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THE ILLINOIS E^RMER. 



List of Shrubbery, &e. 



"We present the listof shrubbery, &c., pre- 

 pared in our last number, for Gardens and 

 Lawns on a small scale, and add other arti- 

 cles on the suggestion of an esteemed friend. 

 The object of this list is to enable persons of 

 small means to purchasesuch articles of 

 shrubbery and such at reasonable prices. 



Two Balsam Firs, Norway Sprues or Black Spruce 



trees— say 50 cents each $1 00 



Two Pprslan Lilackn, white aad purple, at 20...._ 40 



One Snowball, at 25c _ 35 



One Tamarix, at 25c 35 



One sweet (cented Seringa, 25c 25 



Tbree Spir as, Pranifolia, Dunglanat and Sorbifulia, 



at 20c - 60 



Wefcclia Ronea, at 25c 25 



One Japan Quince, at 30c - - 30 



Ono Rclgian Uoneysnckle at 25c — running 35 



One Chinese " 2.'ic — rannine 25 



TwobardT p<>rpetnal roseSjDntchesaof Southerlandand 



Madam Laffay, 50c each 1 00 



$4^80 



We add, as before stated, on the sugges- 

 tion of our friend, the following Bulbous 

 Plants : 



Ond dozen Hyacinths ~ 



Ttilips — — 



Crocus 



w $ T5 



1,00 



50 



TigoT I.iUies - 50 



Jonqnil - ~ 60 



Diptrytra Speotabilis hi-rbaceons 26 



[These can be rapidly propagated ] 



Ehbobs — Althea, white daublo » 25 



" " blue " 15 



Half doien kinds June Roses 1,00 



$5 00 



Double Hollyliocks, (which will cost no- 

 thing more than for the seed,) are very 

 beautiful if trimmed, (that is, the tops pinch 

 ed off, so as not to grow higher than three 

 feet) planted about in the fence corners. 



Our correspondent says : 



"I cannot bear to think of those two ever- 

 greens you properly recommended, without 

 also thinking of a ring of fine tulips to conic 

 up around them and contrast with their 

 green shade. Then after these another ring 

 of red gladiolus, &c. Then, perhaps, some 

 coxcombs or other red flowers later, all of 

 which, by culture, help grow and set off the 

 evergreens to advantage. I do think a yard 

 without roses, tulips and trimmed double 

 hollies in the country, is unpardonable. I 



know they arc common, and so are fools com- 

 mon, who want to go to Asia, Mexico or Ja- 

 pan for unknown, troubiessme and tender 

 plants, not half as beautiful." 



The lists there given, can be greatly ex- 

 tended, and perhaps purchasTs would like to 

 substitute some of the following articles for 

 those previously named : 



Herbaceous PafonifS, all c'dorf, from 30c to $1,00 



nerhaccons Peren' iul I'til' x. new and tine varcti s 25 



Climbing Koscs, American varieties 26 



B@° Ladles who like early annual flowers, 

 can plant the seed in a box, set it in a win- 

 dow where it will be warm, and the plants 



will be large enough to transplant when 

 warm weatlier comes. The seed of China 

 and German Asters, Candy Tuft, Annual 

 Phlox, Marvel of Peru, Balsamine, Hearts 

 Ease, Petunia, and numerous other plants 

 will do well thus early planted, and they 

 will flower a month earlier than when sown 

 at the common time. 



Sugar Cane for Fodder. 



A writer in the Country Gentleman, ad- 

 verts to the fact that cattle cannot eat the 

 sugar-cane stalks after they become dry and 

 hard, and goes on to state that he has tried 

 the cutting up of the stalks in a "Stalk Cut- 

 ter and Grinder," and finds that his cattle, 

 when the stalks are thus prepared, eat every 



portion freely. He also states that with this 

 food, the cows have sensibly increased their 

 milk. He believes that a single acre might 

 be made to feed half a dozen cattle through 

 the winter, and the cost of raising it would 

 not exceed a dollar a ton. The production 

 of an acre of good cane is enormous. 



themselves with seed corn ; and be certain to 

 have an early variety for an early crop. We 

 are not certain of a favorable spring. It 

 may be that we shall be late in getting our 

 corn. 



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2^^ The wheat crop in Southern Il- 

 linois promises well. 



Draining. — We find a capital article on 

 this subject in the "Weekly Quincy Whig 

 and Republican." It gives a history of 

 draining, and notices the benefits of the dif- 

 ferent systems. While we are satisfied that 

 the greatest advantages can be received by 

 the most extensive and thorough system, we 

 are compelled to admit the truth that but 

 few farmers have the means to adopt it : and 

 under the circumstances our farmers must 

 do the best they can ; and the best they can 

 do, now, extensively, is tosurface drain. 



The writer referred to, says : 



"In many parts of our State the soil when 

 new and first broken up was filled with 

 fibrous substances, which kept it loose, so 

 as readily to filter the water, and winter 

 wheat was successfully cultivated. But as 

 those substances have decomposed and left 

 the soil more compact, so that the filtration 

 of the water is obstructed, the crops are to a 

 great degree liable to suffer from the frost. 

 Draining is the only means to bring back 

 such fields to wheat culture, are to secure at 

 all times a sure and heavy crop. Under- 

 draining as an art, has made great advances 

 among the better class of farmers, especially 

 in P^ngland, since the introduction of drain- 

 irif; tile, or perhaps we should say since the 



modern use of tile, for prior to 1 0-0 thc i^ar- 

 den of the monastry at Maubeuge, in France, 



was drained with earthern tile placed at a 

 depth of about four feet, and so late as 1850, 

 when the conformation of the surface wai 

 changed to make a park, this garden was fa- 

 mous for the excellence and abundance of its 

 productions, and the people of the district 

 had been at a loss to account for its astonish- 

 ing fertility until the grading exposed a 

 thorough system of drainage which had 

 been made earlier than interments dating at 

 1G20." 



Thorough tile draining on some farms in 

 New York has paid the whole cost in the in- 

 crease of the crop in the first year. What 

 better investment can a farmer of means 

 make with his money? 



Thousands of acres of land in Sangamon 

 county were not put in cultivation last year 

 on account of not being drained. Experi- 

 ence ought to teach wisdom. 

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Seed Corn. — We again suggest to our 

 farming brethren the necessity of providing 



"Cherry Creek Farms." 



Among the numerous letters from Cherry 

 Creek (Pike's Peak country) is one which 

 states that emigrants are making claims for 

 farms near Cherry Creek ; and in describing 

 the "farming land," says ''it will have to be 

 cleared of trees and brush." This will be 

 rather a damper on some who go out to Cher- 

 ry Creek for the purpose of making farms. 



And there is another obsticle in the way 

 of success, of which but little has been said — 

 the want of water. But little water falls 

 in the region at the eastern base of the 

 Rocky mountains in summer. The smal} 

 streams nearly all dry up. Irrigration, 

 therefore, will be difficult; and we are not 

 sure but summer frosts will prove trouble- 

 some. We recollect that emigrants for Ore- 

 gon, a few years ago, stated that water in 

 buckets was covered with ice in July, while 

 the companies were farming near the South 

 Pass. 



The Cherry Creek country must be eleva- 

 ted nearly as much as the South Pass. It is 

 very certain that we shall have but little re- 

 liable information of the capabilities of the 

 region near Pike's Peak as a farming and 

 gold producing country until next autumn. 



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The Wheat. — It looks tolerably well 

 on new prairie ground. We counsel 

 our friends in this region, if their wheat 

 is aU gone, to sow a field of spring 

 wheat, provided the seed can be sown 

 in properly prepared ground in good 

 season. 



jj©" The farmers about Hartford, Connec- , 

 ticut river, are raising large quantities of to- 

 bacco. They get their seed annually from 

 Cuba. The cultivation of tobacco pays them 



well. 



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Pike's Peak. — We have news from that 

 quarter to 5th February. Miners were still 

 coming in. The talk about gold was as great 

 as ever. Most of the accounts, however, we 

 believe, are written by interested men. A 

 good many who go to the mines will come 

 back poorer than when they went. That is 

 our opinion. 



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Cream Biscuit. — B'our tea-cupsful of 

 cream, one tea-spoonful of saleratus, dissol- 

 ved in a cupful of milk. Both milk and 

 cream should be sweet, or both sour. Add 

 one egg, if you chouse. Mix soft as you can, 

 and not mould it much. Bake in a quick 

 oven. 



