1846. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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The careful fruit grower will not let a day pass 

 without glancing over his trees; many trifling 

 matters will suggest themselves to him, which we 

 cannot mention here. By constant attention to 

 our trees we become familiar with their habits, 

 and acquire a love for them that makes the mat- 

 ter of cultivating a real pleasure. This is uni- 

 versal experience. 



VECiETABLES. 



The kitchen garden requires constant care — 

 weeding and hoeing, and in dry weather, water- 

 ing in the evenings. Some farmers, yes thou- 

 sands, suppose it almost labor lost to cultivate a 

 good kitchen garden. Indeed, it is rare to find 

 one such as every farmer's ought to be. The 

 importance of a constant and abundant supply of 

 good vegetables is not at all correctly estimated 

 here. 



If people generally could be persuaded to culti- 

 vate and use more vegetables, it would be an im- 

 mense saving of animal food, and highly promo- 

 live of human health and comfort. Three-fourths 

 of our people are brought up, in a great measure, 

 without vegetable food, and as a consequence 

 have little relish for it. This accounts, in a 

 great degtee, for our poor vegetable gardens. — 

 Our markets here in Rochester are miserably 

 supplied with vegetables. We presume it is be- 

 cause good gardeners do not receive encourage- 

 ment to raise fine articles. 



We saw, in the latter part of May, in the To- 

 ronto market, a supply of vegetables, Green 

 Peas, Cucumbers, Radishes, Lettuce, Spinach, 

 Asparagus, Rhubarb, &c., that we have not seen 

 equalled in our market tliis season. We know 

 of no good reason why this should be so. Our 

 soil and climate are both far superior to that of 

 Canada, around Toronto, for growing vegetables, 

 and particularly early ones ; but our gardeners 

 are not so thorough in their profession — yet, as 

 we have remarked, it is perhaps from the want 

 of encouragement. 



We look to our Horticultural Society for aid 

 in raising the standard of quality of garden veg- 

 etables, and diffusing a taste for their more gen- 

 eral use throughout community. At our late ex- 

 exhibition, Oil the r2th of June, when gardens 

 should be teeming with fine vegetables, we had 

 not a dollar's worth exhibited. We took pains 

 to solicit personally several of our best gardeners 

 to send in something ; and all that was presented 

 was a single lot of green peas — two or three of 

 cucumbers — two of Rhubarb — one of Radishes — 

 and that was about all, and indeed these all were 

 but ordinary. This is the time for planting out 

 celery. The soil to gj-ow it in perfection should 

 be deep and moist, 'tiie plants should have been 

 transplanted from the seed bed into nursery rows, 

 so as to make them strong and fit to be taken up 

 now, with balls of earth at the roots. The too 

 common practice is to buy a few plants at the 

 seed store, weak slender things from the seed bed. 



These require careful shading from the sun, and 

 great care for some time after planting, and in 

 the end do not make such fine heads. The 

 trenches should be 18 inches deep, and 12 to 15 

 wide. Old well rotted manure should be used 

 for the bottom of tlie trench, and should be well 

 incorporated with the bottom earth. The plants 

 should be set out about 6 inches apart. It after- 

 wards requires to be kept clean of weeds, and 

 earthed up now and again, until the process is 

 com|)leted. Good celery, which means large, 

 while, solid stalks, is a most delicious vegetable, 

 and now-a-days considered indispensable on a 

 well furnished dinner table. 



I'EOWER DEPARTMENT. 



See that Daldias are carefully tied up to stakes; 

 Waaler plentifully in case of a drought, and guard 

 them against the attacks of insects. 



Tie up neatly all herbaceous plants that require 

 it. Cut off withered flower stems, and keep all 

 places clear of weeds. 



Propagate Roses by budding and layering; take 

 up bulbous roots, and put away on a dry shelf, 

 to be planted again in Autumn. ^ 



House Plants should now be kept out of doors, 

 in a cool, airy place. The ladies should cut 

 down their Geraniums, so as to have bushy nice 

 plants for next season. Cuttings may be put in 

 where young plants are wanted. Monthly Roses, 

 if not out alread}', should be placed in the border, 

 and cuttings may be put in for a young stock. — 

 Plants in pots during summer require careful 

 watering. Sometimes they suffer much fi-ora 

 being flooded with heavy rains, and then neg- 

 lected in dry weather till they are parched up. 



B n d d i n g . 



This is an important, though very simple, ope- 

 ration in the business of tree growing. It is 

 much less understood, throughout the country, 

 than grafting, though easier performed. Every 

 person engaged, more or less, in the culture of 

 trees for fi-uit or ornament, should know how to 

 insert a bud. It is more applicable to the propa- 

 gation of all stone fruits than grafting : it can be 

 performed, too, on smaller stocks, and as a geae- 

 ral thing makes finer trees. 



Buds of rare, scarce trees can be more easily 

 procured than grafts, and can be as easily trans- 

 mitted from one place to another, and particular- 

 ly now that expresses are in operation in every 

 direction. For the benefit of those who have 

 yet to learn, we give the following directions and 

 illustrations from "Downing's Fruit and Fruit 

 Trees of America:" — 



" The proper season for budding fruit trees, 

 in this country, is from the first of July to the 

 first of September; the different trees coming 

 into season as follows : Plums, Cherries, Apri- 

 cois on Plums, Apricots, Pears, Apples, Quinces, 

 Nectarines and Peaches. Treag of considerable 



