FRUIT-GROWERS’ REPORT. 
any of the properties necessary to the healthful growth of the 
vine and developement of the fruit, it is not necessary to dis¬ 
turb the roots in order to furnish them with the food. Liquid 
manure may be used, and it is sometimes easily and cheaply 
obtained—such as soap-suds, barn-yard drippings, &c. Or one 
peck of wood ashes may be mixed with 100 lbs. of cow manure 
and water applied. The ashes assist the decomposition and 
hasten the time when it is in condition to apply to the vine. 
If the ashes or salt and lime are added to the liquid droppings 
of the barn-yard, it is an advantage. 
EVERGREENS FROM SEED. 
BY J. S. STICIvNEY, WAUWATOSA, WIS. 
A negro being asked how many rats he had caught, replied,. 
“When I have caught the one I am after, and two more, I shall 
have three.” 
This mode of “reckoning” is very applicable to my success¬ 
ful experiments with evergreen seed; and were it not that the 
“two more” are just in sight, and I have great hopes of catch¬ 
ing them , it would hardly pay to write of my failures. 
My first experiment was with seed of the White Pine, gath¬ 
ered at Sheboygan, and sown in Autumn, directly from the 
cones. It came finely and grew well through the season, being 
carefully shaded during all the hot, dry weather, with cotton 
cloth. I wintered the young plants safely by covering with 
leaves. The spring following I transplanted them to the north 
side of a board fence, and concluded they would do without 
more shading, but a single week of scorching sunshine used 
them all up. 
I have been “equally successful" with White Cedar, Red 
Cedar, Hemlock, Balsam, Norway Spruce, Scotch Fir and Aus¬ 
trian Pine. Most of the seeds sown have vegetated readily, 
especially Norway Spruce, even at four or five years old. In 
