Transplanting Strawberries

A good deal of care must be observed in transplanting strawberries. The ground should be well worked, all lumps should be pulverized, and the soil rich. The strawberries for garden culture should be in rows eighteen inches apart, and the hills a foot. The roots of the vines must be covered with fine soil, and after planted it is desirable that the rows should be mulched with straw, leaves, or litter. The runners should be cut, and the vines be contained in hills as much as possible. The mulching will have tendency to keep the ground moist.

Transportation Of Seeds

Experiments on the transportation of seeds by ocean currents have been made recently by M. Thuret, at Antibes, a town in the south of France, near Nice. Only two kinds of bare seeds would float, out of the two hundred and fifty one kinds which were tested. M. Thuret also immersed twenty-four species of seeds in sea-water, to ascertain its effect upon their vitality. After one year's immersion, three of them germinated as well as dry seeds.

Uses of Humble - bees humble - bees are needed in New Zealand to fertilise the red clover which has been introduced into the colony. It is proposed to import nests of them from England, using ice to keep them dormant during the voyage.

Transportation Of Trees

Tour suggestions are excellent, and if space permitted we should insert your letter entire. The evils of delay are becom. ing intolerable. A movement is on foot here to effect some arrangement that will at least lessen the difficulties. We shall give notice of it in our next number. We have a mass of letters before us, on this subject, showing that there exists no little solicitude in regard to it. We trust that railroad directors will hereafter class living trees and plants among "perishable articles," and forward them with the same promptness and dispatch.

Trarsplanting

A Vermont Subscriber. You would have saved all your trees if you had headed-them-in well when you planted them. It is folly to expect to maintain a large head, when the roots have been mutilated and cut short. If it were made a rule in moving trees, always to reduce the last year's growth to one bud, half the failures in transplanting would not occur - because the head and the roots would be at once brought to something like a balance of power. Shortening-in and mulching transplanted trees ought to be followed as established practical rules, in this climate, in transplanting every deciduous tree needing more care than a willow.

Travel

All who have experienced the true pleasures of traveling abroad, must also hare a keen perception of the gratifications of returning home. These will appreciate the just remark of a modern essayist, who says:

"Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home"

Courtesy. In our next number we shall publish an article on " Horticultural Courtesy,"