>bI:r, 1886. 



POPULAR GARDENING 



FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY. 



^VOLTTI^^S II. 



Now Hickories glimmer with fragile gold. 

 And lurid colors the Maples hold. 

 To the wailing forests all hues are brought 

 Ou a sylvan canvas in silence wrought! 

 No wonder it looms like a pageant rare, 

 For Autumn, the artist, is working there. 



Treating Young Trees for Speedy 

 Results, 



Let the idea that one has long to wait for 

 fruit or shade, after planting the trees, be at 

 once dispelled. It is a wrong notion founded 

 on the many illustrations of bad planting to 

 be seen everj'where — trees set out but not 

 allowed to go ahead, because of ill-treatment 

 if not outright starvation. 



We desire to show, from some actual ex- 

 amples, that there is no need to wait long 

 for results, if the planting and cultivation is 

 right. In one instance that we recall a Bart- 

 lett Pear tree gave a peck of superb fruit in 

 2 years from planting. On the same grounds 

 Apple trees that had been planted 4 years 

 averaged a. bushel of fruit each the following 

 autumn. Peach trees the third summer 

 bore 3 pecks each, and Grape vines of the 

 same time of planting averaged 8 pounds 

 of fruit, and that after thinning some ont to 

 prevent over-bearing. 



In ornamental trees results in their way 

 (fuite as striking follow on good treatment. 

 From our window we can see Elms twelve 

 years planted that are 30 feet high, 20 feet 

 liroad, with trunks 1 foot through. Some 

 8 years planted 19 feet high and 1.5 feet 

 across the top. Sugar Maples that were 

 mere nursery trees 8 years ago, now are 16 

 feet high and 10 feet broad. A White Pop- 

 lar of the same age is 30 feet high and 2.i 

 ' broad. Austrian Pines planted at the 

 time are from 12 to 15 feet high and 

 ne.. y as broad at the base. 



The true secret of such results is careful 

 planting of thrifty young trees in good soil 

 and then decent treatment after. The 

 treatment in the instances adduced was in 

 no wise extravagant, having been not be- 

 yond that which every good farmer gives 

 to Carrots, Potatoes and other cultivated 

 crops. No farmer would look for a crop if 



he planted and tilled as carelessly as does the 

 average planter of trees. 



Plant well, in a good deep under-drained 

 soil. For years after, keep the soil over the 

 roots well tilled, or in the case of shade trees, 

 mulched and watered in dry times, and the 

 planter can easily equal, if not exceed, such 

 iigures as have been given. In case the 

 natural soil is poor, remove it to a depth of 

 20 inches and some 4 feet across where every 

 tree is to come, replacing the same with sur- 

 face loam from a cultivated lot or field. 



The Fruit from Overhanging Trees 

 —Who Owns It? 



The question whether fruit that falls on 

 one's land from a tree on the line or beyond 

 it belongs to such a person is a common one. 

 There has been much discussion over it, witii 

 some contradictory judgments, but the rules 

 are now pretty well established. 



In the case of a tree growing on the line, 

 between adjoining properties so that parts of 

 the actual body stand on each, then the 

 fruit Is to be equitably divided between the 

 owners, and neither one can cut the tree 

 without the consent of the other. 



If the stem of the tree stands wholly within 

 the boundary line of one owner, even if 

 the roots extend and grow into the land of 

 his neighbor and derives nourishment there- 

 from, the whole tree with its product belongs 

 to the owner on whose land it stands, and 

 none to the neighbor. The neighbor cannot 

 pick it for himself, nor interfere with the 

 picking by the owner so long as the latter 

 remains in the tree or on the fence which 

 divides the property. 



In such a case, the neighbor may forbid 

 the owner to come on the soil on the other 

 side of the line to gather the fruit, and all 

 the fruit which falls without violence to the 

 ground on that side may thus become the 

 property of the neighbor. [In .some States 

 this matter as to the ownership of such fallen 

 fruit is still unsettled, and the owner would 

 probably have an implied license in law to 

 enter and gather the fruit, if possible with- 

 out any damage to his neiglilior.] The neigh- 



bor is also allowed to cut off the branches of 

 such a tree close to its line, and he may dig 

 down and cut the roots of the tree square 

 with his line if he so elects. 



When the tree stands on the line, as re- 

 ferred to, neither owner is at liberty to cut 

 away the part which extends into his land, 

 if he thereby injures the common property. 



A Five Dollar Conservatory. 



BY "sister gracious." 



We moved into a very small house with a 

 small sitting-room in it. Plants being a nec- 

 essity but money scarce, I applied the inven- 

 tive talent I possessed to providing a place 

 for them. The sitting-room can boast a 

 large bay window on its sunny side, and 

 here for the plants. 



First, the inside blinds were taken off and 

 carefiUly stored away. A carpenter was 

 called in and he made a broad shelf that 

 fitted the whole length of the bay. It came 

 up as high as the lower part of the window, 

 and was fitted with rollers so that on cold 

 nights it could be pulled into the room. 



Several pairs of iron supports, bought at 

 the hardware store for twenty cents a pair, 

 were put up to support three shelves fitted 

 into the bay half way up the window. I 

 also have 8 swinging brackets for single 

 plants; they are plain and cost ten cents each. 



There should be very little ornamentation 

 about these things or the hanging baskets or 

 pots. If the plants are flourishing that is 

 attraction enough. The prettiest effect I 

 ever saw in a jilant basket was made from a 

 discarded egg basket. The plants wound 

 around the handle and draped it all about. 

 The old brown basket brought out the 

 colors beautifully. I have 3 of them now. 



Near (he ceiling I have hooks to which 

 strings run from brackets on each side of the 

 window, which support a Cobjca Scaiiiiens 

 on one side, a German Ivy on the other. 

 They are now racing to meet each other at 

 the top, and pretty sooit will tie themselves 

 into a true lovers' knot. 



Over this window is the text "O ye green 

 things upon earth, bless ye the Lord." 



