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CLKAXIXGS IN BKH Cri.TlRIv 



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fttling toward the bee-papers. I believe that tann- 

 ers will cinititwie to blame any one who ai'.vooaU-s the 

 spreading of the noxious weed, swu i rl vci Do yon 

 find nivistard oi nmlkin in yo>n --i i ,i\> 1 i . i \ i aU'h at 

 fmitii\)I time ? Ileie, and in Cent : ;il llliii i-, w luie \vc 

 can prow any of the usual hay and j;i.i~"' -, " ^ have no 

 use tor it. and I don't think n'luch of any one who will 

 advocate it. He is onlv making enemies : and it ap- 

 pears to tliem that he does it for gain. The question 

 Mr. Fair asked i.s. how to eradicate it. If you know, 

 tell lis. I confess my twelve years' labor have not 

 done it. I am glad i have not let it spread on my 

 neiglilwrs, and have it confined to the one pasture 

 and the fence-corneis. J. .\. Tohnston. 



C.recn Hill, Ind. 



I have jj^iven the above becau-se I wi.sli to have 

 a fair hearing on all sides of the question. 

 But I must still tliiiik our good friend John- 

 ston has not exactly got the liai'g of the plant. 

 I can not 1 elieve it possible that his horses 

 antl cattle are so different from those found 

 elsewhere. Whenever I am away from home 

 I am always watching to find a place where 

 sweet clover seems to be crowding something 

 else, but I have not found it. It is not in cul- 

 tivated fields, it is not in pasture-lots, and I 

 have never seen it in meadows. If it should 

 get in with hay, especially if cut early, I can 

 not imagine a horse or cow that would pick out 

 the timothy and conmion clover and leave the 

 sweet clover. So far as I can discover, it seems 

 to occupy unused waste places, such as the 

 banks along our railways, and roadsides w'here 

 stock is not allowed. Where there is excellent 

 feed along the roadsides, the cattle may 

 choose the grass and clover first, because they 

 have not learned to eat the sweet clover. 



HOW TO GET RID OF SWEET CLOVER. 

 In the first place, cut it down before it pro- 

 duces seed, the same as you would any other 

 plant. vSecond, turn on stock in the .spring if 

 practicable, and put enough stock in the field 

 so they will eat up the sweet clover before it 

 can go up to seed. Third, plow it under be- 

 fore it produces seed. Some one of the three 

 above ways can almost alwa3s be fotmd prac- 

 ticable. The principle difficulty will be in 

 the fence-corners, where no stock is kept, or 

 on railway ground ; btit as it has never yet got 

 over into cultivated fields adjoining railroad 

 ground and roadsides, on our premises, I caii 

 not understand how it should do any appre- 

 ciable damage in anj- locality, where confined 

 to these waste places. I am continually watch- 

 ing for it in my travels; anfl just as soon as I 

 can find a place where it is detrimental to 

 growing crops, pasture lands, or meadows, I 

 ■will gladly report. 



MULBERRIES — WET OR DRV LOCATIONS. 

 On page rfio you .say that the Downing nuilben-j- is 

 like the willow. You will find yourself wrong in that. 

 The mulberr\' does be.st upon dry clay ridges or well- 

 drained land. There arc, on the farm where I am 

 writing, over :50(l of those trees planted for a wind- 

 break for the apple orchard, and some of them were 

 planted on low land, and near the willow. The 

 mulberrv-tree died out on the wet land, while the 

 willow died out on the high dry land. The mulberrv 

 will stand plenty of water if "the drainage is good. 

 Vou speak of the ta.ste of the mulberry. You will 

 find that trees from the same nursery differ very- 

 much in their fruit, ranging from very sweet to very- 

 acid. I find a great difference in the fruit of trees 

 that are growing .side bj' side, as well in the size of the 

 fruit as in the taste of it. In all the 300 or more mul- 

 berrv-trees on the farm here I find onlv one tree 



whose fruit to me tastes like the niuH-erries which 

 grew in New York— the ones I ate when I was a bov. 

 1 find that the Ixst fiuit is on the high and dry land, 

 and icniains uikmi the tree longest. I do not wMle for 

 l)uMiealion, but to let yon know how it works here to 

 plant the niulberry-ti ee on low or wet land. 

 Cuba, Kan., Aug", (i. \Vm. H. Eagi:rtv. 



You are doubtless right in regard to the 

 mtilberries. The tree I s])oke of near the lit- 

 tle fountain was situated right over the under- 

 drain. The grotmd was kept damp around 

 the roots of the tree during dry weather ; but 

 the drainage was so perfect there could never 

 be any standing water. I am inclined to think 

 you are also right in regard to the quality of 

 the fruit ; and it would be nothing strange if 

 we should be obliged to resort to grafting as 

 we do with peaches, apples, and other fruit, 

 to insure having the best results. Now, then, 

 have we a nitrseryman who offers mulberry- 

 trees grafted with select choice fruit? 



HIGH-PRESSURE GARDENING, ETC. 



It vvas a cruel di.sappoiiitment that the department of 

 " High-pressure Gardenitig " was omitted in Aug. 1.5th 

 Gle.\nings. Helpful hints are contained in these ar- 

 ticles, that benefit hundreds of your subscribers. A 

 better word would be y>7r«rfi. I. Donnelly. 



Indian River, Mich. 



Wh}', friend D., there was "High-pressure 

 Gardening " in the Augtist 15th number, al- 

 though I did not put in the heading. I told 

 about the cold-frame plants at Mr. Miller's, 

 the onions at Mr. Atwood's celery-farm, the 

 potatoes at Wilbur Fenn's, etc. But I thank 

 you for your suggestion, and will try hereafter 

 not to omit that particular " dish " from ni)' 

 semi-monthly bill of fare. 



Special Notices in the Line of Gardening, etc. 



By A. I. Root. 



I actually forgot to .say to the friends, in our last 

 issue, that" I would continue sending the Darling 

 strawberry-plant postpaid to every one sending us 

 51. (X) any time this fall; and as we now have a stock 

 of plants of the Earliest, as well as Darling, you may 

 have either one. Remember, a transplanted potted 

 plant in jadoo fiber, po.stpaid bv mail, free of charge, 

 to everybody who sends us $L0O for Glkanings this 

 fall. It probably would not be worth while to try to 

 winter them over after October unless you have a 

 greenhou.se, cold-frame, or .similar protection. As 

 for our.selves, by the aid of glass we expect to keep 

 growing and potting these valuable plants clear on 

 till Christmas. 



WHAT CROP TO PUT OUT IN SEPTEMBER. 



Well, it is just now time to .sow Wakefield cabbage- 

 seed to get plants of the right size to winter over in 

 cold-frames. It is also ju.st the time to start Grand 

 Rapids lettuce, to have nice lettuce for Thanksgiving 

 and the holidays. In our locality here in Northern 

 Ohio, it is just the time to sow wheat or rye: and if 

 vou have .sjieep or .stock that use the feed, it is ju.st the 

 time to sow dwarf Essex rape. Remember, this will 

 .stand almo.st as much fro.st as wheat and ry.e. Sow a 

 piece of it where the poultry run, and it will give them 

 green feed clear up to Christmas, and may be later. 



If vou put out strawberry-plants now, you mu.st 

 have 'potted plants, or have 'your ground .sufficiently 

 rich so they will get rooted well enough to .stand the 

 freezing and thawing. Our special .strawberry circu- 

 lar will be mailed free of charge. 



Of course, you do not want to forget to try hardy 

 onion-sets put in the open ground this fall. We .suc- 

 ceed nicely with the American Pearl and Prizetaker. 

 And. bv the wav, there has f)een an unusual demand 



