fectly tender until late in the fall. 5. It iB not 
so trashy, has more substance. 6. It makes a 
pie and sauce as much superior to the common 
pie plant, as nice grafted l'ruit is superior to or¬ 
dinary common frnit. 
The Myatt plant, if set on good ground, and 
other things are favorable, will yield from one 
to two gallons of wine to a hill. One gentleman 
last fall, in this vicinity, expressed from once 
cutting 6l gailous of juice from 48 hills, which, 
with the addition of sugar and water, would 
make about 150 gallons of wine. Another made 
from 101 hills, once cutting, 337 gallons of wine, 
which he has been selling for $2,25 per gallon. 
These we regard as extraordinary yields. At 3% 
feet apart each way, little more than 3,000 hills 
can be set npon an acre. 
Much has been written against this wine, and 
many have declared it a humbug. The causes 
of theBe prejudices, I think, are these1. The 
wine has been very imperfectly made. 2. It has 
often been pat in unsuitable casks. 3. While 
fermenting it has been neglected. 4. In making 
it very inferior sugar has been used. 5. It has 
not been properly settled or racked off. 6. It 
has been put into market before attaining a 
proper age. 7. The wine from the Mammoth 
Rhubarb has been palmed off for the wine plant 
wine, which, at the best, is an inferior article 
compared with the genuine Myatt wine. 
One of the most celebrated physicians in our 
county says, “it is the best medicinal wine 
known.” It is an infallible remedy for dysen¬ 
tery and diarrhea, if used in season, and is 
highly recommended for dyspepsy and pulmon¬ 
ary diseases. These statements are made by one 
who has no wine to sell, but who has taken deep 
interest in ascertaining the facts pertaining to 
the wine plant and the Myatt wine. 
Oramel, Allegany vo., N. Y. J. M. S. 
white, shaded with green at the top where ex¬ 
posed to the light. This too is good for autumn. 
Winter Radishes are considered by many a 
great luxury and always command a good price 
in onr markets. The Rlack Spanish varieties 
are well known. The Chinese Rose Winter is 
better, on account of its color, being bright 
rose colored, nearly scarlet. 
The winter radishes should not. be sown too 
early, or they become old and tough. If sown 
in August they will be of good size and tender 
late in the autumn, and should be dug before 
frost. If buried with sasd, in the cellar, they 
will remain fresh and tender until spring. 
A BEAUTIFUL EVERGREEN SCREEN. 
to seed. Late in the fall cover the stools with 
coarse manure, a bushel to a plant; in the spring 
fork it in, and keep it well cultivated, free from 
weeds, etc. This is the celebrated wine plant 
which has been hawked through the western 
country, and sold at exorbitant prices. 
South Windsor, Conn. w. 
We have heretofore noticed the fine evergreen 
screens growing on the grounds of Ellwanger 
& Barry of Rochester. On a recent visit to 
their place, one of these screens presented so 
fine an appearance as to deserve special notice. 
It has now been planted about eight years, is 
eleven feet high, four feet thick at the bottom, 
and running up in the form of a wedge, and is 
as straight and even as a solid wall of masonry. 
Such a screen, extending around a garden, would 
protect it from cold blasts, and probably be 
equal to two or three degrees of latitude in soft¬ 
ening the severity of the climate. The Norway 
Spruce like the Hemlock, grows well In tue 
shade, and this screen seemed nearly a solid mass 
of verdure throughout its interior. The Hem¬ 
lock screens presented the same appearance 
when examined inside. Bnt the Arbor Vit.p, 
Buckthorn, «c., which do not grow well in the 
shade, always exhibit nothing but bare stems 
and branches inside, however dense the foliage 
may be without .—Country Gentleman. 
RECIPE FOR BLACK RASPBERRY WINE, 
Provide a barrel or cask with bung; if it 
holds more than you wish to make, it is no mat¬ 
ter. Take four quarts dry or five quarts wine 
measure of good ripe berries for every gallon of 
wine you wish to make. Mash or reduce to a 
fine pomace, and add to the mass three pounds 
good sugar (once refined) for every gallon of 
wine, with warm soft water sufficient to make 
the mass liquid. Prepare a barrel with holes In 
the bottom and clean straw like a leach, and put 
the mass to drain through, and add to the pom¬ 
ace, as it becomes dry, lukewarm soft water till 
you have the desired quantity of clear liquor. 
Place the cask in a secure place in a cool cellar. 
Make the bung inches long, and bore half 
through it from the top with a half inch bit, and 
the rest of the way with a gimlet — insert half 
inch lead tube 10 or 12 inches long, and make 
both bung and tube air-tight in their places by 
putty or wax. Now, with a tumbler of water 
sittiDg near the bung, bend the tube over till the 
end dips under the water. In this way, the gas 
will escape in bubbles through the water, but 
no air can reach the wine; if the bubbles cease 
before about six weeks, see to the putty around 
the bung and tube. When the bubbles cease it 
is fit for use, but keep buDged tight without 
racking off, and it will improve by age.— H. H. 
Doolittle. 
LIQUID MANURE FOR GRAPES. 
The Ohio Cultivator gave an account of a 
thriving grape vine iu that State. It was at a ho¬ 
tel and only three years old, yet it had climbed 
to the second story, and had extended its branch¬ 
es round the corner of the building to a dis¬ 
tance of twenty or thirty feet, nearly the whole 
being fall of clusters of grapes. The only unu¬ 
sual treatment it received, was a watering with 
dish-water, and occasionally with soap-suds.—Ex. 
And therein lies the secret of its growth and 
fruitjulness. Dish-water and soap suds will make 
any vegetable fiealthy and -ii/orous. 
Governor Smyth, of this City, has a grapery 
that is an illustration in the point. Some ten 
years since he planted seven grape vines and 
trained them upon an arbor over his door. It 
was a southern exposure. They grew most vig¬ 
orously, as he hit upon the novel but happy con¬ 
ceit, of draining his sink through a plank spout 
or culvert perforated with holes and passing 
aloDg the roots of the vines the length of his 
arbor. This aparatns furnished the vines with 
ample moistnre and manure, and they grew and 
flourished beyond measure. Bnt an adjacent 
house prevented the full force of the sun’s rays 
falling upon the vines, and though hanging full 
of clusters of large Isabellas, they would not 
ripen. As an experimen: the vines were suf¬ 
fered to grow and reach the eaves and were 
trained along the eaves and upon and over the 
roof some forty or fifty feri, thus being brought 
directly to tho sun. The result is surprising. 
The giapes ripen early and fully, and in the sea¬ 
son of them the roof is literally covered with 
this rich and delicious fruit. The last year he 
raised more than ten bushels from these seven 
vines. Of a surety, dish-vder and soap-suds will 
accomplish wonders if applied regularly and 
properly. And Governor Smyth is equally suc¬ 
cessful in preserving his grapes as in raising 
them. He had grapes through the past Winter 
for daily family use until the first of April. He 
usually keeps them in cotton on shelves in bis 
cellar, but for the year or two last past, he has 
preserved them successfully through the Winter 
placed upon the shelves and without cotton or 
other covering.—JV1 11. Mirror. 
Salt for Celery.— All the gardeners use salt 
freely for manuring asparagus, yet few within our 
observation ever use salt for celery. Celery be¬ 
ing a marine plant, we have found a free use of 
salt in diluted form with water, one of the best 
manures. Salt mingled with compost manure, 
applied at the bottom of the trenches before 
planting out, is also good, but once a week wa¬ 
tering in the trench with weak salt water, will 
produce a greater growth and more delicate 
celery than any other way of growing that we 
have tried.— Cor. Ohio Farmer. 
TUBEROUS CHERVIL 
Ants ix Garden's.— M. Gamier has just an¬ 
nounced an infalli&ble method for getting rid of 
ants. In a corner of his garden, infected with 
legions of this insect, he placed four saucers con¬ 
taining sugar and water, with the tenth of its 
weight of arsenic in the mixture. A number of 
ants immediately invaded the saucers, but were 
soon after perceived staggering away, as it were 
and some being even engaged in dragging their 
dead conmrads away. From that moment they 
disappeared from the garden, and on the follow¬ 
ing day not a single one was seen. 
This root is attracting considerable attention 
in Europe as a substitute for the potato. The 
root is of the size and form shown in the en¬ 
graving, said to be In flavor somewhat between 
a good potato and the chestnut. 
The seed should be sown in September in 
rows like carrots, and will he fit to dig the fol¬ 
lowing June and July. This is worthy of trial 
on a small scale. 
DRINK FOR THE “DOG DAYS.” 
Radishes are decidedly desirable in the Au¬ 
tumn, though seldom seen npon our tables at 
that season. In the warm weather of Autumn, 
they grow rapidly and are, as a general thing, 
much more tender and inviting than those ma¬ 
tured early in the spring. 
The excessive use of cold water during the 
sweltering heat of the " dog-days w of summer, 
often results in serious and alarming illness. It 
is. therefore advisable that some beverage should 
be substituted for it, of which those oppressed 
can partake with safety. For this purpose we 
are aware of no better or more refreshing drink 
than the following:—Take of the best white 
Jamaica ginger root, carefully bruised, two 
ounces ; cream of tartar, one ounce; water, six 
quarts, to be boiled for about five minutes, then 
strained; to the strained liquor add one pound 
of sugar, and again place it over the fire; keep 
it well stirred till the sugar is perfectly dissolv¬ 
ed, and then pour it into an earthen vessel, into 
which yon have previously put two drachuts of 
tartaric acid, and the rind of one lemon, and let 
it remain till the heat is reduced to a lukewarm 
temperature; then add a tablespoonful of yeast, 
stirring them well together, and bottle for use. 
The corks must be well secured. The drink 
will be in high perfection in four or five days. 
This is a very refreshing and wholesome beve¬ 
rage, and one which may be largely partaken of 
without any unpleasant results, even in the hot¬ 
test weather .—Maine Fanner. 
HEALTHFULNESS OF SUMMER FRUITS, 
ffovtifultural gates amt GJuedes 
The summer fruits are onr natural life pre¬ 
servers during the heat of the summer season. 
We t doubt whether there is a better medicine 
extant for a well person to take than what 
Nature here provides for her subjects. In ail 
bilious diseases — as fevers—no better preven¬ 
tive exists than onr delicious summer fruits, 
the strawberry, the raspberry, the gooseberry, 
the currant,—to say uothiDg of the later and 
more prominent fruits of the garden and orchard. 
The remark is often made that berries and 
fruits are 4 coollng. Hence their natural tendency 
to prevent and allay fever. The acids of the 
fruit promote the separation of the bile from the 
blood, thus rendering the blood pure. Drinks 
containing adds are always considered healthful 
during hot weather. Probably no better drink 
is made than lemonade — ice-cold and not too 
sweet. Too much sugar nutrnlize3 its acid prop¬ 
erties ; the same is true in regard to its nee with 
berries and fruits. 
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, black¬ 
berries, and lots of others that are as delicious 
as they are healthful, when fresh and ripe, and 
eaten in their uatural state, right from the vines 
and bushes, seldom or never do us harm, how¬ 
ever many we may choose to eat. We think 
them worth a dozen doctors when we are well. 
When we arc sick then, of course, we trust our 
physician. I, w. Sanborn. 
Lyndon, Vt. 
The above was received and should have been 
published some weeks ago, hut “ better late than 
never,” so we give it now. 
How to Keep the Begs Of?,—H aring seen several 
notices relative to petroleum for cucumbers, squash 
and other vines, and the injurious effects from its use, 
as recommended by the Prairie Fanner and copied in¬ 
to a late number of the Rural, I have taken the 
trouble to examine the vines ofa neighborof mine, who 
has used petroleum to destroy bugs with success. His 
method Isas follows:—Take stripe of cotton or any 
kind of old cloth, saturate it well in petroleum, then 
stick enough sticks to surround your hills; have them 
five or six inches above the top of the ground, and 
surround them with the cloth, encircling the hill, but 
do not Jet the cloth touch tho vines. The vines I saw 
treated In thi6 way looked bright and beautiful, while 
others not so treated, m the same lot. were nearly all 
destroyed by bugs.—S enex. Rochester, -V. T. 
GRAFTING 
Grafting roses is norilike grafting apples 
and pears; it is more of, n intermediate pro¬ 
cess between budding at i common grafting; 
the rose-grafters merely ti ke a thicker slice of 
wood behind the hud than Ls done in budding- 
say a thicker and longer slice, and one bud 
only; then the stock neats ouly a like slice to 
be cut out of it, and the new bud and slice to 
be nicely fitted to the part without tongueing 
or wedging; nothing but to tie on the slice. 
Supposing you took a slice of bark and wood 
off a branch, and cut across the bottom to take 
it out fair, would it not be easy to stick on the 
same slice again, and tie it round with some soft 
binding ? Ot course it would; nothing was ever 
yet easier to learn in this world. 
Rose-grafting is quite as easy, only you take 
the slice from a different branch, which is all 
the difference. But clever practitioners do it 
still easier. They cut off the head of the rose 
stock, find leave only a lit tle stump; they slice 
off about an inch and a half down, and make a 
cut across the bottom of the slice, which leaves 
a notch there, and on that notch they rest or fit 
the bottom eud of the graft slice, then cut the 
top end of the slice square with the top of the 
stock, tile, and day; som.times they do not 
clay at all, bnt it is usual for ordinary people to 
put on a little day for all kinds of grafts. 
The best way to day a rose graft and all pot 
grafts is, to put a lump of day in a pot saucer 
and as much water as will make it into a soft 
paste like very thick paint, and with a little 
brush paint the stock and ’raft all round, then 
dust it over with saud, wbi.ii will keep it from 
Clocking, and all is finished. Gardeuers make 
their own brushes for this work; a hit of soft 
matting tied on the end of a stick like a pen¬ 
holder is all they require. When you hear of 
people grafting roses in doors, the plan is still 
more easy. There ls no pot or mold, only so 
many rose stocks lifted out of tho ground on 
purpose, and any of the ways of grafting will 
do.— Journal iff Horticulture, 
Save Your Pear Trees.— In consequence of the 
extremely hot sunshine which we have had for'.lie last 
month or more, some of the trees will be found blight¬ 
ed. And when so found take a good, stout, sharp 
knife and slit the bark perpendicularly from the 
branches to the roots. Make several slits, according 
to the si te of the tree. Be careful and not neglect 
slitting thoee spots where the bark has become crust¬ 
ed hard, and is adhering to the wood. Slit the branches 
if necessary. Slitting the bark will not harm a healthy 
tree. Pear trees that look sickly, having their leaves 
red or yellow, will bo invigorated by it. For farther 
particulars see Moore's Rural Nsw-Yobrek for 
Aug 8th, 1863, under the head of Pear Blight.—E. M. 
We hardly think this method will cure the Pear 
Blight. It will do no harm, however, to try it on an 
affected tree. 
How to Preserve Ice.— Dr. Schwartz has 
communicated the following simple method of 
preserving small quantities of ice, which he has 
practiced with success. Put the ice in a deep 
dish or jug, cover it with a plate, and place the 
vessel on a pillow staffed with leathers, and 
cover the top with another pillow carefully, by 
this means excluding the external air. Feathers 
are well known bad conductors of heat, and, in 
consequence, the ice is preserved from melting. 
Dr. Schwartz states that he had thus preserved 
six pounds of Ice for eight days. The plan is 
Bimple and within the reach of every household. 
—Home JouniaL 
OLIVE-SHAPED ROSE RADISH. 
The Olived-Shaped Rose, is an excellent variety, 
crisp and tender, and seems well adapted to fall 
culture. 
Rhubarb. —To cultivate Rhubarb to perfection 
trench the land and work In large quantities of fresh 
manure—the more the better. It la a gross feeder. 
Set the plants about three feet apart each way—four 
feet for some of the largest kinds, like Victoria and 
Cahoon’s Mammoth. Keep the ground clear and mel¬ 
low till June, then cover six inches or more deep 
with mulch. Coarse stable manure is best, although 
straw or hay will answer. The object ls to keep the 
ground moist and rather cool. This will ensure a good 
growth of stalks till frost. If the hens scratch over 
the mulch in the fall all the better. In the spring dig 
over the ground three or four inches deep, aid keep 
dean till the time to repeat the mulching. Early in 
tho season it ls good to have the ground exposed to 
the sun as much as possible, to bring the plants for¬ 
ward, and later it is necessary to mulch to keep the 
ground moist. Stalks of three pounds weight are not 
imusual of the kinds above mentioned, when cultivated 
in this way.—8. W. Arnold. 
Gooseberry Fool.— Wash and pick 1 quart 
of gooseberries; put them into a stone jar, and 
having covered it, let it stand in a saucepan of 
boiling water until the gooseberries are quite 
tender, and then pulp them through a horsehair 
sieve. Beat up the yolks of two eggs and the 
whites of one. To these 3dd, by degrees, a 
small quantity of milk and a little pounded 
sugar. After this, put in the pulped fruit, w hisk 
It up, and add gradually half a piut of cream (or 
milk, if cream he not plentiful,) and sugar to 
taste. 
RHUBARB WINE 
Indian Huckleberry Pudding.— Take a 
quart of boiling milk and water, stir into it In¬ 
dian meal enough to make a still' batter. Add a 
little salt, a small cup of chopped suet, a little 
molasses, and a pint of huckleberries. Boil one 
hour and a half iu a bag, leaving room to swell. 
Eat with sweet liquid sauce. Two eggs and half 
a teaspoonful of soda may be used instead ot 
suet, and the batter, in that case, make a little 
thinner. This makes a more delicate pudding. 
PIE PLANT OR RHUBARB PIE 
F. L. M., Herkimer, N. Y., inquires through 
the Rural of July 15, current vol., for a recipe 
for making good Pie Plaut pie; also, how to 
treat the plant. I will give the w ay Emma says 
she makes them, which we thiuk are very good. 
Puli, trim, and peel the leaf stem, cut it into 
half iuch pieces; put it in a sauce kettle or tin 
pan with water enough to cover it; stew r it 
enough to soften; if more liquid is left than 
wanted to make a moist pie, pour it off; let the 
Rhubarb cool, then sweeten with sugar to taste, 
adding nutmeg enough to season. Bake enough 
to cook the crusts. The Linneas or Mammoth 
kind makes the best pies. I thiuk a few dried 
sweet apples stewed and added to the above, 
make a good change. 
The plant needs rich ground to grow in as it 
is a gross feeder. In planting set the roots in 
good deep worked soil four leet apart. When 
the plant has got well established, and the leaf 
steins attain a fair size, they may be pulled off 
with a sideways jerk; do not pull too close; 
keep the seed| stalk cut, not allow it to run up 
Raspberry Wine.— To each quart of well- 
picked raspberries put a quart of water; bruise 
and let them stand two days; strain off the li¬ 
quor, and to every gallou put three pouuds of 
loaf sugar; when dissolved put the liquor into 
a barrel, and when tine (which will be in about, 
two months,) bottle it, and to each bottle put a 
tabiespoouful of brandy. 
THE BORER 
We tried an'experiment the last week, which 
we are quite sanguine will be successful. We 
took equal parts of calcined plaster and Spanish 
whiting, mixed them with water to the consis¬ 
tence of thick cream and put in a very little dis¬ 
solved alum. This preparation becomes almost 
as hard as stone, and without the whiting la 
known among artists by the name of Scagliola, 
We next took a paste brush and washed the tree 
afoot from the ground with this composition, 
taking care to give a good coat next to the 
ground. We do not believe they will deposit 
their egg through this substance, while uo injury 
eau be doue to the tree. Orly a small quantity 
should be mixed at a time. An hour’s work 
will go over a large orchard of young trees. 
The experiment is a cheap one, and we wish 
others wo uld repeat It, and report the result.— 
Me. Farmer. 
Huckleberry Cake. —Cheap and good .—One 
cup of sugar, one egg, piece of butter size of an 
egg, half a cup of milk, one teaspoonful of soda, 
two of cream tartar, a teaspoouful of any pre¬ 
ferred essence, and sifted Hour, soda Lu the milk, 
and beat thoroughly. Add last a piut of dried 
huckleberries, aud bake in a quick oveu. 
Tan and Freckles.—W ill some of the lady 
readers of the Rural be kiud enough to send us 
a recipe (through your columns,) that will re¬ 
move tan and freckles effectually, and oblige — 
C. M. R., Stafford, Genesee Co., iV, Y. 
CHINESE ROSE WINTER RADISH. 
The long WAiic Naples is a first rate sort, clear 
