Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-03-19

seVefdi occasions given the whole sum Of
essential information in the matter OF Sc
Letting apple trees. The points are few
yet it must be sometime before people
adopt them, because men have to learn by
hard experience which requires time ana
knocks.
We once more describe healthy tree,
one that is just as sure to be long-liyed as a
spunky, cross baby: A tree to be worth
planting must possess perfect body, chest.
neck and belly-so to spesk, for the veg
etabIe possesses similar organs 10 the am
NAL. 4 tree must also have a perfect tap
root as well as a perfect top trunk, and
both should taper to point.
The general form of tree must be short,
plump, and well shaped, with low top, or
with head and yitals near together, which
answers precisely to description Of per-
feet and long-lived man, whose vitality,
force and powers Of endurance are just in
proportion to the distance between his head
and the yitals in his chest 1t matters but
little about the form of the limbs and roots,
only SO that they be plentiful.
1t is impossible for tall, slender bodied
tree to possess vitality or long life, and
impossible for tree to be long lived unless
it possesses a plump, raddish-formed root,
with tap appendage. 1t is therefore I'M
possible for a piece root-grafted tree to
possess much vitality, because such trees
are void Of chest and bellies which com
pose mainly the vital system. AS well ex-
pect to find perfect man without chest,
belly and tap root,as healthy tree with
out these. These piece-root-grafted trees
are violation of all the rules of life and
health, yet nearly every Nursery In the
country is made from trees SO grated,
except Mr. Goldsmith's Lancaster Nursery;
and here we would be glad to announce
it if there be another in fifty miles around
except Goldsmith's, that is grated the old
way -the scions into perfect roots. We
have no interest in his Nursery, except as
an earnest advocate for thorough reform
in the culture of fruit trees. People have
humbugged themselves for years with
these piece-root-grafted trees because they
are cheap and because they do not cost
third what it costs to graft them the old
way. Nurserymen are not to blame, be-
cause people demand cheap trees; and
when one root can be made into five or
six trees, and people are fooled into buy
ing them, it is not to be expected that Muir
serymen will make but one tree from a
root and sell ii at the same price.
We feel deep concern in this matter
because the people of this county are ex-
pending thousands of dollars every year
for these piece-root grated trees, which
never can make good trees. We want
them to either graft their own trees, using
good scions and grating into the neck Of
perfect two year old seeding roots, or else
buy at some Nursery where such is the
practice. We desire to trespass upon no
mans business, except when the general
public interest demands it, as the case is in
this matter of apple trees. Our climate
and soil are almost perfect for orchards;
yet by these piece-root trees the charac-
ter Of the country for fruit has been al
most destroyed. So we speak out as a
matter of justice to people and country.
LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY, PHYSICAL
CAUSE AND EFFEcr, HUMAN NATURE,
PHRENoLoGY, ART OF LIVING. FORMATION
OF CHARACTER, &c.-Prof Powers, gen
tleman possessing extraordinary abilities as
a public speaker, and whose range of sub
jects is but feebly Swallowed by his bills
or the heading to this article, is lecturing
in Lancaster this week, bis design being to
continue till the first of next week. Our
attention has been called to several notices
Of Prot. Powers which hare appeared in
western papers, some Of which We copy
below -:
Prof. Powers has been lecturing through
the past week to crowded houses, and the
fact that he drew the practical and utilita-
rian people of McGregor from their bust
ness to listen to his discourses night after
night--a thing never before done by any
nlan--is conclusive proof Of his ability as
a lecturer. The lectures were of scen-
ti6c character, but delivered in such a
pleasant and entertaining style as to make
them attractive as we'll as instructive.
Prof. p. is an able lecturer, an earnest
advocate Of human progress and reform,
and although we cannot endorse every
thing he said, we take pleasure in saying
that hic aourca of lao+.,,ne n,,,1,<slxy manu-