The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-09-02
For the Daily Gate City.
SETTING PLANTS,

Either "a mistake or the printer, OF
the objectionable csrelessness of the wri-
ter caused US to make two very bad mis-
takes in last weeks article Instead of
saying, planting and cutting" we in
tended saying planting and cultivating."
Instead of yellow peaches and white
peaches, we should have said white or
yellow flesh peaches. When we say a
yellow peach, We mean peach which has
yellow skin, no difference what color it
is inside. When We speak of the color of
the inside we always make use of the
term t'fesh'' or "meat' in connection
with the color. This will hold good 10
regard 10 all fruit. 1t is the seed of the
yellow leshed peach which we must plant
to be sure Of good fruit. This is curl
Gus fact, and one not generally known
Now is the time to look to the strawberry
crop of next year. Our remarks on the
culture of this and other fruits are de-
signed for persons wishing merely to cul-
tivAte small portions of fruit of fair quail
ity for their own use. The amateur and
professional fruit growers are presumed
to have more liberal sources of knowledge
than The columns of political paper.
There is but htlle room for choice in
the gardens in this city, but for the ben
eft of our country friends we will state
that the strawberry thrives best in a moist
but not swampy-soil. Having Sc
lected the position, the next thing in or
der is the preparation Of the soil.
Lay off your border not less than three
nor more than six feet wide, and as long
as you desire it. Take your spade and
throw of the top soil to the depth of ten
inches; then throw out to the depth of
ten inches more. keeping the two spa
dings separate. You will now have pit
twenty inches deep. Gather up such
coarse manure as cid straw, hay, corn
stalks, leached ashes, bones ard old plas-
ter and fill up this pit three inches. II
the second spading or sub soil is hard
yellow clay, fill it in next. mixing with il
about one.third its quantity of we'll rotted
stable manure and little unsaked lime,
but il, instead Of yellow clay, you have :
dark colored sub SOIL throw in the uppe,
soil first, leaving the sub.soil on top. A
little well rottcd stable manure, or wha,
Is still better. decomposed vegetable mat.
ter may now be spread over the bed and
raked in with common garden rake
Your bed is new ready for the plants. TIL.
plants should be set in rows two fee
apart and one foot apart in the row. Ii
setting plants be careful aud spread tn,
roots we'll.
Strawberry plants may be gel at an,
time after the frost is out of the groun,
in the spring until it is frozen up agail
III the fall-the earlier the better. Blu
any time this year after your ground j
prepared is better than the best time il
NEXT Year. Plants set any time in Sep
ten.ber will yield fair crop next sea
son.
For general cultivation we would rec
ommend Wilson's Albany. 1t is goot
growing hardy plant and yields a poot
crop of ine, large berries, with moderate
~ good treatment. But what is of NOR,
importance it is hermaphrodite plan
and needs no others with it, rs pis.ilat
would.
Plants set at this time, or later, vii
require much mulehing 10 keep them iron
fiecsing out during the winter. For thi
purpose u.e tan-bark, leaves from ID
f,rss,. saw dust, or very clean straw .