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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Sept. 
Suppose for instance you have a hundred seedling 
pear or apple trees which you wish to work, of the 2d 
or third years’ growth. The stocks will be from the 
size of a goose-quill up to about half an inch in diame¬ 
ter. 
The stocks, if not already in the cellar, may be care¬ 
fully raised from the ground and brought into the cel¬ 
lar, and the roots covered either with earth, sand, or 
moss, to keep them moist ; a dozen or so of the stocks 
may be brought from the cellar to the operating room, 
which grafted, bandages and wax or clay applied, and 
then returned to the cellar again, to be set out in the 
nursery or wherever else wanted at a convenient sea¬ 
son, taking care that the roots do not become dry by a 
continued exposure to the air. Should the operator be 
short of stocks for his scions, he may work, his grafts 
upon pieces of the roots of the same kind of trees 
as the scions; that is, apple scions upon apple 
roots, pear scions upon pear roots, and never fear for 
the result; the labor is little, the success almost certain; 
I have tried it and speak somewhat from experience. 
Again, suppose the operator to be where choice fruit 
is found in the autumn, he may cut scions then and pre¬ 
serve them through the winter in his cellar, by set¬ 
ting the ends in sand, and graft in the spring. 
I, in one instance, cut scions in October some forty 
miles from home, carried them home in my valise, pre¬ 
served them in sand through the winter, and set them 
the next spring; the scions are now growing and doing 
well. 
Some are fastidious about the covering they place 
around the stock and scions in grafting. I have tried 
grafting wax and grafting clay, prepared in various 
ways, and have not been able to discover any essential 
difference in the growth of scions and health of the 
stock, whether wax or clay was the covering material; 
of the two, I prefer wax, as being neater and more 
convenient to use. Grafting in orchards is best per¬ 
formed by two hands at least; one prepares the limbs, 
smooths the ends after the cut of the saw, and applies 
the wax after the scions are set; the other prepares and 
sets the scions, and also aids in sawing off the limbs to 
be grafted on. ^ 
The cut accompanying the Hoyt mode of grafting 
represents a smooth slope of both stock and scion. 
This, you will readily perceive is more likely to be 
displaced than the following or tongued mode. 
Let any one wishing to try this method, first take an 
apple tree shoot, without reference to having it live; 
cut it off in a sloping direction, make the splits in the 
severed parts, and unite them by inserting the tongue 
of one into the split in the other, two or three trials 
will give the learner the right idea ; always re¬ 
membering that the slits are to be made in such part as 
will allow the largest surface of the stock and scion 
coming in contact at the outer edge of one side, so that 
the bark and sap-wood of stock and scion may come in 
contact on one side at least; I say one side, because the 
stock may be larger than the scion, and vice versa. 
W. N. Green. Worcester, Mass., July 10, 1848. 
Profits of the Strawberry Culture. 
Mr. D. D. T. Moore, of Watervliet has about an 
acre of ground which has been planted to strawberries 
three years. He paid sixty dollars for the land, it be¬ 
ing a part of a farm which he purchased at that price 
per acre. The strawberries have paid for the land, 
and leave a nett profit of nearly $200. The past sea¬ 
son, the strawberry ground has not been as productive 
as usual—it yielded 4,000 baskets, (three baskets to the 
quart,) and brought in the^aggregate about $150. Mr. 
M. thinks it would render the strawberry culture in this 
vicinity more profitable if more persons would engage 
in it. The reason he gives for this opinion is, that 
those who buy and sell strawberries in the Albany and 
Troy markets, now oblige the producers in this neigh¬ 
borhood to sell at their prices. They do this by send¬ 
ing their agents through the New-York markets, af¬ 
ter the sales for the city are principally closed for the 
day, and buying up such as are left at low prices—then 
making the producers here submit to corresponding 
prices, they control the markets. Mr. M. states 
that from 100 to 150 dollars’worth per day are brought 
here from New-York during the strawberry season. 
There should be enough raised here to establish prices, 
independent of the dealers who only purchase to sell 
again. 
Fumigating Plum Trees. 
In the notiee of a late horticultural meeting at Zanes¬ 
ville, Ohio, (reported in the Gazette ,) it is stated that 
Caleb Hall presented fine specimens of plums, of 
which he has this year a good crop. He was formerly 
much annoyed by the curculio, but 11 in 1845 he fumi¬ 
gated his trees with brimstone, and repeated the opera¬ 
tion in 1846, and both those years had good crops; for 
besides what his family used, he sold in market about 
$20 worth per annum. In 1847 he did not use the 
brimstone, and did not, to use his own words 1 get 
enough to make a pie.’ In 1848, he again used the 
brimstone and has a fine crop. He says he gives the 
naked fact, without saying how far it may be made a 
perfect remedy for the evil.” We know friend Hall 
to be a careful and intelligent cultivator. "Will he be 
so good as to furnish us with the particulars in regard 
to this matter ? stating how often the trees were smo¬ 
ked, &c. 
Expelling th$ Curculio. —The Cultivator con¬ 
tains directions to destroy or repel the Curculio, that 
pest to choice fruit. The method I pursue to destroy 
them, is effectual and simple. At the time the fruit is 
liable to injury from attacks of the curculio, I shake 
the trees violently during heavy showers, and catch 
them in my umbrella, or they are beaten to the ground 
to be drowned or picked up by the poultry. When 
timely showers do not occur, I make a blaze of straw 
or shavings in a kettle, after dark, then shake the trees 
and disturb or destroy them in that way. A. B. 
Rightstown , Pa., June, 1848. 
Influence of the Graft. —Dr. Kirtland says, 
“ a graft of the Green Newtown Pippin will invariably 
render the bark rough and black, (the habit of the va¬ 
riety.) within three years after its insertion. 
Changing the bearing year of an Apple tree. R. 
Manning of Salem, with several hours’ labor, cut off 
all the blossoms from a Baldwin apple tree, in the 
spring of its bearing year. The consequence was, the 
bearing year was completely changed, the bearing years 
have become fruitful, and vice versa. 
