Live stock of no description should be permitted in a lawn where there are evergreens. Sheep, tethered, or kept from the plants by hurdles, are admissible; a wire fence will keep them from nibbling. In the English parks there is what is called the browsing line; deer eat the leaves as high as they can reach.

G. H. S. desires to plant, this fall, an orchard of pears, with a view to profit, and being a novice would like a good list of standards for a good mellow top soil, with a sandy loam beneath. He doss not wish trees that bear small crops, or many, the fruit of which would require to be ripened in the house; also, he asks the most desirable manure to be used at the time of planting; and whether the wild rose would make a good hedge.

The following are good fruit, productive and free-growing: Bartlett, Duchess d'Angouleme, Glout Morceau, Paradise d'Automne, Vicar of Winkfield, Andrews, Louise Bonne de Jersey, White Doyenne, and Lawrence; the latter may be packed in barrels like apples. All pears should ripen in the house, to be perfect in flavor. Give a good dressing of barn-yard manure, plough it under and follow with a subsoil plough, if not over the whole, at least for a breadth of ten feet under the rows of trees. Dig out holes 5 feet diameter and 18 in. in depth, throw the subsoil aside and plant with the surface mould, first mixing it with superphosphate of lime, using a spade-full to each tree. A little lime and spent ashes, will also be very useful occasionally. Guano water is much used for small orchards, applied when the fruit is swelling.

We have no experience with the wild rose as a hedge plant, and doubt its applicability for such a purpose.