The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13
A Number of interesting Items.

The foliage of the pine in the extreme
south is called pine straw" In Vir-
ginia it is called pine tags" while in
other sections north the euphonious term
pine needles is more common.
V. H Rucker, near Amherst, Va, has
the largest or one of the largest apple
orchards in the south. He has between
5000 and 10000 bearing trees, mostly wine
saps.
a strong believer in the sofa bean. Here
are his five reasons for being so: First,
] can get more net money out Of one
bushel of sofa beans than can out of
five bushels Of corn. Second, 1 think corn
is five times as hard on the land as sofa
beans. 1hird, corn costs me nVe times
as much to grow as SOFA beans. Fourth
l think sofa DeanS are I'VE tlneS as rlch
in oily matter as corn. Fifth, / think sofa
beans are five times better for producing
milk and butter than corn.
The chief sources of potash for fert1liz-
ing purposes exist in common wood ashes
cotton hull ashes, kainit sulphate of po;-
ash, murate of potash. The last three
are imported into this country from Ger
many. Where left free to choose We
should select the second-cotton hull
ashes to supply the necessary potash.
We recently referred TO the very in
structive and almost exhaustive mono
graph on the Irish potato sent out as a
bulletin by the Georgia experiment sta
ton. Now comes bulletin No 81, of the
AGnluckY experiment Sldllpis QSNOleQ GA-
clusively to the same vegetable. The two
together constitute an excellent hand
book on potato culture.
straw berries, bulletin No. 81 Of the last
named experiment station, presents com
paratiVe tests of a number of new and
old Varieties of this delightful fruit. Speak
ing OF the Crescent variety, the bulletin
says: 1t is still evident that this is one
of the favorites with Kentucky growers,
especially those who ship their fruit, ow-
ing TO its hardness ana productiveness.
will lapt hot hon af1..
other kind. This variety, along with
bu3ach, Candy and HaVerand. are named
the four most popular and desirable kinds.
A ne Bubach strawberry, is a very de-
sirable variety. The kentucky station
says of it: "A standard variety now
largely grown for market over wide
extent of country. Owing TO local causes
We did not secure as good stand as
usual of this variety, but in previous sea-
sons it has been one of the best, the plant
being vigorous and productive; berries
large, regular and beautiful and firm
enough to ship a short distance; favor
ne almost everywhere in Kentucky. A
minor fault noted by several is that IL
sometimes does not produce runners
faougn to insure a good stand of plants"
scar IN mind, it is a pistillate, like Cres-
cent. So is Hayerland.
My friend Bundy is an enthusiastic gar
ueener and does not claim to be anything
o. a poet. Here's the way he subscribes
ais last communication:
: A practical gardener who speaks true
IN Gaining for himself
1lore real pleasure found
,Au following up Warren hoe
-4ilh pushing Of billiard cue"
All! Bundy. ! fear you are just trying
70 ddvertse little that most excellent i'm
Nstnent' but let II go. 'Tis as you say.
,,A correspondent OF the Farmer and
hluH grower states that friends of his
otW, specimens Of the PcrnambucO pine
.apple IN Rio Janeiro that weighed twenty
" twenty-five pounds. Three pounds Is
;.nout Inc best the Florida grower can
".,rrns tnis delicious fruit mp to.
ne trees or Manatee county have the
..s-.slesi bloom now that has eTer been
~ fln a conservative estimate places
- ss'"ihH crop for shat county al 1890