Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-09-13
MIR. CAHOoN'S GARDEN.


fine if you do not believe it pretty place 90 and
see it.
MIR. CAHOoN'S GARDEN
One object in stopping here was to see the gar
den OF Is. T. Cahoon semi-aequaintance of our
readers, by the way of his big pie plant.
Mr.. Cahoon has farm of six acres, all told, on
which he contrives to get pretty fair living, il
we can judge from appearances. He divides it
between pie-plant, gooseberres, currants, ever
greens, and flowers.
In the front yard stand multitude of beauti-
full trees, among which we counted several ever
greens thirty feet or more in height as beautiful
cones from the earth upward as any man ever saw
The gravel walks are lined with verbanes, pam
SEES portulaccas, phloxes, petunias and almost ev-
erything else that is beautiful. Ofpansies he has
the greatest variety we have ever Eo1n. few
of these blossoms measured near two inches in
diameter the longer way, and about one sixteenth
inch less the shorter Several patriarchal petu-
MIA blooms went up to three inches plumb, and
III fact they were the best we have ever seen.
The cvergreens are very finely grown, and are
putting ahead at an astonishing rate The vari-
cites are pines, balsamS, hemlocks, and arbor
vitae.
Among the orchard trees we picked out Kes-
wick Goblin, loaded with fruit all over, though
scarcely any other carried any apples. A cluster
grape vine covered one end of the house, fifteen
by twenty feet which is mass of clusters thro'
out. 1t carries more grapes than any vine we
have ever seen.
An apricot tree near by is also loaded with fruit
though there are no peaches this year. This grape
vine, we should have said, is seven years old
Mr. e. thinks the Clinton grape by far the best
for this climate; and so, find, think others.
But the pie-plant is the thing here He has A.
bout three acres in this root, all of his own seed
ing. 1t stands on ground which was few wears
ago marsh, covered with aldcrs, willows. and
water Springs cropped to the surface inst Mt
its upper edge and flooded the whole region. Mr.
Cahoon put i'll drains 30 feet apart and three feet
deep, and covered them. They were made of four
pieces OF timber The whole was given one coat
OF manure and no more; since which it is dry e.
nough for a wet time, and wet enough for a dry
one, and Will produce anything which is WILLING
to grow on reasonable land. Such masses of pie
plant never growed any soil before We counted
on one root titty-fve stalks, of which the longest
was two feet i'll length from root to leaf q w0uId
girt eight inches or more. The others were of all
sizes down to fifteen inches in length and an inch
in diameter, tho the average would be twenty
inches long and four or more in circumference
This root was not an unusual size, and was only
an average of those which have stood three wears
and are allowed fair chance. Mr. c. showed ms
a stalk preserved in spirits which is five and
half inches wide by twcnty-seven long
These large stalks are commonly fattened. Int
same root, stalks as round as a rife barrel; some
of them were three feet i'll length and an inch and
a halt IN diameter, while others would be tlattened
so as to be twice as wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green, some reddish
like the victoria Il some speckled with purplish
red like the eggs ola turkey. We are satisfied that
nobody can tell pie-plant by looking at the
stalks Il leaves without knowing more about it,
Mr.. C.'s mode of culture is to set the rows five
feet apart and two feet apart in the rows. At this
distance they cover the ground in single season
He has set 5000 plants this year, commencing
the 10th and ending the 18th of May. He cuts
about three days in the week cutting about four
or five hundred pounds per day. He puts up in
boxes or balls, and sells in Milwaukee, Chicago
Detroit, Buffalo, or elsewhere-getting about s.
perlO0pounds. The cutting is continued till frost
comes. In cutting he is guided by Judgment ta-
king all from plant he thinks it can spare and
going over the same ground 3 or time in sea-
son. Then i'll spring and fall he makes sale of
roots. He sold last spring $500 roots or more
Any body can see that this pie-plant business is
not bad one. People are getting to use it more
and more each season; and we have this very
summer detected ourselves in preferring pie
plant pie to any other of herb fruit.
This fine plant never seeds, or very seldom so;
all its strength is given to stalks and leaf.
Mr.. Cahoon has a remedy for apple tree lice
a remedy which is sure to take with all men who
believe in patent medicines. 1t is cod Hrer oil !!
Yes, cod liver oil is the remedy for bark lice. He
showed us the incontestabe results of it on trees
dead and dying year ago, now living and grow
ing prodigiously. We saw shoots on one of these
semidetunct trees two feet in length, of this sea-
sons growth while scots and oil still adhered to
the bark. Get cod liver oil for the bark lice. 1t
is no mistake.
Mr.. Cahoon will be at our State Fair with his
pe-plant roots, and can suit all purchasers with
the genuine article.
Those who will see good garden, and how a
large farm is got into small space, had better
call here.