Litchfield enquirer., 1839-04-04
MORUS MULTICAULIS.

Extract Of letter from Req. w. W. Bost,uick Of
Hammondsport, StembeR County, Nesc-York to a
gentleman in Ibis village
- But one bad is necessary for cutting, un.
less the wood is very small and slender, in which
case if Gu. into pieces Of but single bud there may
not be sufficient substance in the wood to support the
cutting till it grows-cattings that are Is of an inch
in diameter, would give two buds and in some ca
ses where the wood is larger than this but the buds
very together half three ourths Of an inch,
it is well to leave two buds Cutting of one inch in
length of good sound wood will grow without any dis
iculty.
cut my stalks, beginning ut the bottom. and pro.
ceeding up far the wood is sound, cutting half
an inch above the bud little sloping. The extremi.
ties, which are light and spongy, and also the small
side shoots think best not to cut, but lay them down
whole. and cover with an inch Of earth. dip the
ends in pitch or rozn, tempered with little taIow,
uhe common grating wax is very good for this pur-
pose melted, but not SO hot to injure the cutting
by so doing fewer Of them will perish.
- When plant the cuttings in open ground, plant
them in about feet apart and six or eight in
ches apar in the row. sticking them down little SIAN
ting to the NORTH the bud on the south side 90 deep
that the upper end will be little below the surface,
say half inch, pressing the earth about the cutting
II is important that the ground should be kept moist
and to this end, they must be watered when the
ground gets dy-to prevent the earth drying and ba-
king, put along each side of the row some grass or
other litter close to the cuttings. The time set
them 10 in May, when the ground gets warm, and
they will come up in the course OF two weeks though
some Of them will be longer. ...-ss
think that more and better trees may be raised
from cuttings than BY laying them down whole
When laid down WHOLE some Of the buds do not start
Of those that do few take the lead at the expense of
others, which are stinfed and smai-also they are
mostly straight shoots or stems without any side bran
ches-wlereas those from cuttings having more room,
grow larger and put out numerous side branches.
Now let me tel You my way Of raising cuttings,
which think the best Of ali. Imake one or more hot
beds in the ordinary way about the first Of April with
about two feet depth Of fresh stable manure fine and
coarse shook together. and packed even with fork.
and by gently reading on i-a foOs and half wider
and longer than the frame. Where make the bed.
excavate the earth about the depth of spade %
pit for tie manure-put on the sash, and when wam
cover with soil Eve or six inches deep-level it and
prepare to plant the cuttings. cut sods Of grass in
bits two inches square in the centre of these make
hole with sharp stick. little sIoping, and insert the
cutting 80 that the bind win be the upper side ofthe
Hope, and little within the sod the grass side Of the
'od being doom. These then placed close toge,h
the surface OF the beds the pOin. Of the cutting
the NORTH and the bud on the south side, and cover
ID with halt three-Gourths Of On inch Of fine mould
Or good garden earth-geatiy pressed down with the
aand-tbe whole then vatered, and the sash put on