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HORTICULTURAL.
WM. H. WHITE, Editor.
SATURDAY. MAT 88,1858.
HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS FOR JUNE.
In the Kit chi n Garden all the early crops
should be removed the moment .they cease to be
useful, carefully saving all straw and haulm for
stock or manure. Let the ground they occupied
be thoroughly dug, that it may be ready for
transplanting or sowing other crops. These op
erations, to succeed at this time, require fresh
dug soil. Between the rows of growing crops,
mulching will be found useful in dry weather.
All weeds should be cut down and dug into the
soil, which, if not mulched, keep light by fre
quent stirring. When the ground is not subject
to wash, the best mulch, after all, for plants, is
undoubtedly the loose, fresh dug surface soil.
Thin out the growing crops of beets, carrots,
Ac. Cut oft’ the upper shoots of tomato plants,
when the lower fruit is half grown. Pinch off
the tops of lima and butter beans, when six feet
high, to throw them into fruit. Transplant cel
ery, winter cabbage, tomatoes, sweet potato
slips, Ac. Protect the more tender kinds from
the sun by sticking shingles into the earth on
the sunny side. The seeds of winter cabbages,
cauliflower and brocoli may still be sown, if the
Ikmls are shaded during the day. As the plants
come up accustom them gradually to the light,
morning and evening, and as soon as may be,
take advantage of a wet day to dispense with
further protection. Sow also, the last of tiie
month, sweet German and ruta-baga turnips.
Continue to plant sweet corn, snap beans, Ac.
Beets sown at this time, if the season is propi
tious, are fine for winter use.
Eartli up where plants require it. '• Attend to
watering when needed—give it to plants at
night, and stir the soil after it becomes partly
dry, to keep it from baking.
Save all seeds as they ripen—those of peas,
beans, Ac., when well dried, should be put up in
bottles, with a little camphor or spirits of tur
pentine, to destroy the bugs.
In the Fruit Garden keep the strawberry beds
free from weeds, and runners also, unless you
wish to increase your stock of plants. If you
raise them on alternate strips, prepare, by thor
ough digging, the soil designed for the new
plants to run upon.
Where the branches of fruit trees are laden
too heavily, thin out the fruit at once. You will
lose little or nothing in weight, and gain greatly
in the beauty and quality of the fruit. Budding
may now be performed. A diligent watch should
1)6 kept upon insects. Those on the vines, Ac.,
should be crushed at once. See that the peach
and apple borers are. destroyed. Apply soft
soap to the trunks of the trees. Admit your
poultry and young pigs into the older orchards;
and in the younger ones, gather the fruit as it
falls and feed to them. Summer pruning should
lie continued. (See article in this paper.) Rub
off the suckers from the stocks of the vine;
shorten to a leaf or two the shoots proceeding
from the axils of the leaves. Tie the rampant
growing shoots to the stakes or trellis, to pre
vent their being broken. Keep down the weeds.
Pinch the extremities of the shoots of j>ear trees,
Ac., w here required to give or retain their sym
metry. Suckers, as they appear, unless required
to All vacant spaces, should be removed or short
ened to two or three buds. Gather fruits as
they ripen.
In the flower garden, bulbs may be taken up
and stored. Do not expose them to the sun.
Carnations and pinks may now be layered, and
roses budded Water freely, when required.
An occasional drench of soap-suds will throw
roses into new bloom. Greenhouse plants must
lie syringed each alternate evening. Water be
fore syringing. Finch in growing chrysanthe
mums, Ac., to get them into perfect shape; also,
shrubs of all kinds, as well ns greenhouse plants.
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STRAWBERRIES.
The Strawberry that, all things considered—
earliness, size, productiveness, Ac.—has the last
two years given us the greatest satisfaction, is
Wilson's Albany.
The largest berries we have ever raised have
l»een of the Smythe and McAvoy's Superior.
The latter is so soft that it will not bear car
riage, and is worthless for the market.
The finest crop of berries we ever saw were
of the Smythe; but the plants are tender, and
require extra care. In quality, it is not excelled.
The firmest fleshed berries for market, and
which best keep their shape for preserving, arc
the Moyamensing and Peabody's Seedling.
Longworth's Prolific lias, for the last year,
given us the earliest full crop of any variety.
Hovey's Seedling, Walker's Seedling, Large
Early Scarlet, Bishop's Orange, and Jenny Lind,
are excellent varieties.
' Among the foreign kinds, Alice Maud, Victo
ria, I icomptesse Hericart de Tluiry, and Smythe,
(the last above all,) are most desirable.
Any of tho American varieties above named
will give satisfaction, if planted on a deep soil
and kept free from runners and weeds.
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STOCKS FOR ROSES.
BY J. P. W.
The aptitude to throw up suckers (most felicit
otsly so-called) forms a serious difficulty in both
budding and grafting the rose. Extreme watch
fulness is necessary in removing these, which, if
not kept down, will very soon exhaust the ener
gies of the parent plant. llow is this to be ob
viated? Where shall I get proper stocks?—
“Expeete crede .”
The Noisette varieties seed very freely, and
the seed germinate very readily; the seedling,
in a proper position, will show flower the first
summer—if worth preserving for their own good
qualities, why they are there; but if not, cut
them down to the ground at the end of the first
year. They will put up vigorous shoots, two of
which suffer to grow till first of June, then care
fully cut away all but one, and when you wish
to bud it do so—you will only have to disbud a ,
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little during the summer and fall. Suckers will
never trouble you.
Remarks. —ln general we like a rose upon its
own roots, and have very little patience with the
rambling stolons of the stocks generally em
ployed. Still, if we get the new varieties at all,
we are often compelled to take those that are
budded. Some varieties also, like the Persian
yellow, are much finer when budded than when
on their own roots. Indeed, this, the Hawser
yellow and some others, are so apt to sucker
that it is really a great relief to get them off their
own roots upon some non-suckcring stock like
the Marietta, or the one our friend describes.—
By raising seedling Noisettes for the purpose we
shall not only get better stocks than those usu
ally employed, but many charming roses will be
originated.
As budding may now lie performed, we will
remind our readers that the bud should be in
serted in the stock as near the earth as possible,
so that on re-planting it may be placed just be
neath the surface, which will prevent it from
being choked by strong shoots emitted from the
stock below.
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THE APIARY.
A gentleman who produces over two thousand
pounds of honey a year, and is the author of a
valuable work on bee-culture, makes the follow
ing sensible remarks on keeping beehives near
the ground:
W. R., in Country Gentleman , page 68, “de
signs making the upper part of a shop into a bee
house,” and inquires ‘“whether he had better put
in one stand or four.” If he will take my advice,
he will put in but one, and then put that some
where else. lam down on putting bees up from
the ground. If his object in putting them in a
room is to prevent swarming, it would be econo
my to build such room on the ground, and then
protect it as much as possible from the prevail
ing winds. If bees are kept for the profit of the
thing, they had better be kept outside of all
houses, except in winter.
The farmer who should build a storehouse for
his crop of a thousand bushels annually, several
stories from the ground, when it could just as
well be at the surface, and be compelled to take
it all up by back-loads, not by convenient stairs
inside, but by a long ladder, would be about as
wise as to compel the bees to go up. He would
have light labor in comparison to the difficulties
encountered by the loaded bee in its endeavors
to get to the entrance of its abode when so ele
vated, in opposition to prevailing winds. A few
will succeed, but so many are lost, especially in
chilly weather, in vain attempts to reach the en
trance, that profits are materially diminished.
A building can hardly be situated so that
strong winds will not interfere with bees enter
ing an upper story on some sides of it. The
nearest the ground you make the entrance, the
easier the l>ees can reach it. I keep all mine
within four inches of the ground on this account.
M. Qiixby.
St. Johnsville, N. Y.
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[From the Gardener* a Monthly.]
LETTER FROM MACON, GEORGIA.
Dear Sir: We have to contend with a cli
mate very hard on horticulture in the summer
season. The thermometer is frequently 110 de
grees, and the soil so hot that a person with thin
shoes on cannot stand still. With your love of
trees, I am sure you would be delighted to spend
a few days down here, if only to see how glori
ous some that are rare with you grow in their
native places. Sterculia platan i folia, for instance,
that I never saw in your neighborhood, is a beau
tiful tree in the South. Pinknuya pubens is a
beautiful thing. It grows about two hundred
miles south of this, on the margins of wet swamps,
amongst Azaleas and Androniedas; it grows as a
spreading bush, about fifteen or twenty feet high
when in perfection. Halesia diptera is another
beautiful object. It grows about seventy-five
miles from here, but is rather scarce. It is found
on shady and very rich borders of streams, in a
strong and rich muddy clay. It attains a height
of from twenty-five to thirty feet, more like a
tree than 11. tetraptera, with large, broad oval
leaves, and a much larger and more pure white
flower than 11. tetraptera. Gordonia is growing
on the Altamaha river, about one hundred miles
below this, but very scarce.
Allow me, however, to draw your attention to
a few others of our indigenous plants, as Erith
rina; Scrankia unciata, sensitive like Mimosa pu
dica, perennial, with a very strong root, which
can be easily protected with you in winter, as
the top dies off. The same is the case with Pas
siflora incarnaea. my most troublesome weed.
Hypericum, amtmum vel aureum is also to be met
with—a hardy, woody shrub, about two feet high,
and a most beautiful yellow flower, I think the
finest Hypericum. Besides this, lam in the pos
session of a most beautiful little native flower,
only, so far as I know, found on one sandy place
in Georgia, nowhere described, and in the pos
session of no gardener. It is undoubtedly a
Polygonum, with large clusters of small white
flowers, and blooming from June till frost. It
resembles an Erica, between Gracilis and Bowi
ana, and is the most beautiful thing for bouquets
you ever beheld. It is perennial, with a remark
able foliage like that of Mesembryanthemum au
ratinum, evergreen here, and throwing up plenty
of flower-stems two feet high. In fact, I must
consider it one of the greatest acquisitions in
floriculture. I have named it Polygonum tereti
folium.
Rich Milk. — Messrs. Tucker & Son: —Mr. C.
W. Gilman, of Pino Meadow, (New Hartford,)
Connecticut, is engaged in selling milk, and milks
twelve or fourteen cows during summer and win
ter. He has in his dairy a small cow five years
old, which dropped her calf in Noveml)er. Her
milk was observed to have a very rich appear
ance, and he had a curiosity to test its butter
qualities. Accordingly -her morning's “ mess ”
was put in tin pans, and after standing some
thirty-six hours, two pounds twelve ounces of
cream were taken oft' and churned, or stirred into
butter in a few minutes. The butter as it came
from the chum weighed just two pounds, and
when thoroughly worked, one pound fourteen
ounces, of a quality equal to the !>est- The milk
was not measured before, but after being skimmed,
measured six quarts. Assuming it to be seven
and a half quarts when strained—which would
probably not be far from it—this would be at i
the rate of a pound of butter to four quarts of
milk —two and three quarter lbs. per day. She
gives eleven quarts of milk per day. If any one
has a cow that can produce more than a pound
of butter to four quarts of milk, or if ho can
produce a record of one that has done it, he can
" take the hat."
Geo. IV. Loomis. Torrington, Ct., Dec, 1868.
Country Gentleman.
THE CHINESE YAM.
Tliis plant lielongs to the family of Dioecorete. having annual stalks or vines, and perennial roots.
The leaves; in general, are opposite, triangular-cordate, acuminate above, with round basilar lobes:
having seven or eight principal nerves converging towards the top, between which is a net-work
of secondary fibres crossing each other. They are about equal in length and breadth, having a
smooth and glossy surface, and of a deep green color. Their petiols. or foot stalks, extend about
half their length; they are strongly eanaliculated. or furrowed above, ami are of a violet color, which
shows itself from the
moment they spring
forth. The flowers are
dioecious —that is, the
sexes growing on dif
ferent plants, disposed
in specimen bunehes
at the junction of the
leaves. The corolla of
the males is composed
of six petals of a pale
3'ellow color; the three
outermost ones round
ed, and the three in
ner smaller ones of a
roundish oval. The
stamens, six in num
ber, are extremely
small, although well
defined; and the an
thers are oval and sup
ported by short fila
ments, grouped freely
in the centre of the
flower. As the male
plant only has been
introduced, the female
cannot be described,
and consequently no
seeds produced ljeforc
the latter can be pro
cured. See engraving.
The roots, or tubers,
vary in length and
thickness according to
the nature of the soil,
in reference to light
ness, depth, and ne
naeity, which, no
doubt, influences their
form and mode of de
velopment. The max
imum size to which
they grow is .about
two inches in diame
ter, the larger end ta
pering upwards to the
size of the finger, as
indicated in the cut
above. They are cov
ered by a brownish
fawn colored skin,
pierced by numerous
rootlets. Under this
envelop is a cellular tissue of a white opal color, very crispy, filled with starch and a milky, mu
cilaginous fluid, with scarcely any ligneous fibre. In cooking, this tissue softens and dries, but to
a greater degree, like that of the common potato, the taste of which it much resembles. Each
plant often produces several tubers, though generally it has but one. They usually weigh about
half a pound each, but sometimes three pounds, running perjK?ndicularly into the earth to the depth
of a yard. M. Decaisne, of France, says, however, that those cultivated by him rarely exceed 16
to 20 inches in length.
The cultivation of this yam appears to be easy and simple. M. Decaisne, in the Revue Horticole,
for 1854, has described the method adopted in China, which is nearly as follows: In autumn they
choose the smallest tubers, which they preserve from injury by frost by covering them in a pit with
earth and straw. The spring succeeding they plant them near each other in a trench, in well pre
pared soiL When they have put out shoots one or two yards in length, they cut off the joints and
leaves containing the buds, and plant them for reproduction. For this purpose they form the ground
into ridges, on the top of which a shallow trench is made with the hand, or some suitable imple
ment, in which these joints are planted, covering them slightly with fine earth, with the leaves
rising just on the surface. Should it rain the same day, they shoot immediately; if not, they wa
ter them gently until they do. In fifteen or twenty days they give birth (o new tubers and stalks,
the latter of which it is necessary to remove from time to time, to prevent them from taking root
on the sides, and thus injure the development of the tubers already formed.
The method which has been found to answer best in France, according to Le Bon Jardinier , for
1855, instead of cutting the tubers into fragments of moderate size, placing their crowns, or eyes,
in small pots, in April, and then transplanting them into a deep, rich soil, as soon as the spring
frosts are no longer to be feared.
The following is tho analysis of the tuber, by Dr. Jackson of Boston:
“I tlnd the Chinese yam to contain the following ingredients:
Water 80.52 percent.
Starch 9.08
Cellulose ami fibrous matter 8.65 “
Sugar 0.45 “
Fat oil 0.12
Albumen 1.27 “
Mucilage, (gum,) 8.20 "
Mineral matter, (ash,). 0.86 “
100.00
I present this full analysis, believing it will prove valuable to the public, and interesting in science.”
Soil toe a Garden.— The best soil in which
to cultivate flowers, is that which is usually
known as a strong loam. It should not bo too
sandy, or it will suffer from drought. Too much
clay renders it difficult to work, and the sun and
rain make it hard as a city pavement, almost, and
no plant can prosper in it. Avoid, then, having
too much of either clay or sand; .but a mixture ,
of the two makes an excellent soil. The flower
borders should have an annual enrichment of
horse manure, well rotted, if the soil be heavy,
and cow manure if the sand predominates. By
no means employ guano, or any such powerful
manure; they are all dangerous to plants in the
garden, except in skillful hands. Some persons
never put any manure in their borders. This is
wrong; flowering plants exliaust the nutriment
from the soil, as well as the coarser products of
the field. There is an error committed on the
other side, however. Too much manure stimu
lates the growth of plants at the expense of their
blooming properties. It is preferable to dig in
the manure in the fall, and take no pains to
make the surface smooth, particularly if the
ground be heavy, as the frost acts as a pulveri
ser, and renders it easier to work. Then in the
spring a little loosening of the surface, and neat
raking off, are all that is required. Sods, cut
pretty thick and piled up during the summer,
and allowed to remain till tho following spring,
will be found well rotted, and make an excellent
manure for the flower borders. Charcoal dust is
alk> excellent for the same purpose. Roses will
bear more manure than most other plants; there
fore dig an abundance about their roots.
[Country Gentleman.
—
“On Raising Queen Bees.’ I — Reply to W. J.
A’.. Country Gentlemen , Ftbruaiy 17.—“ Tho im- .
provement of the race," can be effected with !
movable frames, (Langstroth's patent,) as follows: |
Remove from a hive, which we will designate as j
number 1, all queen cells, ancT place them in a
hive number 2—also remove all queen cells from
number 2to number 1. Make artificial swarms
from numbers 1 and 2, and remove these artifi
cial swarms to a new location. The young
queens will hatch in hives surrounded by nobles
of foreign blood, and thus “the improvement of
the race” might be effected. Other methods
could be given, but I do not believe any one will
take tho trouble to follow this matter out, as the
profit is not sufficiently apparent. E. P.
—«■»
Oregon Beeswax. —At the late meeting of
Bee Raisers in Oregon City, we noticed a cake
of very nice beeswax, made from comb produced
in the apiaiy of Mr. T. T. Eyre, near Salem; also
several specimens of comb, showing tho differ
ent stages of the breeding of tho Bee—the Work
er, Drone and Queen cells. Mr. K. evinces a
spirit of progress we would wish to see partaken
of by every producer in Oregon.
[Oregon Fanner. |
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SUMMER. PRUNING.
In growing plants into particular shapes and
forms the advantage and expediency of summer
pinching or pruning of the young shoots is very
apparent; as I have remarked before in these
pages, many beautiful shrub-like plants may be
produced by setting out small plants of such
trees as the sour and sweet gums, sugar and red
maple, or, indeed, any tree, and keeping it low
and bushy by constantly repressing growth du
ring summer. Trees with fine colored foliage
are preferable—so with evergreens. We lately
saw specimens of Norway fir, which liave been
for years deprived of their leading shoots. They
formed splendid masses of foliage and could not
be excelled for filling up shrubberies and close
plantations. Tliis is a feature in ornamental
planting which we are desirous of seeing ex
tended as a ready method of producing effects,
where close masses of low growth are desirable.
It is but the work of a moment to check the
growth of a luxuriant shoot by pinching out its
point in passing. By doing [so at an early pe
riod, it not only checks the vigor at that partic
ular point, but induces a stronger growth on
other portions of the plant.
Those superb specimens of green-house plunts
which occasionally grace the tables in the exhib
iting rooms of our horticultural societies, are
produced by judicious pruning during their
growth. Those who have an eye to symmetry
of form and composition, will at once detect and
correct irregularity of growth; and the man
who knows how to enjoy a garden, and lias fa
cilities for gratifying his taste, does not
“ Govern, only, or direct:
But much performs himself. No works, indeed,
That ask robust, tough sinews, bred to toil,
Servile employ; but sueh as may amuse.
Not tire, demanding rather skill than force."
W. Saunders, ( horticulturist .)
—
Rust on Oats. —We observed, during a short
| visit to the country, within the last few days,
that the rust is making its appearance on the
oats. We saw one fine field of sixty acres com
pletely ruined, and another of lesser size greatly
damaged by it. It is a question of interest to
the planter to know whether these rusted oats
can be safely fed to stock. We have heard it
confidently asserted that they could not be. Can
anybody tell us?— Montgomery Confederation.
If the oats are badly rusted, it is unsafe to
feed them to live stock of any kind.
The Chicago Commercial Express of Tliursd*/,
the sth instant, shows that the accumulat'* 1 ot
grain in store last week was 115,000 vushels.
against 169,000 for the corresponding vveek of
last year. The difference in the an'* lo * of flour
and wheat in store now r as cornered with last
year is 754,000 bushels. Tli» decrease in the
receipts of flour and whe»* is equivalent to
1,040,000 bushels. The increase in the receipts
1 of com exceed 200.000 bushels.
[Written for the Southern Field and Fireside ]
COUNTRY LIFE.
BY SIBYL OBEY. \
"God made the country, and man made the
, town.” Can any one enjoying the blessedness
of a life in the woods, or on a farm, step out in
the early morning of a Winter, Spring, Summer
or autumn day from a cottage home, and not real
ize with ecstacy, through every sense, the vast
difference exhibited in the workmanship of the
two architects ?
Tis a winter morn—the glittering frost is en
crusting fences, sheds, plants, and trees, it's
crystal* sparkle with a thousand rainbow tints,
as the sunlight, in its red glory, advances over
it from the earth: beneath the foot the hard
ground crackles crisply, the very feeling of its
tirm resistance giving a dancing buoyancy to the
step; the keen, bracing air. acts on nerves and
lungs as an invigorator. Thus refreshed and
strengthened, one returns to enter the home
whore the bright, blazing wood tire gives cheery
greeting to more than one sense, as the Southern
country breakfast offers, to the exercise-sharpened
appetite, its profuse abundance of savory viands.
Or, it is joyous and lovely spring, who, in her
garments of fragrant and many-hued beauty, has
adorned bush, flower, and tree; flower-buds are
bursting, grassy tufts are blooming, each and all
dancing and glittering, in their dew-gemmed
coronals, as the soft morning zephyr plays quietly
among them. Birds! oh, how many, how va
rious and sweet-voiced! are caroling, in shrill, or
soft, or loud or gay notes, their grateful orisons
to the God who made and keeps them; or in
" their native wood-notes-wild ” are making love
and joy abound. The air so balmy and fresh is
perfume-laden, and the skies laughing in light
and loveliness. From such a morning’s sense
and soul charms, who cannot enter upon day's
duties with vigor and hope? We stroll around,
all domestic life is soon astir, awakening to light,
love and duty: forth rush the leathered hosts,
as some youngster liberates them from the coop's
imprisonment. They too seek not their food, un
til by lively cackle, quack, or crow, they have
said good-day to all around: the dogs, faithful
sentinels anil guardians of the night, released
from duty at the dawn of day, spring upon child,
master, and mistress, with morning greetings of
buoyant aud kindly gratulation; the old horse
whickers his acknowledgement of brotherhood
aud fellowship with all: as the dusky laborers
issue forth from tlieir cabins to commence their
tasks, “ good mornings,” and good wishes, and
kind enquiries are interchanged, and beaming
glances of good will flash from eye to eye,
strengthening heart and nerve. Are such joys
untrue? Are such joys to be despised ? they are.
real, and may be drawn out like living water
from every acre of this rich Southern soil, that
shows its gratitude to God for life and light, and
dews and rain, by throwing out its thousand
denizens of the forest inmates, from flower, fruit,
and tree, to gaze in tlieir own beauty up to
Heaven's own blue.
Open the window in a crowded town—not in
the overgrown metropolis, but in some city of
moderate dimensions—how changed the scene!
A foetid atmosphere of stifling thickness and
unwholesome breath heavily enters, and through
the basement comes upon the ear the dull mur
muring city hum, the tramp of many feet, busy
throngs pattering the pavement as they turn to
mart or market—betts, cries—and other distract
ing noises dull the sense to all delight. Surely
at the best, early morn in town life is a aoul
sickeniug contrast to the fresh delight of morn
ing amid nature’s sweet haunts.
True, all cannot livo in the country. The uses
of life, in myriad ways, necessitate the concourse
of men in crowded courts, necessitate the grow th
of towns. Some prefer a city life—others are
forced to it by imperious circumstances: and
among these are multitudes of the good and the
great, the excellent of the earth, who do good iu
their day and generation, and honor and glorify
God amid men, as otherg do in nature’s realms.
But there uro many who might bo induced to
livo in the country, and derive the benefits a
country life bestows, could they but be pursua
ded of the reality of these benefits: and there
are others, whose unwelcome fate it is to live in
the country, who find it only an irksome, dreary
life, and look upon it as a doom to unceasing
, ennui and gloom. Could such but be awakened
to a sense of life’s duties and higher aims, and
realize the riches that surround their seclusion,
they would soon find, in their own experience,
that life’s compensations are rich and rare, and
that life in the woods, rightly appreciated and
understood, rightly and vigorously acted up to
in its daily duties, has its many real advantages,
its |>eculiar and very superior pleasures.
It is true that in the monotony of a country
life, wanting these high incitements of a better
existence, persons sink down into a comatose
state, allowing tlieir feelings and faculties to lie
dormant. They do not realize beyond the mere
money-getting of the crop, with its attendant
efforts, the glorious opportunities for pleasure,
improvement, and usefulness, that lie scattered
around them profusely as nature’s bounties; and
which, with awakened perceptions arousing their
energies, would fill up, most pleasurably, their
days with calm enjoyment and improving duties,
“ from mom till dewy eve.”
This is one of the glorious privileges and advan
tages of our Southern country that lias yet to be
appreciated and realized, by multitudes, that
country life is, or ought to be, the life of the
South, city life the exception. Too few know the
charms or resources for improvement and happi
ness, mentally, morally, and physically, that lie
embosomed in the rich woods of our own noble
State. These woods need only to be cleared —
and settled a very few- years—to become homes
of comfort and peaceful bliss. The richness of
the soil, the beauty and variety of the natural
growth of Georgia’s forests, might well tempt
the lover of nature only, but the sheerest utili
tarian also, to establish and beautify a dome in
their midst; for real aud valuable is ‘ ,le return
that nature yields, in this toeming ißn( l> to judi
cious labor, for a few hours dail'i during a very
few years.
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The Chops.— The .yens (Ga.) Banner , ts
May 19th, says:
"Wheat, in all the region above this place, has
been seriously- io®red by- frost, and all around
and below this we regret to learn, the rust has
made its ranee. We are informed that it
is generally confined to the blade of the wheat,
which -ome think leaves a chance of escape;
thoup* most of those with whom we have oon
i veiled express the opinion that the crop will be
injured.
The stand of cotton, we learh, is unusually
good, and com and oats generally look prom
ising.
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Dr. La mi has published his papers on the po
tato culture, production, and disease, which re
ceived the prize of the Royal Agricultural Socie
ty. He asserts the disease to be a species of
Fungus, and condemns all rank manures. He
advocates lime aud soot as a preventative, and
growing only early varieties.
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