Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-10-18

rom me ITUrR aTWcT, sept 1000
Mr.. CaiIoon has farm of six acres, all told, on
which he contrives to get pretty fair living, if
we can judge from appearances. lie divides 1t
between peplant, gooscberres, currants, ever
green's, and flowers.
But the pie-plant is the thing here. He has a.
bout three acres III this root, all of his own seed
| ling 1t stands on ground whiehwas few years
! ago a marsh, covered with adcrs, willows, and
water Springs cropped to the surface just at
! it's upper edge and flooded the whole region Mr..
Cahoon put in drains 81 feet apart and three feet
! deep, and covered them. They were made ottOur
pieces of timber. The whole was given one coat
/ Of manure and no more; since which II is dry c.
nough for n wet time, and wet enough for a dry
one and will produce anything which is willing
to grow on reasonable land. We counted on
! one root fifty-fve stalks, of which the longest
was two feet in length from root to leaf, " wonid
cirt eight inches or more. The others were of all
sizes down to f,cea inches in length, and an inch
in diameter, tho the average would be twenty
inches long and four or more ~ circumference.
! This root was not an unusual size, and was only
an average of those which have stood three years
and are allowed a fair chance Mr.. c. showed us
n STALK preserved in spirits which is five and a
/ half inches wide by twcnty-scyen long.
/ These large stalks are commonly fattened, but
| the rest are not so by any means. Yves on the
same root, stalks round as q rife barrel; some
of them were three feet in length and an inch and
so as to be twice wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve one color: some are green, some reddish
! like the victoria * some spcckicd with purplish
rcd like the eggs of turkey. We are satisfied that
nobody can tell a pie-plant by looking at the
stalks * leaves, without knowing more about it..
! Mr.. C's mode of culture is to set the rows five
feet apart and 3 feet apart III the rows. At this
distance they cover the ground in a single season.
| He has set 35 70 plants this year, commencing
! the 10th and ending the 18th of May. lie 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 i'll Milwaukee. Chicago,
/ Detroit, Buffalo, or clsewhere-getting about s.
per loo pounds The cutting is continued I'll frost
comes. In cutting he is guided by Judgment ia
king all from plant he thinks it can spare, and
| going over the same ground 5 or 6 time in sea-
sun. Then in spring and fall he makes sale of
! roots. lie sold last spring 1000 roots or more,
/ Any body can see that this pie-pant 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 preerring pie
! plant Pie to any other of herb fruit.
! This fine plant never seeds, very seldom so;
all its strength is given to stalks and leaf
Mr.. Cahoon will be at our State Fair with his
pie-plant roots and can suit all purchasers with
the genuine article.
GOGSEREEcKEEa.
LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT IL THE WEST.
American and English vGleties that have been
fnily tested both hardy and productive and not La
bic 10 miiiew. Amongst them is Tie justly celcbra
rcd lTouchton's See ling, small fruit but OF best
quality, one of the most productive never mildcws
ii any locality. / have taken 20 quarts from a SIN
gle bush at one picking l have had them make
growth Of five feet in single scnssn. 1t re-
qures to be trained 10 frame trc!lis-prcc OF
iIoagctons Seeding, bearing sizes, IS. each or 81
per dozen.
EvcrgrccBs.-0ver 1000 from 2 to 3 feet high
BaIsarl and Norway Firs, Spruce, Pine, Hcnlock,
ana Arbour Vitae. These have grown in my garden
from three to five years and be truIsplantcd
with much certainty Of growing, currant--
Price IA. to % each
Address, II. II. GAMO9S.