The Garden.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Garden.

Mulberry. This valuable bub much-neglected tree '{a, native of Vevsia) comes into beaiinu quite young, au d if the right kind i* planted will prove io be a u&eful fiuif, tiec. It vnll not be be^l to plant it by the acre, how over, as we do apples, plums ami peaches for the fruit is tender, when fully ripe, and if packed in boxes for shipment it viould crush and melt like an icc-cieaw. Dov.ning's Everbearing, -which is highly lecomTnended in the Eastern Staler, pio\c^ to be useless here for fruit, beaiing seldom and very sparingly ; and the white mulbeiry mot good io eat, except for biidf, being binall and too su-eotand insipid, yet like tho other mulbeuies-, the tree is good for f-hade and ornament. There are some line tree*, of the large English mulbeiry glowing in Sonoma county, and they aie heavily laden for two months with lipe ■uul lipening berries, Mhich suipa«s any blackbeuicin quality and si/e. The biVj icseml>le large Lawton blackbenie-, about an inch and a half long and neaily an inch in diameter -black, f-ucculent. sugary and rich. A few m\dbeiry tiee.-^'will add to the value and beauty of any place, and will bo a ?oiuce oi delight to the children. The older inr-m ben? of ihe family will not fail to appreciate the delicious truit when the tretc- commence bearing, and Mill thank u.s for calling their attention to it. — " Cloverdale Tacilic Sentinel."

Lifting Trees. In lifting any kind of tioc, especially when the lwiu^ aie on it, the loot.- -hould novci 1 be dive-led of soil ; on the eonti.iv\ . as good a ball as possible should be letained. When tree- are treated as in piopeily conducted nur-eries, the roots e.r.i alw.i) -> be had in a compact ball; being oft. a luted and transplanted when yo'ini;, the rootbecome matted in a cry conhmd -pace, uid plants of this, kind may alv. a\ ■> be ino\ed with .-aiety. dowding the ro©(s into a small hole i- a great mistake. This may not kill the plant outii^hr, but it v» ill cheel: it foy >eai.s to come. "When lifted, the i-oots should never be Ion;, exposed to the influence of -urn or ■wind. Tin- is Onj of the very worst things that can h ipps n to them, and .should be btiietly a\ouled. When plant-? are biou^hu in fsom a nur-eiy, it i-, of eonr-e, impo^-ible to plant them all at once ; but the m-t attention they requite is to eo\er up tlic ioot~ with damp mo.--, stiaw, or toil. As to pruning and cutting gcncially, thcpeiiod named in ■wl.ieh planting may be done al-o answers for these operations. Wo begin cutting our bu.-hes about tin- time, and go on ft om time to time as the weather :>nd other m oik will allow until Mai eh. That tJris time is right wo have annualh fvmple proof in the luxuriant manntv in v Inch the tree- grow afteiw ards. It is onl^ hedge-. laurel bank", and upright growing bu-he^ near the edges of walk,-, on which weu-o the shear-, the knife or billhook being the favourite ior all natural-grow ing buohe-.

Notes. Black mucky soil is usually the best for onions. Milching potatoes where the land is good. warm and moist naturally vili not beu-Jit, but will lather deteriorate them. Unless a proper system ot manuring be employed, the be^t result's in fanning, of no matter what branch, cannot, be. obtained. Seedlings! are apt to succeed best \\h< j ru the}' originate, hence the many disappointments when the varieties are fcivui'-Lircd to other section^. U&eonly those manures you arc thorou£-hl;> conversant with. Adapt your products, to your land. Raise only the bebt and mo-t salable varieties of anything, and culthute that which } on are acquainted v. ith. A Wisconsin farmer claims to l^^e found a sivre caie for potato bug,-% ITi^ ]>\an i-- to plant one 01 two ilax-seeds in each hill ol potatoe&. After ten j 7 ears of succe--> he says the bugs will shun the potato patch thus treated e\ cry time. The impro\ement of &uch soils as arc of an inferior character may be effected in ("he following manner : Clay .soil, by the addi tion of lime, gypsum, or .sand ; sandy soil may be improved by the addition of clay, lime or gypsum ; calcareous ssoil by tho addition of clay and vegetable.