New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-15

/ few DAYS ago.. that there. was just as
I great difference,in; the flow of sap of
the evergreens in cool and warm
weather, as there is in the flow of mo-
lasses in winter and summer. /
thought the illustration was, an apt
one:
I The Norway spruce and the Austrian
pines are. among the best in this lati-
tude, and especially so for the; prairies
west of the Mississippi river. The~hem-
locks and arbor. vitas do best where
they are partly shaded by buildings or
other trees from the mid day sun. The
hemlock is the most graceful of ever
greens. After they are set-not in
rows. but in triangular groups about
a rod apart, we'll to the right and left
| OF the vard-mulch them with; any
! light, loose substance, composed in
part of well-rotted barn-yard manure,
and give them an, occasional watering
with cool soap-suds, and success is GER
tain. E. B..W.
Raspberry Culture.
The Farmers Magazine and Rural Guide.
The modern system of cultiva ting
the raspberry obyiates the necessity of
any kind of support, and the plants
are managed so that they are able to
support themselves when full of fruit.
This is accomplished by allowing: the
first years growth of newly set out
plants grow undi> turbed; the second
year two OF more shoots will be pro-
duced. and when. these have reached
| to a height OF about two feet, their
tops are p'nched off so as to stop their
! further upward growth. They will
then proceed to put out side shoots;
balancing and supporting themselves
very etfectually, and appearing like
small, evenly headed trees. When
growth has been completed for the sea-
son and the leaves have fallen, these
side shoots are pruned back so as to
have them from twelve to sixteen inches
long, according to their strength.
This can be done quite rapidly by prun-
! ing shears.
A Home to Live In.
| Donald G. Mitchell.
The home and its apartments should
not be treated as a dead thing, where
we make best arrangements OF its fit
tings, and there leave it. 1t must
grow in range and in expression with
our necessities. and diverging and de-
veloping tastes. The best decorators
cannot put that last finish which must
come from home hands. 1t is great
canvas always on the easel before US
growing in its power to interest every
day and year-never getting its last
touches-never quite ready to be taken
down and parted: with. No home
should SO far out top the tastes of its
inmates that they cannot somewhere
of their love and culture. 1t is an aw-
full thing to live in a house where no
new nail can be driven in the wall, and
no tray of wild flowers. or wood moss
es to lie set upon a window sill. . The
ways are endless, in short, in whicln a
house can be endowed with that home
I atmosphere which shall be redolent of
the tastes of its inmates
NIulchtng Bearing Fruit Trees.
P. I. Quinn recently wrote to the
New York Tribune concerning the adj
vantage of mulching orchards and
gardens. He says: This should be
more generally practiced in fruit pro-
ducing districts, for it is the least ex-
pensiye ana most effective method. of
protecting the fruit trees against the
bad results often following the fire.
quent and sudden changes Of tempera-
ture: during the summer and fall
months, When the surface of the
ground is left exposed to the direct
rays of the sun. Again, when the
mulch is put two. or three inches in
thickness, the surface soil is constantly
moist and loose, even when no rain
falls for term of several weeks, and
the trees of fruit receive no check for
want of moisture and food under
such circumstances. My method is to
cultivate the space between the rows
OF: trees in the orchard, using. small
one-horse pillow and cultivator running,
not more than two inches deep, during
the early part of the season. From the
first to the fifteenth OF July. have
put on a heavy coating of salt, hay or
straw, covering the surface as far as
the branches extend. After this there
is>no more trouble with weeds or grass.
There may be, a few scattered. ones, but
:, they are easily destroyed. Every
fruit grower knows that two. or three
weeks before the time of gathering the
main crop OF fruit, fine specimens are
: constantly blown off by strong winds.
When the grounds mulched the ma
jority of such specimens are not bruised
orlnJured for sale. This saving alone
:, l consider pays me for the. trouble OF
: mulching the orchard. There is only
. one serious drawback to the applica.
ton OF mulch, and that is, the. danger
of hay OF straw getting, on fire when
rendered dry by continual warm
weather.
About, Crafts,
Peter Henderson,. jnillustrating how
little the: graft is, influenced BY the
stock, says-thatif if. we. take: a graft from
the sourest. crab,apple, ard insert in i,
a. branch of the sweetest apple tree we
can tind,. the shoot which grow
from the grab draft will ever remain 8
crab, in no way affected by the sweet
apple stock: on which it is growing
: The result will be the same if the oper
alton is reversed. with the sweet apple
grated. on. the, sour, the individualit,