Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-06-06
Timely Hints.

When the fruit OF your otraWDerry Deus
is swelling, they should be plentifully
watered in the absence of rain. 1t has
marked effect upon the perfectncss and
size of the berry.
Rub of all the sprouts upon the stocks
which you have set with gratis this spring.
1t will help to push along the growth of
the scion.-Not unfrequently gratis, after
they have started, die for want Of sap to
sustain them from the parent stem.
The trees transplanted this spring should
now be mulched. For this purpose grass
is as good as anything. Don't put around
the tree too much at time and repeat the
mulch when it gets dry and thin. Removing
the mulch once or twice during the summer
and stir up the ground well then replace
it. 1t will save many tree, if the season
should be hot and dry, which we think it
will be.
Your Raspberry and Blackberry beds
should also be well mulched Any quantity
of dry stuff about place, especially leaves,
is excellent. An application of the contents
of hotbed is very beneficial.
4 few radish seed planted around your
cantcloupe hills win protect the vines against
the striped bug. This dangerous enemy
of the melon prefers the radish to the melon
leaves; and thus, while feeding on the
radish, the other gets the start of it and
pushes on out of reach OF danger, as the
leaf of the melon is attacked only when very
young and tender.
When your flower plants get from an inch
and half to two inches high, they can be
thinned out and transplanted. 1t should
be done after rain, or the ground from
which they are taken and whittier they are
put should be thoroughly moistened.
Radshes always do better when planted
in new ground, or at least ground where
they have not heretofore been. Old gardens
are the worst places in the world for radishes.
You will rarely obtain any sound ones.
Tomatoes, Egg and Cabbage plants, after
being set out, generally become somewhat
wilted in their leaves, and lose some Of them
from the effects of the sun, before they
become established This can be prevented
by setting over the plant, say from or
to 4 or 5 o'clock in the day, boxes in the
shape of cones about fourteen inches in
height, open at the top.-They also protect
the plants against frost. BY the use of
these boxes week is gained in time, and
sometimes the plants saved from severe or
fatal injury The boxes will last twelve or
fifteen years. We have had set fully that
length of time.
If you find any of your evergreens to
become lighter in color than is natural for
them; or, rather do you wish the deepest
green attainablc, give them thorough
dressing of good barnyard manure, extend
ing as far out as the extremity the branches,
and you will accomplish the wish.
If shrubbery or fruit trees transplanted
this season look sickly or backward in
growing, prune them sharply. 1t is the
only way to save them, their setting out
and other things being duly attended to.
All Raspberry and Blackberry canes set
out this spring, should be cut down to
within six inches of the ground, if not
already done. 1t will insure their growth
and they will come into fine bearing order
next year whereas, should the canes be
allowed to remain only partially pruned,
as other bearing wood there may be small
crop of poor fruit, and only about half Il
crop next year. Some people are so eager
to get fruit at once from their canes that
they totally neglect this advice
Those who have not set out cuttings"
of grapes, shrubbery, &c, can now lay the
branches down, say two inches under ground,
letting the end ofthe branch appear. Some
times it will require forkcd stick to hold
them in their places A grapevine can be
laid down its whole length, and if carefully
done will throw out sprout from each
joint. We raised six extremely fine Maxa-
tawny vines by this process, last year.
GermaatOra Telegraph.