36 THE CHINESE MULBERRY MORUS MULTICAULIS, HOW TO PRESERVE IN WINTER. 



another course of trees, with the roots as 

 near as possible to tlie former, but not over 

 them, and the tops pointing in the same 

 direction as those of the former course, 

 cover the roots in like manner as those 

 of the former, and continue in the same 

 manner, to fill the box; the roots being 

 surrounded by sand one or two inches in 

 thickness, and all the trees pointing up 

 wards at an angle of two or three degrees 

 in one direction, or nearly so. 



The trees may remain in this situation 

 until the temperature of the atmosphere 

 is so low, as to endanger the tops; a course 

 of sand is then put upon the tops, cover- 

 ing them completely to the depth of an 

 inch or two; in this situation they may 

 remain till immediately before planting 

 in the spring — 2d method is to place them 

 in a vertical position, within a box upon 

 a course of sand an inch or two thick, and 

 then fill the spaces between the roots with 

 sand, and let them remain in this position, 

 till immediately before planting them, the 

 following spring — 3dplan, cover the trees 

 in a garden or other convenient place, 

 with common earth, (vegetable mould) 

 to the depth of two or three inches, the 

 trees being placed in the same relative | 

 position with each other, as those describ- 

 ed in the first mentioned plan. 



Where it is desirable to adopt the first 

 plan, and room suflicient cannot be had in 

 a cellar, or other suitable building, the 

 following plan is recommended as a sub- 

 stitute, first place plank with one edge of 

 each on the ground, so as to form four 

 vertical sides, which for convenience, we 

 may name a box, (with no plank in the 

 bottom, the surface of earth forms the bot- 

 tom) the plank are held or confined in a 

 vertical position by stakes driven into the 

 ground; place sand in the bottom, and the 

 trees upon it, and proceed exactly as in 

 the first plan before described, raise the 

 sand two or threti inches higher in the 

 middle from one end of the box to the 

 other, than it is at the sides, form a roof 

 over this witli plank, which are to be 

 confined to each other at the upper ends, 

 and to the box by nails, the lower ends 

 should project a few inches beyond the 

 plank (or sides of the box) so as to con- 

 duct the water clear of them; heap up 

 earth round the box against it to the height 

 of a few inches; let the trees remain in 



this situation till immediately before 

 planting them in the spring. In trim- 

 ming ofi' the side branches, it is recom- 

 mended to leave one eye between the 

 trunk and the place where the branch is 

 separated. 



BEET ROOT, RUTA BAGA AND HAND DRILL 

 TO PLANT SEED. 



The editor has frequently been asked, 

 for information respecting the cultivation 

 of the aforesaid plants, he is therefore in- 

 duced to offer the following remarks, ac- 

 companied by a request, that if any of the 

 readers should know of a superior process, 

 that the same may be made public. 



1. To prepense the ground^ Plough 

 land tliat has been occupied with corn the 

 preceding year, into ridges, from eighteen 

 inches to two feet asunder. 



Spread manure of any kind in the fur- 

 row between the respective ridges. 



Turn the ridges on the manure with a 

 plough, so as to form ridges over the ma- 

 nure, the seed are then planted and cover- 

 ed on those ridges by a machine of the 

 following construction which is both sim- 

 ple and effective, and can be put in opera- 

 tion at a trifling expense. 



Imagine an ordinary wheel barrow 

 without any boards in front, or between 

 the side pieces (usually named a bottom) 

 attach di pulley to the shaft or axle of the 

 wheel; this pulley may have several 

 grooves formed round the periphery to 

 admit an endless band to convey motion 

 to the revolving seed box, hereafter de- 

 scribed; the grooves are made of different 

 diameters, in order to increase or dimin- 

 ish the velocity of the revolving seed box, 

 compared with the velocity of the wheel j 

 and to effect this with the aid of one end- 

 less rope or band, the groves on the shaft 

 of the seed box, increase in the same di- 

 rection that those on the shaft diminish in 

 diameter; this arrangement allows the 

 rope to be shifted to any two grooves op- 

 posite to each other, and be of a uniform 

 tightness in each situation. 



The seed box is composed of a shaft 

 which turn in the standards, and to this 

 shaft d^ pulley is attached to admit an end- 

 less rope or band, to convey motion from 

 the wheel, as already described — and iioo 

 hollow frustimis of cones, composed of 

 sheet tin, soldered together at the large 



