The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-04-03
Farm Notes.


/, manure than in soil why will NOT al
tree and vegetable seed that reuuir
transplanting start best that way?,,
was very much interested i'm wha
he wrote, as 1 have been experiment
ing for some years past with pur
sand, as well as sand prepared Il
various ways, in order to satifsy m,
Yankee curiosity as to its value TO
potted plants, cuttings, etc, and in
tended in the near future, IL success
crowned my efforts, to give the reader,
of the Rural the benefit of my expert
ence. / know that there are a grea
many people, especially ladies. who
find it very difficult to prepare suit
able soil for potted flowers, and aftel
taking a great deal of pains to make
a compost that they suppose Is suit
able for their lovely flowers. soon find
to their great surprise and SORROW that
the soil bakes after being watered
and that their cherished plants do moi
flourish as they shopld. but make q
puny and sickly growth. / am not at
present fully prepar ed to write on thj
subject as would like to. but owing
10 the article above referred to lust
appearing, / thought perhaps 1t might
be the most favorable opportunity for
me to state a few of the experiments /
have already tried, and the success
that followed, as well as to speak of
some experiments now under way
which may in some future article
write about.
1t is well-known fact that the most
successful florists use a great deal of
sand. and IL one will examine carefully
the roots OF plants sent to them nv
such persons, he will almost inyari-
ably find that the little eompost that
is still clinping to the fibrous roots ia
very fine. sandy, light and porous.
Noticing this some wears ago. it set
lover of flowers and not having suit
able soil for them, determined TO
experiment and perseyere until I se-
cured it in some way. NV first at
tempt was with English walnuts. In
the summer of 1888. having a few
barrels OF sand left after plasterinc
my house, planted them in a long
this sand, which came from Vallejo.
and 1 suppose from the ocean beach.
took great care to ALWAYS have it
moist, and sprinkled it a number of
times with weak liquid hen manure.
Early in the spring they commenced
to come up nicely and made a rapid
growth. / found on transplantinc
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very few nuts had failed to cerminate.
while some of the same kind of nuts,
planted at the same date as the others
in good garden soil, mostly rotted.
Last spring obtained lot of fine
sand from the creek and mixed it with
one part of very fine and thoroughly |
rotten cow manure to three parts of |
sand / then took coal-oil cans. cut |
out the top, and planed some pine or |
redwood stats as wide as a lath and |
of an inch thick. These |
I cut exactly the width of the can and |
nailed two of them on the outside, |
opposite each each other, with inch
wire nails driven from the inside of |
the can. By this method they pro-
iected nearly one-fourth of an inch
the wood, Just enongh to |
clineh nicely. I then nailed on the
other two sides planed laths of suit
able length to come flush with the |
ends of the other peices and secured |
them there with two-inch wire nails,
and half-inch wire nails in the middle,
them in the same manner
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