The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-12-03
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Various Facts in Horticulture.

various Facts in Horticulture.
For growing hyacnths in glasses, Sc
lect the single varieties only, and use
medium.s sized bulbs.
Pruning late in autum, in winter, or
early spring, has the advantage of giving
the operator good chance to see what
he is doing, on account of the absence Of
leaves.
Dwarf apple trees, well attended, have
the advantage over standards. in that
three or four hundred may be planted on
an acre, while there is room for only for
ty or Fifty standards.
Au Engish horticultural work says
that the red maple, so common in all
parts Of this couuty,is one OF the handsom
est Of naples, on account Of its scarlet
flowers in spring, its red fruit in early
summer, aud the red tint Of its decayiug
foliage in sutum.
Four birds destroy the codling moth
the blackcap Tilmouse, or Chickadcc, the
Downy Wood peck,r, the Bluebird, aud
the Crow Blackbird.
The Peachblow, Peerless and Chill
No. 2 are the varieties Of the potatoe
least liable to the attacks Of the potato
bug, according to the experiments at Iowa
Agricultural College, the last named sort
entirely escaping.
Succuleut plants, like PelargoDiums,
may be raised iu common rooms from
cuttings, without glass covering.
The Virginia Creeper, AID the Tramp
ct CreepeI, are amoug the best and most
free growing runners TO cover rocks and
stone walls, as well as brick buildings,
where desired
A tree rose grows in Ceylon, the mass
of branches forming circumference Of
50 feet, the tree Is feet high, aud bear.
ing when in bloom two thousand flowers
1t is variety known as the Gloire de
DUou.
There are more than thousand named
and described varieties Of the pear raised
in this country, in the gardens Of pono-
!ogists and others, and about $500 va;ie.
ties of tho urr'o d.. IL" practical
cultivators will want more than duzeu
Of each.
Seeds Of hardy Towering plants require
a temperature in the soil of about 50 or
60 deg. to germinate well, and tender
plants IS deg. aud upwards. These facts
should be borne in mind by those who
would succeed with annual flowers, and
the seeds be sown at corresponding per-
iods in spring.
To send the strawberry or other plants
by mail, lift them, wash the roots, wrap
them tightly in nearly dry moss. encase
them in thin oi.paper, leaving the pack.
age open at one end if the plants point
one way, or at both ends if they point
both ways, with the roots 10 the middle.
Cover with wrapping paper, cord on, and
write the direction.
Peter Henderson says that experiments
with pure water, sawdust, charcoal, au-
thracite, brick dust, and sands Of all COL
ors and textures. showing that cuttings
placed in each, in the same temperature,
rooted almost simultaneously, and equal
ly well.
A soil covered with grave! cool more
slowly than sandy surface, and the heat
Of the heat Of the day is carried by it
further into the night-hence gravel sur
face is better for slow ripening fruits, at
late grapes.
Fifteen minutes OF sunshine enable such
plants as the pea, bean, sunhower, and
raspberry, TO absorb as much carbonic
acid as they would exhale in a whole
night.
A shoot Of a peach tree. oue.tenth Of
an inch in diameter, contains ten thousand
minute tubes for the flow of sap-and
one an iuch 10 diameter, a million.
A difference oil five to one in the size Of
eurrauts is produced by pruning, man
uriDg aud cultivation, when compared
with those grown on neglected bushes ii
grass.
Columella recommended ashes, green
manure aud bones for manure, but knew
nothing Of carbonic acid, nitrogen, OF
phosphate Of lime.
Apples, pears and peaches, contain
eight-two 10 eighty-six per cent of water.
aud most other fruits nearly the sane.
Grapes contain nearly twice as much
sugar as apples, more than twice as much
as entrants, three times as much as rasp.
berries anc currants, and five or Fix timer
as much as apricots and peaches.
A grass plant will exhale its weight Of
wat,r III "a hours in hot and dry sum.
mer weather. A plant of corn, accord
ing TO careful experiment, exhulcd il
20 days, Ii times its weight of water.
MeloLs were raised, even iu the coolies,
summers, at Freiburg, in Saxony, b.,
coating the surface of soil with 40 inch o.
coal-dust.
Over twenty insect enemies Of the pc
tato bug have been discovered, which
may do great good If the birds do moi