Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-11
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Mr.. EDITOR: As you have commit
ted matrimony, you are doubtless look
ing forward to the time, when you will
retire from your present occupation and
live in brown stone mansion surroun-
ded by vines fruit trees, evergreens,
and - well I have been looking over
the Patent Office Report and find one
hundred and sevehty-fve (f75J Varieties
of grapes. You viii not want to trytt
them all to find which is the best. II.
find the Concord; Delaware, Rebecca,
and Hartford Prolific, well adapted to
bur latitude, and good table grapes. L
know nothing about wine grapes, and /
regard the man that would make wine
for Beverage as foe to his country
and an enemy to his race. You need
not dig the ground three feet deep with
a spade before planting; ground suit
ably prepared for vegetable garden
will do. ylsNi III
Raspberrie5 might be classed with
vines.-You will want some. l have
tried the PhiIad elphia, it is, ared berry;
the clnes are very hardy with EeryiI
few thorns; the fruit has a peculiar
odor common to all red berries; they
are good. bearers; the fruit is rather too
soft. for transportation. l have also
tried the Miami Black Cap. 1t is a
good berry sand heavy bearer The
Mammoth h Cluster and DayidsonT Thorn-.
less I have on trial. The Mammoth
Cluster is said to ripen two weeks after
the other Black caps are done. Ihavei
nearly one thousand Of them; they will
fruit the present season; after 1 have
fully tested them l viii speak of their
merits. There is no fruit that is better
for canning; they retain the flavor of
fresh fruit. They are easy to dry. 1t
requires about two quarts of Black caps
or three quarts red ones to make a
pound of dried fruit. Any soil that
will do for corn will suit to plant in..
Plow the ground, mark rows feet a.
part, set the plant feet in the rows;
plant early potatoes between the rows
the first season. There is no necessity
for providing few cords of stakes or a
ton of wire. sLet the canes grow, and
1when they are three feet high wipe the
point Of the vine with your thumb and
finger; they will then throw out side
shoots. When they are one foot long
cut the points off; this will cause the
main stalk to grow stiff enough for self
support. Let one cane grow the tirst
year, the second year, after that 4
may grow each year, if well cultivated.
If more plants are desired cut the
ends off the vines of the Black cap
varieties; they viii bend down to the
ground and take root. The red varie-
ties iucrese by suckers therefore should
have the ends Of the vines cut off twice
each summer. As soon as the fruit is
gathered cut down the old stalks with
, a pair of pruning shears. 1t is easier
to remove. them before the new canes
have got their growth. Blackberries
should be planted and treated in the
same way. You will want some Pears.
4 4 have before me the Ohio Pomolog-
|, ical Report and six Catalogues of diff,
ferent Nurseries. They contain seven
ty different varieties of Pears. In some
cases the same variety has near dozen
f names. If you are related to the man
of Viz, you may try them all. I have
twenty varieties on trial; the Bartlett
stands at the head of the list. The
Doyesme D'Ete, is the best early pear.
The Buffum is classed as a second rate
fruit; with me it is very good; the tree
is healthy and very productive. The
Beura Bose has no superior batthe tree
is xunhealthy. The Sekel, Iulieune,
iVirgalei Beura, D'Anjou, Dutchess
i 'lD'Angolemei and Flemish Beauty,
have given general satisfaction. I
would not refuse place to- the Bell or
Windsor; it has something to- recon-
mend it, If it does rot at the core. ]
have not given you all the good Pears
that have succeeded well in this lati-
tude. The Books say that Pears should
be planted on a high situation where
clay loan abounds, my thriftiest and
most productive trees are growing on
what might be termed brick clay with
a layer of lime stone in the subsoil, /
have peadhs trees I'd years I'D sgrow-
ing on the, same kind 8 of soil that
bore four good crops of fruit and they
are still thrifty, while others planted
at the some time on sandy loam pro-
duced one crop and then died. sts - ~
Plumbs succeed well on the same soil.
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j MANURE FOR MARKET qARDEN-
ING.-We quote the following from, Mr..
lQuinn's new book: mo matter how
Favorable the location, nor what the
character of the soil may be, he tills to
great disadvantage who fails to make. 4
liberal application of manures. Pha
lquestion for the gardener is, how much
tmanure can Iiuse with increased profit?
And if he. is alivejto his own inter, sts,
he will soon discover the quantity that
can be SO applied to an acre is large. OF
the sballSy flitsnares, that come from sta
Jbles where the horses are fed on grain
laad hay Is ofmost valhe, This quality
Of manure, almost ffeefro straw, We
buy at Newark, EeW Jersey, at an av-
l.erage of 81 S8f0r a, tWo-horse load
IDThis is ha6led- and thrown in heaps.
sometime comp with tanners re
fuse and woods earth, turning it over
TWO or three times before applying 1t.
Market gardeners will use from fifty to
seventy loads of this manure Z to AM
acre, besidesa top-dressing of five or
six hundred pounds of special ferlili-
ger, For the past four years we have
contracted foraN the refuse from alarge
soap factory and have found this waste