In setting trees or shrubs, make a hole wide enough so that the roots can be spread out, avoiding twisting and crowding as much as possible. Work the soil in about the roots, leaving no spaces, and packing firmly. Avoid planting trees between the house and the street in such a manner as to hide the view from the windows and doors. To obstruct the outlook is very annoying to those confined to the house. Trees and shrubbery should be placed so as to form a background or setting for the dwelling. Young trees should be carefully watched and the open spaces in the ground about them, which have been made by the wind swaying the trees, should be well firmed down.

TREATMENT AND CULTURE OF HARDY ANNUALS
By LIMA R. ROSE.
Seeds of hardy annuals should be sown in April or May, according to the latitude, in shallow boxes or pots and placed in a warm window or a hot bed. A second sowing ought to be made from two to four weeks after for a succession, as well as to provide against failure the first time. The most convenient receptacle for seed is a shallow box from two to three inches deep and of any convenient size. The best soil for all of the smaller kinds is a very fine, rich, sandy loam. The very best soil is that taken from old hotbeds, or from old pasture land, piled up in sods and allowed to rot for two or three years and then mixed with sand and a little old stable manure. 