Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-01-07
Horticultural Memoranda.

Very few If any of the horticultural journals
| equal the Gardeners Monthly for the amount
Of practical matter which it presents to its
i readers 1t makes no attempts to scar among
the clouds, but like the plants, fruits and
| noWers OF which 1t treats, dwells upon the ssr-
want Of common every day facts.
In late number, We find so much of an
interesting and useful character, that we are
induced to CLEAN portion and present It in a
condensed form.
PLANTS IN BAY WINDOWS.
The very neat practice of making small plant
cases in bay windows (which our readers will
md handsomely figured on p. so Of the Illus
trstsd Annual Register for 1861, is recon-
| mended by the editor, who states that COM
mon oil lamp, is quite sufficient, with the usual
window shutters, to keep out frost during the
night or extra severe weather, while the regu-
| lar day temperature of the room will suffice for
that time. This is worth remembering by those
who are deferred from attempting to keep
| house plants by the fear of their being frozen,
or of the labor Of maintaining proper temper
ature by FIRE heat
~, DWARF APPLES ON WILD CRAB.
An Illinois correspondent recommends the
wild American crab (PyrHS coyonaria) as an
excellent hardy stock to work the apple upon.
be thinks that with low worked heads, some
varieties would form dwarfs equal to those
worked on the Doucsin, perhaps superior He
has also tried the peach on the dwarf towering
almond, and they have made handsome shrub
like trees the year after budding. full of fruit
buds. he does net expect them to last long
FRUIT FARM.
A. Thompson, OF Delaware, Ohio (knogn To
all admirers Of the Delaware grape,) has visit
ed the extensive fruit farm Of j. Knox, Pitts
ourgh, and gives US some description The
farm occupies one hundred acres, fifty of which
are in strawberries in the highest st ate Of cul.
uVation, and the rest is occupied with young
plantations of grapes, raspberries, fruit trees,
&C. Every rod receives as good and thorough
culture as good garden. The ground between
the rows of strawberries is kept perfectly clear
OF weeds, During the past season, the hands
employed In picking and sending fruit to
market numbered at times as high as three
hundred day, and the berries we're sent to
the various cities between New York and De-
troit. Every new sort is tested, and its value
proved, and over hundred sorts have heeG
tried. The Triumph de Gand is preferred to
all others. Wilson, Jenny Lind, 30, are
largely cultivated. The rows are two and a
hall feet apart, and some rows more than 600
feet in length Beds for raising plants are
entirely distinct from all the rest ali the run.
ners being permitted to grow. The thorough
hand culture pursued is expensive, but is found
to pay best.
The three favorite grapes are D,Ea,,a,,
Concord. and Hartford Prolific. Concord
vines, two years planted bore their first crop.
and averaged dollar each from the sale of the
fruit, which sold from 20 to IS cents per pound
In the Pittsburg market, while Isabellas and
Catawbas (unripe of course,) were drug at six
to eight cents. A row of eleven vines, i30 feet
long, four years planted, and seven feet high,
was covered with magnificent clusters, the
result Of excellent culture and pruning and
an acre of such vines as estimated BY the
owner, would yield a profit of at least one
thousand dollars In q single season. The Hart
ford Prolific, In consequence of its earliness,
sold for Is cents per pound, although the
quality is moderate.
"CATERPILLARS.
A quoted writer says, ''I took pan large
and hat, filed it with burning charcoal, and
placed it under tree-then added a pint of
rosin, and two ounces of sulphur. The fumes
scattered the worms"
WINTER GARDENS WITHOUT GLASS.
The editor proposes to bed ont for winter a
properly arranged assemblsge Of hardy dwarf
evergreens, Of which there are now many
species-to keep them in boxes, and to remove
them in spring, for Towering plants. Ofcourse,
a reserve ground must be devoted to keeping
them through summer. We may add to this
suggestion, that if shrubs bearing scarlet ber-
ries (such as the Euonmys, Celastrus, Pyra-
cantha, &C., growing on the ground, could be
occasionally inteTmiDgled with the foliage Of
the dark evergreens, the appearance would be
very pleasing.