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THE ILLINOIS E^RIMEII. 



Ornamental Trees. 



We occa3ionallj notice the planting 

 out in the gardens and streets, 

 Sugar jMaples taken from the woods. — 

 These sugar maples are of stinted growth 

 and require to be planted a long time, 

 in the open air, before they become ac- 

 climated to the exposure ; and, after 

 that, it will be many years before they 

 become handsome trees, if ever. Now, 

 if our citizens want beautiful, quick- 

 growing maples — that will make hand- 

 some shade in three years — they should 

 obtain silver maples from the nurseries. 

 These tan be had from ten to fifty cents 

 — depending on size, and they are beau- 

 tiful and perfectly reliable trees. No 

 handsomer, deciduous tree can be plant- 

 ed in the town. 



Early Rising. — What deep delights, 

 what chances, perhaps of heavcn itself, WC 

 sluggards lose ! To bo awake and out in 

 Bummer morn at dawn, is to be first in a new 

 Eden garden, alone with the God of old! 

 what a privilege ! (our Eve has been left 

 asleep in the four-poster, and the serpent 

 himself keeps no such early hours.) It 

 seems to be the very first dawu that ever 

 was, and all the villainy of the world to have 

 clean vanished — along with the evil dreams 

 and phantom fears of the night time — or 

 never to have existed at all. " Let there be 

 light," has just left the Divine lips, and, lo! 

 a noontide without oppression, an inde- 

 scribable mid-day coolness,or, it may be,su m- 

 mer rain, soft falling, gracious, like a sensi- 

 ble blessing, upon the heart and stretched- 

 out hands. " The lark can scarce shake out 

 the notes, for joy," of his matiu hymn ; the 

 nightingale repeats ''perchance the self-same 

 song that found a path through the sad heart 

 of lluth, when sick for home she stood iu 

 tears amid the alien cornj'' and loud, and 

 long, and lovingly she lingers over it. 



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jg@°* The Macoupin county Fair will 

 commence on the 18th September, and 

 continue four days, the week after the 

 State Fair. The premium list is a rich 

 one, extends to all classes of stock, all 

 the productions of the farm &c. 



16^;=.Potatoes are coming from the 

 North for consumption, and seed. — 

 AVon*t our farmers, the present season, 

 try to raise enough for country con- 

 sumption ? 



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jg@°*The prospect of European War, 

 should stimulate our farmers to raise 

 heavy crops this season. 



Potatoes. 

 Potatoes for early crops have been 

 planted. They are looking well. — 

 There is time yet to plant for the late 

 crop. New ground is best. They de- 

 light in high ridges. It is well to plant 

 pure seed. The crop always looks bet- 

 ter and brings better prices in market, 

 if of one variety. Boston Blues, White 

 Neshannocks, Pink Eyes, and Irish 

 Greys, are approved varieties. There is 

 no better potatoe, however, in our opin- 

 ion, than the White Mexican. 



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WuY Won't People Learn. — Thous- 

 ands of pine trees from Michigan, have 

 been purchased by our people this 

 spring, which were dead when they were 

 purchased, and the purchasers, besides 

 paying their money for these trees, have 

 exhibited their folly in planting them 

 out. This folly has to be regularly act- 

 ed over every spring. If you want good 

 evergreen trees, they should be purchas- 

 ed of nurserymen, taken np in good or- 

 der and their roots kept moist until plan- 

 ted out. 



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How TO Raise Squash, Melon and 

 Cucumber Plants, — The striped bug is 

 very destructive on these plants at this time. 

 Gardeners are losing their plants. How 

 can the evil be remedied. 



I will give you the result of one single at- 

 tempt at the destruction of these insects. 

 They had destroyed all the youug plants in 

 my garden, but three hills of squashes. I 

 gathered a handful of green growing ouions. 

 I cut them up in small pieces, put them into 

 a vessel, with half a bucket of water. They 

 thus remained until the water was very of- 

 fensive, (which it will be in a few hours.) 

 I thcu wet the leaves of the plants, on the 

 upper as well as on the under side of them. 

 The next morning I found a very few bugs 

 on them. I repeated the operation, and 

 have seen none of the bugs since. 



1 have thus given my experience. The 

 process niny not succeed in other cases in 

 riddiiiur vines of these noxious insects. It 

 has with me. 



Springfield, 3Iay, 1859. F. S. 

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Big Boston. — Wm. H. Hartley is now 

 standing iu Jacksonville, Bio Boston, a 

 celebrated horse, half brother of Lexington 

 and Lccouipte. We have received from Jo- 

 seph Morton, Esq., a pamphlet containing 

 the lineage of this horse^ his performances 

 and those of the stock nearest related to 

 him. He is among the best horses iu Amer- 

 ica. Mr. Hartley will have nothing to do 



with a poor horse. Mr. Hartlej"^ has been in- 

 strumcutal in giviug to Morgan county a 

 stock of horses, the superior of \*hich can 



scarcely be found any where. 



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"Uinta to Horse Keepers — A Complete Manuel for Horse- 

 men ; embracing, How to breed a Hurse ; Uow to buy a 

 Iloree; Uow to break a ilorae ; Uow toutiea Horse; How to 

 feed ajjorse; Uow to physic a Horse (allnpatliyfand honieo- 

 pnthy;) How to groom a horse, Uow to drive a hor<e; How 

 to ride a horse; and chapters on Xules and Pi'nies— By the 

 liit*^ Wm. Henry Herbert. (Knink Forester;) with ndditiOQR, 

 including "harey's .Method of Horse Tamintj." and •'Uaurh- 

 ers system of HorBomiin-<hip;" also (;iviug directions for the 

 mention and car* of CHrriages and liarness of every drscrip. 

 tion, and a memoir of the author. UeautiTully illuHtiatoil. 

 New Yurie printed — A. O. Moore and Company, No. 140 

 FuUon street, 1S59." 



AYe have just received a handsome vol- 

 ume of 42G pages, with the above title. 

 On examination, as far as we are able 

 to judge, the contents fully fill the ex- 

 pectations formed from a reading of the 

 title pa^e. This work ought to be in 

 the hands of every man who is responsi- 

 ble for the breeding, purchase and man- 

 agement of horses. 



How much good would result to com- 

 munity if books, of the character now 

 before us, were used for premiums at 

 our Agricultural Fairs ? 



Sweet Potatoes. — The early yellow 

 Nansemond is becoming the popular sweet 

 potatoe for the north. It grows to a good 

 size, can be planted late, and is good for eat- 

 ing as soon as the tubers are large enough, 

 and, besides, it is a sweet and dry fleshed 

 variety. Good dry corn laud suits the Nan- 

 semond potatoe. It should be clean, pul- 

 verized deep and well thrown into ridges, 

 and the plants put in so that the hills shall be 

 about three feet apart; cultivate well; al- 

 ways keep down the weeds. 



The plants are selling in this city at very 

 low prices. 



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Gardens. — These should not now be 

 neglected. Many seeds of vegetables can 

 yet be planted. Peas produce well if plan- 

 ted to the depth of five or six inches. Swcet 

 corn will still mature, if planted now, for 

 roasting ears. Beans, beets, carrots, radishes, 

 &c., will do well if the seed is planted now ; 

 and so will most vegetables. That farmer 

 who has a good garden will find that he saves 

 many doctor's bills. 



Corn. — Some of the best crops of corn 

 which grew last season, were planted on the 

 15th of June. Any of the early varieties 

 will mature if planted by that time, lied 

 blaze. Smith's early white, King I'hillip, and 

 yellow eight rowed flint, will make early 

 crops for feeding out to hogs, if planted the 

 middle of the present month. 



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Winter Squashes. — These are anions 

 many of our best vegetables in their season. 

 If kept in a cool dry place from frost, they 

 will keep till February — many still longer. 



