Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-03-03

with a mali and let it pass through sitter
until wen pulverized. Sow it over the
bed with the hand. Almost bushel
should be put on 100 square yards. Il
may be put on just as well without re.
moving the brush. After few days Q
marked improvement may be observed in
the growth, and, if it is thought proper,
there may then be applied half as much
more. Well rotted stable manure may be
used in the same way, except that the
sitting may be dispensed with; and il
should be sowed more freely, as it is moi
so strong. In using manure from the
stable be sure that no grass or hay has
been fed them, and the seed mixed with
the manure, for these seed will ruin the
bed.
Super-phosphate of lime, sand plaster
or guanO, abou half gallon to 100 square
yards, win make the plants much greener
and harder, but does not seem to make
them grow much faster, unless the
weather is moist. The cost is trifing.
when tied in the bed with large gang of
little chickens (the smaller the better) to
run about and catch the bugs, will de-
stroy thousands Of them. If the plants
are too thick on the bed, they can he
thinned by running sharp toothed rake
over the bed. There is little danger of
making the plants too thin. -sL~-za
All the weeds, grass and leaves ought
to be picked of by hand as soon as they
make their appearance. -5-
The brush should not be taken off I'M
til the plants are large enough to protect
the ground from the sun (say about the
size of silver quarter, and if the wealth
er is very dry it is often best to leave
the brush on until the plants are large
enough to draw. g-a4 auHc gs,-.-
1t is often great benefit when the
weather is dry to put about half the
brush back on the bed after drawing the
first time. 1t keeps the ground from
getting too dry. 1H<
PROTECTION AGAINST FREEZING.
When it is so cold as to endanger the
plants from freezing, lay on just double
the quantity of brush and they will never
be killed by cold. a5 l4- @ 's
The plants ought not to be drawn for
transplanting until they are from four to
six inches long. 1900.
Much smaller plants will do for fresh
land than for old. d E. B. r.
SEEDING PEACH TREES VS..
BuDDED PEACH TREES.
To the Editors of the Union and American:
NASHVILLE, Feb. %, 1871.--In re-
spouse to the inquiry of Mr.. Woodal in
reference to the difference between grated
and seeding trees, ! would reply:
first, that the professional nurseryman is
q specialist, and that his opinions about
the superiority of grated fruit must be
=
looks through colortd glasses, and the
wish is often justly alleged to be the GA
ther to the thought" Now the fruit
grower has one interest, and the plant or
scion grower has another interest, and
the truth about this matter must be
learned in the crucible of experience, and
not in the catalogue of the nurserymsn.
Experience has demonstrated that fruit
tends to deviation. This deviation pro-
duces new varieties, some Indifferent, but
many of them valuable. All of our i'm
proved fruits result from this disposition
to deviation, and to the development of
new varieties. Now this tendency
gives some uncertainty as to the
varieties, butt is safe to assume that seven
tenths, if not nine -tenths, of seeding
trees produced by planting the seeds of
choice peaches will produce peaches not
inferior in quality to the original fruit
1t is equally certain that Seeding trees
bear fruit more certainly, are less liable
to injury by freeze and frost, and that
they are much more long-ived. Then,
why plant grated fruit at all says one.
We answer that you perpetuate particu-
lar variety with certainty; that the inter
ruption of sap in the artificial union de-
velops the fruit more rapidly; that it
fruits better at an earlier age at the ex-
pense of wood and foliage; that the fruit
is often larger, but that it is forced and
unnatural growth, and that it is
at the expense of vigor and of
age, and with its precocity you may
certainly anticipate a feeble consti-
tuition, easily disturbed and tending to
speedy decline. While then grating is
valuable as tending to perpetuate varieties
highly priced, while it forces fruit trees
to earlier maturity, for the graft is but a
part of the old tree, we must look to
Seeding trees as more hardy and vigorous,
less liable to the accidents of climate,
more prolific and more long Lived. They
are the acclimated yeomsnry of the vege-
table world, the grated but transplanted
immigrants. Any one can plant a peach
seed, and any one can raise an orchard of
seeding peaches. If the wind and the
bee have transplsted pollen from some
other stock and you get vigorous hybrid,
you are as apt to be the gamer as the
loser.
Thus have been produced the long list
of fruits we read of in the nurseryman's
book. The seeding is the progressive fruit,
and the graft is the old fogy of our frnit
garden. know one of the largest nurse
rymen south of the Ohio river, who has
large nursery of Seeding fruits for him
self and the market, aud who has long
list of his grated trees for sale. l gath
cred these facts from his friend, you will
not find 1t in his catalogue. Now it is
the nurseryman's interest to sell grated
fruit, because it is his specially. II is
hisinterest, also, because tits shoddy fruit;
it looks well but will not last. My advice
is to get one-third of the best grated
fruit as luxury; then add two thirds of
choice seedlings, embracing variety in
quality and time of ripening, and depend
on them for certainty, for abundance of
fruit and for good old age. The apple
tree has history, with its epauletts and