Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-05-23
AGRICULTURAL, &C.
Timely Garden Hints.

When the fruit of your strawberry beds
is swelling they should be plentifully water
ed in tie nb CT ce of r, in. 1t has q marked
effect upon the pcrfectness and size of the
berry.
Rub off all the sprouts upon the stocks
which you have set with gratis this spring.
It will help to push along the growth of the
scion. Not unirequently gratis, after they
have started, die for want of sap from the
parent stem to sustain them.
The trees transplanted this spring should
be mulched as coon as the ground becomes
dry. For this purpose grass is as goo6 as
anything. Don't put around the tree too
much at time, and repeat the mulch when
its gets dry and thin. Remove 1t once or
twice during the summer, and stir up the
ground we'll then replace it. 1t will save
many tree, If the season should be hot and
dry, which we think this season will be.
Your raspberry and blackberry beds
should also be well mulched. Any quantity
of dry stuff about the place, especially leaves,
scrapings, &c, will do. An application of
the contents of a hot bed is very beneficial.
few radish seed planted around your
canteloupe hills will ordinarily protect the
vine against the striped bag. This danger
Gus 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
anG 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 frcm an inch
and half to two inches high, they can bo
thinned out and transplanted. II should
be done after rain, or the ground from
which they are taken and whittier they are
put should be thoroughly moistened.
| Rndishps nlwnre fo haitian rybon ,,Iopfn5
in new ground, or at least ground where
they have not heretofore been. Old gardens
are the worst places in the world for radsh-
es. You will rarely obtain any sound ones.
Clay mixed with the old soil vitalizes it
| greatly and will produce good radishes.
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 be-
come established. This can he prevented
by setting over the plant, say from eight
or nine to four or five 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 a week is gained in
time, and sometimes the plants saved from
severe or fatal injury. The boxes will last
twelve or fifteen years.
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como lighter in color than is natural for
them, or, rather if you wish the deepest
green attainable, give them a thorough
dressing of good barn-yard manure, extend.
ing as far out as the extremity of the
branches, and you will accomplish your
wish.
If shrubbery or fruit trees transplauted
| this season look sickly or backward in grow
! ing, 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 cnt down to with
in six inches Of the ground, if not dore
when set out. 1t will insure the growth Of
the new wood, 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 crop next year. Some people
are so erger to get fruit at once that they
totally neglect this advice. Germantown
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