Year: 1861

Vow the only cure for these uneducated
tastes is to make the people acquainted with
these better varieties of fruits After a man
has got bis grounds well stocked, it is a very
inexpensive process to educate his neighbors
Strawberry plants multiply so as to become
nuisance. In the cleaning up of beds, bushels
Of plants have to be thrown away. 1t will &C
tuaily save labor to allow some neighbor or
his gardener, to come in and help himself
haspberries and black kberries also spread rap
idly, and dozen plants given away will very
soon stock neighbor's garden, and instruct
them in the value of these delicious fruits.


Grapes are multiplied quite rapidly by eyes,
established, an hour spent in layering will
give you scores Of plants the following spring,
and you can hardly make a more acceptable
present to one who has garden, than Della
ware or Diana vine Scions and buds from
the finest varieties of apples, pears plums and
peaches, are spared without disadvantage to
the owner, and with little loss of time


If these plants and scions ere not sufficiently
priced to be cared for when presented, as is
quite possible, then we must storm the castle
with the fruits themselves. The sluggard him.
self can be made to surrender with these
Suppose we send over a basket of Bartletts, or
Seckels, well ripened-for he will not be likely
to appreciate the process of ripening. We
think we see him waking up to a new sensa-





mouth, and contrasts it with the puckery
"perries" to which be has been accustomed
Will he not inquire with something more than
his usual listlessness the next tune he meets
you, What did you say the name of that
smallish pear was? 1 thought at first it was a
perry, but found it was horse of another
color" That man will send for CRAFTS next
spring if he has got anything that a pear scion
will grow upon, and if he has not, he will very
nkely DAtrODize the nurservman


After you once get the wedge entered, it is
very easy thing to drive it home A bed of
strawberries leads inevitably to a plantation of
raspberries, and Seekel pear once in bearing
leads to dozen other varieties, if there is
room for the trees. An Isabella vine is usually
followed by Diana or a Delaware, or some Of
the newer varieties. 1t is very delightful to
see how taste for fine fruits, flowers, and or
,namental trees gradually extends itself over a
village or neighbOrhOOd. The origin Of the
planting fever is almost always traceable to
some one or two individuals, who make a very
generous use of the fruits and plants that grew
upon their own premises


Nurserymen can spread this taste much more
rapidly than private individuals. for it is in
the line of their profession. And it is gener-
ally very much for their interest to distribute
plants gratis, to a certain extent, where they
have a surplus, or are likely to have, left over
from the years sales. Some nurserymen have
way in filing their orders of throwing in
some choice tree or plant not ordered that is
likely to prove valuable to the planter 1t is
perhaps, an advertising dodge, perhaps trace
able to some better motive. We have always
noticed that such presented trees are apt TO
bear fruit in more senses than one. The nur-
seryman will not lose his customers. The extra
trees Will be likely TO create new wants, and
to enlarge his orders.-THs Homestead