Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-11-01
From Downing's Horticulinrist.
Practical Hints TO Amateurs.

uCh "hACh ioohS SICki} Wdtci ~ vice VI
twice with gnano water, Ga handful Of
eaano to d pailIul Of water,) stirring the
soil with the hoe before applying the wa,
ter. aa@
This is the season Of the year 10 give
shape 10 your shrubs or plants. A little
shortening back now, on overgrown shoots,
will make the dormant buds push out new
shoots on parts Of a shrub or tree which
are deficient in foliage, SO as to bring it
into good shape before the season of
growth is past. For small plants, that
you wish TO make bushy and thick, there
is nothing like pinching off the ends Of
the leading shoots while they are young.
II gives you thick and compact heads Of
leaves, instead of few and slender shoots.
Don't be discouraged at the inroad of
an insect, that threatens 10 destroy your
tavor.e trees or plants. Set about study
ing lis natural history, and depend upon il,
II you only get correct notion Of its
habits, you can soon externinate il by a
little energy and perseverance. Tobacco
water, as commented by the editor, in
the last number, will kill any insect, if j,
is ju!icion>ly applied, and perseveringly
repeated, however mucl, they may seem
to defy it a: first. Always use it in the
morning, or just at evening; for it is
throwing away yonr ammunition TO fire
into the enemy's quarters in midday, when
they are wide awake and ready 10 dodge
the fire. @
II you want to propagate everblooming
roses by cuttings, your best time is now,
just as the young wood begins TO harden,
alter the first flowers are past. A frame,
sunk on the north side OF fence or wall,
with sash to cover il, will enable you to
raise hundreds Of roses with very little
attention. Make the soil in the frame six
inches deep, Of rich mould, mixed with
one-hali' fine sand. In this plant the cut
tings, with a single leaf left on the top Of
each. Water them every evening, leav-
ing the sash off all night, and replacing it
early in the morning. In case you want
them to plant out in the borders, you may
let the cuttings grow in the frame where
they strike all summer covering the
glass with about six inches OF straw in
the winter, and planting out the young
plants early the next spring but il you
want them for pot culture, then, Of course,
plant the cuttings in pots, instead Of the
soil OF the frame and in five or six weeks
they will have formed new roots, SO that
you may re-pot them-one in each small
pot. -
To have raspberries very large and fine,
you must make new plantation every
fourth year. The soil should be trenclled
twenty inches deep, and quantity OF coal
ashes and stable manure turned well un-
derneath. The raspberry likes a cool
deep soil ; and top dressing of guano ev-
cry spring adds greatly to the size OF the
fruit.
Look over your cherry trees, and see
that none of them suffer from being hide
bound. Ii they look unnaturally small in
any part Of the trunk, and swollen in 9th.
er parts, you may be sure this is the case;
and if you do not relieve it, by Sitting the
ouler bark with your knife, the tree will
| soon decline. Old cherry trees are very
much improved in health and productive
ness by shortening in the long branches al
this season of the year, thus forcing them
to make some thrifty new shoots.
Plum trees like moist soil. | have
found tina, covering the ground four inches
deep with old spen, tan-bark is goot
way Of preserving the moisture, aud keep
iro the tree in health. scatter iresl
lime thickly over the surIi'ce OF the tar
every wear, as soon as the green fruit be-
gins TO fall. This kills every curcn'i'
that attempts to enter the ground. TIN
tan prevents the weeds from growing
keeps the roots cool, and insures me goot
crops of plums. ] spread it as far as tn
roots extend, and it wants renewing, Q
adding to, once in three or four years.
Don't indulge in the folly Of h'i'ng u
all the plants you raise in your kitchen
garden. II you study nature, YOU w,l
see that, as plants grow older, the roo,
a, the base Of the stem always incline =
raise ont of the earth !; from which it i
clear that they prefer not to be who'll
buried up in it. Besides, unless IT is
plant thai di>likes moisture. you lose hal
the brneti, ofthp summer showers by pnl
,ino Nm 4 hill over the roots TO turn oiith
ram. |, is much better to loosen tn
ground thoroughly, and keep it nearl
level.
.. Liquid manure is Of great advantage I
crops in a growing state, tut i, has !"ubl
:. the usual effect il applied in damp All
cloudy weather.
In raising hedges the great point is
oet breadth at the bottom. 1t is cas-
!. enough to get hedge high enough but
YOU let il, run up without cutting it tac'
so as to make broad ami thick base, 20
can never make that base broad AMI The
! afterwards. Shorten back, therefore, ii
h YOU achieve what you want at The bottom
p and the top will afterwards take care
itself. ..ss ... ..f -,..sa ,-. :. -.
:, Ifyon find any of.your iavorte 'rn
Tree, are falling from drynesS OF the Sc;
=, son or heat of the sun, cover the snrla'
y Of the ground two or three inches dee
with straw. Indeed, nothing benefits AZ
- delicate tree so much in this climate
n keeping the roots in uniform temper
,ure by this coat of straw laid OH the >u
r face of the ground. ... .a-.
. There are few trees such gross 'eede
!. rs the grape vine. Soap-<uds and llqu
4 manure applied every week, WI g,Ne