Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-18
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doors. some OF each OF all OF the Sorts may
be removed once a fortnight, according TO
the number wanted, and these will keep up
a succession of flowers, as far as flowers aud
shrubs Of the ordinary kind are concerned;
but there is q great source Of flowers among
bulbs, which will Of themselves keep up q
bloom all the Winter, or nearly so, begin
ming with the s%cillas, ~snowdrops, early tu>
lips, byacinths, and continuing with the iris,
nRrcissus, %jonquil, amaryllis, and lilies.
Many others may be also worth ~cultiyating,
but all these will force. The whole Of them
may be potted as soon as the bulbs and tubers
may BE got into good condition. The soil
above the crown OF the bulbs should be ex-
actly as thick as the hight of the bulb thus,
for o tulip, two inches high, as ii stands on a
fiat place, the soil may be two inches higher
than the top part Of il. The scllla is half an
inch high on a fiat place, and there should be
half an inch of soil above the top point of it.
There will be no difficulty with them, If this
be attended 10. The soil should be a good
loan and manure, mixed in equal parts.
Flowers AND SHRUBS NEAR THE DwRLL-
IEG.-The plan of planting things that grow
fast in the foreground, and others that grow
slowly in the middle, is quite common, but
not to be commended. In the near vicinity
of a dwelling, shrubs and trees Of the most
select character should be planted; ~azaleas,
peprus iaponica, andromedas, and other
choice sorts, may be added, because more in
sight, and more likely to be appreciated.
Along every pathway also, care should be
exercised to have nothing that is coarse or
otherwise not in good taste, in the way.
Norsshould there be too many of the decidu-
GUS plants, unless they are rich in foliage,
for the bloom Of almost all of them is of
comparatively short duration there being,
Of course, some exceptions to this remark.
Roses are almost always comprised in the
shrubs andtrees chosen to adorn the grounds
near the house, and to ornament the sides
Of the plots but of these there should be
but few varieties, and they continuous
boomers. There may be a dozen kinds, per-
haps, that will almost always be in flower,
and it is better to multiply these rather than
make endeayors after a large collection.
If twenty white roses and twenty of the red
sorts are always in flower, in q place that
will only accommodate forty, it will be much
better than forty varieties, of which q
greater proportion are generally out of
bloom.
1t is one of the most injurious proceedings
that can be pursued to aim at possessing
numerous kinds of any plant that affords
flowers for only a short season, instead Of
aiming to keep up a feature as long as pos.
sible. There is hardly a more discouraging
fact connected with the collection of roses
than the common result of their being at no
time, excepting about a month in the Sum-
mer, half a dozen to be seen in flower. Thu
rose bush of itself, out of flower, is not at
all Neutrality-suspicious. in foliage or habit is
it desirable. Er.l-- % .
PERENNIAL PLANTS IN PoTs.-Perennial
plants, cultivated in pots, are from time
to time shifted from one sized pot to an
other, and new soil is fitted up all round
the old ball of earth, and the plant continues
to grow so long as this can be done. Bulbs,
it is well known-such as the amaryllis-
propagate themselves. Gloxineas, gesneras,
etc. do not multiply much by the roots, but
strike freely from cuttings, as well as fibrous-
rooted plants Those that are tuberous-
rooted, like many of the iris tribe, can be
raised from bits of the tuber with shoots to
them, but the old plants will live as long as
they have plenty Of room in the pots. The
bulb and cormns, when the bloom is over
and the seeds are ripe, want rest, and it is
only necessary, when the stems or leaves die
down, to leave off watering until they start
again they may then be cleared Of the old
soil, repotted, and grown on as before.
Achimenes-comprising many varieties
multiply very fast by their tuberous roots;
and when they have died down and rested
about six weeks, the ball of earth may be
broken, and the tubers carefully sorted--the
largest ported again, two, three or more in a
pot, an inch below the surface, and be set to
growing, and wstered. To raise the plants
of various sorts from cuttings, new shoots
may be taken-when they are two or three
inches l~ong-close to their base, placed in
suitable soil and shade. When cuttings are
rooted, they should be potted singly into
small pots, and as they become filled with
roots, should be changed into larger ones.
This operation should be repeated as long
as it is desired the growth shall continue;
even the largest specimens must be thus
shifted into larger pots, in order to have
them to grow into health and strength. 1.-THE
only rule for this is the filling of the present
pots with roots, and if they happen to be
near blooming, so that it would not be well
to disturb them for a time, a watering with
liquid manure may be given them. This
will give a fresh impetus to the soil already
in the pots, and they can be shifted after
ward.
EXPERIMENTS IN MATCHING CHICKENS ARTI-
Notwithstanding to try the experiment
Of Matching chickens on the Egyptian plan,
says a writer in the Rural Nsw Yorker, |
fitted up a room sixteen feet square, and
nine feet from floor to ceiling, with shelves
in the center Of the room to put the eggs on.
Strips were nailed On the edge of shelves to
keep the eggs from rolling off. TIL room
was heated by a hot. air furnace in the cellar.
| commenced purchasing eggs quite early in
the Spring, and as | purchased them | coated
the shell with fresh lard, and packed in bran
to keep them fresh till ]. got enough to put
in the heated room. When | got 1883, | put
them on the shelves in the room and opened
the register. About 300 of the eggs were not
creased. The temperature of the room
varied from 1902 to 1869 Fahrenheit, occa-
sionally running as high as 1889 in the upper
part of the room near the ceiling. A pan of
water was kept well filed on the stove in the
furnace, and wet clothes over the register,
and hung around the room in which were
the eggs. A thermometer, and hygrometer
was kept in the room to tell the temperature
and amount of moisture. | endeavOred to.
keep the air as nearly as possible saturated
with moisture. | examined the eggs every
day, and turned them every morning. |
kept wondering every day why the CREASED
eggs did not show signs OF incubation when
those that were not creased did. At the
end Of ten days the form Of the chicken
would be distinctly seen in the INCREASED
eggs, while those that were creased did not
show scarcely a red streak. l came to the
conclusion that Matching CREASED eggs was a
failure, ard removed them from the oven.
AS soon as | could purchase more eggs, |
put into the heated room or oven 8 49, eggs.
This time mont of them were creased. |
kept the temperature and moisture Of the
room the same as before. On the twentieth
day the chickens began to hatch, and con-
tinued Matching during two days. The
whole number that anne out was l,094. L
kept The chickens on the floor of the hatch
ing room and an adjoining room, that was
also heated by hot-air for one week,
when / removed them to a building con-
structed for the purpose, that was built of
pine boards and battened, 100 feet in length
and twenty two in width. This building
was warmed by two furnaces, one in each
end. There was asystem of hot water pipes
that ran through the building. The water
was heated by the furnaces. From this
Matching, GOO chickens were reared. l ran
the institution till l lost about 5000, when |
discontinued it.
The INTERPOLATION OF HEEs.-The time at
which the egg becomes impregnated by the
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