FRUIT AND FLOWERS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 67, 16 September 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

FRUIT AND FLOWERS

TREATMENT OF ORCHARDS. A Common Sense Talk on a Subject of Widespread Importance. Suggestions born of a long and varied experience, when made by practical men ana women, are always worthy of consideration, and are especially helpful to beginners. The following notes from the everyday life of Mrs. J. W. Archard, Clennontville, 0., are of this character. She say 8: After fruit trees have been pruned in the spring they should be washed thoroughly with strong soapsuds from the ground up to the limbs or as far as one can reach. This removes old bark and moss and lichens, as well as bugs, worms and insects, and the suds runs down in the ground and drives away the grubworm. After this treatment the bark on the trees looks like that of young trees, and they grow rapidly. We have found by experience that digging the ground up a few inches deep around the trees and putting a few dry tobacco stalks arotmd them is beneficial. In the summer, when what we call the water sprouts have got their growth, we pull them off with our hands before the wood forms and before the collar around where tho sprouts come out of the tree has got hard. This does not make much of a scar, and the tree can't sprout from the collar next year if treated this way. ,It pays to cultivate young trees. Wo have a young peach orchard that was planted three years ago this spring. The orchard is located on top of one of the Ohio river hills and has been a pasture. "We manured it heavily with stable manure and plowed deep, planted our trees and cultivated between the trees with all kinds of vegetables. This did nicely for two summers. The third summer the trees shaded the ground so the vegetables did not do any good, but we picked some fine, largo peaches off our young trees. As to the kind of peaches, we prefer the Crawford. It is a large yellow peach, sweet and juicy, and tho seeds come out easily when it is ripe. It is handsomo and sells readily in market. For late peaches we prefer tho Heath cling and the Heath frees. They are good and large, and people want them for preserves and pickles. There is always a demand for them. The Hop Vine. Picturesque effects may be obtained at a very small outlay of labor and expense, with some of our common utility growths, in instance of which may be named the hop. Like the ivy, the hop makes a happy contrast to varieties of Clematis jackmnmri, the mass of deep green leaves intensifying the color of the rich abun-

dance of clematis flowers. Nor is its charm confined merely to summer. As autumn approaches the plant carries rich clusters of golden yellow hops, an additional beauty of no mean kind. We can judge of the rich beauty that a common climber can give when once well established bj' a glance at the hop covered arch depicted in the cut. When the hops aro not to bo utilized in the making of beer, yeast, etc., one can vary the selection with a vine or two of the Chinese variegated hop, or the Humulus paponicus, both of which make effective climbers and are readily propagated from the seed. PHYSIOGNOMY. A steely blue eye is often the sign of a merciless disposition. Double lips are unfavorable, indicating a tendency to grossnes*. Short, thick curly hair is an indication of great natural strength. Large, widespreadihg nostrils show ample lungs and good health. Long, projecting teeth are often found In persons of good disposition, but rarely of marked ability. A well arched forehead, with one slight perpendicular wrinkle, belongs to a wise and discreet character. Noses turned down and inward at the tip are always close, penurious, often ill humored and satirical. Eyes with weak eyebrows and very long eyelashes betoken a feeble constitution and melancholy mind. The upper eyelids should cover from a fifth to a third of the iris, more indicates cunning; less, imprudence. Regular, even noses are generally associated with well balanced though probablj not strong characters. Positive character in a face discloses positive power, but its lack docs not always signify the opposite. Noses turned up at the point and sinking in at the top are inclined to ease and pleasure, though at the same time they may be gifted with eloqnence and imagination and are almost always benevolent.- "" ... Not a Witness. Edith (who has dropped in)— lf that par lor lamp could talk, Ida, it could tell of lota of kissing scrapes, no doubt. Ida— Oh, no. It is sure to be out when there Is anything like that going on.—