Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-05-02


The LEGISLATURES OF THIS STATE convened yester-
day at Hartford. The first business being the choice
Of the officers, the appointment Of sundry committees
for the purpose of organization &c the speech Of the
Governor may not be delivered the first day of the
session. 1t is expected that Mr.. Boardman, the ex-
cellent Speaker OF the House last year, will be the
wing candidate for reelection, and be chosen. Who
il likely to be the opposition candidate we have not
heard. We have looked over the list Of members
and find none that we should think would be more
prominent than Loren p Waldo. of Tolland. He has
been Clerk, If mistake not, or two sessions is
rather windy fellow, but for reckessness and vitu
peraton cannot make Clevelands place good. Of
the candidates for the Cerkship, we presume MIR.
Du,,on, Of Bridgeport will be one but who the other
will be, we have no means Of hardly conjecturing
0fTWe shall endeavor to keep our readers apprised
from week to week Of what is doing and has been
done in the Legislature.
We hope one Of the earliest acts of the Legisla-
ture will be the payment in full to the Prison Disc.
pne Society Of Boston, of both principal and interest,"
Of the money advanced support Chaplain in the
Connecticut State Prison fewyears ago. The locos
made great ado about the payment of the thousand
doars-it was one Of their s,ronges. electoneering
points. Let the legislature do justice and allow them
togrowl just much they please. 1t is their vo.
cation" and accords with the orders from the Great
Rohan, John M. Niles.
Waterbury, on Monday last, we learn, made anoth-
Intellectual attempt to elect her second representa-
rive. Several ballotings took place, how many we
did not learn. Of course no further trial can take
place, and that town has hut one representative.
Transpianting Trees Though little too late in
the season, we give by request the following article
place in our columns this week. The modes of put.
ting out trees recommended by different individuals
almost as various the trees to be transplanted
and we have not had experience enough to judge
which is best. The reasoning Of this writer is Ger.
,anly plausible.
From The Yankee Farmer.
TRANSMITTING TREES.
The beautiful appearance which fruit and orna.
mental or shade trees, give to villages and ces
ders 1t a matter Of much regret, that more attention
has not here been devoted to the subject We doubt
not. however, that as this nation advances in all the
various improvements Of this enlightened age the sci.
ence which relates to trees, and their mode of cul-
ture. will not be neglected. There are some common
errors in the mode oftranspanng, which ought to he
corrected The young tree is often violently pried I'D
with lever or crowbar, or Orciby pulled up by the
riots" as II is said, but indeed without the roots
Nature, wise and true in all her works, has fixed the
proper relative proportions between the top branches
and the roots Of trees. To ensure the thrifty growth
OF tree, its natural roots cannot he dispensed with
any more than s top branches, The vegetable king;
dom is governed by laws which cannot be infringed
or changed ny human art or skill, any more than the
laws OF the universe can be-
The peculiar nutrmen,. which plants or trees re.
qure Is not taken up BY the large ROOTS but is absorb
ed by the brous rootets. spongioes, ramfcations
20 minute as to De almost If not quite invisible to the
ksenest eye, which spring from the larger roots
no he F0neIaf k.ol A.. II.
must cease to grow, until new rootles and spongoles
shoot forth from the main roots-and before the one.
ration takes place, especially in dry season, the
plant or tree sometimes loses its vital action and dies
1t requires care and some patience take up oil the
roots and fbrous ramifcaons of young tree but
WHEN well done and ihe tree is properly set OUT it
onsiy than would, had lis rootets and fob bran.
ches been broken and muiilated, The destruction of
lts sPongoIes and portion Of its main roots. would
doing an Injury, which it is doubtful whether time
In trsnspIanting, & young tree Of good formation,
ct the Top branches Such pruning checks ts growth
Without the branches there would, Of course he no
foliage, and without the foliage. the tree must die
The reason s-ihat without the branches and the TO-
hage, there can be no circulation of the saccharine
juice or sap: The sapis elaborated in the leaf It
mere undereces chemical action-and is thereby
rendered mt finally to make the fruit TO be assimi.
lated to the material Of the tree The foliage Of trees
emifs oxygen gas: that part Of the atmospheric air
most essential to human lite, and ahs0Fbs hydrogen,
and other portions deleferious to animal existence-
A respiration 10 constantly going on.
There 10 strong analogy in respect to the Office 70
he performed. between the foliage of vegetables and
trees. and the human lungs There is also striking
analogy between the circulation Of the sap II trees
and that OF the blood in the human system. But it 10
not onr design to enter upon such physiological re-
searches further than TO show the improperly Of much
pruning. We have often noticed trees newly set out
from twelve 70 twenty feet in, height, with every
oranch pfnned On except perhaps one or two at the
extreme top And they often die, for the reasons as
signed, bot sometimes survive the operation when ma.
ture making vigorous effort, sends forth new bran.
ches Those, who are experienced in grating trees
fact without perhaps knowing the reason, that ifthey
all the top branches, the trunk and Of course
the scions, will die.
Mature gives to every species of vegetables plants
or trees perfect formation. which seldom is improv-
ed BY the pruning knife. But there ore come kinds.
which seem To require more pruning than Ohers-the
apple-free for instance. But were this tree in
jured or bFosed 10 its early growth by cattle. other
means, we have doubts whether it would upon matu.
nty, require 80 frequent pruning il receives
The grapevine receives severe pruniIles in The fall
season, TO confne It's branches within small space
IN err gardens Let it have n very deep rich soil.
tended branches. and 10 woud yield more fruit. To
mature its fruit. il 10 essential that the solar rays
should fall upon ell its widely spread branches.
IL has IN many places been common practice in
TRANSFORMING apple and other trees Of the tap
root. This practice is certainly highly iniudicous.-
The Office OF the iap-root 10 20 serve q stake 10
keep the tree firm in It's upright position moments
reflection will convince any one that IN this respect
its is highly important II cut OIL new one will
grow, should the tree survive.
Trees shomd be set out with their roots in their
tura position, in rich vegetable mould which should
Be placed very eompae.ly round the ROOFS; and no
green animal manure should come 20 ecn'acs w ~
ths .es.as a. larger roots. No manure unless tho
rouahiv deeomnosed. and well mixed with earth o. |