The Minnesota Horticulturist Volume 32 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NORWAY SPRUCE AT STATE EXPERIMENT STATION. Illustration shows growth of Norway spruce In our "forest garden" at the Experiment Station. On the right are two Norway spruce, and at the left one white spruce. It will be noted that there Is very little difference in the size of the two kinds. These trees are seventeen or eighteen years old from the seed and have been growing In their present position for fourteen years and both kinds are especially thrifty, Pbof. 8. B. Green. The replacing of missing vines in a vineyard is a perplexing task sometimes. If a new vine is planted, the old ones on each side seem to take up the fertility and moisture in the soil, making growth very slow, if it succeeds in living at all. I have found this method a very good one: Early in the spring select a strong cane of the previous season's growth, as near the end of the vine at possible. Cut off about 1 foot from the end to make sure of healthy wood. Carry the cane along the lower wire to the vacant place where the vine should be and lay the cane inatrench for a distance of 12or 15 inches and 12 inches deep, filling the hole with top soil pressed firmly around the buried cane. A pint of bonemeal put in the bottom of the trench and mixed with the soil will help the growth of the roott. The parent vine nourishes the cane, and after two or three yeats it can be cut loose and a new vine established. Jecretary's Life Membership Rou, .? One addition has been made to the life membership roll since the annual meeting, the name of Mr. Thomas Lowry, of Minneapolis. Have You Sent In Your New Member For 1904 The annual membership roll for this year stands (Jan. 23) at 729, which is something over 100 more than last year at this time. We are in hopes to keep ahead of last year's roll continuously t...