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WATERING THE GARDEN BY MEANS OF A WINDMILL. 



Usually a garden is irrigated by running the water between every other, or 

 every third, row. This necessitates long rows, or the water will reach the end 

 before the ground is thoroughly wet. 

 To obviate this trouble, C. D. Perry, a 

 successful farmer, writes in a western 

 agricultural report that his garden last 

 year was made as shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration and described 

 below. " Selecting a piece of ground 

 25x150 feet, I ascertained with a level 

 the way the level lines ran. It was of 

 no consequence which way the beds 

 lay, or what were their shapes, I made 

 them wide enough for two rows of 

 vegetables, with sunken paths between. 

 The path ran around one end of the 

 first bed and then around the opposite 

 end of the second, and so on until the 

 entire plot was laid out. Now, when 

 a stream of water two or three inches 

 deep is turned into the path at the 

 highest point of the garden, it will 

 follow the path to the end of the first 

 bed, go round it and down the next path, etc. Three inches of head and the 

 slight fall the water gets going around the ends of the beds will carry it back 

 and forth to the bottom of the garden, where, perhaps, the last bed is two or 

 three feet lower than the first. By this time each bed is wet from side to side. 

 An eight-foot windmill, with a small pond or a wooden tank holding 120 barrels, 

 will enable every family to raise more vegetables and small fruits than it needs." 



816.— Plan for Irrigating 



Summer Pruning. — Intelligent horticulturists have almost given up try- 

 ing to educate the public to put away the hatchet, saw, shears, and to a great 

 extent the pruning knife, and do all with the finger and thumb in May and 

 June. In the old world this knowledge is more diffused. Writing of orange 

 culture in Italy one of our consuls says that there the object aimed at in prun- 

 ing is to bring the greatest surface of the tree possible to the direct action of air 

 and light. The spherical form is considered best. To keep this form shoots 

 are pinched off in June each year. In the early spring weak and dead wood, 

 and forgotten useless shoots, are cut out to let the light and air in among the 

 branches ; a sharp knife must be used. — Meehans' Monthly for July. 



