The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-01-23
Aprifultnral
woRK FOR THE MONTE.

don't "uRcover the roots oil. the trees
TO prevent too early blooming" 1t
will not prevent it j; on the contrary,
it will cause them to bloom earlier
BY exposing the roots to the sun. Ii
ex posed cover them Ave orsix inches
deep, aud 40 long as the earth re-
mains cold the trees will delay their
blooming. The covering, further
more, if extended to ebody of the
tree will enable you, by uncovering
in the spring, to detect the presence
of any borers that may have com
menced near the surface.
If. there is any hedging to be done
the pyracantba may be set out from
August to March either by cuttings
or rootlets, the latter the most cer-
tain, but the cuttings with almost
equal certainty of success if the earth
remains moist. If cuttings Of this
plant are put out in the early spring
for the purpose Of raising rootlets
they should be set in soil that will re-
main moist in summer. After they
are we'll rooted very little risks at
tends their transplanting.
Cuttings of the LeConte pear may
be put out as late as February, or
until the sap appears in the trees.
They have been successfully rooted
in the open ground from October to
March. STRAWBERRIES.
January is thought by many to be
the best time for putting out straw
berries 10 this climate II the soil
is rich the roots will spread out in
setting, and the plants we'll watered
and cultivated they will bear a very
good crop the first seacon. We are
not sure that the Wilson Albany has
yet beer surpassed for sure and
marketable crop, while its favor is
among the best. There are many
popular named varieties, among them
the Lincoln and Sharpless, larger in
size but amateurs must bear in
mind that sensational articles must
have sensational expenditure Of brain
and muscle.
THE FIELD WORK.
Thrifty farmers have not waited
for January to begin the work of the
new year, but have plowed in good
supply of oats, wheat, rye or barley,
or some one of these valuable grains;
have cleaned out the fence corners
and secured against the danger Of
fire; have righied up the fence
against spring depredations of cat,
tie =; threshed down the corn and cot
ton stalks, and are now turning I'M
der with subscribers all the vegetable
matter of the surface to be rotted 10
time for the next crop. Early good
breaking also allows time for the at
mosphere to pulverize clodded soils.
Remember that at least half the
value Of the compost heaps may be
lost by failure to rot. If caked or
hauled out in clods it will very Likely
be sp cad that way in the trenches,
and much of il lie there and bake in
the sun all summer without doing any
good. Save your labor and increase
your crops by stirring and moisten
ing the heaps sufficiently before re-
movsl.
Green cotton seed for manure are
incomparably superior to rotted ones
because not one farmer in twenty
rots them without great loss in their
value. January is a good time to
check off your corn land and drop
the green seed in the CT oss burrows
Cover them in that situation lightly,
and drop the corn on them in Feb
ruary or March. They will thus
rot before the warm weather arrives
be 10 the right place and without
loss.
Every foot of the land to be cult,
waited should be broken up before
the frost cease, if possible, because
the frost are excellent pulverizers
but if that cannot be done stretch a
point and break up the ground where
you design to plant melons, cucum-
bers, etc, to destroy the cut worms
and other insects burrowed there to
plague the vines and fruits,
The best melons are made with
we'll rotted compost mixed in the soil.
Throw down a wheelbsrrow full at
intervals of twenty feet every way
for watermelons. Throw it there in
January, aad by planting time 10
April or may it will be we'll leached
into the soil and near the surface
where it ought to be.
THE FLOWER GARDEN.
This is perhaps the best possible
time to take cuttings of roses and
fish geraniums, and , operly manag-
ed, neither will incur risk. Roses
may be put in the open ground in
this climate with perfect safety, in
moist but not wet ground, and should
be sloped with one or two eyes or
buds above ground. Cuttings of all
fine roses should be taken every
year to renew the old plants, fer what
lady has not observed that young
vigorous plants bear fner flowers
than the overgrown brush heap of
an plant, often permitted to destroy
itself with old and dead wook. Most
roses, but not all, will bear severe
quitting all the better. All we are
with will bear symmetri
cal or jadicions trinming. A fine
plant, however, should not be sacri-