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POPULAR GARDENING. 



June, 



We cannot be too careful ourselves, nor 

 watch the children too closely. In cases of 

 poisoning, let no time be lost, but promptly 

 use every means to counteract its effects. 

 Vntil the arrival of a physician, produce 

 copious and frequent vomiting, and persis- 

 tently keep it up until all offending matter 

 is expelled. By no means allow the patient 

 to become sleepy, but give strong Coffee or 

 Tea, and if the body feels cold or chilly, 

 apply Mustard and bottles of hot water. 

 By every means keep up the circulation and 

 the brain active. 



during the winter), and as an appetizer and 

 tonic. Our Apple orchards may safely be 

 doubled, and in some sections trebled, in 

 extent, and if we then feed liberally, and 

 send to market only the very cream of the 

 fruit, we will benefit ourselves in a great 

 many respects, by having cheaper food, 

 better and healthier stock, and better re- 

 turns for the fruit we sell. Of course where 

 planted with this view, varieties should 

 be selected that will cover as much as 

 possible the entire season, beginning with 

 the earliest sorts, both sour and sweet, and 

 ending with the latest. 



Apples as Food for Stock. 



ARTHUR JACOBSON, VA. 



As a money crop, the Apple stands in the 

 front rank among fruits ; but there are 

 other properties and merits hidden in this 

 fruit, common as it is, which are not yet 

 fully appreciated. 



There is a food value in the Apple which 

 heretofore has been almost entirely over- 

 looked. Apples may be plentiful, and cheap, 

 but don't talk of over-prodvictionior unprofit- 

 able culture, so long as they can be grown 

 at less cost, and with less attendance than 

 any other stock food of same value, and the 

 whole country full of horses, cattle, hogs, 

 and sheep are ready to take and turn to 

 good use all our surplus. In what way can 

 you grow the equivalent of the 400 or .500 

 bushels of Apples in other fodder which 

 will grow on the 30 trees occupying one 

 acre of ground, with less trouble and ex- 

 pense ? 



I know large stock farms the owners of 

 which do not grow Apples enough for their 

 families. This don't look like over-produc- 

 tion. At the same time their horses, cattle 

 and hogs have a hard time of it in some 

 years to pick a living off the dried-up, burnt 

 up pastures in mid-summer or fall. What a 

 relief a good large orchard of hea^'y-yield- 

 ing sweet and sour Apples, with its gratify- 

 ing shade, pasture and dropping fruit would 

 be to the dumb brutes. And all this could 

 be had with but little cost and labor besides 

 the first setting of the tree on cheap land. 

 Then if in any year there is a demand for 

 good fruit at paying rates, pick out and sell 

 the good fruit for good money, and let your 

 stock have the culls. 



I have fed Apples, both sour and sweet, 

 quite largely to horses, cows and hogs, 

 almost during the whole year, and have 

 learned to appreciate them for the purpose. 

 A horse worked but moderately, will keep 

 in better condition on four quarts of Oats 

 and one peck of Apples a day, with some 

 coarse fodder, than it would on eight quarts 

 of Oats. This puts the money value of 

 Apples for horses at least at one half that of 

 Oats, bulk for bulk. In other words, if 

 Oats are worth thirty cents a bushel. Apples 

 have a feeding value of not less than fifteen 

 cents per bushel. 



Our best authorities concede Apples to be 

 equally valuable as Carrots for horses, and 

 as Turnips for cows, and more valuable 

 than Mangolds, pound for pound. If this 

 is the case, why should we always bestow 

 so much labor on the production of Carrots 

 and Turnips, and Mangolds, when we can 

 grow Apples almost without labor and ex- 

 pense, and in many instances let the animals 

 gather the crops themselves ? 



Mr. E. H. Hutchinson is quoted as saying: 

 " For the general purpose horse of the far- 

 mer, I know from actual experience that 

 Apples are valuable food. I have had horses 

 that were in very low condition, from worms 

 entirely freed from this trouble when run- 

 ning among Apple trees, where they eat all 

 they want." 



My own experience makes me think high- 

 ly of Apples as food for stock ( I even chop 

 up a mess for poultry once or twice a week 



the hail knocked off. Thi.s is perhaps the 

 finest tree of the kind for many miles 

 around, over a foot in diameter at the 

 ground, and branches within eighteen inches 

 of the earth. Is 2.5 or 30 feet high, and at 

 least .30 feet in diameter of head. It has 

 borne three full crops successfully, and the 

 fruit brings a high price. With me it is 

 the most profitable, while Gov. Wood I deem 

 best in quality. Is there a better one ? 



Judge Miller's Notes from Montgom- 

 ery County, Mo. 



Newtown Pippin Apple. I know of no 

 Apple that is the equal of the Newtown 

 Pippin as a late winter fruit. But as to its 

 not coming up to the mark west of the 

 Allegheny Mountains is certainly a mistake. 

 We grow it here on the Missouri hills to 

 perfection, and I have seen it grown in the 

 low lands even still finer than mine. 



It bears regular, the fruit is large, and 

 even larger than I ever saw them in the 

 east, clean and bright as a dollar, crisp, 

 juicy, and of that peculiar sprightly flavor 

 that no other Apple possesses. 



I have seen specimens that would weigh 

 a pound, and have sent them east to its old 

 home where the people did not recognize it. 

 In connection with this it may be said that 

 quite a number of eastern Apples are per- 

 fectly at home here. Rambo, Romanite, 

 (red) Smokehouse, Esopus Spitzenberg, 

 Newtown Spitzenberg, Newtown Pippin, 

 Northern Spy, in fact nearly all do well 

 here, if they get a fair chance. 



A D.^MAGiNG Storm. On May 12th we 

 had a hail storm that did great damage to 

 our trees and berry crop. One Yellow Belle- 

 flower, my favorite among fall Apples, the 

 tree of which was ten inches in diameter at 

 the ground and set with a full crop, was 

 broken down; $100 would not have been 

 taken for that tree the day before. 



Fine Cherry trees that had full crops on 

 them within a few weeks of ripening. Straw- 

 berry, Raspberry, Blackberry and Grapes- 

 all suffered considerably: this is depressing 

 to one's spirits. No exhibition of the new 

 berries for me this season! 



Never before was the importance of strong 

 Evergreens being planted on the stormy 

 side of smaller plants so forcibly impressed 

 as in this case. Choice Roses, a Marechal 

 Niel, whose buds are just ready to burst; a 

 Seppia Clematis, a Snowball tree, and other 

 choice plants, sheltered by two large Nor- 

 way Spruces, and partly by the house, are 

 unscathed. 



It about to build a house on a plain or 

 prairie, one of the first things would be to 

 set a windbreak from north to south on the 

 west side, some forty or fifty yards from it. 

 The recent storm taught some people near 

 here that it is not safe to let a western garret 

 window open when a cyclone is coming. 

 For two days we hear the carpenter's saw 

 and hatchet in use putting on roofs that 

 were lifted off for want of the precaution uf 

 having windows closed. 



The weather here has been unusually 

 changeable, hot and cold. Ice twice in May, 

 and this morning (May 15) mercury down to 

 4'i°, and by 2 o'clock P. M. may be 90°. Can 

 any other country beat this? 



These are the vicissitudes of the fruit 

 grower, but it won't do to dispair. In the 

 Cherry orchard where five trees blowed down 

 I had planted fifteen this spring, expecting 

 that the old ones would soon give out. 



Cherry trees to do any good here must 

 have low heads, so that the sun will not 

 strike the southwest side fairly, or they will 

 soon be done for. My Napoleon Cherry tree 

 has again a fair crop, nearly half of which 



Judge Miller on Tender Roses. 

 Marechael Niel which has no superior 

 among the yellows, taking all things into 

 account, I have had off and on since its first 

 introduction, and up to this time never had 

 anything like a respectable show when 

 grown on its own roots. But when budded 

 into strong stocks, it has always done its 

 prettiest. Never yet has one on its own 

 roots given me a single flower, even with 

 the best of care, although laid down in the 

 fall and covered. During the summer they 

 make a feeble growth, and in the spring 

 Invariably are dead. 



Not so, however, where budded on a 

 strong stem of some hardy variety, which 

 if budded a few feet from the ground, is so 

 easily bent over and an inverted sod laid on 

 the tender part. Just now two such trees 

 as I may call them, are near me on the lawn 

 full of buds that will be in bloom in a few 

 weeks, while the two plants in the garden 

 that were better all last summer and never 

 gave a flower, are both dead. 



Not a rod from this is an Etoil de Lyon, in 

 my opinion the next best yellow, that was 

 budded six inches from the ground three 

 years ago, with a head, three feet high full 

 of buds and foliage is a picture to look at. 



This could not be laid down last fall, so I 

 took a common flour barrel with both heads 

 out and set it over the bush filled in among 

 the branches with forest leaves, and tied a 

 piece of burlap around the top that was 

 above the barrel. In the garden is a plant 

 of Pearle de Jardins that grew well last 

 season, and which was well covered, 

 dead down to the ground and is only now 

 showing a feeble shoot. The budded tree 

 will have Roses a month sooner than the 

 'after probably will have. 



Whenever I get a new one and wish to 

 see the flowers soon, it is taxed as soon as a 

 twig is fit to furnish buds. I insert them 

 into strong stocks of which there are always 

 some on hand. As soon as the buds have 

 taken, the stock is headed back and cement- 

 ed. It is seldom that two months pass 

 until I have Roses. Quite recently a deli- 

 cate little new one came to hand, that had 

 one tiny branch broken, which my daughter 

 claimed, and put into sand as a cutting. A 

 few days after it struck me that I could im- 

 prove on that and asked for it, inserted it in 

 a stock out doors, and now a week later it 

 looks fresh and promises to grow. 



Roses are now sold so cheap that thou- 

 sands are bought that never come to bloom. 

 They are little delicate things taken from 

 under glass, that it set out in the open 

 ground, stand five chances out of six to 

 perish at once. 



When such are received they should be 

 potted, and kept in a warm place with 

 plenty of light, but not much sunshine for 

 a few days. Than to be gradually hardened 

 by exposure to sun and air until they have 

 made a good start. In this way they may 

 nearly all be saved. 



Of the thousands of different flowers in 

 cultivation none are equal to the Rose. My 

 collection is but small but am adding to it 

 every year. If some one could raise a. 

 hardy yellow Rose equal to Marechal Niel 

 in other respects, he would have a fortune 

 in it. When grown under glass it may do 

 well on its own roots, but not out-doors 

 with me. 



