. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. d isgaudy in colors of red, purple and blue. It isPoiemonium confcHutn, one of the JacobsLadder family. Its fragrance partakes of thewhite Jasamine, with an assimilation of blooms alone, for it has not any tloralassociates, not even a spear of grass or shrub. There is no creature, not even bird or insect, tokeep it company a single minute of the year.—Prairie Farmer. A Good Word for Hedges. It your hedge isthin and scattering it must be bent down ; letthe stalks grow till an in
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. d isgaudy in colors of red, purple and blue. It isPoiemonium confcHutn, one of the JacobsLadder family. Its fragrance partakes of thewhite Jasamine, with an assimilation of blooms alone, for it has not any tloralassociates, not even a spear of grass or shrub. There is no creature, not even bird or insect, tokeep it company a single minute of the year.—Prairie Farmer. A Good Word for Hedges. It your hedge isthin and scattering it must be bent down ; letthe stalks grow till an inch or an inch and aquarter thick, then bend and weave weak places it will be well to throw earthupon it after bending down. To have a neathedge, trimming twice a year is necessary; thebest times I find to be June and the hedge cut square across it is easy tocut the young tender sprouts close down andeven with the cut of the old stalk; with a curvedstick in left hand throw off as fast as cut :never leave the brush on the hedge, it looksmiserable when dry. I hear men say that a. APPLE ORCHARD TREES GOOD AND OTHERWISE. hedge is a very fence ; true there is agood deal of work the first three or four years,but after the fence is made and properly shapedup and cleaned off 1 find I can keep it trimmedfor a little over a cent a rod per year.—Ind. Far. How to Orow Mushrooms in the Fields. Mostpeople like Mushrooms, but I do not meet withmany people who know how to grow them. Iallude to those grown in the open fields andparks. I have picked a basketful of Mushroomsof all sizes each day on a field of about eightacres of old pasture, on which, about ten yearsago, I appUed, in the month of February, aboutthree cwt. of ordinary rough salt to the acre,and soon after dibbled in by means of a sharpspud, bits of Mushroom spawn as big as a Beanall over the field. This I did by myself by de-grees during a space of a month or more, andthe result has been th
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