THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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BANANAS IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
p'ig. 444 shows the landscape effect 
produced by the use of bananas in a 
park at Anderson, S. C. Mr. Rufus 
Fant, who sends us the picture, calls at¬ 
tention to the tropical luxuriance of the 
foliage, which makes such planting ex¬ 
tremely striking. We judge that this is 
the Abyssianian banana, Musa ensete, 
though no doubt M. sapientum, the edi¬ 
ble banana, would flourish in t’he Sum¬ 
mer in South Carolina. Greenhouse 
specimens of the banana are often 
planted out during Summer in this lati¬ 
tude, though we have never seen them 
in the luxuriance shown in the picture. 
We have seen Musa Cavendishi, which 
had set fruit in a greenhouse during 
the Spring, ripen the cluster out of 
doors in Summer in New Jersey. Musas 
cheaply, and that some of our western 
friends are going to buy some day. 
A sulky plow needs careful adjust¬ 
ment, perhaps quite as much as some 
more complicated machinery. Our 
plow was last used by a neighbor, and 
I found it needed attention at almost 
every point. It didn’t run enough to 
land, and the last driver apparently did 
not know how to make it do so. The 
jointers were loose and out of place, 
and bolts were loose in several places. 
If one is expecting to put orange hawk- 
weed out of business, he wants to get 
it down where it cannot see daylight, at 
the very first pass. A good jointer, 
properly adjusted, will help materially 
in doing that. 
Some think that it is best to use a 
roller after plowing a piece of sod 
ground, like ours. I have no objec¬ 
tion to the roller, but as we shall not 
seed, perhaps for a month yet, and ex¬ 
pect to harrow about twice a week 
BANANAS IN A PARK AT ANDERSON, S, C. Fig. 444. 
are very effective planted in conjunc¬ 
tion with Cannas and other sub-tropi¬ 
cal plants, but a very exposed situa¬ 
tion is undesirable, because heavy winds 
soon strip the leaves into ribbons. 
N01ES ON SOD PLOWING. 
When the rains came late in July, 
after quite a period of drought, we 
took the opportunity to start the plow 
and cover up some of that orange 
hawkweed. It is a good plan to plow 
just after a rain or shower at this sea¬ 
son of the year. In this instance, there 
had been enough rain to make plowing 
fairly easy, since the ground had been 
right along, it is doubtful if a roller 
is really necessary. We like to harrow 
the same day we plow, if convenient. 
The ground is kept in finer tilth, and a 
dust mulch tends to retain the moisture. 
We put on the Cutaway the first thing. 
A coat of stable manure follows, and 
then more use of the Cutaway. The 
greater part of the harrowing will be 
'done with a spring-tooth harrow, how¬ 
ever. It will not be necessary to tear 
up sods with it, and we use it for most 
of our work. The Cutaway works well, 
and we like it for many purposes, one 
of them being to run over sod, when 
first plowed, to roll it down and loosen 
the soil. We shall give that hawkweed 
a hard time, and if faithful enough we 
shall kill it all out. h. h, lyon. 
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The moisture helps, too, in rotting the 
sod in case the plowing is sod ground. 
We often have as much time to do' such 
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We are using a sulky plow of late, 
and find it' a good implement, even on 
a hill farm. Loose stone troubles no 
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