Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-09-16
CULTURE OF THE BLACKBERRY.


The Agrieal.rist has the following with reference
to The Lowton blackberry:
is a uarbrt crop, we think this blackberry would
pay well They are easily cultivated as a corn
crop, and need no second planting. Set them six or
eight feet apart, and the only required is to
keep out weeds, and the Of plants that con-
tiuuallg spring up all the ground if not kept
cut down. Mulching the ground, that is, covering
u over with layer of straw refuse hay, is useful
It would be well to work into the soil good supply
. Of yard manure before setting out the plants On
poor soil, occasional top dressing Of may
be given
lt will be noticed by those unskiIled in blackberry
culture, that, like the raspberry, fruit is only pro-
duced upon canes Of the previous Summers growth.
The plants can be set in Autumn or Spring though
we much prefer Autumn, as they get well rooted,
and usually yield more canes the following Sum
mgr than if not set until Spring.
The plants bear tTansplanting and carriage we'll.
The chiefcau0n to be Observedis to have the ground
ready prepared before opening the plants and set
them once, without exposure to sun or wind. The
same remark applies to raspberries, and indeed, to
all other plants. They appear, thus far. to grow
we'll almost any soil. Some recommend moist
loan, clay. The best growth and fruiting
We have seen is upon a rocky side HILL though per
Laps not better than others on dark muck and peaty
soil. We should not hesitate to put them upon any
soil, except very sandy one, or one subject to
standing water.
GuAssHoPrER MIGRAT1oN-A Minnesota cores
ponlent of a Chicago paper expresses the cOnvic-
ton that the grasshoPpers that have been ravaging
portions of Minnesota will reach the Atlantic States
before their destructive mission is ended. This
opinion has been elctedin reply to the express
ell that the grasshopper plague peculiar or in
ciIental to Utah and Minnesota. The writer is in
possession Of facts which show that these grasshop-
pers migrated from the Pacific shore. He says:
d" Nothing but the interposition of Divine Provi-
dcnce viii prevent the annual devastation of these
insects in every State east of this to the Atlantic
coast, which they may not reach under three years.
having been about that time since they left Utah and
the Upper Minnesota valley. Already hear one
wing Of The great army has reached Wisconsin, the
right wing having reached Iowa, and the central
column the edge Of Illinois Il is to be feared their
eggs viii be deposited in these States The section
OF country where they have been so destructive in
Minnesota for two years is nGrTow-a strip on each
side of the Mississippi, above St Anthony's Falls.
The insect did not reach quite down St. Anthony.
The eastern and southern sections of Minnesota es-
capped until their flight east and south"
Grasshoppcrs are very numerous in Cecil county,
Maryland In some places the seed clover through
whole fields, and in many counties the tops of bees
and other vegetables are entirely eaten up
SUMNER IN New EvGLAND.-Rufus Choate, in one
Of his speeches, introduced the following unique
picture of a New England summer, to illustrate the
idea that irreguiarity is not ruin:
" Take the New England climate in summer. You
would think the world was coming TO an end. Ger
tam recent heresies that subject may have had
natural origin there Cold to-day; hct tomorrow;
mercury so deg. in the morning. with wind at the
southwest; and in three hours more a sea turn,
wind at the east, thick fog from the very bottom
Of the ocean. and fall of 40 deg Of Fahrenheit
now SO dry to kill all the beans in New Hamp-
shire; then, floods carrying of the bridges of the
PeuObscOt and Connecticut; snow in Portsmouth in
July, and the next day man and yoke of oxen
killed by lightning in Rhode Island. You would
think the world was twenty times coming to
an end. But l don't know how itis-we 20 along
The early and the latter rain falls, each in its season.
seed time and harvest do not fail; the sixty days of
hot, corn weather are pretty sure to be measured
cut TO as. The Indian summer, withits bland south
west and ilgaJCd sunshine brings all up; and on
the 10Th Of November, or thereabOuts being Thurs
day three millions Of grateful people, in meeting
houses, around the family board give thanks for
a year of health, plenty and happiness"
ADVANCE IN INDIA PRoDUcrs-Private telegraph
ia dispatches from Halifax, state that advices have
been received by the steamer Europa, reporting
S alpcre, indigo, and other India produce as con-
s I1rably advanced in London and LIVERPOOL mar
kets, in consequence Of the last news from India.
which was generally conceded on all hands as of
an unfayorable nature. The advance in saltpetrs
was equal to FIVE sbillings per ewt