The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-28
Farm and Garden Notes.


"WHEN the leaves begin to fall " is
the best time to set out trees. They
will then get well established in their
new quarters before winter and go
through safe. Late setting is rather
more risky.
THE Iowa Homestead says that an
eastern paper on fruits is of no use for
northwestern readers, as they require
hardy trees. Perhaps so, although a
great deal will depend on what east
ern paper is meant.
WHEN there is full crop of fruit
the insects are not perceived, but the
following year, when there is light
crop, the insects injure no more fruit,
but it is more apparent, and all fruit
will appear to be attacked.
If our horticulturists were to take
one-tenth part of the pains in raising
seeding gooseberries that they do in
raising Seeding strawberries, we would
soon have American varieties surpass-
ing the large English varieties.
PLANING-MILL shavings, where they
can be had in quantity, make an eX-
cellent material for banking and blanch-
ing celery. They should have a
thorough soaking after banking, and
this banking can be done very early in
the season, when the heat would rot
every plant banked with soil
CANADA has produced new grape,
the Jessica, said to be ten days earlier
than the Tolman. The fruit is of me-
dunn size in bunch and berry, has a
pleasant, but not high flavor, some
what acid, without foxiness, and no
hard pulp, but juicy. The originator is
ID. w. Beadle of st. Catharines, On
! tario.
To become good farmer or fruit
grower requires large amount of close
observation. The idea that the farmer
needs but little talent to succeed is a
fallacy. We need the best and bright
est men for the calling. Dull men
should seek some other business, where
less ability is required, if they desire to
be successful.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Homestead
says 81 think the solution of the
ouaStiop as IN American Wopdar nooS
is very largely, if not wholly, one of
enriching the soil. Last year l ma
nured them lightly and had almost no
yield. This year I used Bradley's
phosphate freely and obtained nearly a
bushel from pint of seed"
WE see advised the use of bottles
filled with sweetened water hung in
the trees to entrap the Goblin moth.
The time is wasted in all such expert
ments. The Goblin moth belongs to
the rather intelligent order of insects,
and knows the difference between a
sweet apple and bottle of sweetened
water. They are not taken in by it.
IT is useless to try to grow Towering
plants in shady windows. A good
show of fine foliage is much more eff
fective than a window full of sickly
geraniums, pelargoniums, fuchsias, etc.
The american Garden gives the follow
ing list of desirable plants for north
window: Aspidistra variegata, Cur
culigo recurvata, Drac@na indivisa and
Seaforthia elegans, with an English
ivy to run up about the window frame.
THE bones which the managers of
the kitchen generally hand over to the
tender mercies of cats and dogs and
chickens in the yard are an exceed
ingly valuable fertilizer, as everybody
knows, or should know. Very few
people, however, know how to utilize
them. Simply throw them in your
kitchen (wood) fire aud burn them.
All the mineral elements-of which
phosphate of lime is the chief one
are incombustibe, and, when mixed
with the wood-ashes, greatly enhance
their value as manure for the orchard
garden, strawberry or raspberry patch
A CORRESPONDENT of the Homestead
says that cut-worms may be dealt with
successfully thus: 81 dissolved half q
pound of saltpetre in three pints OF
water, mixed that thoroughly with one
half bushel of dry ashes, and sprinkled
the ashes on the beans just as there
was a shower coming up, and the rair
washed the ashes all off into the ground
, had no more trouble with the worms