%Mai KV:runty. THE TULIP. The tulip is a great favorite with almost all lovers of flowers. It has held its place in piblie esteem for more than a century. The-tulip is dashing and showy, and yet varied and delicate in coloring. It is fine even when grown as single specimens in the garden - or pots, but it is when grown in beds or masses that the most brilliant effect is produced. We know of nothing in the floral world that can equal the gorgeousness of a bed of good tulips. Our main purpose is to introduce the double varieties and say a few words of their merits. The Duo ran Theis are the earliest tulips, growing only about six inches in height. They flower often the latter part of March, and continue nearly a Month. Colors brilliant; excellent for pots. Three or four may be planted in quite a small pot. The Tournesols come next. They have large, double flowers, some:twelve or fifteen inches in height. One. variety is yellow and red, and the other pure yellow. '— ,Single Early follow the Tournesoles, and effibrace a large collection of the most bril liant colors. This class is superb in all re spects. The DOUBLE TULIPS comm ence to flower with the Single Early, and continue in flower, by I.,:proper selection, a long time, as some sorts are quite late. This class is becoming more popular every year, and this popularity is well deserved. Some are beautifully formed, with delicate shades and stripes : others are large and brilliant, and might easily be mistaken for the old red peony, while others of equal size are bril liant yellow. The Parrot Tulips are not in much fa vor. With professional florists, but they are exceedingly brilliant, most varieties having three.colors. A bee. of parrots is a grand sight`, . Late Tulips, are the florists' pets. There are Many varieties. They have fine, large, well-formed cups on stately, strong stems, usually eigheen inches in height.— .Moore's Rural. . MUTtIAL r 'NlitailtDING lATWEEN FARMERS. A writer in the RicralNew Yorkeesays : —lt has always been a matter of wonder to me that so little sympathy exists between fanners as a class. Theirinterests all lie in One direction, and they might be a great help to each oilier in many ways. They ought to.meet often and= talk over , topics that interest all in common—such as im provement in culture, in implements, stock, &c ,-prospective prices of farm produce; and the best time to sell. There shfiiild - also be an 'understanding in regard to prices to be paid for labor. This last is an int= portant item in a farmer's expentlei ttiid while labor is entitled to a fair tompensa r tion, it would be far better to have more —uniformity in prices. Faithful, honest, and ;tiro raltorera inani=emeors get what they ought to, while a great many otthe opposite class, by false representa:- ...1......hia..wh a t they_ are entitled to. In any business except fariii - ng a man must serve an apprenticeship, - mail learn his business, before he Can demand and heel-ire' fulLwages, But.in -atm business - : - Xtiflari r just from the hogs, or Hance, fresh from the "Faderland, ' thinks he can earn as much as the best man that's, . going., At harvest time, some man having ten:or ftf- 1 teen acres of wheat •to out, often obligeit his neighbor, who has four times as much, to pay from two to four shillings per day more than he ought, just because it will make but little difference with him what he pays, having but a single day's cutting. So he hires the first men that offer, and pays them whatever they ask—without spending a thought about its 'effect upon his neigh bor. A CONVENIENT DISINFECTANT The most:cionvenient and . , I believe, the most effective disinfectant, rs . Ohlorio ether. It should be burnt in a glais apirit lamp, which is liable to the same mishaps as other spirit lamps. Any place of the size of an ordinary room, that can be closed, can be completely dedorized and disinfected by five minutda'fine•of one of these lamps. For sink' rooms they are invaluable, if care be taken not to use them any longer than to accomplish this pttrpose, as otherwise it might become disagreeable from the smell of chlorine. A convenieidanci trufficiently accurate way to obtain this ether is to mix one part .ohlorOform and six of aliohOl. hydrogen in some combination is the medi ,um'of most "smells" and infections, as is frequently declared, the reaction which takes place readily explains and verifies the advantage of using this ether. Areat care should be taken not to burn thiglitbstance too, long.—Scientific Ame rica FALL. PLA.NTING OF GRAPES. Select youeground on some southern or .southeastern slope,.or any other dry land that you: may have ; ploisoit from fifteen to twenty Inches deep; With a plow do con etruoted as to rttir'in the-same furrow, virhi oh can be done at a very little cost; thek.lay your plantain 4 by 4' to 4 by 10, according tothetkind of grades you aim to cultivate. If you culti= vete dWarfishigrow,eni, such aathe:Dat'Ware, Rebecca, Diana, perhaps 4 by 5 is a very good distance. If Norton's Virginia Seed= ling, Herbemont, Concord, Taylor Bullitt, Bbylo is not far apart. Plant your vines as soon as • you oau,take them up in the fall or procure them from the nureerki and when done, bill the rows up as you would corn, covering your vines entirely. If you fail to do .this, the ground .will settle around your vines, form a basin, and hold too much water, which will injure, if not entirely kill, your vines. That . is the whole secret. Now, when spring comes— and sometimes wet and cold, like last spring—your work is done;and you can patiently wait till dry and warm weather sets in. Then( take your plow—plow your ground back to within three or four inches of the roots, so as to give them a chance with the rays of the warm spring sun, and the invigorating dews at night. This last .dea originated With Dr. .grant, of lona, N. Y., and he deserves a great deal of credit for it. Then, as the season advances and the vines grow, level your gtotirid; which the horse•cultivator will do In the coming fall, you wilt find it to your advantage to Cover up your vines. At least have the ground high enough around - them .to keep the water off Among the many reasons for. fall plant ing, let me tell you the main ones. In the month of October and.a part of November, we have the finest and most uniform wea ther in the world; the ground is generally loose and warm, and plants then removed hardly exPerience ,a change; while, on the other band, plants suffer frequently by Spring shipments in cold spells. Moreover, the fine fibrous roots get nearly all destroy ed, and sometimes the entire. roots ret,o , ff daring the winter, if they come in contact with water. Sometimes.they start to grow before they can be planted—and then the main and the best buds are knocked off. Besides, you can never have your ground in as fine a condition in April and May as it is in' October and November.—Cor. ka rat World. gtindifir. STEAM 'PLOWING. It takes a long time to effect some reforms. It is difficult to make mankind believe that there are ways better than they now walk in—methods more economical, and processes more speedy, than those: now: used. Some farmers still laugh to scorn agricultural ma chinery ; and we know of one place where the proprietor of a shirt Store displays the announcement, "no. machines used," as if bYn6 . 'd6l , h - etnWd• -malek the'.Ablic be ' So teas' this country. ThereWthAe who aresceptical . of its httlitjraNtil eCoriOnir,' and who assert that while the maChintrY is being rigged up, the engine made ready, and the system. in successful operation, a man could do as much with a team and a plough., By a: parity of reasoning, we might say that while the team and plow were getting ready a' man could spade up just as much, for• it is in the increased amount of work that; ma chines can accomplish over hand labor:that the economy of it lies. There may be some force in the views' quoted, but it seems impossible to doubt, but that steam cultivators can be intro duced and successfully used 'here' as else-' where. In England they 'are standar& machines; not merely to plow level turf and break up green sward, but to . surmount reasonable acclivities; in short,. on ,general rolling ground. Indeed' we are told by witnesses that in , Fowler's system, (Eng lish,) where the plows are drawn over the field by a stationary 'engine, that they are frequently used when they are out of sight behind a hill top. In fact, the greatest competition exists in England for superi ority in steam plows. There are now in operation no, less than six: .",different. Styles arid plans; probably inor6;bit'Of thiALittni _ber_we are assured from the business cirou lars 6f - the - proprintora7- In- this- country, for the best reason in the world—a lack of interest in it by the - class to be benefitted, the farmers,very little advance has been made. There is no reason in . the worl 'why, in_certain_parre of the _y, am, 441tivation-shiwld. not b,e crop oyed. We , are not in favor ottli English system for this country , ; for it ,seems us that it,would take so long to get the apparatus ready—it, is so cumbrous and unwieldy—without a. great force of laborers, as to render it un profitable among iture t peopl i e n yvho like to see a thing go ahead froth - the-beginning to the close, without stops to adjust tackle Or take up. anchors, and similar duties. Our ideal of a 6team•plowis one that will march into the bowels of the land without impediment. Roper has shown us how a light traction engine can be built, if that is a desideratum, and it only remains to adapt it to cultivating the soil to render it useful. Whether it is best to draw the plows after the engine or to have-them . drawn over the field is an open question. In England, however, the latter is the: general plan. Mr. Elias Howe, Jr., of -sewing-machine celebrity, has a steam plow , which drives a low of,cultivators similar in appearance to the'arms of 'a puny widened 'at the tend. These cultivators are placed beneath the engine and are driven by it as it prOgresses. There are;several other systems which, for want of space, we cannot describe; suggest that the present' fall, • when the agricultural fairs take place, the pre siding officers consider the subject thor oughly. At that time a multitude ok`farm ers—capitalists, and others interested' in agricultural machines—are gathered togeth er and concerted action, favorable to the scheme, might be had, if ever.—Soientific American, LAUGHING GAS IN DENTAL• OPERA- TIONS. The question is often asked wherein the effects of laughing gas differ from chloro form when breathed to the point of insen sibility. I answer : They are almost as different as light and darkness. ,Chloroform (and the same can be said of ether) depres .ses-the nervous system; the gas exhilarates it. Chloroform nearly stops the circuit .tion ; the gas'• increases