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THE KURAb NEW-YORKER 
March 19, 
Fertilizer for Swamp Land. 
T. B., McHenry, III.—I have some peat 
land, tiled. I am thinking of planting a 
few potatoes on it, and want to know 
what fertilizer to use and amount. Some 
years ago I grew a few potatoes on edge 
of slough (not drained), and had as nice 
potatoes as 1 ever saw. Rain came before 
I got them dug, and I lost all. 
Ans.— Such soil usually contains 
enough nitrogen, but is very low in phos¬ 
phoric acid and potash. A good fertilizer 
for such soil would be three parts by 
weight of fine ground bone to one part 
muriate of potash. We should use at 
least 600 pounds per acre. If the rows 
are three feet apart this would make 
14.520 feet of drill. With 600 pounds 
this would mean one pound to a little 
over 24 feet. 
Seeding to Clover. 
L. L., Faetoryville, Pa .—I want to sow 
about an acre of oats and peas for hay, and 
wish to seed the ground to clover. I sow 
a small piece to oats and peas every Spring, 
hut they always fall down badly. Will 
that be likely to smother out the clover? 
The ground is in good condition ; had cab¬ 
bage and tomatoes on it last year. Would 
you advise any fertilizer or lime to insure 
a good catch of clover? 
Ans. —Yes; if the peas fall down the 
young clover will have a poor chance 
to grow r . We have not succeeded with 
a good catch of clover with oats and 
peas except with a very thin seeding. 
Crops usually fall down because the soil 
is rich in nitrogen. Fertilizing with a 
mixture of three parts acid phosphate 
and one muriate of potash would make 
the oats and peas stiffer. 
Grafting Peach Trees. 
K. H., Reading, Mass .—I would like ad¬ 
vice on an experiment in starting a small 
peach orchard. I have one very nice peach 
tree about five years old. Last year if bore 
heavily; the peaches are of a fine quality, 
l>ut this tree has to be removed. Could I 
graft a branch of this tree to a root of 
fhe same size with good results? If I could 
I would be able to get 30 or 40 trees from 
this one. 
Ans. —It is not practical to graft a 
limb of a peach on to a piece of root with 
any prospect of their living. The peach 
is verv hard to graft successfully, and 
reauires an expert grafter where the 
usual methods of grafting are used. The 
only wav would be bv budding; this 
should be done in late August if the 
stocks are good and thrifty. Buds could 
be cut now and held in a dormant condi¬ 
tion until the bark slios easily in the 
Spring, then set and treated by the same 
method as Tune buds if one wishes to 
keen the variety and the tree must be 
removed bv August. h. 0 . mead. 
Propagating Roses- 
.4. L. O., Lithopolis, O .—In the absence 
of greenhouse facilities, but with plenty of 
hotbed sash, how can I best propagate 100 
to 200 roses each season? I have thrifty 
bushes of the various Ramblers, of Dorothy 
I’erkins, Baltimore Belle, Gen. Jacqueminot, 
etc., and of the Multiflora rose. Can I grow 
any of these from Winter cuttings, came 
as shrubs? Can I grow the Multiflort from 
cuttings and bud on it same as budding 
apples? Last November I placed 25 four- 
inch cuttings of Gen. Jacqueminot in a box 
of sand in the basement, covered the box 
with a pane of glass, kept the sand moist, 
and now almost all are in loaf. How shall 
I proceed with these in the Spring? What 
book can I procure for beginners in rose 
culture? 
Ans. —The inquirer can propagate 
these hardy roses quite readily without 
using his hotbeds. During this month 
make cuttings 10 inches long, tie in 
bundles and bury in sand, tops down. 
Plant them in good rich sandy loam 
about the middle of April, as soon as 
the weather is settled. Make a cut with 
a spade deep enough for the cuttings, 
plant them, bottom side down, so that 
top bud is just at level of the ground, 
and make the ground very firm around 
the cuttings. Keep them clean from 
weeds, and they should grow as well as 
currants. Then in July you can make 
layers, which is a very easy method of 
propagation. Dig the ground around 
the rose bushes with a fork, so that if 
is fine, then bend down branches and 
bury a section about four inches deep, 
leaving the tip to form the top. When 
well rooted the layer is separated from 
the parent, making an independent plant. 
In August and September you can make 
cuttings as follows: Make the cuttings 
six inches long, insert four inches in 
the ground, and leave all the foliage on 
above ground; put a glass fruit jar 
over the cutting (two or three can be 
put under one quart jar) draw the earth 
firmly around the jar, thus excluding the 
air, and leave the covering on until 
June or July of the following year, when 
you will have well-rooted young plants. 
The rooted cuttings of Gen. Jacque¬ 
minot may be planted out this Spring 
like any other young rose plants, but 
harden them off a little in the air, and 
see that they are not dried up in baked 
soil for want of a little care. “The 
Rose,” by H. B. Ellwanger, is a useful 
standard book on this subject; price, 
$1.25 from this office. The Multiflora 
De la Grifferaie is regarded in Europe 
as a valuable stock for budding strong¬ 
growing kinds, but in this country most 
nurserymen prefer the Manetti. Bud¬ 
ding is done in July and August. Per¬ 
sonally, we would not try the budding, 
as we prefer roses on their own roots 
where possible, and we think the other 
methods of propagating described will 
give you better results. 
A New Jersey farmer, whose farm is 
near a school for boys, was greatly an¬ 
noyed by the depredations of the young¬ 
sters. Finding two of the boys helping 
themselves to his choice apples, he usher¬ 
ed them from his premises, ably assisted 
by the toe of his boot. The following 
day he found the same boys loitering in 
the vicinity of his orchard fence. “What 
you young scamps hanging around here 
for?” he shouted “I told you yesterday 
what you’d git if I caught you on my 
land ag’in.” “Yes, sir, we remember,” 
explained the spokesman. “We didn’t 
come for apples this time. We came to 
ask you to join our football eleven.”— 
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