Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-11-29
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TEsTIM GNIALs.
But the most remarkable feature of this garden is
the Mammoth Pie Plant and certainly any person
who is curious to know what Pie Plant is, and how
| il may be cultivated and developed, would do well
to look at it. We state what we witnessed, land
what should doubt, if we had not witnessed it
that from one root was cut quantity, which, after
being trimmed, ready for cooking, weighed AS
POUNDS, and certainly rs much more was left on
the root, uncut making the product OF one root near
ly, if not quite, ONE HUNDRED PoUSDs-Kenisha
Telegraph.
ascot for Ex'btn of Indus'y of all Nations,
i New York. Suly 4th, 1854.
B. p. CAHooN, Esq.-Dear Sir. This is to certify
that specimens of your Seeding Pic Plant" are
now on exhibition at the Crystal Palace and descrv-
ing of special appreciation for mammoth size and ex-
ccllence of qualify: They are superior to any pro-
duction of the kind ON exhibition.
Yours truly, PIT. BARNUM, Pres't.
MAMMOTH PIE PLANT.-B p Cafroor, of Keno
sha, Wisconsin, has just sent three Pie Plant leaf
stalks that outgo anything we ever seen ofthe kind
before after having performed the long journey
from the place of their growth-in what way are
not informed-the three stalks weigh ELEVEN AND
QUARTER PoUSDs-N Y. Tribune, July 1854.
Mr. CAHooN, has this day deposited i'm our office,
a specimen stalk of his Seeding Pie Plant, lin a
glass jar, preserved in aleohoD the growth of last
year. of the following dimensions :S inches long
s. inches wide; inches thick leaf % feet circum-
ference; weight 81 pounds-which be by
those curious i'll such matters And it is proper to
| add in mentioning this remarkable growth that so
far from the plant degenerating or showing dispo-
sition to, it increases from year to year, and next
year doubtless shall have opportunity to chron-
iee still larger specimen -kenosha I'ri6 j. Tel,
March Is, 1855.
| T'0the Cincinnati horticultural SseissF. .t
Being on tour through WISCONSIN, l called upon
Mr.. b. p. Cahoon, of Kenosha, who has a remarks a
bic variety of Seeding Rhubarb. L examined his
plantation of about 5000 plants, and its wonderful
properties have moi been overratett The Victoria
saw growing alongside of his Seeding and subject
/ to the same treatment-soil identical-would not
/ weigh one fourth raueh rs the Caheons Seeding.
l can, through your Society, recommend tho plant
to the notice of amateurs and cutvators the best
plant known His stalks for market would
measure from three TO four inches wide, two to
three inches thick and two feet long, and tender
that many leaves / saw broke down with their own
weight. 1t is chance Seeding, originated by Mr..
Cahoon, from seed given him at Chicago, and was
the only plant from the seed that worth cultiva-
ting. Respectfully yours, JULIUS BRACE
| CIScISATTI, August "a, 1858.
From the Proirie Farmer, Sept. 1856.
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, gooseberries, currants, ever
green's and bowers.
/ But the pic-plant is the thing here. He has a.
bout three acres in this root all of his own seed
ling, ID stands on ground whehwas few years
ago a marsh covered with alders, willows, and
it's upper edge and flooded the whole region. Mr..
Caloon put in drsins 30 feet apart and three feet
deep, and covered them. They were INSIDE of four
pieces of timber. The whole was given one coat
of maflttre and no more; since which it is dry E.
nough for wet time, and wet enough for 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, & would
girt eight inches 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 i'll 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.. G. showed US
stalk preserved in spirits which is five and a
half inches wide by twenty-seven long.
These large stalks are commonly fattencd, but
the rest not so by any means. We saw on the
same rect, stalks as round as rife barrel; some
of them were three feet III length and an inch and
hafin diameter, while others would be fattened
so as to be twice as wide as thick. Nor do they
preserve ono color: some arc green, some reddish
like the victoria & some speckled with purpish
red like the eggs Of turkey. We satisfied that
nobody can tell II pie-plant by locking at the
stalks & leaves, without knowing more about it.
Mr.. C.'s mode of culture IS to set sire rows five
feet apart and feet apart III the rows, AT this
distance they cover the ground in single season,
He has set $500 plants this year, commencing
about three days in the week. cutting about fOur
or five hundred pounds per day. He puts up i'll
| boxes or balls, and sells in Milwaukee, Chicago,
Detroit, Buffalo, or elsewhere-getting about 81
per 100 pounds. The cutting is continued till 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 or time in sea-
| son. Then in 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 proferring pie.
plant pie to any other of herb fruit.
This fine plant never seeds, or very seldom so;
all it's 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.
GOOSEBERRIEs.
| LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT IN THE WEST.
| American and English varieties that have been
fully tested both hardy and productive. and not liza
bic To mildew. Amongst them liz the justly cecbra-
ted Houghton's Seeding, small fruit but of best
quality, one of the most productive, never mldews
in any locality. / have taken 30 quarts from sin.
| gle bush at one picking. / have had them mako
growth of over five feet in single seassn 1t re-
quires to be trained to frame trellis-Price of
Hougetons Seeding, bearing sizes, &c. each; or 81
per dozen.
| Evergrccns.-Over 1000, from to 3 feet high
Balsam and Norway Frs, Spruce, Pine, Hemlock
and Arbour Vitae. These have grown in my garden
from three to five years. and be transplantcd
with as much certainty of growing, AZ currant-I
Price As to s. each
Address, h. CAHOON.
Kcnoshn, Wis.
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