1855. 



NEW ENGLAND PARMER. 



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to cattle. An old staid laborer was appointed to both. It may be blessed in leading the heart up to 

 take charge of cattle, and ^vas quite able and wil- the love of the Rose of Sharon and the garden of 

 ling to undertake the task. He got his own way at, God. — American Messenger. 



first, as I had observed many laboring men display 



great ingenuity in arranging their work. Lowings i ^,,^ ^^,^ Y«^ Engiaml Farmer. 



were soon lieard from the stock m all quarters,] 



both in and out of doors, which intimated the want THE CANKER WORM AGAIN. 



of regularity in the cattle-man ; whilst the poor crea- 

 ture himself was constantly in a state of bustle and 

 uneasiness. To put an end to this cUsorderly state 



CAN WE PROTECT OUR ORCHARDS FROM HIS RAVA- 

 GES ?— A PLAN THAT HAS SUCCEEDED, 



Mr. Editor : — Permit me to correct a grammat- 



of things, I apportioned his entire day's Avork by ; ical error in my last communication, in which I des- 

 his own watch ; and on implicitly following the plan ignated the female moth by the unfeminine appel- 



he not only soon satisfied the wants of every animal 

 committed to his charge,but had abundant leisure to 

 lend a hand to anything that required his temporary 



lation, "he. 



Last fall my fother caught several of the female 

 moths, and putting them under a tumbler, watched 



assistance. His old heart overflowed with gratitude ^ their movements. True to their instincts, they im- 

 when he found the way of making all his creatures , mecUately commenced toiHng up the sides of the 



happy, and his kindness to them was so midenatin^, 

 they woidd have done whatever he liked. 



tumbler. Some could advance but a few lines ; one 

 or two, after several inetiectual attempts, at length 

 reach the inverted bottom, when they stopped, and 

 TTJ -VT? "DT A TffTTTaT" feltabout, Seemingly in trouble. In a few minutes they 



IKiliTi rLA^ilriU'. mustered courage and endeavored to walk the glas- 



We notice among the munificent bequests of El- sy plain, but in every attempt no sooner were their 

 liott Cressen, a legacy of $-5,000 to be employed in | hinder feet raised from the sides, than down the 

 planting trees in Phiiadelphia. There is something 'poor insects came. Here, then, was a fact estab- 

 touching in this gift. It is fragrant of good taste i lished, that the female moth could not carrij its 

 and friendly feeling. It seems to express gvatitude destructive load across a horizontal surface of glass. 

 for the comforting shade of some old tree under j That they are provided with the foot-fiap or suction 

 M'hich the weary philanthropist had meditated his apparatus attached to the feet of most insects, to 

 schemes of usefulness; and of considerate interest! enable them, by an atmospheric pressure, to more 

 for the health and pleasure of future generations, [than counterbalance the falling down power of 

 who are to people the city of his birth. And when 'gravity, is evident from the fact that they could as- 

 monuments of marble and of bronze shall crumble, Icend the sides of the tumbler. Now for a practical 

 the broad arms of the elm and the oak shall stand appHcation of this fact, which points to a horizontal 



out against the sky as the befitting memento of the 

 liberality and the last of the tree-loving Philadelphi- 

 an. 



Every one should plant trees. No object is more 

 beautiful than a spreacUng elm, or a lively ever- 

 green ; none more productive than the apple or the 

 luscious pear. Hall' the labor bestowed on a single 

 crop of potatoes, would originate an orchard, the 

 product of which in a few years would be equal in 

 value annually, to the potato crop, yet with but little 



plane of glass as an impassatjle Ixarrier to the pro- 

 gress of the moth. The lamented Mr. CoLK, in his 

 excellent Fruit Book, states that Mr. F. Dana, of 

 Roxbury, in the Ploughman, recommends that the 

 tree be surrounded by a collar of wood made slip- 

 pery by glass on the under side. Of the mechani- 

 cal application of the glass ^Ir. Cole gives us no in- 

 formation. Mr. "VVilham Bowler, of this town, con- 

 jecturing that glass would be impassable to the 

 moth, during the last fall and winter protected liis 



labor beyond the harvesting. A fortnight's toil in j trees accordingly, and the result was, as might be 

 the spring or autumn, in transplanting choice fruit- j conjectured from the tumbler experiments, though 

 trees to tlie roadside, or tastefully grouping them [his neighbors were sorely troubled by the ravages 

 on the lawn, will ultimately add more to the value | of the canker worm, his own trees were com])ara- 

 of the place than twice the time employed in build- tively unharmed, and doul)tk'ss would have been 



ing (u- fencing. For their own comfort, for the 

 sake of their descendants, for the taste and improve- 

 ment of the country, plant trees — let everybody 

 plant trees. 



That bald, naked church, tasteless, treeless! Who 

 will have compassion on the worshipjiers, and sur- 

 round it with trees ? That district school-house, 

 bare and unsightly ; who will interest the boys in 

 ])lanting and protecting shrul)s and trees that will 

 make it an attractive and l)cautiful spot ? Those 

 verdureless villages, with tlieir houses thrust upon 

 the street — who will distribute honey-suckles, and 

 Virginia creejjers and prairie roses, that they may 

 be turned into civilized habitations P 



Thei'e is a softening, humanizing influence in hor 

 ticultui'e and tree-planting, that we could Mish were 

 more general, 'i'here is too much danger of the 

 gross and sensual and selfish in our national char- 



wholly so, if the plan had occurred to him earlier, 

 before the moth was on the move. For Mr. Bowl- 

 er's method of a])plying the glass, I would refer to 

 that gentleman himself, as, from the use he intends 

 to make of his plan, it is not projjcr that I should 

 make it ])ublic. However, I would say, that though 

 he has courteously given us free permission to avml 

 ourselves of his ingenuity, my father has designed, 

 and is now protecting our trees by the following 

 method, believing it to be as cheaj), as efficacious, 

 and con«derably easier of apjjlication than that of 

 Mr. Bowler. 



For large trees, take two pieces of board, oblong 

 squares, cut a semicircle out of each of them, so 

 that when united the two may embrace tlie tree in 

 the circle. Next take four strips of board, to l)e 

 used as cleats to surround the wooden ])latform on 

 the upper side, at al)out half an inch fi-om its edge. 



actcr; and while our reliance must be on religious i Before securing these cleats, groove them away on 

 and educational influences to correct this tendency, I their edges, to the depth of about three-fourths of 

 we Ijclieve tlrat good and only good would come ofjan inc/i, with a width of about three-sixteenths of 

 the love for trees and flowers, and the cultivation of| an inch. Secure these cleats to the platform (the 



