The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-15

The AIT Of Mating Cuttings.

Some of our lady friends who are constantly
trying, yet never succeeding, in the art of ma
king rose cuttings grow, will certainly be re-
ioiced it they find by expe inen,, that the
method described below is as unailny as il is
represented to be. Roses, Gcraniunls. sc,
will sometimes sncce"d in the old way, but we
never before heard o. apples. pears, or plums
taking root bv-ssimply sticking them in the
ground. As the wood Of all oar fruit trees is
now wen maturcd, and tiiledwitr the woody
fibre 50 nrccessary Tor SUCCESS in The emission
Of roots, weYhope some of our friends in this
lnelghhorhood will make the attempt, and giye
MS an account of their success. Professor De
lacrox, IN France, writes that he has discovered
the following mode Of making all sorts of cut
tngs grow.
My cutting is placed entirely under ground
so as To form Il suhterrancan curve, of which
the convexity Is uppcrnnst, The very middle of
The curve being on level with the surface OF
he soil. At this middle point, there must be
good eye or a small shoot. In this way, the
whole length OF the cutting is protected by
earth, and the smaller end, instead Of becoming
the seat of dryness, which, is always more or less
injurious, become a passage for absorption
The bud which under these circumstances, is
the only part exposed to the air, bears without
injury or rather with advantage, all the causes
of excitement. #
"Alth"nmh 1 did not commence my expert
mrnts before the end Of June have seen enough
to satisfy me that the niethrd may be of serious
advantage. Two drills about three inches apart
were drawn parallel with each other in ktch-
en- garden Of indifferent quality, situated on
calcareous plain near Besancon hundred
cuttings of Apples, Pears, Plums, Apricots,
Tulip Trees, Roses, &c almost all of this year $
wood, were bent and buried in the manner dies
crlbed, with their ends in the two drills They
were waiercd few times, and at this moment
(Augnst) every cutting, IN the open air, and cx
posed 10 the full Sunshine, is just fresh as 1t
was when planted In most of them, the part
exposed to the air Che bud) s>tIlc seat of active
bcgcttation, especially in the Pears and Tnlip
| Trees, the buds of which Lave made considrra
Ole progress .i'gy;5 b. .a. -asEs
This idea seems To be very good one, and its
adoption can hardly fail toinc, ease the chances
OF successful prnpa galioIf--G ard ChaDn. ~ VS.
5. Ftr..5zE Hs 4,f#f
lMNiGHArIpN FROM slRELASD.-The, Innn-
grafton mania in ireland slipwsu, abatement ];
.swcek after week and day after day, says the
Dublin correspondent of tie TINES, ''thc fatal
dram goes on The Cork Examiner thus refers
TO tins wholesale flight Of the bone and sinew:
1.-The merchant ,tlle iradesmcu, the sllopIsre ger,
isnaw inclined ia lookswith disinay atthe dismal
spectacle of crowded steamers and elise packc d
emgrant Ships, and to read in the cries Of those
who forever quit the land of their birth, the
knell OF his own tnie, a,.t.thet announceinentof
his own doom. The trader mustveiw, with the
strongest apprehension, The appalling prospect
which this uncxampltd flight of Il whole peo-
pie opens TO his view. lIawgsiit possible that
trade can become better, when each year there
is new and fearful gap made in the consum.
ing population-thr Sc who ear, who drink who
wear, who consume, WIN buy? The shopkecp-
or knows that his proiis-drpcnd on his sales,
and he asks himself what hopes he has Of rca-
lzing livelihood fthr people leave the country:
Nor in the shopkeeper without substantial rca-
for his alarm, when he is each day rtcciv-
ing payment for his goods, bills from America,
drawn on English and Irish houses, and sent by
former emigrants to their remaining relatives,
for outfit and passage money to the States we
aware that one emigrant Wholesale hoi,~e ii,
this city receives from its couairy customers an
average of more than G2jO 4. week, IN those
bills And from what we have heard from
other sources we are inclined to think that the
American remittances for ISL will be greater
than for any previous year. 81. ,,54 ~ s.E