SEPT,43 
MOOBE’S BUBAL IIW-Y 
cdfjtort^tltuiial. 
POT CULTURE OF PELARGONIUMS. 
Fob the autumnal furnishing of eonserva- ? 
tories, zonal pelargoniums, the Chief glory of t 
our flower gardens, are almost equally useful, c 
and if possible, still more effective, under ( 
glass. When the. season of the common show t 
and fancy pelargoniums passeth away, and r 
even late fuchsias begin to fade, no class of I 
plants can lighten up conservatories or green- g 
houses with such a glow of glory as zonal, c 
nosegay, or double pelargoniums, Of robust > 
habit, easy culture, rapid 
growth and surpassing beau¬ 
ty and variety of leaf and \A \ 
flower, they are admirably NAMV 
adapted for pot. culture ; and u 
by different modes of cultiva- j 1 1 
tion they may be enjoyed in |J I 
flower under glass from East- If 
er to Christmas. But at pres- 
entl purpose only adverting / 
to their usefulness for autum- 
nal decoration. i 
Between the fading of sum- \A V. 
mer beauties and the drooping VtJ\J 11 
of semi-tropical subjects in ^ 
cold quarto is, there is often a N v]yf|Jj " 
dullness, a lack of brightness, i 
under glass, towards the end $j li l 
of autumn. Outside and in B Jl J 
are too closely assimilated in m Jf 
character to be wholly pleas- 1 
ant. Autumn tints and fading / 
dowel’s are. too apt to become \j 
the general order of the day. 
It must be so in the open air. 
The bright days, cold nights, 
and oppressive dews work liav 
oc among flowers, and hasten 
the falling of the. 1 eaf . At this season wo have 
a superfluity of mentors reminding us that 
winter, with stealthy steps, Is creeping on. 
There is also apt to be an interregnum of 
beauty under glass; autumn flowers linger 
hi decay, and winter blossoms are slow to 
open. Into this niche between two seasons 
of beauty let us fit- in a grand display of zonal 
pelargoniums in pots. They will make us 
forget the lengthening shadows and the fall¬ 
ing leaves, as they fill our eyes with beauty 
that will continue at the full until it overlaps 
the glare of chrysanthemums, or in eclipsed 
with the dazzle of camellias, azaleas, or that 
grand old plant the Salvia splendens. For 
late-flowering plants moderate-sized speci¬ 
mens in sin. pots are the most suitable, 
though nil that is said of small plants is 
equally applicable to large ones in 12m. pots. 
For either large or small specimens young 
plants are best. They should flower best 
when from 11 to IS months old. The cuttings 
should be put inintho June or July of the 
one year, for flowering from September to 
December of the succeeding season. Place 
each cutting in a single pot, and root it out 
of doors in the sun, as recommended for the 
general stock of such cuttings. When rooted 
shift it into a 4in. pot, and leave it still out 
of doors and freely exposed to light and air. 
As soon as the cutting makes three fresh 
leaves, pick out the point of the shoot. If 
they grow rapidly, the plants may require 
a second pinching before they are housed for 
the winter, which should be in the middle of 
September. 
The plants should be placed near to the 
glass, have plenty of air, and be kept in a 
temperature of 40° to 45 throughout the 
winter. Under such treatment little growth 
will be made until the middle of March, and 
the less the better. If there has been little 
advance in size, there will be no loss of 
strength, and the latter is the main point. 
Robust vigor will appear in every leaf and 
every eye from base to summit. Early eyes 
will bo bursting into shoots of extraordinary 
size and strength ; the strong sun of March 
will excite the plants to such an extent tbat 
they cannot be cheeked any longer ; the. pot- 
bound roots must now be shifted into larger 
pots, (Sin.), and both roots and tops be freely 
excited into a new growth. About the be¬ 
ginning of May the young shoots must be 
again stopped. As soon as these have fairly 
broken into leaves, place the plants into their 
flowering pots, either Sin. or 12iie leave them 
another week or fortnight under glass, to 
give the roots a free start in the fresh earth, 
and then transfer the plants, about the mid¬ 
dle of the last week in May, to a sunny, 
sheltered place out of doors. Plunge the pots 
to the rims either in earth, tan, or ashes, and 
mulch the surface of the pots with spent 
mushroom or cowdung, or cocoa-nut liber 
refuse. In plunging the pots take care to 
place a small piece of slate or tile under each 
to keep out worms, and see that the material 
under the pots is sufficiently porous to carry 
off water. Stagnation is speedy ruin to all 
such plants as pelargoniums in pots. 
Throughout the summer the plants must 
be freely and carefully watered, either with 
clear or manure water, according to their 
strength. Stop every shoot at. the third leaf 
made, and pick off every flower as soon as it 
can be seen. ThiB stopping and t hinning may 
go on until within a month of the time the 
plants are wanted to be in full blossom. For 
three weeks or so after nil stopping and the 
removal of flowers have ceased, still leave the 
plants out of doors. Then put the finishing 
touch on leaf and flower under glass, and 
such a line display of both will be seen as 
cannot be had by any other mode of culti¬ 
vation. 
Jfanil department. 
EAST TENNESSEE. 
T have been, for some time, intending bo 
write an article for your excellent paper, 
representing the Agricultural interests of 
East Tennessee, and enumerating the induce¬ 
ments for young men to come and settle 
here. In holding out inducements to any 
energetic and active young men, the first 
question they ask is, “ Has East Tennessee a 
healthy climate f Is the water good and air 
pure V’ This county and village are proverb- 
MACROZA.MIA.1 1 CORALLIPES. 
Scarcely any training and no stakes will be 
needed if this simple mode of cultivation is 
properly carried out. The plants look best 
to be highest in the center, which is easily 
managed in the stopping, and the size may 
range from 15in. to 30tn. across. Larger than 
the latter the plants become lumpy, and. 
however beautiful, are too much of a good 
thing in one muss, though I have seen the 
Sin. plants of one season kept over for the 
next, .Hid converted into huge masses of 
glowing colors from It ft. to 5 ft. across. No 
soil is better for these plants than a sound 
turfy loam, enriched with one-thir lot well- 
rotted dung (cow or farmyard), kept open 
with a few inch bones, charcoal, and a good 
coloring of silver sand. For the variegated 
varieties no dung should be used—peat might 
take its place ; bones are also better dispensed 
with, and the amount of sand might be 
doubled. . • 
The names of those varieties are legion, 
and what the Irishman said about his fellows 
we may almost say about zonal pelargoniums, 
that one is as good us another and a little 
better. The following, however, can hardly 
disappoint the grower : 
Double ^.—Madame Lemoine, Victor Le- 
moine, La Vesuve, Marie Lemoine, Andrew 
Henderson, Globe de Nanoy, Ascendancy, 
Triomphe. 
Zonnls. —Clipper. Lord Derby, Leonidas, 
Excellent, Dr. Lindlev, Persian, Purity, 
Madame Spurle, Indian Yellow, Azalea. 
Nosngay*. —Eclat, La Grande, Internation¬ 
al, Grand Duke, Star of the North, Emme¬ 
line Bull. Excelsior, Cybester.— D. T. Fish. 
line Bull, Excelsior, Cybester.— D. T. Fish. 
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MACROZAMIA CORALLIPES. 
This very distinct and beautiful Cyead has 
been lately introduced by Mr. Bull from New 
South Wales. It. is a mojeious plant, both 
male and female having flowered in Mr. 
Bull’s establishment at Chelsea, and from 
these the beautiful figure given of it in the 
Botanical Magazine was obtained. The stem, 
as will be seen, is swollen or sub-globose and 
scaly, bearing at its apex a divergent, tuft of 
f iinnate foliage, of a deep green color, the 
it tie stalk at the base of each linear leaflet 
being of a bright red tint. When fully de¬ 
veloped, as shown in the accompanying Illus¬ 
tration, it forms a striking object either in 
the green-house or warm conservatory, 
rivalling in beauty the better known En- 
oephaUirloa horridua and E. caffer. It should 
be treated after the same mauner as Palms, 
and like those noble plants it isrboth graceful 
and effective all the year round. 
ial for health, being high above the mias¬ 
matic vapors of sluggish streams and stand¬ 
ing water. Being high, onr water courses 
are rapid, carrying off all surplus vegetable 
decay and impurities. During this season, 
while the dreadful disease of cholera has bceh 
raging east, west, north and soutli of US, cut¬ 
ting down its many victims in such cities as 
Nashville and Memphis, St. Louis and Cin¬ 
cinnati, as well as in many Eastern cities, 
this place and county huvo escaped entirely 
from it—hot a single case having occurred— 
and what is remarkable, much more healthy 
than usual. Hince thia place was settled in 
18-10, there have never been any contagious 
diseases so prevalent, even during the war, as 
to frighten the first citizen away. Consump¬ 
tion and rheumatism are hardly known in 
this climate. Many citizens from the North¬ 
ern and Western States have come among 
us in a hopeless state of consumption and, 
so far, not one has died from it, but many 
have recovered. 
The next question the Eastern man asks 
is, “ Can anybody make money there ?” As 
well, and with much less labor and difficulty 
and more comfort, as In almost any other 
section. Why ? Because we have a healthy 
climate, good sod, good season generally, and 
hardly a day In the whole year too cold to 
work out doors, plowing, chopping, making 
fence, <fec. Farming will pay well here with 
real Yankee enterprise to bock it up. 
Our crops are soVnetimes short and almost 
fail ; but, as ft is everywhere else when pro¬ 
duce is scarce, prices go up in proportion to 
the demand. Prices are much less fluctuat¬ 
ing here than in the West or in the neighbor¬ 
hood of the large cities. Corn almost always 
opens at 50e., and before the next crop ma¬ 
tures goes up to 90c. Wheat generally opens 
at (it.35, and has been to *2.40 per bushel. 
Hay opens at *10, and the demand from the 
Mouth pushes it up to *40, baled. One might 
go on enumerating, but these leading pro¬ 
ducts will be sufficient to judge from. Veg¬ 
etables demand a high price all the time. 
Wool growing and tobacco raising would be 
profitable ; and cheese too, as it can be made 
the whole year round with but little incon¬ 
venience in wintor. Should any energetic 
Northern or Western man road this article, 
with small capital, and who understands 
wool growing, tobacco growing or cheese 
dairying and market gardening, I shall be 
most happy to hear from him. 
Thia year wheat has made hut half crop ; 
but where it was put in under fair treatment, 
the yield has been good. Green soiling with 
the clay colored stock peas turned in, gives 
the most satisfactory results of any manure 
that is, for cheapness. One bushel sowed 
broadcast in May and turned under in August 
is equivalent, to at least 20 loads of common 
manure to the acre. They are really better 
than clover in two respects— 
they come much quicker and 
will choke out almost every 
kind of weed. For three years 
I have been experimenting 
with peas and clover for ma¬ 
nure. The resultB of this sea¬ 
son are as follows :—Sowed 
one quart of Fultz wheat on 
, jf Si peas turned under Sept. 20 ; 
Iff]IIM. sowed one quart of Eureka 
ij J |J Y/ wheat, also one of the Tap- 
i A |11 \)r& pahannoek and common 
white wheat on some clover 
I land close by. I measured 180 
pounds from the quart of 
Fultz, 180 from Eureka — 00 
each from the other two, al- 
lowing for no waste in reap- 
llljuy ing, traveling and threshing, 
i 11 \ W/ I am satisfied that peas, being 
J. mostly an air plant, are far 
AL&S better and cheaper than any 
1 other fertilizer. 
Our season, thus far, has 
^* r been veiy good for corn—a 
ILT - little too dry in April for 
grass and potatoes. Our 
fruit was all cut off by late frosts. Hereaf¬ 
ter, I shall try to keep you informed about 
the crop prospects of this section. 
Cleveland, Tenn. A. E. Brunt, P. M. 
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FRUITS AND FARMING IN WEST 
VIRGINIA. 
While many of the farmers in New Eng¬ 
land, as well as those in the adjoining States, 
are thinking of going West, we would sug¬ 
gest that they visit West Virginia in search 
of fine climate and rich lands. Until re¬ 
cently some of the best farming and fruit 
lands of West, Virginia were almost shut up 
among the mountains, and the inhabitants of 
those regions deprived of early access to 
good markets; but the completion of the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad from Rich¬ 
mond, Va., to Huntington, on the Ohio river, 
in West Virginia, has afforded facilities for 
not only shipping the products of the farm 
and orchard to our largest and best, eastern 
markets, but it also throws Open the door to 
the rich raining companies of those regions, 
to bring out the mineral wealth long locked 
up in its natural beds. Branch roads inter¬ 
sect the Chesapeake and Ohio at various 
points, affording an opportunity of sending 
the products of the country in whatever di¬ 
rection it is likely to reach a ready market. 
Having lately passed over the hue of the 
above named road we were very favorably 
impressed with the richness of a great por¬ 
tion of the country along the entire route. 
As a fruit-growing region West Virginia 
must soon become famous, for pears, peaches, 
apples, grapes and many other kinds of out- 
popular fruits, grow luxuuriantly both in 
the valleys and upon hill-sides and table¬ 
lands. The soil is rich and deep in all of the 
valleys, and the climate, as everybody ought 
to know, is not excelled for healthfuiness by 
that of any other State in the Union. For 
convenience to market, good soils, beautiful 
scenery, delightfnl climate, and, above all, 
a first-rate class of people, West Virginia 
offers superior inducements to those who 
may wish to make a change of location. 
Then, if one wishes to take a hand at mining, 
the opportunities are good and abundant. 
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY, KAN. 
Deane Monahan writes :—In fertility, in 
nearness to a great line of road, in choice of 
location, it is not too much to say that the 
Arkansas Valley, in Kansas, is alone in its 
merits, and that its opening is the greatest 
event which has happened to the farm-seek¬ 
ing emigrant in a quarter of a century. 
Briefly, it is a valley from four to twelve 
miles wide, and nearly 300 miles long, with a 
rich, black soil, slightly sandy, and having a 
substratum of coarse sand and gravel. For 
hundreds of miles on every hand a country 
stretches away which is covered with the 
most luxurinut grass, sufficient to pasture 
the herds of the whole stock-growing West. 
