New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-27

trees plecls OF hoNoys seeoi<1b $50" so'ises Gee
and one spo, of wonderfully small dmensiors sorra,
,ied was pointed out, from which forty qs.r:, u,
ncked one evening which sold Tesdly for 'orsy ena,
ausr,. We should say an acre at the sane rs;svc.I
produce thousand dollars.
Rs,veeu the rows Of nursery trees one CT more 70.
Of cabbages are grown, by which a eisss al n
,u.I entity alton is insured 10 the trees sn4 S,.
c,on suacien, 10 pay for all the labor, lesr,s 4.
nonsv for trees sold as proGt-less the frs. eox 4,
~ the ounce stocks, AMI many of the rsSsr.,
sr,.ed in them, are imported from Francs. OstJ
81 FREIGHT covered 30 900 trees Who buys ST. ;Ass,
annually imported, or grated, and cuhSA.ei lcs
q. cannot ray. but the proprietor assured - tsvh
had constantly upon his book orders shssi u :
ability 10 fn not being Wiling to send ". saylx
well.rocted trees.
Now All this production from waste spy. hx ee,.
without premeditationi TIE proprietor, vAik sre.,d
!, o,bsr business, built house here Tor bic fssa,
residence ard could lot bear TO zee al Solsi k.ns
desert Of waste; and 30 he began, hsst H ts eva
u,e 10 plsr; pear trees, aud hnemg rs rsgsbau
waited ,tem, he enlarged his production, untl fons
amateur he hiss become rurserymsn, and h~ asz
An oasis in the middle Of the desert Of unosecPete
fenced city lots. where whole farms have bsea taaa
out TO common grazing ground for wandering eau
Rv the size OF Mr.. Field, man has fer,ed VII
ui,e several of these vacant lots, and maie unts
garden. which is more profitable thar twenty tns .
Ares Of wheat and corn in Illinois. We were Pon.3s
ore norton of il TIA! had slresdy yielded two c'as
this season worth about 500 an acre, and q rosx
with celery that viii produces four or hve hundred mon
True. i. costs labor and manure aud requires ski b
yond that requisite to grow po,stoes or pumpkins ID
il pays large profit upon all OUTLAWS, snd :ssVs
hsn6som surplus to reward he man OF a'e.e,ss Va
does or directs the work
A little further on we stopped lev mn.
utes TO look at the work Of two remarkably It'd
English gardeners, Burgess by name, father All con,
enthusiastic propagator, and producers Of rev plants
ard rare flowers. Among the curious things 10 the
BURGESS garden are thousand thrifty plants Of We
Lawton blackberry, all propagsted from enc pas
stem last Sprirg, by some secret OF their own Wild
enables them TO multiply it almost indefinitely.
Butthe most curious of ell things abou, this sa,dsu,
where we see everything growing go luxuhsnty sths
acttbst il is done without manure They were tooI,a
TO buy IT, and they cannot afford togrow weeds TO nsls
compost, and as the surface had been exnsassa b
long cropping it in the old style OF farming vhs
were they to do Go on the same OH easn
Of putting nothing on, aud taking everything Cd as
the thin surfsce coil would produce No, they c'A
not live by that and as they would no. buy and az
on fertility, they dug for it. They found Il svo
three feet below the surface, where they pu, the b
stones, enabling the water to drain off, aud root, d
run down. Now when a plant needs fertlzias
loosenipg of the surface with fork lets IN tie u,
ard the plant grows again with renewed vyor D.
voted industry and spade labor produce the eSa
We see.
Next we come to East New-York, where wsts Ia
lie all around with only here and there . heuss upn
plain miles in extent. Now, getting beyond tAss'
we come to fields of most wonderfully rich and ,sk
green Indian corn, great hay fields, and smaller csta
rye and wheat stubble, with here and there men u
| ping potatoes There are but few market gardcm
fruit fsrms though every has apple and psr bss
for his own use. As general thing, going on ssvs'd
Jamaica, farming appears to be done now rueAss
was n the days of the fathers and grandfsthsn INA
present occupants. Here is an exception. Cap.Ai
Bngg, who for thirty years followed the ses, snd hs
since been engaged in commerce, and even GOV, u
sixtyfve years old, goes every day to the city 70 T.
tend to busness, has still found time to plant ont
covering twenty-five a:res in which he has Gtsa
hundred pear trees, six to eight years DID, andv!
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in fruit this year. although it lie a season Of general b.
re, and all show vigor Of growth that proves .hs
fact, that although man may BIO bred upon the ssA
has been fifty years Of bis life engaged in commercI
pursuitr it does not disqusy him from cutvatng hs
earth with success if lie is man OF sense, who nsvx
does thing without knowing why it should DO dosA
For instance, be thought when about to plant ha
apple trees, that they strong rooted trees VIII
heavy tops, ard should be planted on the nor:kssk
side Of the orchard to break the prevailing wnds from
the slower growing and weaker pear trees. In boxing
about, however, he found that apple trees thsy ~
usually planted out, are Of slow growth, somstuss
dying, and sometimes being blown over by the winds
that sweep up this gently inclined plain from The brosd
Atlantic. So he inquired Why He soon found Why.
lie saw trees stuck down into holes that were 50 email
that the few roots not trimmed of, had 10 be douoed
and coiled around the cfump root, and tfod sndJSR
med into their narrow quarters aud there the Tree w
expected to grow.
"How can it," said the old sailor These 20
pie rever reason-Il have 10 such work on myfsrn
1t was difficult to get TO work differently, but
could work himself with his own strong hands. e,k
bad holes dug eight feet broad and two feet deep, n
threw back foot Of the top coil in the bottom Of n
hole, well mixed with compost manure eli q fneIgp
verzed as garden bed. Then he went to the uussJ
ard bought large trees-"too large to do well. "
nursery man ssid be had bstter take smaller ocx.
No, he wanted trees, not whip-stLks And .hssstspe
ne wsnted with roots and By da.srm.ei perssvssne'
10 got 'nsm VIII roots. "Great SPRAYING tAises,
VIC Ion said who dug them that never could Be- "
out, because nobody was going to dig holes bt
enough for that"
lie was mistaken, for somebody did dig hslss b
enough, and somebody got down upon somebody
hands dinees, and with fingers weary sna WON
Strengthened out every little ibrous root and bsdd'
it nicely in the soft earth. and not tree failed 70 Cs