Show fc jt A CULTURE CULTURES r notice under the heading of fruit gro uro growers ersy meeting of West enit ernt new york I 1 a discussion on the best method of cultivating the strawberry in which 11 E 11 hooker aoker of 11 rochester oc liester ilester says take plants in april or the first of fay may lay and land not previously used for strawberries plant in rows four feet apart spart and one toot foot in the row keep tile the j ground clear between the rows with witha a horse and iloe lioe until the runners commence running when the runners should be arrain ged evenly over tile the ground they will fill all but about two feet in tile the middle of tile the rows the next year they tiley will be clear and fulghen ful fui when he would let them then bear after having borne he would plow them tp uli I 1 have great respect for the opinion of my jay friend hooker knowing him to be a practical horticulturist but after growing strawberries as long iong as I 1 have and thoroughly practiced tho the different methods of cu cultivating them I 1 cannot help but differ with him liim in regard to that part of his remarks which are arc in italics I 1 usually plant in larch or april the same distance lie he plants civo 11 gio gi wio wie o them ithem the same c eare care training the vines vinca so 0 that they will make a matted row I 1 isy from one to two feet wide after they are through throng ii bearing the first season I 1 then pass between the rows with a plow throwing together three tinee furrows which which leaves the old furrows only from lix six to eight inches wide I 1 tit then pass over the bed the way the tile roh ros ross run with a harrow and drag 0 the tile 0 ground down level and have boys pass over overa and ind pull out what few weeds may be in the rows there will be none to speak of if they ire kept clean the first year as they tiley are ara like a clover crop killing out weeds if I 1 they get the tilo start of them I 1 then have i a quantity of manure the more tho better scattered over the tile ground this id is ill the expense I 1 am at it except passing between the tile rows two or three times ith with a cultivator to keep the weeds iown town and the plants from front setting too ar lar out between the rows I 1 claim that I 1 ca ean can get t as many berries the tile second md me third years as the first year eliat is of those varieties that succeed the thy best beat rows such suell as wilsons Wil sons jem jew jenny ina I 1 early scarlet etc I 1 claim aho ulo ul ah o that filat the tile 1 I 1 treat threat expense of if grov groN growing ving thi them ill ili ill in tilo thu I 1 brows ns is ill in tit the lirt firt year killing out thu tho needs weeds arranging the tile runners etc ete rhile thile after the first year the tilt en expense e ii e Is H I 1 arery lewry trilling especially when wilen an be had llad at reasonable rea anable prices now for tor tiie uie uio proof of my position I 1 have a bed of jenny which alasin ile lle the spring of 1860 isco the first year it bore lii I 1 good crop the second a better not 3 withstanding the thereat th great frost on oil the pomay if may mas and this year regardless of oath tile tiie li severe drouth it was nas one mass of fruit yielding a larger crop croli than at any any previous ise season ason I 1 have aio nio niao alo ANIM wilton oll oil 1 1 beds set tile ille same mame ear year car and the tile yield icid ielo ras iras a as q heavy last ket eaon seaon and ti this thia lis its us then A ile lle or has hay it small smail smail small bea bed of 11 qua quarter of an in ture acre set in the a tpring spring C of lu MOIL HC ile gave it extra guiti I 1 t I 1 ration growing bonvin i them in koiv ro row iv lat last X lear jear rear licht being i g what wha is termed tit the tho girt first fruit X tug ting sea season soi sol lie liu obtained about twenty 1 live bushels the ithe tho fro t cut oil the girst first lart part r t of the tiie crop after tiley were I 1 through r 0 ufah bearing ale aie tie fie gave it the th e treatment M have above de described and anti not d withstanding the tile severe drouth drout li athas it has hns e elded this eason season over thirty bushels owl ow I 1 should like to have any porton person pors port oll on tontine ton me nic that it would haye been e tetter etter or paid him blin or myself battery to ta tc nave J plowed dowed under our vines after they c e through 11 bearing beaning the tile first vv and I 1 tile the next year sear fron fran air y iund uund nd buta but a few cabbages or potatoes po ty practice after a bed hi has bas s borne ree or is i I 1 ill tit broadcast over the tile gromad gi giand und and 4 1 egr r till tili are arc 1 li 10 kv up ij unsold p original ro rowa Vs and leave icay y nv rows half way between jf if the at iid ird guild eulid ado foul 0 cay ejr the ard or attal foUr aeh jEh i year I 1 ouid methi n u under 11 iler tier r claim h owe ver vcr plenty r eismin tl rei rel eis ein and aliey ave are abw luw jiel ted eed zep p that thia tl n rohl rohi tion syr tail fall I 1 cai cal I 1 be ve t tarried out for li of vear years slid hild uld nid aa of maan till jay jyh tt to tily tiby hiff he Z the arouni one w t tot lot 10 alim allm imm 1 4 10 0 til wafe e ea 3 all ali a 1 lit ile nw AW YAM ties tiem i many ol 01 of il on I 1 have avei avel avella irald ld fabulous price for buo bug llave have ob ya yet vet to ul Miva varieties tiet hiat hint pay ine me aswell as well weli als ais fo or r hiar ting at the jenny tenny lind and nt lis ils etli itil oth tand the tile drouth drout li the tile v wel wei eliy efly belll 1 I 1 1 1 il A a t caon eaon cion n i ithe tilo tile first firt avle avie arleiv arle tv wo VVO callic nai nal jearda ilc lic jEar dl tia N bi 01 A fro kenidy Kp hidy in iati lati ill ila liw ie e lot lox jot j h 1 ical I el ws av xi I 1 cs aln fiu al I 1 I 1 e earlier these this c can be had the more ace J septable cep table tire abid witha little p pains ains they in may y be brought on much e earlier a riler than usual the soil for both should be light warm deep and rich with the previous season the best early variety of beet is tile the bassano or I 1 as c ailed called by some tile the extra early turnip i beet this though not large is quick 1 Fr growing owing and very good soak th the e seed 1 in warm water for twenty four hours pour off the water and keep the seef seed seed geed covered in abarm place until the sprouts 1 begin to show themselves then roll tile the seed in plaster and sow in lit treating 0 the seed in this way do not let the sprouts get too long iong as there is danger of breaking them but sow as soon as they begin to show themselves as little tender points breaking through the tile shell sheil 0 of f the I 1 seed sow in drills twelve or afif fifteen tean indies apart and when wilen the tiie plants are two or three inches high thin to eight or ten tell inches in the row row ail an ounce of seed will sow isow about one olie hundred feet of row As the beet seed is really a sort of cup or ol capsule containing frequently two or more seeds it often happens that two or three plants will come up so close closy together al as to appear like one these crowded plants should be looked to and only one left if there are any I 1 deficiencies in the row rows they can be filled carefully by taking plants froni from the crowded places and transplanting them hoe often and weed thou roughly the I 1 I 1 early earia horn carrot is the tile best early I 1 j soak ing tile the seed in tepid water for two days will hasten their germination A friend informs us that ile lle lie lle gets carrots up ill 11 in three or four days by keeping the moistened seeds in a warm place for five days and then driving oil ill in ashes or i plaster we have not tried till this plan an ounce 11 e of seed will bow soone olle oile hundred and nife nifty fifty y feet of drill sow soar in fifteen inch drills cover half an inch and alid thin to four inches indies As the plant plants sare are very small when they first show themselves it is a good plan to sow a few radish or turnip seeds with those of the tile carrot 1 seed in order to distinguish the tiie rows I 1 r readily at tile the firse first weeding american i luil lull IN ix it appears from an in english publication of great merit that a large plantation ofa of I 1 trees has ham been formed in england bigl in a few years past without tile tiie loss of ori i singie a ingle single tree and this haym hays the tile writer 1 lias hal been effected simpli simple by b putting illga a small smail quantity of lime ilme ill in tile the hole liole before introducing the tree four bushels of lime mile are said to be sufficient sun mun ident for an lit acde acre phelime tile tiie lime ilme should be thoroughly 11 mixed with the loam loani ilu lit order that it lalli may be reached by tiit the roofs roots avith ith equal I 1 facility in lit every dircie d u petion tiou tion us is its principle I 1 ellbee eli efi act i is s to push forward the tree I 1 I 1 during the precarious adages of its growth rowil 1 and when the tile beginning I 1 to st start art and nd ramify fro from m tile tiie top and ilia uila la laterals teraM late rais rals require a supply of readily appropriate prop and corrosive matter throughout 1 their extent I 1 have 0 olten olton 1 used lime oile olle generally Vile rally its hydrate in 1 transplanting 11 fruit and al id ornamental tree trees and always with the tile best bea results fi fince pince NCE nee see A good and nield field gence fence ean can I 1 bo lie made with ith fifteen biche indies ill in width of boards and nifty fifty rods rod of of fence to one thousand feet boards set the tile io lot posts t and nail the tiie first boardwine board bo nine inches indies from front tilt the ground then make inake the tile spaces nive five six seven and ten indies tive five board boards three inches eadi cadi is fifteen aiches now turn the furrow six mix inclima ine lne I 1 es deel deep toward towards the fence on oil eadi nide side this brings tiie earth ith hi in three tinee inches indies of the bottom board and adds mix six inches to the heigh height of the fence lence me beaurin mea mcA aurin from the tile bottom of the tile it I 1 M and the tile 1 I ditch itch or bank makes it t ery cry I 1 N unhandy for arii aril animal nials to get at the tiie fence this makes makem a fenee fence foil four r feet ten inched inches high I 1 have meveral several hundred rod rodg of if sueh such to fenee fence iee ice the tile firs first was built ago it lias proved perfectly safe and rind sufficient agatus t cattle eattle tha that tare taro are unruly rilly it is not racked nicked by the tile winds like a fence of boards fourteen feet test boards with one olle post in the tile middle tako tuko a 11 less number of posts and make mako a as good 1 a 1 I 1 fence aa 1 have it bcd ted ed white oak oah board boards at about 22 per thousand feet and ami swamp oak split lots posts all at four cents each deneff Oe hopf neff at a I I 1 ing hig of the obio ohio i society klet kiet i dr ir kirtland ls is reported is 14 asi laving talk i cd of a lieu i theory concerning tiie tile cause of pear blight based upon I 1 ilive investigation ti by probes professor or salisbury sho ing r that this fills decease is caused by the tho propagation atlon and glowth of minute fungi hi it the sap and allitt albumen iuen inen of the tilo trees and giving gi ing facts sup supporting the theory As i remedy or of 4 in III fruit trees dr kirt kirti land aid ald the fhe tib nse use of copperas in solution wg ii a wah wash wa h for the tiie bark syringing or the tiie leaves and fruit found very valuable also tile the application of old iron blacksmiths blacksmith lg sweepings ac c to th the 0 roots hd expressed strong confidence that these applications would woula be found a complete remedy forthe for the fire tire blight in pear trees that worst scourge of tile the t C i |