The Cut-Leaved Weeping Birch. Be-Tula Lasciniata Pendula

An elegant, erect tree, similar to the preceding, but with more slender drooping branches, and with delicately cut leaves, that attract and please every observer.

Cut-Worm

James. Sow the ground with coarse salt - three bushels to the acre, before you turn it over with the spade. This will destroy the grubs and benefit the crops.

Cuthill's Black Prince Strawberry

On the 17th of May last you inserted a few practical remarks I wrote regarding the value of this Strawberry as a good sort for forcing, as well as being a most abundant bearer and of good flavor. I am very anxious to make a few more remarks, feeling convinced they will prove acceptable to those who are interested on this point After gathering a very good crop from the plants I forced in the spring; I turned them into the open ground; they went on well, and at the beginning of September most of the plants bloomed freely, and on Friday, the 80th September, I put on my employer's table a "large" dish of Strawberries, similar in size, color, and almost equal in "flavor" to those I gathered in the early part of the season. There is at this moment abundance of blossom, fruit ripe and ripening; but as we have had a:

Cutting Asparagus

The Florist and Pomologist says, "don't cut asparagus when intended for home use, but let it grow to the height of 6 or 8 inches, then break it off at the proper length; it is as brittle as an icicle, and can all be eaten, which is more than can be said of the article usually sold in the markets".

Cutting Blossoms

All lovers of flowers must remember that one blossom allowed to mature or "go to seed " injures the plant more than a dozen new buds. Cut your flowers then, all of them, before they begin to fade. Adorn your rooms with them; put them on your tables; send bouquets to your friends who have no flowers; or exchange favors with those who have. You will surely find that the more you cut off the more you will have. All roses after they have ceased to bloom should be cut back, that the strength of the root may go to forming new roots for next year. On bushes not a seed should be allowed to mature.

Cutting Down Blackberry Patches

The fruit growers of Hammonton and Vineland, N. J., are cutting down their Blackberry bushes and ploughing up their Strawberry beds, convinced that, in their locality, their culture does not pay. The past three seasons have been very unfortunate for them, and, on Blackberries particularly, there have been two total failures. This last season, Blackberries could not be sold nor made into wine, and no one oared to dry them ; so, they were left to hang on the vines unpicked. The Blackberry fever has gone its full length. We are reducing our own area devoted to its culture, and advise all others to do the same. There is a short period of about one week, just before Peaches come in, when Blackberries sell pretty well; hut after * that, it is generally unprofitable to ship them, save in favored localities.

Cutting Down Roses In The Fall

Mr. N. Ohmer stated at a meeting of the Montgomery (0.) Horticultural Society that in cutting down his roses in the fall he cut them to within ten or twelve inches of the ground and then covered them entirely with decayed manure, and over this placed a low covering of boards. In the Spring he removes most of the manure, and never gives them water winter or summer. The best time for transplanting roses is in the Spring.

Mrs. Pierce said that she mulched flowers late in the season with well rotted leaf mould or old hot-bed soil. Tea roses, she finds, can be kept in our gravelly subsoil with good mulching. The best way to mulch was to make a little hollow in the soil around the plant before applying it.