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Green's 'Straw, StalJe and Hay Cutler. 



Vot. II. 



a small table which you can move from tree to 

 tree and upon which you can the more conve- 

 niently prepare your applications. Every 

 succeeding rain will dissolve a part of the 

 copperas; this running- down the branches, 

 impregnated with the sulphur, seldom fails 

 to produce a happy result. Whether it neu- 

 tralizes the deleterious principle. in the air, 

 or owing, to its noxious qualities to insects, 

 I am not prepared to say. 



I am, your most obedient, 



John Cook. 



To the Editor: 



Having seen in the Farmers' Cabinet of 

 May 1st, 1837, a reward from the Horticul- 

 tural Society of Pennsylvania, for the cure 

 of blight in pear trees, 1 now offer a remedy, 

 which, from a number of years experience, 

 I believe to be effectual. Having planted 

 several pear trees, and for nearly ten years 

 they were not in a healthy slate, one of them 

 died during that time, and the others having 

 dead twigs on the end of the limbs, did not 

 bear. 1 removed the earth and grass sod 

 from the root about two or three feet in di- 

 ameter and three or four inches deep, and 

 poured soap suds at the root nearly weekly 

 for several years, when the ground is not 

 frozen, which has brought the trees to a 

 thrifty state of bearing. The above I hope 

 will be tried by the members of the Horti- 

 cultural Societ}', or any other persons, as I 

 am under a strong conviclion, that it will 

 bring the trees to a healthy state. 



Joseph Brinton. 



Birmingham Township, Chester Co. ) 

 August 31, ]8:)7. \ 



Green's Strata-, Stalk, and Hay Ciit(er> 



In the first volume of the Farmers' Cabinet, 

 No. 9, page 129, we published an article 

 in commendation of Green's Straw Cutter. 

 Since that time we have conversed with 

 several gentlemen who have used this iria- 

 chine, and they all agree in recommending 

 it, as fully answering the most favorable 

 opinions they had formed of its utility. The 

 following is the testimony of Richard Peters, 

 Esq. of this city. 



Pliiladclphia, Sept. 8th, 1837. 



I purchased one of Green's Straw Cutters, 

 in the autumn of 1836, and from that time un- 

 til the present I have used it for cutting hay 

 and straw at my larm. No hay was used 

 for feeding my horses or cows, except that 

 cut by the Straw Cutter; and during the 

 winter of 1836-7, fifteen horses and three 

 cows were fed exclusively on cut hay. Of 

 these, four were carriage horses. The condi- 



tion of all the stock, in the springr of the year 

 was far better, than if they had been fed upon 

 hay uncut, and better than any stock I have 

 ever seen kept entirely on hay. I am satis- 

 fied there is an economy of at least one-third 

 in feeding stock on cut hay, and they are much 

 healthier than when fed in the usual mode. 

 In less than 30 minutes by Green's Straw 

 Cutter, hay was cut sufficient for the stock 

 for twenty-four hours, and this without any 

 fatigue. I have known and used many straw 

 cutters, but have never been satisfied with 

 any except that invented by Green. 



Richard Peters. 



The instrument with twelve knives cuts 

 rather more than an inch long — price thir- 

 ty-two dollars ; that with eighteen knives 

 cuts about three-quarters of an inch long 

 and sells at forty dollars. Cj* Orders ad- 

 dressed to Mr. I. I. Hitchcock, No 5 South 

 Fifth street, will meet with prompt attention. 



A Concise Treatise on the Growing and Propagating of 

 Fruit Trees, Shrubs and Vines. Founded on the 

 Theories of approved Authors, tested by several years 

 praclice, and improved by practical experiments. 



Friait and Fruit Trees. 



NO. II. 



WHIP GRAFTING. 



This method is particularly calculated for 

 nurseries, and is most expeditious and ad- 

 vantageous on all kinds of voung trees, (ex- 

 cept the peach, apricot and nectarine, on 

 which the budding may be considered at all 

 iirnes, preferable) and is particularly adapted 

 to the cherry and plum, and all such as do 

 not split well. It may be performed near 

 the ground, or at the height of five or six 

 feet, near where you intend to form the top, 

 or in limbs from the thickness of a pipe-stem 

 to about three-fourths of an inch, and too 

 small to cleft graft; and the top of young 

 trees having such limbs, may have th«ir top 

 changed by this method, as large trees by 

 cleft grafting; and if the tree have some large 

 limbs to cleft graft, but not many, it may be 

 partly cleft and partly whip grafted. The 

 inanner is this: provide yourself with the 

 composition before mentioned, soft woollen 

 yarn, and a sharp pen-knife; begin the work 

 by cutting off the head of the stock, at some 

 smooth part, by one clean slanting cut up- 

 wards, so as to form a slope on one side 

 about an inch and a half or two inches in 

 length, and make a small slit from near the 

 middle downwards, to receive the tongue of 

 tlie scion; then prepare the scion, by cutting 

 it with three or four buds, preferring the 

 lower or thick part, and cutting the lower 



