The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-04-03
SELECTION 81 Prult FOR the Farm.

Prof. Thos. L. Brunk Of Maryland
Agricultural College. made an address
to the Cecil Farmers Club, at it,
March meeting. which assembled al
Mr.. Joseph Coudon's, in which hs
recommended the following selection
Of fruit trees and vines for the farm
The Prof. said The following number
and varieties / consider best for family
purposes.
Apples-Two Early Harvest. 2 Red
Astrachan, | Carolina Red June,
Sweet Bough, ] Summer Rose,
Maiden's Blush. 2 Grayenstein,
Fallewater, | Smokehouse, 2 Wine Sap,
2 York Imperial. These sixteen trees
planted 3Ox3O or 24x36 feet will oc-
cupy only one third Of an acre. When
properly pruned this distance is ample
for perfect growth and productiveness.
These varieties will give succession
from June till April.
Pears-One Summer Doyenne, /
Dearborn's Seeding, Wilder's Early,
! Doyenne, d'etc. / Beurre Clifford, 2
Duchess d'Augouleme, 2 Seckel, 8
Lawrence, ! Buffum, | Idaho, l Winter
Neils. These Is trees will give the
best favored pears in the thousands Of
varieties and fill season from July to
March.
Peaches-One Amsden, l Early
Rivers, ! Troth, | St. John, Mt
Rose, 2 Crawford's Early, 2 Reeves
Favorite, 2 Crawford's Late, ! Stump,
] Chairs Choice, ! Lalway, / Biloen's
Late. These are among the very best
varieties for family use and succession
of fruit from June rs to November.
Plant 1878. These sixteen trees
will occupy one eighth Of an acre.
Plums One Wild Goose, 2 Way
land, 2 Wooten, i Indian Chief, / Lom
bard, Blackmsn, / Shropshire
Damson, l Washington, ! Richland, |
Princes Imperial Gage. Plant 15x15
feet and they will occupy one.sixteenth
Of an acre.
Cherries-Two Black Tartarian. !
Governor Wood, / Napoleon Bigarreau,
1 Belle de Choisey, / Dyehouse, l
Early Richmond, ! Olivet,
Grapes-Two Champion, (black and
early), 2 Brighton, A Concord, 2 Cataw-
ba, 4 Delaware. 2 Goethe, 2 Maxatam-
ney, ! Moore's Early, / Niagara, 2
Nortons' Va, Worden. Plant these
10zlO feet and they will occupy one
eighteenth Of an acre, and should bear
with proper care every seasonable year
alter they are three years old about
AS pounds. This is certainly all that
any family Of moderate size could use.
Blackberries-25 Early Harvest, 25
Wilson, rs aLwton. Plant four feet
spsrt IL rows eight feet apart, or all in
one row. TSsss -gines should furnish
on an average abodt{our bushels pei
year.
Raspberries- twenty-five Soshsgan
(blaok cap) late, rs Cutburt (red caT
early). Plant 4xS feet.
Strawberries-One iundred May
King (psrfse..N 400 Bubach No. 3,
r.stilate).
The varieties being properly selected
the next thing to do is to prepare the
ground for them. This Is . matter
that many make very strange mistakes
OF all things, that is least understood
are the relations of the plant to the soil
in which it grows. How plant feeds,
where it feeds, on which it feeds, when
it feeds, are questions on which many
entertain the yaguest notions in the
face of developed science. I have moi
space to elucidate on these points in
detail. Will simply say in brief that a
plant feeds by delicate hair like, micro.
scopic bodies on the finest rootlets by
an asnotic process Of absorption these
bodies and rootIets are more numerous
within the FIRST ten inches Of soil than
they are deeper down. A plant feeds
on some thirteen different inorganic
substances, all except three are in most
soils abundantly supplied. The three
that are often deficient are Nitrogen.
Potassium, and Phosphorus. In some
few soils one or more of these are
amply supplied by nature, but on most
soils plants are benefited by an appli-
cation Of all Of Them in certain guam
titles and 10 certain forms.
Perennial plants grow more or less
the whole year. Root formation pro-
crosses to limited extent in the
winter season and they grow consider
ably in the early spring before leaves