San Andreas independent., 1856-11-15

ical rule can be laid down that can. with
strlct proprlety be followed under all cir
cumstances, In the culture of the crane.
An exercise of individual Judgment is
ever necessary to ensure successful results.
Observing practitioners have reasons of
their own for varying their treatment of
plants, separate and aloof from those of the
scientific investigator; yet it is a fact that
cannot be gainsayed, that scientific skin
combined with practical experience, forms.
the only knowledge that can properly mod
ify and control intermittant circumstances
arising from climate and locality, and rem,
der them subservient to the interests of
husbandry. The concentration of the sap;
the office the leaf performs in exhaling
moisture; in fact any part of vegetable
physiology would be unnecessary here to
touch upon. Being weak in the faith of
our ability to contribute anything of par
ticular interest to the scientific enquirer,
we would only provoke the sneers of the
novice. The only general rule we feel
perfectly safe in recommending in pru-
ming, and the general treatment of the
grape vine, is to check the accumulation
of superabundant foliage, and rambling
lateral shoots, as much as can be done with
out danger of bursting or starting the buds
on the main stem o fthe same gears gromth,
for these are what are to be depended
upon for future years fruit. A lateral
shoot will start at every joint, which ought
to be cut off at its first joint, thereby leav-
ing one bud on the lateral which will start
again, and which oughtto be cut off above
the first joint of the ne~ groach, and so
ON during the season. Water should not
be given in very great quantities while the
vine is in flower, because the formulating
dust is sometimes so much affected by in
ordinate supplies of water, as to prevent
the fruit from "setting'' regularly OF
the early white French varieties Uasse-
tos de FontainJleau, White Frontignac,
&c.,-varieties, which in my opinion would
succeed well in some of our mountain gar
dens, the fruit-bearing shoots will generally
show three punches of fruit and these
three within the first five joints of its
growth Not more than one bunch ought
to remain on each shoot After the fruit
is fairly set, and the berries swollen to
about the size Of marrowfat pea, the vines
will then begin the hardest part of their
fruit bearing labor-the making of stones
or seeds, which in all plants, is the fruit
proper The knife should not be used at
this time, but rather let the laterlls ram
bic, as by cutting them off, flow of sap
would be forced upon the berries at time
when they are in a state not fitted to re-
ceive it. 1t being the returning sap that
feeds the fruit, the proper use of the knife
in preventing the increase of wood, throws
back the sap to sustain the fruit. 1t must
not be understood that to the extent YOU
prevent the increase of wood while the
vine is bearing, that to the same extent
will you increase the size of the fruit
The knife must never be so literally used
as to prevent the free and healthful opera
tions of all the functions of the plant
On completion of the second swelling of
the fruit (they swell but little when form
ing the seed), it will begin to color, at
which time watering ought, in "a great
measure, to be suspended. This will ac-
cellerate their ripening, and add to their
bloom.
Dts-budding, which is practised by
gardeners in Conservatives, is process
for secreting the embryo of fruit, or rather
an endeavor used to concentrate the en-
bryo contained In many buds into few,
from which they expect to take the fruit
bearing shoots of another year But this
process is SO tedious and particular. that
with little show of economy it could be
practlsed In the vineyard; we will. there
fore, say nothing about it. G.
EUROPEAN DEBT.-The London Statisti-
cal Journal says the national debt of Eu-
rope amounts to nearly two thousand mil
lions sterling.
LETTER RIp.-A lady, occupying room
letter b at one of our hotels, wrote on the
call slate the following: "Wake letter B
at seven, and if letter B says, let us be-
don't let us be; nor let letter B be, because
if you let letter B be, letter B will be un-
able to let her house to Mr.. b., who is to,