Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-21
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cons. The best time is just before they
are about 10 make q new growth. "a
meiias, a~zeleas, and many plants, for IN
stance, start at this season. lt ~ hS'
necessary 20 repOt 50 often as some tniuAi
especially if bloom, and not very laige
specimens, is chiefly wanted. II d p"
IS very full Of roots, and the plants grow
ing weak, it may need Tepottlng..
In netting, see that some provision y
made for allowing the water rapidly 70
eseaDe. by putting broken crooks over
ne NE Use sol! rather dry, and ram
II 6rmIy about the old ball. Prefer pots
or,Iy a little larger, to very large shifts,
"A less liable to accidents. rim the
Ulants in a little, il u~nshapely, to en-
( courage the new growth where wanted;
MANY who have but small houses and
wish to have a variety, are U Win
valued rants becoming too large. 10
keep them low, as soon as the plant mas
matured its growth, cut II down as 10"
as il may be desired. As soon as II
signs Of breaking forth into a new
gFoUyfb. tlrn it out of the pot shake or
fear away the old ball of roots, and put
n into as small q pot as it can be got
into. and when it grows again ana mis-
| Inc not with roots, repot again, as before.
Sometimes the plants get sick, "
which is known by unhealthy, yellow
leaves. This is usually by overwhelming
| generating a gas, or az gardeners term IL
a a sourness,n destructive to the roots.
The remedy is to cut the plant back q
little. shake out the soil, u put the
plant in a small pot with new soil, and
| place the plant in a hOus only Ho0sr-
atelv warm. and which is naturally
moist 50 that the plant can live Tor
| awhile without requiring much water.
| 1t will generally recover.
Every n interested in plant growing
must be continually on the watch for
small insects, which destroy more plants
than many are aware OF. The little
! black "Trip is very troublesome to azaleas;
| the green fly to all sOft-w00ded pIahls
the scale to camelias, Oleandersi eaetusesl
and the meally bug to almost All not
house plants. Continual syrlngings win
warm, greasy water, in when sulphur
has been mixed, Is the best remedy 10
paoeos smoke is still the most approved
mode Of destroying green ny an "Trip
poTTING STRAWBERRIES o FORCING.
For runners Of the present year We
,refar Dats four and \ half Inches in
| diameter. well drained, and filled with
rich turfv loan beaten firm, and the
runners are laid IN these in July. We
detaeh the runners from the parent
plauts in September, keeping OF all run
/ nars prior to and after this, and placet Tie
| pots in double lines, on boards n 1901
from the south wall. These are I0r the
early forcing to give Uuit IN March
Our second lot is prepared in the same
manner only we use SIX men pots
Lacsusa We employ larger kinds Of
s.rawberries Uafterthe first and second
lots are fruited in six aud seven inch
Dots. We never pot or plant after sep
temher and place them first IN small
rots for the successiOnal crops, thence
transferring them into fruiting pots As
soon as the small pots are filled with
roots. We presume our plants are as yet
unpotted. The pots weshould use would
be six inches in diameter, and we take
mn with balls, and pot firmly. A bed OF
leaves about eighteen inches high being
made. a gentle heat would rise; in this
bed we would plunge the pots about half
their depth which would excite a speedy
roof action. aud the materials becoming
q ID in ten DAYS or a fortnight, q frame
and lights might be placed over the
plants to pr0tect them from wet and
severe weather. They viii require TO be
started in January TO fruit by the first Of
April.
EFFECTS OF LOCALITY on FORMS or
PLANTs.
DR. J. E. Gray mentions, in the Journal
of BOta1lU, that in PembrOkeshire,
especially near Broadhaven, the prevail
ing color Of the primrose IS pale lilac,
and specimens of this and of the "prIm-
rose . colored varieties may be found
growing on the same stone wall lstOne
walls in this district take the place OF
hedges sometimes so close together that
they appear to grow from the same root.
As other examples of two forms Of o
plant growing under the same condl-
tons, he further mentions a purple ane-
none, which he has found intermlngled
with the white one in the same turf a
beautiful pink variety OF wood sOrrel
growing amidst the usual white form
and a rose colored form OF lamItm
album, in the midst Of beds of the usual
color.
RENOVATING SICKLY GRAPES.
Muscat grapes apparently beyond re-
covery, and in q border permanently
wet, were saved by a whole measure,
consisting in the making Of a new bor-
der on the top of the old one, and then
planting on the new border black Ham
burgs to serve as healthy feeders 70 the
muscats. +" As o as those got OF suf-
icient strength to admit Of it, says Mr..
Clarke. 4" they were marched ts the
stem of the muscats, and when 1 saw
them. the crop Of fruit was actually re-
ceiying its supply OF sustenance from
the roots of boJh.n We do not say hat
such a thing has not been done before,
for many Of our readers a cite exam
pies of vines doing well with two sets Of
roots. Mr.. M'Elroy, Of Stamford Hill,
has done the same thing, and IL might
indeed prove a means Of curing the shy
ness or bad ripeHiug qualities of some
varieties. But there IS originality and
ingenuity in adopting this means Of
raising vines out of a quagmire, for that
in effect is the result of the operation,
and one Of the merits Of the plan IS that
il is carried out on the same border as
that which brought the original vines to
ruin.-GdrdeHeT's Weekly.
SKELETONIZING LEAVES.
The following plan is by Dr.. Dickson,
Of Edinburg:
A solution Of caUstic soda is made by
dissolying three ounces Of carbonate Of
soda washing soda in forty ounces two
UintsA of boiling water and adding one
and a half Bnc Of quick lime, previ-
ously Stacked boil for ten minutes, de-
cant the clear solution and bring it to
the boil. During ebullition add the
boil briskly for some time, say
hour, occasionally adding hot
to supply the place Of that
lost by evaporation. Take out a leaf
and put il into a vessel of water; rub
il between the fingers under the
# the epidermis and paren-
separate easily, the rest of the
may be removed from the solu-
ton and treated in the same way but if
not, then the boiling must be continued
for some time longer. To bleach the
skeletons, mix about a drachm of chic
ride of lime with a pint of water, adding
sufficient acetic acid 10 liberate the chic
ride. Steep the leaves ia this till they
are whitened about ten minBtesl taking
care not 70 let them stay in too long,
otherwise they are apt 10 become brittle. |
Put them into clean water and float
them out on pieces Of paper. Lastly, [
them from the paper before they
are quite dry, and place them in a book
Of botanical press.
STRAWBERRY GROWING.
From the HortcultuTlst.1
While We desire as great an increase
Of extent in fruit growing as the most
uLnEolaNlAE VIC 4l5D lli4lh AAIuIN Rather 3
than good is done to the cause by iso-
and, we may almost say, exagger-
ated statements Of the prices received
per quart, and the number Of quarts pro-
tuced TO the acre. As a good paving
crop near a market town, returning, say.
one hundred and fifty TO two hundred
per acre, Strawberries can, IN
ioubtedly, be depended upon but that
$500 to $1,000 can be readily obtained,
IS one Of the statements we do not
will hold good as a rule, no
what the cultivation. The young
the man just leaving town for
the country, to grow fruit for a support,
has need, before embaFking too largely,
to weigh well ali the statements, and TO
remember that from the gross receipts
there are heavy items to be deducted for
preparations Of land, cost Of plants, labor
Of planting, hoeing, mulching, picking,
marketing, baskets, ETC., and also that
sltbough, as q rule, strawberries may be
claimed as q sure crop, yet there are sea
sons when the winter has injured a large
number Of plants, springs, when frOsts
and cold rains hav injured the blossoms,
and summers when drought has greatly
reduced the promise Of a great crop.
As We before said, We are as anxious as
the most enthusiastic TO see fruit-growing
increase, because the health Of mankind
Is benefited by the free use thereof: but
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