Best Large Foliaged Plants For Subtropical Gardening

P. Barry recommended, at the same meeting, Canna, Colocasia, both large-leaved and beautiful, very easily managed; can be taken up and wintered in the cellar.

Best Morrello Cherry

The Cleveland Herald says, that the Louis Phillippe is the best of all the sour or half sour cherries. Downing, in his great American Encyclopaedia of fruits, says the fruit is large, of a rich dark, almost purplish black red, with a red flesh which is juicy, tender, sprightly and mildly acid; quality very good or best. Free, vigorous and very productive. Barry in his Fruit Garden, says it is ripe from the middle to the last of July, and is a very valuable sort for dessert, canning, cooking or market.

The Best Papers For The Farmer

The most valuable mediums for the Advertiser.

Best Peaches For An Orchard-House

The four best Peaches for your orchard-house are the following: Early York (serrated leaf); George IV.; Grosse Mignonne; Late Red Rare Ripe. The best eight will include the above, and the addition of the four following: Matta; Noblesse; Teton de Venus; and Heath Cling. If you object to a cling, omit the last, and replace by a free-stone.

(M. C. E. Hudson, Ohio.) The " Egyptian Bean" sent is unknown to ns, and we should suppose it valuable.

McMahon's Book on Gardening, we regret to learn, is out of print; the eleventh edition will be put to press immediately.

W. F. Bassett, W. Groom, and half a dozen subscribers, answers crowded out.

The Best Pear

We notice that the testimony of experienced fruit-growers now points to the Beurre d'Anjou, while the Lawrence fully equals it in popularity. It is hard to decide between the two, but we believe there is more money to be made by planting the latter, as it is a much more prolific tree when full grown. The Beurre d'Anjou loses its size very much if allowed to hang too full on the trees. It needs thinning more than any late Pear we have. As a Dwarf it is superb; and we think in time will be found quite as profitable as the Duchesse d'Angouleme. The Beurre Clarigeau is acknowledged to be the very handsomest of all our winter varieties; but somewhat unreliable as to dropping both leaves and fruit before it matures; hence cultivators are planting it very cautiously.

The Best Plants For Hanging Baskets

A contributor to the London Garden says that plants with slender branches which naturally hang down, are most suitable for hanging baskets. "Mother of Thousands " - the "Wandering Jew " with its pretty marked leaves - the Lobelias, and some of the trailing Campanulas or Bell flowers - the well-named "Rat-tailed Cactus," and the so-called "Ice plant," are all more at home when suspended than when grown in any other position, unless it may be when placed on brackets at each side of the window, where they have a very charming appearance. The same writer suggests that the suspended basket or flower-pot should be supported by a piece of cord passed through a small pulley, by which means it will be easily lowered down for the purpose of watering.