New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-05-31
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| 1AOuSaluS OF CIeeS anu uOllaTS TOO,
have already taken their final depart
ure from this State, simply because
the above lesson was not learned at an
earlier day. The ever ready prescrip-
tions also,--of the self-same s:vendors,''
whose spontaneous wisdom is ready for
every emergency, in a soil and climate
Of which they know little or nothing,
(having doubtless never planted or
grown tree therein,) should be guard
ed against and avoided. as mock Auc-
tions, wild cat currency, or secession
dispatches.
13. Do not use very much water in
planting the trees, nor dash it by the
bucket full about them afterwards; but
remember that usually there is quite
enough moisture in the soil, and that a
dampncss in the atmosphere with q
nightly sprinkling and daily shading
of the tops, are far more effective and
life giving in their influence.
The pouring Of water upon the ground
about the trees, thereby packing the
glazing over the surface and excluding
the air, is an exceedingly pernicious
practice. The fruit loving but mista-
ken kindness, therefore, of those men,
and women too, who. during the past
dry seasons, have tasked themselves so
heavily to save, by that method, the
lives Of their newly planted trees: has
certainly hasteued their death. The
soil about such trees should be mulched,
or else mellowed up, with the spade or
hoe, every one or two weeks, till the
dry season has passed by. Every care
less observer: even, knows that in a
time Of drought, the mellow in the gar
den is found quite damp only an inch
or two below the surface; and how full
of moisture, in hard, packed field, is
the last plowed burrows, in the morn
ing, after night Of heavy dew, as
compared with the anbroken land; and
yet, how few heed the admonitions
there given, or apply this profered
teaching. when the lives of their costly
fruit trees are at stake, and their earn.
est wishes to regulate themselves and
friends with their own grown fruit, is
causing them so many anxious thoughts.
Indeed, gentlemen, the 'oroag do
ing in regard to fruit trees, has been
SO prevalent in this part Of our State,
that the wonder is not that so many
trees have died, but rather that so
many have survived the various inalct-
ions to which they have been so often
subjected.
Fearing that I have already wearied
your patirnce, Twill say in conslusion:
that the orchard should be protected
from the cattle by a good fence; and
should be so limited in extent that 1t
cam be spared, and cteerfully given
up, and a0eH cultivated in the early
part Of the season, for the benefit Of
the trees alone; and that other crops
should no longer be permites to be Of
the first Importance, while the orchard
is only "served at the second table,"
Till the time shall come when our young
orchards can be suitably protected and
fed, think that very few ladders on
which to gather, and but small the
uumber of barrels in which to bestow
their fruitful productions, will be called
into requisition in Northern Iowa. An
entire change Of programme is imperi-
onsly called for. May the call be duly
regarded.
Alta future time I shall be pleased
to speak of, "when and how to prune
fruit trees" 'and how to avoid cxces-
sive pruning"
w. w. BEEBEE.
Dubuque, April 6, 1861.
A ROADSIDE COLLOQUY.
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