The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-01-19
THE PIONE EER.
AGRIcULTU RAJ.
From the Ohio Farmer.
Culture of the Usage Orange.

SHELBY, Richland Co., O., Dec. 26, '53.
In compliance with your request. friend
Brown, / write you few lines on the cul-
ture of the Usage Orange, and its adap-
ton to hedges under my experience and
observation.
AS all men have their peculiar fancies,
why should not have my pet or hobby?
From my boyhood | have been charmed
with green fields, yellow waving grain,
mellow fruits, venerable oaks and tower
ing pines, with their lofty green plumes-
these with the ten thousand beauties and
glories of vegetable life, have charmed
me from my boyhood up.
Impelled by such passion, you will
not be surprised that should grasp the
first opportunity of procuring something
that would form fence both protective
and ornamental This / have found to
my satisfaction. For the last five success
sive years have been adding to my ex-
periments all the theories of different wri-
ters that have attracted my attention; and
have, in hedging around my gardens,
orchards, and yards, adopted different
modes of setting, pruning, splashing, and
manuring.
In the first place, the seed should be
soaked about a week, renewing the water
daily. to rinse off the glutionous sub
stance; the water to be milk warm.
Prepare the ground with any well de-
composed vegetable substance; spade
deep; plant the seed one inch apart in
rows, and the rows one foot apart; bury
one or two inches deep; if dry weather
ensues, cover with straw. About the mid
die of May is proper time for planting.
In preparing the ground for transplant
ing. manure in the fall, then plow deep.
Even stiff sod turned over is good for the
plant to grow in.
My mode of planting is to pass the mar
row spade as deep as possible, and put the
root into the cavity, then press the dirt to
the root with my feet, at the same time
cut the plant near to the ground, while
the plant is held firm between the feet.
The transplanting may be done any
time from the first day of April to the first
day of June.
The second pruning should be done in
June, year after the transplanting, about
foot and half high. After thatit may
be done as fancy dictates, to give symme-
try and beauty to the hedge.
have interlocked or splashed some fol-
experiment, and find it to succeed well,
though set at distance of eighteen inch
es apart; the common distance being from
six to nine. Ihave left some plants with
out cutting, and the result is, they grow
three times as fast in diameter as those
pruned; and from the grabbed nature and
the uniform thorny propensity of the tree,
/ come to the conclusion that perfect
hedge may be formed, as a protection
against cold and wind, to protect orchards,
vineyards, gardens, barnyards, &c, with
out any cutting. Thismay surprise hedge
growers, as it departs so widely from any
former practice; but when the extraordi-
nary profusion of thorns and branches,
and its rapid growth, are fully known,
that surprise may cease.
Ientend to try the experiment, and the
public shall have the benefit of my expe-
rience.
The Usage Orange possesses qualities
for hedge superior to any other shrub
or tree that l have read of. Its naturally
prolific growth; its grabbed, thorny ma
ture; its downward tendency of roots, and
adoption to every soil; its application to
enclosing gardens orgrain fields, not draw.
ing from the land the elements necessary
for the production of vegetables, make il
available plant. Thislatter virtue Ihave
fully tested with many kinds, and have
found that plants and fruits of various
kinds grow well in its shade.
In conclusion, I would recommend to
every man to make a hedge, except those
who do not understand the philosophy Of
deep plowing, highmunuring, proper hoe.
ing. frequent pruning, and the importance
Of improving leisure hours.
HUGH GAMBLE.
Judge Gamblehas for the past five years
been careful experimenter in Usage Or
ange hedges. There are others of oul
readers who have promised to give VI
their experience in hedging. We hope
that those who do so will not overlook tx
n;nutest details. Nine-tenthsof the people
know nothing whatever about the Osage
Orange; fact, which experienced per
sons, when writing for the public, are ap
to oyerlook.-ED. o. F.
A KENTUCKY Corn CRoP.-Kentucky
has long been famous for extraordinary
crops Of Indian corn. If we remember
rightly, crop was reported there, some
years ago, as producing 1874 bushels pc,
acre-some 90 bushels more than we have