American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . ler plants and vines, that need tyingup; they make trellis rods, also, of an extempo-raneous character, and furnish the withes forfastenings. For tying the arms of vines orespalier trees, the Yellow Willow (S vitellina)furnishes very neat little twigs. They are moreconvenient than strings, and may be always athand. In the vineyard, the willows make thecheapest stakes for the earlier stages of thegrowth of the vine. A few square rods ofground cannot be put to a better use than grow-ing willows for these purposes. There is scarce-ly an
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . ler plants and vines, that need tyingup; they make trellis rods, also, of an extempo-raneous character, and furnish the withes forfastenings. For tying the arms of vines orespalier trees, the Yellow Willow (S vitellina)furnishes very neat little twigs. They are moreconvenient than strings, and may be always athand. In the vineyard, the willows make thecheapest stakes for the earlier stages of thegrowth of the vine. A few square rods ofground cannot be put to a better use than grow-ing willows for these purposes. There is scarce-ly any land that will not raise willows, but toraise the best rods for the basket-maker, as wellas for other purposes requiring long and straightslkoots, a fertile soil is required. One that, iswell drained and rich without being wet is bet-ter than a constantly moist soil. Of course, wenow speak of where their culture is to be madean object of profit; where the Willow is to boplanted oaiy as a tiling haudy to have for withes, 18-4 AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. [May,. THE LAST SHOT etc., the plants may be put in any convenientplace, such as the bank of a brook or other un-available land, and be left without other carethan to cut them over, every year or two, orwhen the shoots get too large to be useful. Thishowever, can hardly be called culture. In cul-tivation the land is well mellowed and the rowslaid out at a convenient distance for working, forto get good rods there must be good culture. InEngland, where the work is done with a hoe,the rows are eighteen inches apart, but with us,where horse cultivation is almost universal,thirty inches would be better. The Willowgrows perhaps more easily than any other plantfrom cuttings, and only the greatest neglect cancause a failure. Cuttings are made of last yearsgrowth, a foot long, using only the strong woodand discarding the weak tips which would makeweak plants. The cuttings are dibbled in at afoot apart in the rows, leaving a third of theirl
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