The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-14
pro+ection from Frost.


Late spring frosts are the terror Oh gar
In sections of country subject to
49,, tender plants should not be planted
Az noulched or newly dug soils are
,,,ors liable to the white frosts OF
l.l~ mulching should not be applied to
;ah 7'otatoes. etc., until danger of frosts Is
.ror nor should tender plants be hoed when
change to cold may be anticipated. Ii
st l. annrehended, says Gardener for
~ co,,5h plants in hills are best protected
,;.a hores, vine shields, or plant protectors
,laced over them. Rows OF Deans OF pooa-
tooe can be secured by covering them with
vide plank placed on blanks two or three
inches Above the plants.
Iyhan nlants are actually frozen, in many
oosos thew may be saved if they can be
+bawed gradually without exposure to the
e-,n To effect this, if coverings are ap-
nl;ad before sunrise. or the plants are
ior;nkled repeatedly with water until the
frost is extracted, they generally escape
rritbout serious injury. If frosty night
;.followed by cloudy or foggy morning,
ininrv to plants need not be apprehended
FrIit tees and vines in blossom, or with
voung fruit set, or in some large districts so
liable to suffer from late spring frost, that
frnit hearing, in the case of those first to
b,oorn is the exception. The crop is lost
Derbans two wears out of three. 1t is seldom
IN the most frosty localities that they are
endangered more than two or three nights
in a season, all the fruit of the peach being
rarely killed until it begins to enlarge, and
+he blossom is on the wane. Such trees are
too large to admit Of being covered. They
can. however, be fully protected by smoke.
Ordinary smoke in still, frosty nights, rises
randy, and to be of any service it must
settle over the trees in moderately dense
cloud, acting as a screen and preventing ra-
dlation. A heavy, damp smoke, not raising
rapidlv. in which the trees are kept fully
eDveloped until some time after sunrise, is
what is necessary to protect fruit garden.
slight frost will do fruit blossoms little
injury, and there are some, which, like
those of the Forelle pear, will bear good
many more degrees of cold than Others
When severe frost is pretty certain, bill
lets Of short, dry wood fat lightwood, and
piles Of wet tan, sawdust, or other damp
trash. should be distributed about two rods
apart over the fruit garden, and the most to
the windward. The tan or trash should be
distributed during the winter. About
o'clock in the morning is soon enough to
start the fires. each of which is made with
three or four Of the billets, being kindled
with the lghtwood. When well lighted,
put on and nearly smother it with the wet
tan If it again break out into blaze. ap-
ply more tan, and keep up damp, shoulder
ing fires, and curtain of smoke over the
trees until the sun is well up and the frost
is fully extracted. If the fruit is
frozen hard as bullets, have no fears, but
keep up dense smoke. By this mode of
applying smoke the peach crop can be saved
every year. There is no doubt about it,
When a boy, thirty-five years ago, we ate
Of pears thus saved by an uncle of ours,
and have ourselves since repeatedly prac-
ticed it and seen it tried by others. Bous-
singault says it is as old as the Incas of
Peru. The peach crop has thus been pre-
served with the mercury as low as "a on the
morning of March 81, and the blossoms
mostly fallen. Without such protection
few good varieties of the peach are safe
with the mercury below So. The expense
Of the operation is but a trihe, compared
with the value of fine crop of fruit in 10
cality where all, not thus protected, is cut
Off
Winter protection is also necessary for
the preservation of many valuable plants.
the limits within which they are naturally
found being much narrower than those
within which they can be grown
with little protection. Besides ordinary
bedding plants which are stored during the
winter in pits or other structures, and again
occupy the beds and borders when danger
OF frost is over there is a large class Of
plants, that, with a slight protection W ere
they stand, will pass the winter safely and
throwup much more vigorous shoots than
II taken up and replanted. friend of
ours succeeds perfectly with the fig in Penn
sylYanla by bending down the limbs
yearly and covering with earth; and
with no protection, in Georgia they are oc-
Sonally killed to the ground
ordinary herbaceous plants need no pro-
tectlon, unless they have been divided or
uansplanted in autumn. Those that are
more tender may have their roots and
crowns protected with moss, straw, or
'e'H4o HldHuTe, uOJ pldceu 50 Oulck as
" neat Leaves, if employed, will require
little soil or brush thrown over to keep
tnem In place. Tender bulbs are protected
II tAe same way. If the foliage is evergreen,
" must not be smothered with too thick a
covering
0ufuooy plants may have their roots well
covered thus, and their stems bound with
oNa" or moss For small shrubs, n few
evergreen boughs thrown over them is a
sOol projections larger ones may have their
y ancAes drawn together and wound with
nav Tender roses may have tan bark or
Sa"uuS' banked up about their stems, to be
removed il spring.
O"ADIng plants, if tender, must be taken
uo"n and laid upon the soil to be covered
WIN leaves or earth.
uere IS some danger, where much litter
" USED OF harboring vermin. Many things
a.0 Deter protected by bending a few hoops
oS Tue bed with three or four laths lying
q . 'Noin' on which is thrown cloth or INIT
wig IN severe weather. Pansies, carna-
,. Y4o aad stocks, are thus generally pro-
/ S'el' giving them light ard air in mild
.l go',eF' Flower pots, sun shades. vine
oa" .,u' and wooden frames, covered with