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114 tree, which mostly goes to the formation of stalks, with but little benefit to the pod. Any soil that will grow cot ton will grow Okra. The pod may be preserver! for win ter use by putting them down in salt, like cucumbers, or by splitting the pods and drying them in the shade.— Communicated by Dr. Camak, from Transactions of the Southern Central Ag'l Society. xiisi Fiturr c; ars>iiiv. The fi gcan still be safely transplanted. Cleft graftingmay be continued on the apple and pear until the young shoots be :in to elongate, but it is better to doit earlier in the season. Newly planted trees, as well as those previously eel out, if not perfectly erect, should be fastened to firm ly planted stakes. Those newly planted, it will be well to mulch directly after rain. As there is still danger of frost, if your fruit has not been yet destroyed, have pre pared some fat hghtwood, also some billets of short dry wood, and piles of wet tan, saw dust, or other damp trash near at hand, and use as directed in our last number. Should the new shoots of the vine he frozen, they should be rubbed ofi, and other shoots will be produced that will yield a crop. If the first shoots are hut partially killed, they will not fruit, but will prevent the other buds from Starting, that would shoot freely if the injured sprouts were removed, and bear a fair erop a little later than us ual. Rub oIF superfluous shoots. Finish pruning over-vigorous trees; also, the peach which has been delayed for fear of hastening the time of blooming. When the young'shoots of trees that have been pruned are an inch in length, suppress all that are useless, or badly placed, permitting only those to remain that are needed for fruit, or the beauty of the tree. Re move and thin out the suckers of the fig, allowing not ov er four or five to remain. If dwarf pears arc too full of fruit buds, sometimes no fruit will set, as the strength of the tree is all exhausted in blooming. Os such, we often remove one-lmlf, and sometimes two thirds of the buds or blossoms, and find fruit to set well, and grow finely, on trees that, without this care, entirely failed. A part is always better than the whole, when a tree is loaded with either blossoms or fruit. Strawberries may still be planted, and Raspberries set out. Cut down the latter nearly to the ground. Roth will come into bearing next year. Finish planting seeds of the Apple and Tear. Attend to newly grafted trees, filling the cracks in the wax, and removing suckers and water sprouts, that would abstract the sap from the graft. Keep a watch upon insects, and destroy the noxious ones as they appear. Their name is legion and bv our clearing up the forest, they arc driven to the orchards and liuit gardens, and are yearly more and more destructive Onions. —“ Onions,” says Dr. Ilall, “are one of the most nutritious, healthful, and detestable articles of food found in our markets. We never ate one to our knowledge and never expect to; we can smell them a mile off, per haps. A few grains of coffee, eaten immediately ’after waids, or a teaspoon fill of vinegar swallowed, removes at once the odor of the breath, it onions are half boiled, and the water thrown away, and then put into soup to be boiled ‘done,’ the odor will be but little noticed.'’ SOUTITERM CULTIVATOR. FLOWIiR GARDEN AND SUUUBBLiiY. In this department, everything should now be in order; the walks well gravelled and rolled, the turf mown every fortnight, the edgings trimmed, and the soils in the border and beds kept light and clean by frequent stirring. Most hardy annuals liave already been sown and the ground is now getting so warm that half hardy kinds may be safely planted in warm borders, where they are to re main. This class requires even more care than the hardy annuals, botli in preparing the soil and covering the seed properly. It is better to start them in March, under glass, and transfer them the present month to the borders.— Some of this class, for instance, Double Balsams, (“ Touch me nots”), Truffauts Asters, Thumbergias, Cypress vinesi Petunias, and Salpiglossis, are among our prettiest plants. Indeed, as a class, they surpass in beauty and interest and continue longer in bloom than the hardy annuals.— Sow, also, biennial and perennial plants this month. Verbenas and Petunias should now bo planted where they are to bloom, and the other bedding plants, likewise, as soon as the danger of the frost is over. The most use ful of the latter, are the Lantanas, w hich are pretty, and al ways in bloom, Oestrum Parqui or Night Smelling .Jas mine, Aloysia Citriodora, Abutilons, Salvias, Nierembergi. as, Alonsoas, and Heliotropes, Double Feverfew, Coleus Varschaffeltii and C. atropurpurea, Verbenas, &c. The Scarlet Geraniums do not all perfectly succeed with us in a full exposure, but many kinds prove first rate. Among the desirable new r plants, are the double Zinnia, and the double Portulacca from seed, and the Coleus, spoken of above, of which the dark red foliage is very striking. J ransplant, when of sufficient size, all seedling ornamen tal plants, from the nursery beds to the borders, and when the danger of frost is passed, the half hardy kinds from the hot beds or pits, to the place where the are to flow’er. Meanwhile harden them by exposing them by day gradu all3 T to the sun. Do not take them at once from the pit to the open ground, but keep them in the pots in a shel tered spot a few’ days until their leaves have hardened.— Redding plants from a distance w’ill suffer severely, even if they finally survive, from being planted out at once, instead of gradually accustomed to the air and sun. Plant out Dahlias. Finish at once the planting of all deciduous shrubs, and evergreens, as it is already .rather too late, unless in propitious seasons. Gladioles of the Gandevensis tribe may still be planted. The new varieties vary much in color, and are beautiful. Os climbing plants the Manettias, the choicer Morning Glories, as Ipo mea limbata and I. Lcarii, are very resirable ; so, too, the Roasas, Maurandias, and Cypress vines. Their training is a pleasing care to the ladies. Tie up, as they require it, the plants to suitable stakes. V hen Deutzias, Cytissus, Mock Orange, Foreythias, Ca mellias, Azaleas, and all other plants that bloom on the wood of the proceeding year have dropped their blooms, it is the proper time for pruning. Such plants must not be pruned much in winter or early spring, as the knife cannot be applied without diminishing tlie show of bloom* Garden Seeds.— We still continue to send out seeds of the best growers to paities remitting. Papers are of two sizes, 0* and ten cents. Postage on seeds is now’ but eight cents per lb. WAR N. WHITE.