American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . have thus replied to many letters,and told all we knowabout walks of thiskind. We cannot findthat there is any exactformula for makingthem. Doubtless gas-tar with sand, cement,coal ashes, gravel, orany similar substance,will harden into a goodwalk. If any of ourreaders have any expe-rience in this matterthat will benefit others,we hope they willkindly communicate it. A Long Sleep op aPlant.—The followingremarkable case of sus-pended animation in atree is recorded byShirley Hibbard in theGardeners Magazine,(London), as having oc-curre
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . have thus replied to many letters,and told all we knowabout walks of thiskind. We cannot findthat there is any exactformula for makingthem. Doubtless gas-tar with sand, cement,coal ashes, gravel, orany similar substance,will harden into a goodwalk. If any of ourreaders have any expe-rience in this matterthat will benefit others,we hope they willkindly communicate it. A Long Sleep op aPlant.—The followingremarkable case of sus-pended animation in atree is recorded byShirley Hibbard in theGardeners Magazine,(London), as having oc-curred under his obser-vation. A large bay-treehaving been injured bythe winter of 1860-61,was cut down to the ground, but the stump wasnot removed. No signs of vegetation werevisible until the present spring, (1868), when,after remaining dormant for seven years, new-shoots appeared from the roots. We have knownplants to remain in this way for a year only. 260 AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. [July, The Grape Vine—How it Grows and Whatto Do with it—6& Almost every yard or garden in the suburbsof our cities and towns has a grape vine, if noother fruit-bearing plant, and every year thou-sands of vines are planted on this small scale,one or two in a place. Amateur gardeners areimpatient, and will start with large plants, andwe have seen this spring numbers of men takinghome vines that were fit only for the brush vines are set, and a jobbing gardenercomes each spring to prune. The man ispaid to prune, and is, of course, bound to cutsomething, which he does without any definitenotiou of what he is doing. The result is thatin a few years the vine is mainly a mass of oldand useless stems,and the ownerlikely sends a noteto the Agricultu-rist to ask whathe shall do withit. It is to pre-vent such mis-takes as these thatwe have writtena series of articles,which are not in-tended for viue-yardists, but forthose who have noknowledge at allupon the subject of planting and growin
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