Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-01-30
ROSE CULTURE.

high rose culture-a rich aud deep soil, ju.
dicious pruning, freedom from insects, and
watering when requisite. If any one Of
these be wrong, the success will be in pro.
portion incomplete. Soil is the first con-
sideration what is termed sound loan,
they all delight in; the soil should be adap-
ted to the stock rather than the scion, or kind
worked on it. The common, or dog.r
stock thrives best on strong loamy soil, in
halfshaded situations near water, without
manure; cultivated roses require the latter
because they have more hard work to do;
their amount Of blossom, if weight alone be
allowed as a test, would, in most cases,
doubly and trebly exceed that Of the dog.
rose-added to which they have less foil
age.
Roses, on their own roots, require that
the soil be modified according to kind; we
should not use so adhesive soil to Tea
or Bourbon rose as to ordinary kinds; or.
gauic matter is here required. Depth Of soil
is of great Importance to all kinds; it is the
the deeper series Of fibres, situated in proper
medium, that sustains good succession Of
flowers, in defiance of heat and draught.
Judicious pruning reduces the rampant
growths, and increases the energies of those
which are of a more delicate constitution,
relieves from superAuous shoots and useless
wood, and reduces the whole outline to a
compact or consistent form. Insect raw.
ages must be guarded against-tobacco
water or fumes will do this; bathing them
twice day with water from barrow.en.
gine is only Objectionable from the time re.
quired. If you have not provided deep culture
watering, in dry times, will be requisite but
this should be done thoroughly rather than
frequently, and the surface soil should be
frequently stirred withou. injuring the roots.
Liquid manure-say two ounces Of guano to
q gallon of water-should be given once a
week. With this treatment, every one may
have fine Observation-Disclosures.
Is GRAPE CULTURE AND WINE MAKING
Firmly ESTABLISHED AMONG Us2-This
question We put to distinguished vine.
grower in Cincinnati, R. Buchanan, Esq.
more to satisfy some friends than to clear up
any doubt Of our own. The following is
bis reply: 81 am happy to be able to say
that, in the West at least, consider the vine.
yard culture of the Grape firmly established.
1t is also increasing with great rapidity all
over the West and Southwest. The sale Of
grape.cuttings in Cincinnati last spring
amounted to over 1900, 900, aud of stocks
100000. | sold from my own vineyard
lac, 900 cuttings. This looks like progress.
The demand for the wine fully equals the
supply, but the hard times Of last year eau
sed an accumulation of the stock of spark
ling Catawba (the most expensive of our
wines) which will take another year to d.
minish. | repeat to you in ali candor my
opinion, that the vine culture is now estab.
lished as a branch of national agriculture
that cannot retrograde. 1t has also the
sympathy of the moral part Of the commun.
ity, who believe that the spread of the vine
will diminish intemperance." Ibid.
BLIND BRIDES" Yes, use your think
ing powers, friends. They were given to
you to use, and not abuse. Blind brides !!
Truly named, surely. Art never invented a
more fatal thing to the eyes of horses, than
when she devised this plan of depriving the
horse of what Nature intended he should en-
Joy. But, says one, how are binders inu-
rious to the horse' Because they gather
dirt and heat around the eye. Dirt irritates
the eye, and heat produces inflammation.
These brides so entrammel the eyes of tho
horse, that he is compelled to be constantly
straining them to see his way. The over
exerlion of the nerve brings on disease. Eyes
were not in vain. Had thoy been needless,
the Creator would not have located them in
tho head they were placed in the corners
of the head, that hc might have the advantage