Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-02-09

| light OF economy, VINO mat mighI WISH
to purchase, would not gladly pay ten
| fold the cost Of such trees?
have bu,tonwood standing few yards
| from nv house. The body of il measures
TWENTY-FIVE feet in circumference, and it
rises full one hundred fee. in height, spread
| ing its Briarean arms over an area OF as ma-
nv feet in diameter. Tradition says ,ha, u
was originally stake to which horses were
tied Every farmer may have many such
on or near his premises, by simply driving
the stakes.
In no way, perhaps, can this object be at
tanned more directly than by planting fruit
| trees.
| Professional men, retired tradesmen, and
gardeners plan, frui, trees aud raise fruit in
variety and abundance. But how is it with
the grea. mass of farmers? To such ]
would address myself more particularly
Have you an abundance of fruit, and q good
variety One CHEEKY tree, one Lesr tree,
and few apple trees, don'I constitute va
rie.y, nor will they yield an abundance.-
Yet mulli,udes of farmers, swell to do in
the world" can't boas, even that much.
Now, my idea for proper supply of
fruit for an ordinary family, and, what !
know to be within the compass Of every
| farmer, is something like the following:
ls, good supply of curran, and goose
berry bushes, dif1eren, varieties, enough TO
furnish the family both green and ripe, give
to the poor of the neig borhood, and let the
birds have plenty, to make sauce for all the
worms they have eaten.
These bushes should be KEEP, clean from
grass, and be thoroughly pruned every
spring. They do bes. when confined TO one
STEM, ,ree-like.
2d. A liberal ,awberry bed, covering a.
least from SIX to ten square rods. IL the
dwelers in cities and towns can afford 10
pay the gardener for growing, picking, and
mark citing his berries, surely The farmer can
we'll afford to pick and eat his own. What
family would be rendered less amiable or
less happy by having quart of fine ripe
straw berries upon the table every day for
six weeksl They are as easily raised as
potatoes.
Not less than ten cherry trees, with as
many varieties should be selected which RI
pen 8. different times, that there may be
supply during The whole season Of cherries.
If cherries are paa,able and wholesome one
week, why not have them eight? Wha.
more p.iably ludicrous, than TO see family
in possession Of two hundred acres of land,
struggling to protect their only cherry tree
from the birds, who innccen,ly claim a
moie,y Of the fruit! To one limb is attach
ed a w-bell to another, windmill 10
another, looking glass; to another, red
flannel skirt to another, kettle of burn
ing birthstone; while the whole tree is en-
veloped in an old fshing-seine, and the
family are marshalled around, one with an
old fowlng piece, another, with bow and
arrow, another with tin horn, and the o.
,her with broom, to drive away the ':pes-
ky" birds! Better far to raise enough for
both men and birds. For "lhe birds of hee-
ven shall vintica,e their grain" and cherries
too.
So ofpums. Provided literally Don's
, , be disheartened a, the sigh, Of the blolch, or
the curculio, or both. Apply the pruning
knife, and burn the parts diseased. Shake
off The acarments, and labor 10 ex!erminate.
Apply salt freely, and let the old hen, with
, her chicks, have free access TO the trees.
Of peaches, stop no! short of t,renty or
thirty, with varieties that will be ripening
from the time of the early rareripes to lha.
. of The lales, fall peach.
am still more convinced Of The correct
ness of the views ! advanced through the
t Plough, Loom and .4nril, some months since
that, to obtain hardy and long-lived
> peach tree, we must raise it from the seed;
, and that the stone Of a peach from a seed
, ing is lil.le, if any, less certain TO produce
:, its like, than Indian corn.
d When The yellow leaf appears in nidsum-
g mer, and the fruit natures prema'u,ely, grub
up the tree, and commit it, with its branches
T. and fruit, 10 the flames. On this subject
. more anon.