Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-06-16
From The Boston Trareiler.
soNABLE HINTS.

Young trees transplaned late this spring, on ac-
: count al the dry weather. will be likely TO suffer or
die. To prevent this, loosen the ground about
three feet around them and il about three
inches thick with chaif chopped straw, damaged
hay or straw, fine shavngs, or old leaves from The
woods, (these are the besO, then water them, and
subsequently,, according TO the weather, wet the
refuse stuff around your trees and you will soon
perceive its advantages in the increased vgor and
! health OF the trees. Do the 10 grape vines
and cuttings lf
Pruning Stone Frad-The inexperienced and
fancIiul are apt to pIune their peach, plum and
cherry trees To make them grow tall and handsome;
and then, when you walk with them in their gar,
dens, they seem to pride themselves upon the beau
ty OF their trees, just if beauty the object of
/ their cultivatlun--when for various reasons the
plum should have the top clipt, and be made 20
spread within three or four feet of the ground /;
then you have more bearing wood, and the
wood of the peach is very brittle, when loaded
with fruit, II cultivated tail it is liable TO be
broken and injured by the wind Many nursery
men, who raise trees for sale, prune them nd make
them grow tall and handsome TO please the eve
though they all will advise the contrary Practices
| II their opinion is asked.
Ounce Trees.-These should be pruned but lit
| tie where the limbs ride should be watered with
strong soap suds; have ashes placed about three
times in the course of the season. Those branches
which grow very near the ground, may be laid
down and covered with earth five six inches
taNiuH inches OF lOOl, or more accord
ing TO the length of the limb. Thus you can OBJ
tain new trees, 10 be taken up aud lransplanted
next spring.
Potatoes should not be planted deep or covered
with solid or pure earth. Sods and refuse should
be inverted about the poiatoe. Thus the ground
may kept light and the atmosphere admitted, and
The growing crop have chance 10 expand freely.
Wash for Fruit Trees Make a composition of
potash fresh cow manure, saltpeter clay and ashes
Make II Of sufficient consistency 10 be put on within
brush. This wash, while it will give health and
ygor 10 the Tess, will be found hostile 10 insects
This should succeed digging about them and ma
nnring them with good compost impregnated with
salt aud saltpetre
The CHrenliO--This is the most destructive of
all insects TO the fruit garden. They are winged
insects, bugs or beetles, which come out of the
ground about the time the young fruit is forming
mount The trees, and go from plum 10 plum, peach
TO peach, nectarine TO nectaTine. apple TO apple,
cherry to cherry, ard make a hole in every one
and deposit an egg. This egg soon produces
worm which preys upon the fruit and causes it TO
fall premaiurey. The ravages of this insect in
MIddlesex and Essex countrs alone, must be es-
timated by tens of thousands of dollars Ninety
nine in hundred of the plum trees which we have
seen the last fortnight, have for years bossomed
well, but the fruit has all dropped off 10 accommo-
date tins prolific little monster After fruit falls
the worms claw out OF 1t, and lie buried during the
winter in the earth in the chrysalis till spring
calls them forth again TO prey upon the fairest and
choicest fruit of the garden
Remtdies.-Trees growing in cattle, poultry, and
hog yards have been observed to retain their fruit
Tie Curculio is a very shy insect, and when the
tree is rubbed by cattle shook, this insect folds
itself up and drops off, may be seen by spreading
a sheet under tree and then shaking il. When
they are thus caught they should be burned Fowls
devour the worm when they come out of the fruit,
and the beetle itself; and hogs eat the green fruit
and thus they are destroyed A plum 1ree attached
TO pump bOndle and one with brood of chick u
under it, has been known TO retain its fruit,
though for years previous each had dropped il.
Hence il is advisable TO shake your plum trees
Frequently and catch the curculios also gather up
all the green fruit and burn boil il for swine
A KISS AND THE CoNsEQUENcEs.-Sher
Ware OF Gloucester county, New Jersey, gave
Mr.. VIM. Bateman, severe horse whipping
at Blackwoodtown, on Sunday, the 2lst, at
the door of the Presbyterian church. The
provocation, we understood, was kissing or at
tempting TO kiss the sherif's wife. Mr.. Bate
man was logged till his clothes hung in taiters,
and his whole person was covered with blood
His kissing propensites will be checked for a
while, at least.
a Curiosity-"Where are you going 7" asked
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