Fruit Recorder and Cottage Gardener Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...If the above, or similar views, meet your approbation, I will occasionally furnish them, . . Long. Good, every: vord of it. Wo know of nothing that as well as deep subsoil plowing.--Ed. Recorder, To Keep a Bouquet a Month. When you wish to preserve a bouquet sprinkle it lightly with fresh water; then put It Into a veseel containing eoap suds; take the bouquet out of the suds everymorning and lay It sideways, into clean water. Keep it there a minute or two, then take it out and sprinkle the flowers lightly with water; replaco it in the soap suds and it will bloom ap fresh as when first gathered; the soap'suds needs chauging every three or four days. By observing these rules a bouqnet may be kept bright and beautiful for at least a month.--Ruratlst, Cincinnati. Washes for Fruit Trees. Twice a year, at least, every fruit tree in the orchard should be washed with eome liquid, strong enough to destroy the egge and pupje of insects, and the roots and spores of mosses and fungi. In using caustic ley for the destruction of bark lice, several persons have killed their trees, op sometimes the bark turns black and peels oft after the application of thie wash, and the death of the tree follows. Lime whitewash is recommended by eome persons, but it Is unsightly and is disapproved of by the most experienced fruit growers; eoap suds are harmless, but are too mild for the purposes for which the application is required. The most suitable wash le a solution of common sal-soda in the proportion of one pound of soda to a gallon of water. Rain water is the beet for this purpose. This wash will not injure the bark, but will kill the oggs or pupw of insects, and will clear away mosses, etc. It will remove dead bark and produce a healthyuriace.--...