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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
pRoPAGAr1NG ROSES.

In a paper lately read before and in
| dorsed by the California state horticultural
society, Miss NJ. B. Pratt says layering is
one of the surest and easiest methods
within reach OF the masses for increasing
ones stock OF roses: OF course the nur-
seryman would resort to methods better
for him, but he is a nurservman and knows
how to do it, while anybody can propagate
by layers.
Layering is usually performed by taking
long shoot and bending it to the ground
A slanting cut is made about half through
the shoot from the top, and it is then bent
little to one side and pruned down to the
ground. A piece of wire can be bent like a
hairpin to fasten it in place. 1t will take
root in the course of the season and next
year can be removed from the parent stalk
and set out as a new plant 1t will be fin
ished and ready for sitting out by fall.
You will find it having an advantage over
the nursery-produced stock in the fact that,
having grown in the open air, it is more
hardy.
We desire to add little to this based
upon our own experience. Not few people
who undertake to propagate roses on the
plan suggested by Miss Pratt find them
selves in trouble over the cutting OF layers,
as proposed by her-they are apt to cut q
little to deep and thus iniure the layer.
We never cut at all, but merely bend the
shoot to the ground, peg or wire it down,
cover it with soil and then keep the soil
moderately damp by watering through the
season. Never yet have we had shoot SO
treated to fail of taking root.
If the shoot is up so that we cannot get it
to the ground we layer it in a flower pot, old
bucket or Tin can on the plan suggested by
US last week for layering the new weeping
cedar'' found near Egan, Tex. Rose
layers of this character always succeed with
us-we have made hundreds of them with
out having met with single failure. OF
course everything depends upon close
atteution-the soil in the pot must never be
allowed to become perfectly dry.
Referring to 4 propagation of the rose by
budding Miss Pratt says budding can be
done whenever the bark Will slip or lift
readily. Make a straight cut Iengthwise of
about an inch Across the top make
another at right angles with the first, and
carefully loosen and raise the bark. Then
cut a leaf bud from the variety you wish to
propagate, and after removing any wood
that may remain on it, slip the bud under
the bark of the stock Cut of the upper
end of the slip carrying the bud so that the
bark of bud and stock will Join and tie
firmly. In about two weeks, or when the
bud shows signs of growth, cut the string
on the opposite side from the bud. The
top of the stock can oe cut OF or bent over,
leaving two or more eyes to help draw up
the sap and nourish the new bud.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
arHE RosEDAIE HYBRID.p

l see IN our morning paper (3anner), an
article copied from the Fort Worth GAZETTE
ABOUT our new evergreen You are -ight
about it in the main, but wrong in two
statements. You say it has been known
only six years. It is twelve years since
found it. You say do not know which of
the two trees golden arbor-YitR and Retin-
osporal the seed came from. do know.
Now, since you take such q kindly inter-
est in the plant, viii give you the true
history of it. had large plant of Biota
sempeFvlrenS aurea, "a rather superior
sort of the Chinese golden arbor-vlte), and
plant of the Retinospora squarosa (Jap-
anese cypress), growing almost together,
as you say. The arbor-Vite had q fine crop
of seed, and 1 thought we might pos
sibly get something nice from it.
collected the seed and planted 1t,
and had over a dozen sports or
hybrids, as the case may be. We had some
that grew strong and showed the arDor-
VITAE most, and others that were dwarf and
showed up the Retinospora. Among them
we had three that were so distinct that we
kept them. l have tie originals yet; one
is not one foot high now, another IS about
ten feet high. A good feature Of their
habits is that they are all easy to propagate
and stand any amount of pruning. Drouth
does not seem to check them, and TIE hot
test weather we have had or the coldest in
the past eleven years, has not hurt them.
So 1 now think they may be called hardy
natives"
1t mas always been my rule not to push
any novelty on the market. There has been
more ungodly swindling in that line, in
our business, than any other. Have lost
hundreds by the game myself, buying new
things and often getting very old and very
worthless articles. As to that evergreen,
1 knew we had a good thing, and so pre-
ferred to let it do its own talking. If it
stood the test of time knew people would
find it out. Iwould rather it held its name,
'.Rosedale Hybrid" If it is not a hybrid
it is very remarkable sport. There IS no
doubt about its origin-I have watched it
close from its infancy. WA. WATSON.
Near Brennan, Tex.
The article to which Mr. Watson refers
appeared in The GAZETTE of two or three
weeks ago under title of ''Another Noble
Texan Born" In that article we ex-
pressed the opinion that Mr.. Watson's new
shrub must be sport, but now that we
have all the facts before Us there is little
room left for getting out of the conclusion
that it is undoubtedly a hybrid resulting
from a cross between the golden arbor-
vitae and the Japanese cypress, 1t is GER
tainly most beautiful shrub, and almost
wholly unlike anything else of its class. In
our article we had suggested that it be
named after MIR. Watson, its originator.
but as is seen by the foregoing Mr.. Wat
son prefers that it be known simply as the
Rosedale Hybrid, and, of course, the ac-
copied right of priority gives Mr.. Watson
full control in the matter.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24

the vinipg squashes; the flowers ara small
and of greenish color. Bears heavily,
fruit setting the entire length of the vine
The fruit is much priced as a table veget-
able, and may be cooked as a squash. 1t is
also sometimes sliced and fried like the egg
plant; also baked with meats. Before it
has attained large size it is often made into
pickles.
The coast country people east of the
Mississippi river raise the cho-eho to con-
siderable extent and down there the vine
is a perennial; that is, it springs up from
the same root annually for number of
years. The vine is removed before frost
and the root is protected by piling pine
straw over it to remain through the winter.
It is not likely that the root would live
through winter at Waco, though the fruit
could be kept over for the next seasons
planting. Plant so soon as there is no
longer any danger of frost The fruit is
usually kept in sand, housed away from
the effects of frost. It is best to place
brush for the vines to run over foot or so.
above the ground
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24


The Breeders Gazette says the effects of
feeds on stock are largely influenced by
combining or mixing the feeds. There are
comparatively few feeds that do entirely
well If fed alone Wheat bran, for exam
pie, is By many regarded as a perfect feed,
hence not few buy and feed wheat bran
to their milk-giving cows alone. There is
but one case by which the feeder could save
himself by so feeding wheat bran: if he
wants rich manure, he may save himself
on the manure If he does not want manure,
then he cannot feed wheat bran alone with
out heavy loss, as the proportion of the
bran assimiiated by the animal is compare
lively small
Combined with good hay, cut up, or sheaf
oats chopped fine, wheat bran makes very
good ration for either cattle, horses or
sheep, but not alone, as it packs too closely
in the stomach to be well digested. It is
still better combined with cottonseed meal,
sheaf oats, hay and corn-fodder, but the
f'roughness" must be there to secure thor
ough assimilation. Corn or cornmeal can
be accepted as of no special advantage to
wheat bran where the fodder, hay or other
suitable ''roughness'' is combined with it.
With the ordinary rough feeds, such as
corn fodder, sheaf oats and hay, the best
results can always be secured if these are
first run through feed cutter. They can
be more thoroughly mixed together than if
the roughness is fed whole, while there
VIII be less waste in feeding the roughness.
OF course this roughness can be raised
by all farmers, and all farmers are sup
posed to well understand how it should be
kept, but to the village feeder who has to
purchase his supplies, there may be nothing
amiss in stating that it must be stored in
perfectly dry place to insure keeping with
out damage. A damp atmosphere circulat
ing freely through fodder or hay damages
it rapidly. even though it may be under a
roof entirely tight. This fact puts feather
in the cap of North or Northwest Texas as
an advantageous feeding section, for the
comparatively dry atmosphere here causes
most rough feeds to retain their good
qualities much longer than they would do
in a region where the atmosphere was more
humid All of which would seem to argue
that nature has made this section ex-
pressly to become the greatest stock coun-
try in the world. We have moisture
enough to raise the crops needed, but not
enough to damage them after they have
been harvested and housed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24

Enclosed fine some fbre which came on
a weed which grows here in Wise county.
Do you consider the fibre of any account
I think it superior to anything have seen,
with the exception of fax. The fibre was
taken from the stalk to-day, where the
plant grew last year. II you think it
worth anything please let US know what
you think through The GAZETTE.
Aiyord, Tex. d. IA. HODGES.
The fibre is very fine, very strong and Of
good length, If to be had in abundance it
would certainly be valuable. We cannot
be certain as to the plant upon which it
grew, but incline to the opinion that it is
from some OF the "milk-weeds," possibly
from the Asclepias pIytolaccoides Of bot
anists. Many of the milk-weeds have fine
ard strong fibre. The Indians are said to
have worked them into bow-strings and
other cordage. In early days they went by
the common name of Indian hemp.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
THE LAUREL CHERRY.

Not long ago there appeared in your de-
partment of The GAZETTE an article highly
commencing an ornamental evergreen
shrub to which you affixed the botanical
name of Prunus caroliniana. You men
toned property in Fort Worth where a
beautiful specimen might be seen growing
in the front yard 1 went to the place and
was greatly pleased with the shrub. TAX
ing a small branch from the shrub I showed
it to one of our nurserymeu and asked if he
kept the same thing in stock. He claimed
to have 1t in abundance, so l ordered two
plants. They have just arrived marked
with the botanical name of Cerasus caroli-
mana. OF course it cannot be the same
thing described by you as Prunus carolini-
ana, unless the pQrserYmen hes some way
got his Latin mixed up. l think it looks q
good deal like the specimen pointed tout;
to make sure | send you twig with leaves
for your examination. Please let me hear
from you through The GAZETTE, for others
than myself are interested in the same mat
ter. AMATEUR.
Fort Worth, Tex
1t is the same, and the nurseryman is not
particularly off in his botanical name, ow-
ing to an existing confusion among bot
anists. The shrub, as you understand, is a
species of cherry. Linnaus in naming the
cherries and plums put them both into the
same genus, hence according to Linueus
this laurel cherry, first seen in South Car
DINA, is Prunus caroliniana. An attempt
was made by Jussien to remove the cher
ries from the plums and sail them under
the generic name of Cerasus. 1t was only
a partial success. Wood and few other
botanists seem to have accepted the JUS
sien name for the cherry, while Gray.
Chapman and many others hold to the Lin
ueus name. The nurseryman who follows
Wood for his botany puts down the laur ell
cherry as Cerasus caroliniana, while the
nurseryman who follows either Gray or
Chapman puts it down as Prunus carolin-
lana And this is all there is of it. We
prefer the latter name for the reason that
Gray is considered our highest botanical
authority for the whole United States,
while Chapman, author of Flora of the
Southern United States, is our highest au-
thority in the South
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
oS FERr111zING ORR LANDS.

I see by several articles in the Ayricult-
ural Department of THE GAZETTE that you
seem to hold to the idea that the fertility of
Texas lands is inexhaustible, especially in
the case of our black-waXy prairie lands.
Other writers are claiming that we must
fertilize for best results. Do you consider
that the addition of fertilizers would be Of
no advantage to our black-waxy landsl
o. L. STINsoN.
MeLennan County, Tex.
You haYe misunderstood US. There are
no lands in the world that may not be more
or less exhausted by continuous culture
We hold that our Texas prairie lands can
never be exhausted OF two of the most i'm
portant and most absolutely essential ele-
ments of mineral plant food, the which are
very scarce in other sections of our coun-
try. These two are PHOSPHORUS and pot
ash. These elements come from our rocks,
which, in minute particles, are represented
in our soils, and which by constant disin-
tegration restore to the soils what crops
are taking from them; but there are other
elements not supplied by these rocks that
must be returned to keep the soil perna-
nently fertile Chief among these is humus,
an element due to the decompos ition Of
vegetable matter. To keep our soils per-
manently fertile we must turn vegetable
matter into them. If we give them lib
eral supply OF vegetable matter, in some
form, they will never become-exhausted
but without It they viii rapidly wax into
defe lent productiveness. Give them plenty
of decomposed vegetable matter and our
soils win remain inexhaustible.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
THE "vEGETABLE Pau .

A friend at Fay St. Louis, Miss, has
sent me a very curious vegetable that she
calls a vegetable pear. II is about the size
Of large pear and pretty much the same
shape, though inclined somewhat to be
slightly fiat one way. The surface has a
a soft, wax-like look, and is Of a light
cream color. She says IL contains no seeds,
and that, to raise it, must plant the pear
entire. Can you tell me anything about it
through TIE GAZETTEl Mrs. "
Waco, Tex
It IS vegetable known in mary localities
by the Mexican name of cho-cho. The ho-
tanical name is Schium edule. 1t Is vim
ing plant. and as your friend states, must
be propagated By planting the entire fruit.
The foliage good deal resembles that Of
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24


crop is entirely exempt from the cottor
worm not affected by drouth, and in every
way more profitable than the lint-yieldine
cotton His price for the seed is 81 per
pound send you few of the seeds and
ask that you give US your opinion of il
through TIE GAZETTE. Is there such a
thing as lintless cotton, or are we being
victimizedl CHAs. RAwLEs.
Harris county, Tex.
The seeds received are black, smooth and
hntless, presenting much the appearance of
sea-island cotton seeds, which in all prob
ability they are. Still there is such a thing
as hntless cotton plant, but we have
never seen the seeds of it, though we are
told that they somewhat resemble seeds OF
the sea-island cotton. So it may be that
you have the genuine article after all, still
that would not clear you of being victim
lied. They are attempting to play that
same kind of dodge on the people of
Georgia, in consequence of which the
March issue of the Southern Cultivator
comes down on them by stating that the So
called "lIntless cotton is long way below
what is cIaimed for it. We had almost said
a humbug. Indeed. we will so call it. We
tried it last year, and have seed of it. It is
fact that it is entirely lintiess, not a
particle of lint on the seed. 1t grows like
ordinary cotton, looks like ordinary cotton,
fruits like ordinary cotton, and makes
about as many seed per acre as ordinary
cotton, and-no lint
The claim that it viii produce 600 to 500
bushels of seed is simply preposterous, or
sublimeiy ridiculous. On land that would
make one bale of lint per acre by planting
in ordinary cotton, the lintless' cotton
would produce about thirty, possibly forty
bushels of seed per acre, or about 900 to
1900 pounds, instead of 60O-to 500 bushels"
Moreover, the seeds fall out so soon as the
bolls open, hence it would be necessary to
go over the every day in harvesting the
crop to prevent 1t from being lost The
whole thing is a fake from beginning to
end, and the fellows out selling such seed
are simply on trip fishing for suckers.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
- AnorT TaE cAsToR nEAN.

The newly-awakening interest among
our readers relative TO the castor oil bean
crop leads US TO add to the considerable al
ready said in these columns on the subject,
the substance Of a paper by Mr.. R. W. Rim
del, president of the castor oil mills at
Weatherford, Tex.
Most of the castor oil beans produced in
the United States, says Mr. Rindel, are
raised by Kansas, Missouri and Southern
Illinois, and although the plant grows most
luxuriantly all over the Southern states,
there are comparatively no beans grown
south OF the states mentioned. excepting,
perhaps, in circumscr1bed localities.
The market for castor beans has almost
exclusively been ST Louis, which city
makes four-ffths Of the castor oil in this
country, and the disadvantage and ex-
peuse Of long and costly transportation
has been the cause Of neglect in this sec
ton.
That the castor bean viii pay any farmer
who viii give the crop tae necessary atten-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24

Inquiries OF personal character that reqciFe
answer by mail should always have .St5mp in
closed Please give full name and posto1ice
address In addition TO any such signature as
Subscriber, or a. G. d. not for publicat lion
IL against the viii OF the writer but 10 admit
OF direct communication should such thing
be deemed necessary. Address as directed at
head of this page.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
LINTLEss COTTON.

4 man has been in this county selling
what ne calls '.iintless cotton seed. - He
much seed as do the plants making lint,
that the seed IS more rich in oil, that the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
NOT mUCH OF AN EBEoR.

In indorsing the position taken by Gov
ernor W. J. Northen in our columns. advo-
eating the establishment of farm villages as
an elective means Of rapidly settling up the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
Dallas. Tex.

The editor of the Poultry World says he
always cures ''scaly legs" in fowls with
kerosene or coal oil Take a vessel about
six inches in depth. fill ii to within one inch
of the top with the oil, place it on chair,
bench or box, take your fowls, one at
time, from the perch, immense both legs up
to the hook joint in the oil, and let them
remain there for few minutes; then re-
move the fowl to its place, take the next
and proceed in the same manner, until all
have had foot bath. Two applications are
generally sufficient. This is cheap, simple
and effective.
We have often applied this remedy with
entire success. Where but few fowls are
to be handled the oil may be applied with
small marking brush. Thanks for your
good opinion of TIE GAZETTE.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
sCALYLEGs on FOWLS.

My chickens are troubled with a disease
that makes their legs scaly and often so
sore that they bleed. Can you give me a
reliable remedy for the troublel I am a
regular reader of TIE GAZETTE, and like it
better than any other paper we get, though
we are taking quite a number. There is
always something so fresh and lively about
the reading matter of The GAZETTE, and
never anything that is dry and duh. Please
answer through the paper and oblige
s. LADY
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
. OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such questions IS may be asked by our sub
seribers which may be OF general Information
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