The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-11-05
cultivation Of Fruit.
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CULTIVATION HfWhSs
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In one OF our articles under this head, we
promised our agricultural readers a few remarks
on the subject of grating and incubation, or
budding. To those who are DESTROYS OF having
their farms stocked with good fruit trees,
knowledge Of this process of artificial vegeta-
hle production is Of the highest Importance
BY taking the seed of the finest fruit and plan
ting it, you have no assurance that such seed
was taken; and the consequence will often be,
that after waiting patiently for years the matu-
ritv OF your tree il will be found at last, to pro-
duce fruit of secondary, and most generally,
very inferior quality. Thus all your time, Ia
Dor and anxiety has been for nothing. On the
other hand, by grating, you know with certain
tv what kind Of fruit you are going to have, and
are thereby encouraged, by the inducemcn.
which this certainty creates. not only to graft
great deal. hu, to nurture those gratis with care
and industry There is another advantage TO
be derived from grating. which is worthy Of
consideration, even surprising tina: the seeds
Of frui, produce the like fruit, and which is,
that grated trees, always bear much sooner,
than those that grow from the seed. 1t then,
you wish to raise with uncrring certainty, and
a, little, or no expense good fru', trees, adopt
the following plan. Plant the seeds of any ap-
ple, pear, or peaches that you may happen 10
have, whether good bad, put them in good
.oil, and when they have germnated, let them
grow until the stalks have attained the thick
ness of one fourth of an inch in diameter, or
whereabouts then cut them off at an obl'qne
angle, and make slit with your knife (Which
should be very sharp, and thin in the bade) in
the centre of the cut. This done, take your
graft, and cut it in the same slipping way, or
with the same oblique angle the stalk, and
with yonr knife make slit in il also, at the CEN
tire fthe cut, which will make sort of tongue
on il, that is. to BE- inserted in the slit in the
stalk, taking care that the inner bark OF the
graft. be exactly fitted to the inner bark of the
stock, so a. to allow the sap to rise up into the
graft, and thereby push forth its leaves. An
other, and SO far as our experience goes, a bet
ter way is, to cut off the stalk horizontally,
make slit in the centre, and cut your graft in
the form of a wedge, and insert il on one side
OF the stalk, So as TO have the inner barks meet
each oth,r This plan is less difficult, and we
think equally successful. Having done thus
much. take OF bccs-wax, rosin and beef tallow,
EQUAL or:ions, melt them all together, and
with a wooden spoon sort Of small paddle, as
il is sometimes called, annoint the wound all
over, efsrtnaIfy to exclude the atmosphere
from the graft, and you have them done.
The Cions, or gratis, ought always to be cut
from the trees several weeks before they in
serted, and always before the sap has begun Ia
risr, and should never be inserted until the sap
in the stalk il al the hight of its flow. This is
absolutely necessary 10 success in grafting.--
Another thing to be observed is, that the gratis.
or cions as they are more properly called, ought
invariably to be taken off of wood of the proceed
ing years growth, and the tips Of fruit branch
IS, and should have about four, not more than
FIVE buds on each. The stalk should be cat off
near the ground; the nearer the better, for
where the graft begins to grow, if it be near
enough I, the ground, by throwing little soil
up around it, the graft itself will take root,
which by many is considered to exercise a
great influence over the favor Of the fruit pro-
ducsd By such growth.
EThis is not the day Of small things, and
the correspondent Of the Du Buquc Express
might have been better employed than in penn
inc certain portions of his letter from his city
Ill.
when trumped up for Buncome, or to crafty To-
cal pride The writer was doubtless sent here,
If sent at all, to represent Du Buque interests in
the Rapids Convention, and not to make that
city ridiculous by self praise and absurd lauda
tion.-Bu Burlington Telegraph.
1t seems to us General, that you are quite ner-
vous, upon subject which has perhaps claimed
more Of your time the past season, than any 9TH
err You seem to feel the full force Of your own
extract, that comparisons odous." The
truth, we take it, may be spoken at all times
and in all places, whether it be at Rapids con-
vcntion, and in Burlington, at some other less
noted occasion and place.
We presume our correspondent noted what
You complain of, as matter of surprise, wholly
unexpected after what has appeared in the jour-
mails of your City upon local improvements the
past season, rather than in Liberal and boast
full spirit, as claimed by the Telegraph. We
are satisfied he had no thought of wounding the
tender sensibilties of our neighbors, for we heard
him OH his return. speak in the very highest
terms Of their bountiful hospitality and kind
treatment to strangers. II looks very much to
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iect, when the labors of the mountain comm, nc
ed, and brought forth mouse. The General is
altogether too sensitive about his town If Bur-
ington cannot prosper without such repeated
and sickcning laudations, as fill the columns Of
the Daily Telegraph, it will make sorry town.
WAR IS TREAsox?-The Dubuque Express
asks us, what is treason, il the resistance to the
United States officers at Syracuse was not -
Treason against the United States, defined bv
the Constitution, consists IN slevyiDg war apa,ps,
them, IN adhering to their enemies, giving
them aid and comfort. What the offence com
mitted al Syracuse was, may be learned from
Judge Conkln's charge, in this paper Galen"
.7drertisev.
We presume the opinion of Judge Conklin.
was based upon evidence less hepious than that
HsSt Co"HiuhiCaVu "i"uSH P"ufHdis, upon
which our remarks wSre based. We have
stated that premeditated and forcible resistance
to an established law of the land and the legally
constituted authorities nf the country, was il,
our view treason. Such we conceive to be the
case of the Christiana murd-rers but whether
the fanatics Of Syracuse, went as far as those o,
Chrisiana, wc know not-from the opinion Of
Judge Conklin, upon mere examination, moi
trial, we arc led to conclude they did not But
will the Advertiser take the ground that the
rioters at Chris,lana, did not according to the
most approved legal construction Of the Consti
tuition, commit treason. II it will, we viii
pledge curse Ives 10 prove that it is in error.
Nkw(,UhR.scY.-The "Oswero and Indiana