1858 . 
THE CULTIVATOR 
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Importance of Good Transplanting. 
A correspondent of the Genesee Farmer states that 
he procured twenty dry and shrivelled peach trees last 
spring, of a nurseryman who had dug them up early 
in spring and heeled them in, and being “culls” had 
remained unsold. They were set out about the time 
that peach trees in the nursery row were coming out 
in full leaf. They were treated in the following man¬ 
ner : The bruised roots were pruned off, the tops close¬ 
ly shortened in, so that they might correspond with the 
reduced roots. They were carefully set in holes made 
about two feet across and eight inches deep. The earth 
was well filled in among the interstices, settling it with 
water poured in. They were then freely mulched with 
strawy manure. Everyone lived and made “an ex¬ 
traordinary growth,” while one in the same rows treat¬ 
ed in the common manner (which we suppose means 
unshortened and unmulched,) did not live through half 
the summer. 
The peach tree, more than any other, needs very free 
shortening back in setting out. We have succeeded 
better with trees three or four years from the bud, or 
twice the ordinary size, than with one year trees with¬ 
out this treatment. There is no other tree, that is more 
sensibly affected with good after culture—for example, 
after being set well, give it mellow cultivation the same 
season throughout, (or mulch it heavily with coarse 
manure,) and it will send out shoots about three feet 
long. Give it no cultivation or mulching, nor shorten¬ 
ing back, and let the earth become hard and grown up 
with weeds, and the shoots will not be more than three 
inches long. This experiment is worth trying by any 
one who doubts it, on alternate trees in a row, or on 
alternate rows. We are willing to let any one who 
prefers or practices the old system of neglect, select 
from any nursery the finest peach trees that ever grew, 
and give them his favorite treatment for two years; 
and we will take the poorest “culls” that were ever 
discarded as worthless, if they only have life in them ; 
and we will agree to beat him two-fold by means of 
the best management already mentioned. We speak 
from actual experiment. 
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Notions in Horticulture. 
Sulphur for Blight. —It has been lately asserted 
that sulphur inserted into an auger hole in a pear tree 
and plugged in, will arrest blight. We have no doubt 
the blight ceased after the plugging, and no less doubt 
that it would have ceased just as soon if the operation 
had been omited. 
Salt and Grubs. —The statement is occasionally re¬ 
published that a few bushels of salt per acre will drive 
out all larvae and especially grubs — and it was once 
asserted that a ring of salt placed around a cabbage 
plant would protect it completely. We tried this 5 but 
the grubs crossed the line and eat the plants, and then 
reposed themselves on the salt or elsewhere with evi¬ 
dent indifference. 
Lime for the Curculio. — We perceive that this 
remedy is still recommended by some. Its very tho¬ 
rough application was made a few years since on four 
nectarine trees — which were carefully syringed with 
thin whitewash after every light rain, heavy dew, or 
chafing of the leaves, which took off the lime, at a cost 
greater than any continued jarring on sheets! The 
success was so great that one tree bore no less than six 
nectarines — only, however on a tree that had a calf 
tied to it, and which kept up a constant stirring and 
jarring. 
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Report of Various Experiments. 
I soaked some carrot seed in a solution of salt-petre 
water six hours before planting, but could see no dif¬ 
ference in the crops from seed planted in the usual way. 
Bug six trenches for carrots sixteen inches deep—put 
some salt at the bottom of the trench, covered up the 
trench again from the next digging—sowed the seed 
after rolling it in plaster, half an inch deep, and six 
inches from plant to plant, the trenches being twelve 
inches apart. No manure applied with the carrots. 
Well satisfied with the produce, some of the carrots 
being twelve inches long and at the top seven inches 
round. 
Trenched some more land for mangold wurzel, re¬ 
ceived from Mr. Sillett, Kelsale, England. These re¬ 
ceived the same treatment as the carrots, with this dif¬ 
ference that the plants were eighteen inches apart, and 
planted one inch deep—produce excellent, some of the 
plants weighing over six pounds. 
Sowed some Kohl Rabi seed in June, sent me 
by James Levesque, Island of Jersey. Manured 
with horse and hen manure — turned under the 
manure with my digging fork eight inches deep—put 
the seeds in a hill one inch deep, the hills two and a 
half feet apart each way. My neighbors’ chickens de¬ 
voured most of the plants as they came up. The few 
that are left, are this day as large as my hat, and still 
growing. Boiled two of them to-day for my pig, who 
seems to relish them better than either potatoes, cab¬ 
bage or mangold wurzel. 
My wife has been my gardener this year, and I am 
happy to say I want no better help. 
The Indian corn around here is but a poor crop, ow¬ 
ing to the wetness of the season. I should like to hear 
from some of your Corn Kings, how to grow a good 
crop of corn in ordinary seasons. 
I think, Messrs. Editors, it would confer a favor on 
many of the readers of your valuable paper, if all those 
who have been experimenting this year, would take to 
the plan of Levi Bartlett of N. H., G. IIo watt of 
N. J., and Mr. Levesque —that is, state what kind of 
manure was used when their land was plowed, what 
depth the seed was planted, and what distance apart 
from plant to plant. P. Sidebotham. Valley Falls. 
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Cure for Rheumatism. 
Respected Editors —I send you a recipe which I 
have taken from a Southern paper, as follows: 
1 oz. oil Rosemary, 
1 oz. oil Cloves, 
1 oz. oil Origanum, 
1 oz. Spirits Turpentine, 
1 oz. Spirits Ammonia, 
1 oz. Tincture Cantharides 
1 oz. Alcohol. 
Mix in a light glass-stopper bottle, and shake up 
when used. Heat a saucer on embers, pour a little in 
the saucer, and rub it on the part affected, with the 
hand, previously warmed by the fire, so as to encourage 
absorption. 
The above is said to be very good for sick headache 
Mahlon Pickett. iV. C. 
