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injury to the roots than a spade. Save all old bones, soap 
suds, dead leaves, decayed vegetables, &c., and make 
up into compost heaps for future use. Plow and subsoil 
your gi ound for the planting of young orchards, and pro- 
vide a supply of roots and stocks for the propagation of 
all new and desirable varieties of Fruit adapted to our 
Southern climate. Recollect, that all manure should be 
worked In deeply, fresh stable manure in particular. 
Clean out all trash in the fence corners and other places; 
put it in heaps, well mixed with stable manure, and have 
the compost ready for spring use. 
All Flower bulbs, as Hyacinths, Tulips, Amaryllis, 
Gladiolus, Peonias and others, should now be planted. 
THE STRAWBERRY PATCH. 
The best soil for this delicious fruit is a sandy or even 
a gravelly loam, moist, and rich in vegetable matter. An 
excellent compost for an acre of ground would be 60 
bushels ofleaf-mould from the woods, 20 bushels of leached 
ttsbea, .O bushels lime, and 3 or 4 quarts of salt. (Tliis 
same proportion may be observed for any given quantity 
of land,) Mix thoroughly, let it stand two or three days, 
scatter broadcast, and plow in. Then harrow or rake the 
surface, making it fine, and set your plants in rows 3 feet 
apart, and I foot or 15 inches in the row. Or, if planting 
for market, on a large scale, set your plapts in 3 rows one 
foot apart, and leave a 2 foot alley between every strip of 
PislUlales. 
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this kind — said alley to be kept clean and open with the 
horse-hoe. After the plants have become well rooted, 
cover the whole with partly decomposed leaves from the 
forest, or even chopped up pine or broom straw, leaving 
nothing exposed but the leaves and fruit-stalks of the 
plants. Many choice varieties have been heretofore men- 
tioned, but we will briefly recapitulate : Pistillates, (or 
female blossom,) Havey^s Seedling, McAvoy's ExVra Red, 
Crescent Seedling, Black Prince, McAvoy's Superioi', 
Crimson Cone. Staminate, or Hermaphrodite, (male, 
or “perfect” blossom,): Longwortk' s Prolific, Boston 
Pine, Walker's Seedling, Early Scarlet. Many new 
varieties as : Bayden's Seedling, Jenny Lind, Lucy Pitchy 
Peabody's New Hautbois, Scott's Seedling, Trollope's Vic- 
toria, Iowa and others, have proved quite valuable the 
present season. The Early Orange, is the earliest, exceed- 
ingly prolific, and a never failing bearer. 
We have abandoned the planting of Pistillate plants 
among Staminates, for the reason that they grow so ram- 
pantly that they soon mix up with, overrun, and crowd 
out the bearing plants. A proper admixture of Stamin- 
ates (orimpregnators) being absolutely essential, however, 
we re-publish the following diagrams, which set forth the 
proper system of planting, to secure the largest crops, ditA 
keep the different varieties entirely separate and dis- 
tinct: 
Staminates, or Herm aphrodites. 
Pistillates. 
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No. 3, 
It will be seen that Nos. I and 3, containing Pistillate 
plants, are fertilized or impregnated by the Staminate 
plants in the narrow centre bed. No. 2, fiom which they 
are separated by alleys 0 feet wide— these alleys to be 
Hnvv TO Manurr Trees iv Ckass' La.n’d. — Very few 
persons manure trees growing in sod or grass land, in a 
judicial or economical m inner. The general pract'ce is 
todigthe manure in, within a (bameter of six f:et, .having 
the body for the cfbttre. The tree takes i(s food from the 
young rootlet.^, whose mouihs extend just as far on every 
side as the branches of the trc" ; hence, this manure ap- 
plied close to the body of the tree, is not where the vooi^ 
can take itnp; and of course but little < f itsvalue is ali- 
eorbed Ity the tree. If you doubt it, just try the experi- 
iftcet on two trees. Serve the one as above named, and 
kept scrupulously free from all runners, espttially those 
thrown off by the .Staminate plants in the centre. The beds 
may be made of any required size. The stars represent 
the plants in 3 foot rows, 12 or 15 inches apartin the row, 
'he oilier, as follows, viz: — xMark a circle nrnund the tree 
havin'^ for (he outer line the exact radius fonvied hy the 
oVeidianging branches; dig on ihe inner side of this circle 
!i, trencli two feet wide, and one foot (ieep; mix well rot- 
ted manure half and half with the best*of the stiil, or the 
earth dug ('ut of llie trench, and fill the Irerich with it; 
tnen replace the turf, and w heel away the refuse or extra 
earth; rake clean and smooth; you will have a gc'od 
growth of free; your fiuit larger and more fair, and no un- 
jghtly or unnatural hoilock or mound around tho body 
of the tree. — Ohio F'armer. 
