The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-10
THE ORCHARD.

hours. The most healthful dessert that can
be placed upon the table is Il baked apple.
If eaten frequently at breakfast, with coarse
bread and butter, without meat or flesh, it
has an admirable effect ON the system, often
removing constipation, correcting acidities,
and cooling off febrile conditions more
effectually than the most approved medi
cines. Liebig says they prevent debility,
strengthen digestion, correct the putreiac
tive tendencies of heterogeneous food. avert
scurvy, and strengthen the power of pro-
ductiYe labor. iaa
I. How TO GRAFT GRAPE Wings "A cor
respondent of the Asheville (Nbrth Caro-
lina) Nesos and F'a,mer says that the proper
way to graft the grapevine is to cut the
scions between the first of December and
the lastof January, and pack away in a box,
bedded in wet sand, and keep them in a
cellar until the leaves of the vines to be
grated are half grown. then dig down he
low the collar, OF the point where the roots.
of the vine radiate, and search for the
largest and most thrifty, cutting them loose
from the collar and with pegs bringing
them to a horizontal position. Cut off the
end smoothly and graft just as you would
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eyes, and then place a large hill around it,
reaching to the top of the graft, covering
the upper buds an inch with loose dirt, free
from clods. and then if the graft fails to
grow, it is because the scions had lost their
vitality before the work was done. If the
roots are thrifty and in rich ground, the
vines will grow eight to sixteen feet in
length the first year, and will grow a crop
of grapes the second year. p' @ ~
HoRTIcULTURAL MAxIMs. When fruit
trees occupy the ground nothing else should
except very short grass.
Fruitfulness and growth of the tree can
not be expected the same year.
There is no plumb that the curculio will
not take, though any kind may sometimes
escape for one year in one place.
Peach borers will not do much damage
when stiff clay is heaped up around the tree
a foot high.
Pear blight still puzzles the greatest men.
| The best remedy known is to plant two for
every one that dies
| If you don't know how TO prune. don't
! hire a man a man from the other side Of the
sea that knows less than you do
! Don't cut off a big lower limb unless
you are IL TeHtcr, anti (tuH care WHdC De-
! comes of the tree when your time is out
| A tree with the limbs coming out near the
| ground is worth two trees trimmed up ten
| feet, and so until they are not worth any
thing. 10
Trim down, not up; shorten in. not
lengthen up.
If you had your arm cut off, you would
feel it to the heart-a tree win not only feel,
but rot to the heart.
| When anybody tells you of gardener
that understands all about horticulture and
agriculture, and that lie can be hired, don't
believe q word of it, for there are no such
to he hired Such a man can make more
than you can afford to give him, and if he
! has sense enough to understand the busi-
ness, he will also have enough to know this.
TOP GRAFTING OLD APPLES TREES :
A correspondent of the Prairie Farme,
thinks it better to regraft old trees Gf not
enfeehlcd by age) than to set young ones
! although it generally costs about $3.50 to
regraft tree of twenty-fnur limbs, or to set
| six young trees, They make much strong
! er growth of shoots, cnne into bearing ear
ler, and arein less danger of injury by
mice, rabbits, sheep, &c. He recommends
for this purpose the Fourth of July apple,
! Ben Davis, Grimes Golden Pippin, Willaw
Twig and Stark-all fair and productive
western sorts. He carefully avoids the com
non practice of cleft grating into the limbs
some twenty or thirty feet up, but inserts
the scions into the sprouts near the centre
of the head. ,,ao
PRESERVING PoTATOEs AND FRUIT.-The
| RurdI Gentleman translates from a Frepcl
agricultural paper very cheap and simple
/ device by preserving potatoes and fruits
and possibly meats The plan is to take d
liquor cask, or hogsbead, remove one bot
tom, and pierce the other, with holes tn,
4 size of finger Place the cask ON ,tnrc,
brick stands each stand composed ofiitwt
bricks--so as to have the casll about fon
inches above ground. This will cause
constant circulation of air, and keep the con
tents of the cask cool, dry and sound in
definitely. A cheap substitute for casks
might he had by building compartments ir
| cellar. nine feet long and five wide, fou1
inches from the ground, the bottom perfo
rated, and the compartments separate from
each other. One experimenter made tht
4 compartment five inches from the back wal
Iewith holes on the sides as well as bottom.
The success of these experiments with po
totoes, turnips and fruits has been perfec,l, !,
satisfactory; and lis believed would b.
equally so with meats VI ti
i This is worth remembrance 54A
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