Best adorned yard, Horticultural colored plates, $4 00. Best garden, Horticultural colored plates, $4 00.

The Garden #1

No land pays a higher rate of interest than the humble, despised garden. - The quantity of vegetables which it can be made to produce, almost exceeds belief; and farmers may well open their eyes, when told that under good management two acres of a garden will be more profitable than twenty acres of a farm, as it is usually conducted. In the vicinity of cities and large towns, the raising of vegetables for market is conducted on a large scale, and is very lucrative, and even the poor man can, by his own labors at odd times secure an abundance of food for his family, which is as good as money saved, as well as earned.

Gardens #2

Lnther Tucker. chairman. B. T. C ashman; Troy, and C. P. Williams, Albany.

Flowers

Sanford Howard, Albany, chairman. E. N. Pratt, Greenbush; J. McD. Mc-Intyre, Albany: £. Corning,jr., Albany; A. March, M. D., Albany.

Gardens #3

At the late meeting of the British Association, Mr. Ward urged the importance of cultivating a taste for legitimate horticultural pursuits among the members of the laboring population, as it was a well-established fact, that whenever a pink, or a carnation, or a rose was seen outside a cottage, there was a potato or a cabbage for the pot within; that if there were not happiness, there was the nearest approach to it in this world, content:

Yes, in a poor man's garden grow.

Far more than herbs and flowers, - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,

And joy for weary hours.

The Garden #4

A Pocket Manual of Horticulture; or How to Cultivate Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers; Structure and Growth of Plants; Directions for forming a Garden; Description of Implements and Fixtures; Instructions for Sowing, Transplanting, Budding, Grafting, ana Cultivating Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers; with a Chapter on Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. Illustrated. Price, In paper, 30 etc.; in muslin, 50 cents.

In a convenient and cheap form there is here gathered the results of experience, observation, and study in the science nnd art of horticulture. New York Chronicle. The author is familiar with the soil and climate of the whole Union, and his book is as valuable in one section of the country as in another. It contains all that is necessary to insure success in gardening.-Dap Book.

The Garden #5

The first impression on entering a place is given by the appearance of what is generally termed the garden. Not the vegetable ground, but that portion of the ground devoted to the purpose of affording enjoyment and recreation from the labors and cares of life. If it be well furnished and kept, with shrub, tree, and flower, an association of refinement and intellect is at once conveyed; but on the other hand, if it be void of plant or flower, tree or shrub, or having abundance of these, have also an overabundance of weeds, it matters not how elaborate the building, or gay and showy the indoor decoration, the impression conveyed is one of sordid, expensive misery.

A few plants of well-selected varieties growing in vigorous health, and arranged with regard to form, color of foliage, etc., to the making of a beautiful picture, is far better than an extensive display of varieties, or a showy mingling of colors, without regard to general effect.

Calceolarias should now be potted off in good, sharp, sandy loam. Keep them shaded after potting for a couple of weeks; then gradually accustom them to strong light and heat. As they grow, stop them in frequently, to induce a stocky, bushy plant. One pinch of the thumb and finger is worth two cuttings after they have grown tall and rugged. April is the great month for their growth.