Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03
Won't PHdlNIX BRATTLEBoRO, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1878
NOTES

Twelve Yards SQUIRE Of banana plants yield
1000 pounds Of fruit while the same area Of
wheat would give but 80 pounds, and OF pota-
toes 100 pounds
If an evergreen tree is thin IN foliage at the
base, the top Of the tree, leader and all must
bc cut away All evergreens, If properly at
tended 10. will make new leaders after being
cut back.
A very considerable branch of trade on the
continent OF Europe exists iu everlasting
flowers and 'immortellcs, an acre of which
plants will yield two or three tons weight ui
tufts Of flowers. realizing from Sj 90 per
hundred weight.
One great fault in verbcna growing. both
in the house and garden. is the practice Of
watering too freely. The plant in its native
habitat grows on dry hills, and keeping the
plant soaked with water always produces dis
ease. Nerbenas in growth should frequently
have the leading shoots plnched out. especial
ly those of tall habit, as thus the plant breaks
freely and hue-shEped plants are obtained
Camel-raisug is likely to become proftt-
bic business in Texas Twenty yeuts ago the
United States war department sent a herd in
TO that State to transport supplies across the
Staked Plains 10 military posts. They fell
into the hands of D. Mather OF Elglu. who
now has a herd of 40, which increase at the
rate of 10 per year, and sell for $3.50 to $500
"a head. They nrr raised without expense,
feeding mainly on cactus and brush. and seem
well adapted TO the climate.
1t was stated at the Rochester. n y. Hor-
ticulturd meeting recently held that in Gin
Cinnat there were canned in 1877, 100 600
cans of strawberrie,, $4,000 Of blackbcries.
PCS, 600 of raspbcrries and G12, 600 of ielhes.
besides apples. peaches, plums cherries, &c.
The amount of small fruits paid for and CON
sumed in the United States yearly was est
mated at So. OOO. 600. The small fruits rails
ed IN Michigan were estimated at q. 7g5. 600
bushels. amounting to at least S5.591, 600
In Scotland the greater part OF the cereals
are sowu broadcast In England. on the 9th
err hand. they ar frequently sowu hy drilling
machines indeed III the eastern counties
they are almost all sowu 10y machinery. Ia
| perlence has hitherto seemed 10 show that the
! benefits of drilling are more marked in poor
soils than in rich. on light rather than heavy
/ land. IN dry climates than IN moist Drilling
] is less advantageous III the case of late-sowl
crops, which grow up more rapidly and keep
down the weeds.
! If two trees are set out in the spring and q
/ drouth follows, one Of them. having tine soil
/ tightly truddeu around it. will probably live
/ the other having the roots merely covered
with loose, fine soil viii probably die wa
! teriug and mulchlng viii scarcely save 1t.
| This fact should impress tine lesson that in
trnsplanting each little rootlet should come
into close contact with the soil. and that com
pact soil retains moisture much longer than
when very loose and porous Stir the SUR
face, that is certainly proper but firm tn,
soil around the roots. especially just after the
removal. The gardener who pots plants firm.
! ~ viii have better success than he who throw
the soil IN loosely and he who presses til.
soil over his bed Of seeds will find % surer r..
ward than he who rests content with merely
. covering it with fine earth