The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-02-07
TIE PLANTATION.

Go on vigorously with your plowng
for Corn and Cotton. Sow Spring Oats,
and plant Irish Potatoes. Prepare your
ground well for Corn-plow deep, manure
heavily, and plant the latter part Of this
month, or early in March. Haul out and
distribute manure over your fields-hll
up all old gals and gullies-plow your
hill-sides horizontally, and as deep AS pos
slble, to prevent washing. Begin to pre-
pare for Cotton planting.
Do not fail to put in full crop Of Coz n
on your best lands, even if you raise a
little less Cotton.
Hedges.-Set out boundary and divid.
ing hedges of the Usage Orange, the
Cherokee rose, the CratBgus Pyrdcanth,,
or Evergreen Thorn, the Honey Locust,
the Spanish Bayonet, or any other plant
that has been proved to succeed well in
t:i.s climate.
The VEG TABLE GARDEN.
- The operations Of the Gardener may
now be said to commence in good earnest.
In order to secure regular and abund ant
supply of good vegetables, the garden
must be put in thorough condition at
at once-(see remarks under this head of
last montlD.
Cabbage and Lettuce IN y now be
transplanted safely, provided some means
are adopted to protect them from the
frost. Sow Peas, Redishcs, Cabbage,
Beets, Carrots, Lettuce, Salsafy, Spinaoe,
Parsely, Parsnips, Pot Herbs, DC. DC.
Plant full crop OF Irish Potatoes, early
Corn, &c. Prepare Hot Beds for the
propagation of Tomatoes, Pepper, Egg
Plants, DC. Dress Asparagus beds, using
salt literally OH the surface.
TnE ORCHARD AND Fauir Garden.
Set ou; the Peach the Plumb the Ap-
pie, the Pear the Ounce, the Fig, the
Pomcgranate, the Grape, the >traw6erry,
the Raspberry, and all other desirable
kinds o. fruit, and ornamental trees and
shrubs. Examine Peach trees for the
worm and Apple trees for the borer, and
dig those depredators from Their hiding
pi' &c with the sharp end of your knife,
h'Ap leached ashes around your Peach
trees from the collar to the height of 8 or
inches above the surface of the ground.
Work around your fruit trees, stirring the
ground well rs far as the brancke es extend,
and apply good top dressing of manure.
Cover the SurtIce with leaves, pine straw,
or loose mamure, to the depth of four or
five inches, so th,t the roots may be pro-
tecied from drouth, and nourishment im-
parted to them during the growing sea-
son.
Graft choice varieties of the Plum upon
wild Clickas.w stocks; "Ship graft the
peach, the Apricot and the Necturn upon
the same, inserting the sc;on near the
ground. The Peach may also be success
fully cleft grated on its own root by dio.
giug it up and cutting in the tap root
freely. Use as ligatures, strips Of cloth,
dipped ID grairing wax, and in planting,
place the Insertion Of the graft an inch or
two below the surface.
Cattings.--Many plants and fruit trees
grow rca ] y from cuttings, and this is by
far the simplest and easiest method of pro-
pagation. Among fruit trees peculiarly
adapted to this climate, which strike free
" from cuttings, the Fig, the Ounce and
the PomegraDate are deserving Of especial
attention. Now Is the time 70 pat them
isto the ground, AMI the following method
will 10 most cases succeed, perfectly: Take
your cuttings off Just between the young
woed Of 1854 and tho old wood of s5s.
or il You use young side shoots, preserve
the collar Of the shoot when you cut them
OFT close to thebfanch. Lat Your cutt,n0s
be from ~ to Is inches f..t ana a
least an eiphfh of an incl. I|. ,< ~. -