often lose a plant, and next season we get a fan* crop of fruit.