Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-05-08
farm, Q5arten& 6Qnsehpld.
FRUIT GARDEN.

We think we have the best soil aud climate
lor fruit culture in the world, yet probably
sci less returns for the money Invested than
any people on earth, simply because we do
not fully appreciate iaJor as an essential ele-
ment Of success. The amount Of practical
skin and incessaut care given to fruit culture
IN Eprope before The innumerable fruit enc
mics are overcome. would astoHish Ameri-
cans. The writer Of this has spent, every
wear. months of time when boy, in simply
training plums, apricots, cherries, pears, and
peaches TO walls built for their protection; in
capturing moths, wasps aud insects, during
summer; in keeping birds from the buds in
pipchiug back and directing the course OF
summer shoots, and, in innumerable ways,
watching the progress ana maturity Of fruits
which would have come to nothing but for
such care. Here We stick in tree, and
IT, after such Lerculean effort, we do not
get Titanic results, we swear at Pomona, and
pluck her image from our hearts. We do
not care how much money we pay for "a 'new
variety" of fruit. bat think nature uses us
badly if she asks for dimes worth Of labor
to care for 1t. It's curious to read the learn
cd essays in the secular papers about the
decline Of fruit growing. elements afe ex-
hausted. Systems are wrong" varieties
run out and so on. The soil and climate
opce grew fruit well here, but it will do 50 no
more. The truth is, in new localities in.
sects aad fungi, iuimical to fruit do not exist;
cannot until their natural food first comes
After few years they find ont your orchards;
and TO succeed after that you must fight
them. Insects and b'ights reproduce them
selves. add we must gather them together and
destroy them before they transcend their adj
olescent state, This is the only remedy.
Washes, oils, preparations, &C., do much
good; but much more may be done by manu-
al labor than Is generally supposed In all
large fruit gardens, II would pay wen to have
man especially devoted TO insects and fungi
destruction, as well as another TO look es-
pccially after the making Of manure.
Talking Of prices for new fruits reminds as
how many new strawberries will soon trem-
bic under their first iutroluctious this season;
as well they may considering the fate OF all
the new ones Of the past score Of years or so.
Because we made light Of the rretentions Of
so many Of the new aspirauts for popular ap-
plause, we are sometimes charged with being
opposed 10 experimenting No such thing;
but we are opposed 10 paying high prices an
nually for trash: and worse sJill, throwing
away precious time in testing kinds, only to
record with each returning summer that the
best Strawberries, taking all in ALL are still
Albany Seeding" ''THomphe de Grand
aud "Hoyey' Seeding AS Tor trying, good
friends keep on. There is no department Of
fruit culture more interesting than that Of
raising seedlings bat only do not when you
have the best you ever saw, imagine that
you have seen all the best. This is where
the trouble comes in.
To get good fruit you must manure well,
and we are often asked whether Mjsis not
best, or that IS not better, or something else
best Of all. But, really. any fertiliziug mat
ter is good. Ola decayed stable manure sat.
isles US for everything. bu, do not forge;
what we have eoi isa said aboat digging amongst
the roots. D0S'r DoIr. Surface mauuring
is daily adding to It's advocates; but IN par
ticular amongst fsuit growers; and no fruit,
probably, blcsses the surface mauarer more
heartfeltedy than the Raspberry. Put Few
inches Of rich, rotten stable manure about
your Phiiadelphias, and you will not think
them much inferior to the reputable old siuds
like Biuckle's Orange, Antwerp, &c.-at
leas. we don't
As to general May rules, we may say, look
sharp after insects. Last year we Introduce
petroleum as an insect destroyer. II is the
most valuable discovery Of moderu times to
the fruit grower. In oyerIoses 1T Is like to-
bacco, sulphur and others, fa.al 10 the life Of
the trees. We have found that Just enough
10 make barely purple tiugc on the water
used for Swinging is eiicctual in destroying
most insects. If one dose does NOT do. try
another the next day, Better use "a light
dose twice, than one heavy one, which ,iIls
plant and insects both.-G Gardeners N9afhIg.
SALT FOR AyMALs.-Ata meeting of the
New York Farmers Club, the question Of
giving salt to animals was discussed. when
Prof. Nash said: ''Tbat is an essential ele.
ment of animal life. When par.aken of be
yond proper limits, 1t is Injurious. In certain
localities it is essential to render food palata-
bic. II is good apsricat many times In
some parts Of the world /. exists il. The food
-as IN salt hay, for e&Ie-in sufficient
quantities not to require any more. Shut of
human being from food containing saline
material and he could survive only short
Time, and would die a most excrutiatipg
death. There is salt in the Soil, and il Lasses
into the plants that form human food ard the
subsistence Of dumb animals. The correct
rule is, let every animal have access to salt or
saline material at pleasure. The taste will
direct when the system needs salt. Ifanimals
in state Of nature did not need salt they
would have no appetite for it.n
MULCHIEG FRUT TEEEs.-The Massachu
salts pIougbr,,su is Of tL, 49,: IL . ,,l