Litchfield enquirer., 1830-05-20
USE or THE son.


 Correct views of the office of the 2soj
 discloses the rationale of approved mode oftillage q if one mode is found superior t,
 another, they lay open the cause of it; ant proceeding from courses which are. expe
 rienced to be beneficial, principle il { thus obtained for extending their applica, tion.s adi s55t 3ss as s4 ief .Fgk
 One great use of the soil, is to afford : bed for the plant, and cover for its roots from the sun and from Ethc wind; while the roots. by taking hold of the ground act as stays and supports for the trunk o the plant. A second important office is tha it is both a depository and channel of nu- tliment In these relations the soil ought to contain certain proportion of common vegetable basis, and of peculiar substances found iii. plants on analysis; it ought a. gain to be easily permeable to air; also porous, for the percolation of water and passage of fluid manures: well fitted for allowing plant, by the. fine tubes within it's roots, to derive sus;enance slowly and gradually from the dissolved and soluble substances mixed with the earths.
 As the systems of roots, branches, and leaves, are very different in different vege- tables, so specific plants have preference for peculiar soils in which they flourish most. The plants that have bulbous roots require looser and lighter soil than such as have fibrous, roots and those of the latter, which have short and slender 6brous radicals, demand finer soil than such as have tap roots. Hence, when successive crops of the same plant have drawn out from soil the peculiar properties most adapted to its individual nature, the bed of earth becomes less fit for the same plant, until it has been rested and recruited: while it may be filter for some other plant ofa different construction than it originally was though exhausted in regard to, the crop which it has long borne, it may be fresh for support of a new vegetable.
 Soap-suds for destroying Insccts.--The Rev. MT. Falconer, one of the correspon- dents of the Bath Agricultural Society, strongly recommends Soap-Suds both as manure and antidote against insects. He observes, This mixture of an oil and an alkali, has been more generally known than adopted as aremedy against the i'm sects which infest walt fraitstrees. 1t will already formed their nests, and bred among he leaves. When used in the early part of the year, it seems to prevent the insects from. settling upon them.' He prefers soap suds to lime-water, because the lime soon loses its causticity, and with that its .effi- cacv, by exposure to the. air, and must be frequently applied; and to the dredging of the leaves with the inc dust of wood ashes and lime, because the same effect is produced by he mixture without the same labor, and IS obtained without any expense.' Hs directs to make use of common garden-pump for sprink- ling trees with soap-suds. and says 1t the water of a washing cannot be had. a guam tity of potash, dissolved in water, may be substituted, and that the washing of the trees with soap-suds twice week three or four weeks in the spring, will be suffi- cient to secure them from aphides, &c.-- W. E. Farmer. . s... .... ...5ss ge a
 Rearing of Apple 1rses.-A horticul- turist in Bohemia has beautiful plantation of ihe best sort of apple trees which have neither, sprung from seeds nor from graft ing. His plan is to take shoots from choi- cest sorts, insert each of them in a potato, and plunge both into the, ground, leaving but one inchor two of the shoots above the surface. The potato nourishes the shoot whilst it pushes out roots, and the shoot gradually springs up, and becomes beau tifnl tree, bearing the best of fruit, without requiring to be grafted. i M
 N Grapes-Asparagus. us.-Dr'J: ". smith, of Lockport, Niagara county, N. Y glyes in the last American Farmer, the follow ing :--" The best manure for Grapes IS coal dust, ,cin3efs, scales of iron, or black oxide of iron, from the forge, properly mixed with fine garden mould. ," The thought struck him from knowledge, that grapes fiourisl, the best in volcanic districts. Ills experience has proved the superior value of this manure. For AspGraguss he ilas found pulverised oyster shells well iDcor- porated with earth the best, particularly n old beds. ITO this composition he is m debted to the fact, that Asparagus IS ma. rine plant, and the substance of the shei being of marine qualities, is naturally suit ed to the nourishment of marine plants. | a# sa zfe -aoe-
 Death of Mwat.-In this last painful
 scene, Murat behaved with more dlgnit' than might have been expected When l according to usage, the Tribunal des