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I iRURAL LIFE.
i RURAL LIFE. B1: A SON OF THE SOIL. DAHLIAS FROM CUTTINGS. There ftn be no doubt as to the cheapness of ■triking cuttings as a method of getting together a stock of dahlias, and as several prominent florists are prepared to send out selections from the middle of February until the end of March, a note now as to the treatment of cuttings cannot be out of place. If dahlias are intended for competition, the ground must be well dug and pulverised during the previous winter, at the same time adding a liberal quantity of good horse manure, although, if the soil is light, cow dung is preferable. About the end of May the ground should again be stirred, and laid off in beds 5ft. wide. with an alley 1ft. in breadth be- tween them. Into these beds a double row of stakes may be placed, about 2jft. apart each way; on the average, the tall ones may be a little more and the dwarf ones a little less. Some growers prefer a greater distance between the plants, but the space given has proved to be most suitable. The stakes must be firmly fixed before planting. The best timo to get the plants is the end of April and beginning of May. When received from the nursery, they should be immediately potted into 4 or 5-inch pots, and placed on a moderate hotbed or in a warm greenhouse, care being taken not to allow the plants to become dry, as the slightest check will tend to throw them into bloom prematurely. After the third week of May they should be gradually hardened off, and planted out when all danger of frost is past, which in Scotland may be reckoned as after the first few day in June. Frequent waterings, occasionally with liquid DAHLIAS FROM CTTTTINGS. a.—Pnliliii cutting as taken from plant. b.—Cutting prepared for insertion. manure, tying 'and thinning the shoots, will en-I gage the attention of the cultivator till the be- ginning of August, when the buds will be ap- pearing. A good mulching of well-decomposed manure will be of great service now. If very large blooms are wanted, only four or five branches should be left on each plant, and all buds exceeding two or three at the end of each stem should be removed.. A few lateral shoots may be allowed to grow, which will carry flowers later on. Wh^n the flowers begin to expand, they will be all the better of a little protection from the weather, a piece of board or tin nailed to the top of a stout stake answering the pur- pose very well. Some prefer boxes with glass tops. Should dahlia cuttings appear flagged j when received, place them for a snort time in water of a temperature of 60deg. or so. Pots may then be filled with very sandy soil, and if thumbs (2in.) are used, one cutting may be placed in the centre of each pot. If 3-in. or 4-in. pots be used, six cuttings may be inserted round .the edges. Make the soil rather firm and give a slight watering, and afterwards plunge the pots in a slight bottom heat. Shade from the sun's rays, but do not cover up quite close if the atmosphere is at all moist, as they are apt to damp off if so treated. In fourteen to twenty- one days they should all be niceiy rooted, and ready to pot off singly into small pots, and again transferred to bottom heat. RED-POLLED CATTLE. I have again been asked to give a line regard- ing red-polled cattle, a breed of which the Prince of Wales, the Hon A. E. Fellowes, and Lord Rothschild are very great admirers. The herd of the last-named nobleman is well and widely I RED-POLLED COW 16 known; it was started essentially from a dairy point of view, and the average yield for one year was published. with a view to demonstrating tho capabilities of the herd in that direction. Out of a total of seventy-i- >ur cows, thirty-six were in the herd during the whole of the year, and in twelve months tiieir milk yield was 271,5931b., an average for each cow of 7,544|lb. Numerous prizes were won :n the show yard and also in open milking tests, two of the biggest triumphs being prizes s.t the London Dairy Show in suc- cessive years. Such testimony requires no bolstering up on my part, and as one of the best breeds for dairying purposes the red-polled can bo honestly recommended. ON PARSNIPS. For general crop parsnips should be sown in February or Iarch in rows 16in. to 18in. apart, the seed being placed 4iti. deep, and covered with fine soil. Deep, well-cultivated land is necessary to secure a good parsnip crop, and land which was heavily manured for the previous crop is best, as land freshly manured does not produce the best shaped roots. To grow par- snips for exhibition, a deep, rich, and well- drained soil is necessary. If the soil is of a clayey nature, it will be better to make up a bed of forced earth to the required depth than to attempt to grow them in such.. A trench may be made, say 3Cin. deep and 18in. wide for a single row, and a layer of well-rotted manure placed in the bottom and mixed with the soil. The trench should then be filled up with good soil of a friable nature and the seeds sown. The method, however, which is adopted by all tho b,,t growers is clearly shewn in the appended illustration. A large dibble is procured, and PARSNIP CULTURE. I holes are made with it in the ordinary soil of the garden, exactly as seen in the drawing. These holes must be made when the ground is quito dry, and may be 3ft. deep and 6in. or Sin. in in circumference at the top. To fill them a com- post must be made up, and for the bottom 6in. of the hole it should be very rich. The mix- ture may consist of fine soil, a little sand, mould, and well-rotted manure, all passed through a jin. riddle, to remove stones. This may be enriched by the addition of a little manure or other fertilising ingredient and a little soot, which will help to keep away rust. Towards the top of the hole less manure should be used. Sow six or eight seeds in the mouth of each hole, covering about a gin. Thin out the plants when they have grown to a few inches in height, taking care to leave only one strong plant near the centre of each hole. The seed should be sown as early in February as possible. Parsnips must not be fed on the surface, as it induces side-growths on the roots and spoils their appearance. If feeding is done it should be by large holes made at some distance from the plants, and liquid manure is advisable. It greatly decreases the risk of the top or crown of the parsnip being destroyed if when half-grown A small quantity of clean sand is heaped over it. ASPARAGUS. When this crop has not been attended to already, it must be no longer neglected, says a writer in the Market Gardener. Where the plant is grown in raised beds some of the soil can be thrown into the alleys, and the beds re- ceive a good dressing of well composted manure. Some have been using peat-moss manure for this crop, but where the land is at al! heavy it is much better avoided, ai; it is very apt to encourage eehvorm, and asparagus is very susceptible to this trouble. During last season or two wn have seen hundreds of plants entirely destroyed by the myriads of micro- scopic eelworms taking possession of the dor- mant buds. Probably the line of salt on the beds has in the past acted as a deterrent in the case of eehvorm. and so has kept the plants safe. An annual dressing of freshly-slaked lime will also do much to cleanse the beds of insect pests, and from 6cwt. to lOcwt. per acre should be given a week or two before the farmyard manure is put oh. Some heavy lands are badly infested with the underground black or black- and-yellow slug. These pests are continually eating away the underground parts of plants. Where these pests abound there is nothing like a dose of vaporite for their clearance. This may bo sown over asparagus beds to the extent of 3cwt. per acre. and if just pricked in as soon as sown will make it hot for the slugs. The manure may be left on the beds until February, when it should be forked in, or if the land works well it may be done at once. Where sea- weed can be obtained this may be laid on the beds to a thickness of Hin. In cases where it is not desirable to put real manure on the beds 3cwt. kainit and 5cwt. basic slag to the acre may be put on at once, and in March, when the beds are dressed down or the rows are prepared for the spring work, a dressing of 2cwt, sulphate of ammonia may be given. Rich guano is also a good manure for asparagus, but if it is not fish potash" it- should always be supple- mented by lewt. of sulphate of potash to 3cwt. or 4cwt. of the fish manure. PACKING NUTS AND OTHER PRODUCE FOR EXPORT. A new method of packing and transporting fruit and other perishable produce ,has been re- cently tested, and its development is being watched with interest in Colonial fruit circles. The basis of the process is the use of a vacuum, and the inventor, Mr. Charles Blagburn, of An- tioch, California, says that by its use fresh pro- duce can be packed for three months without decay. Fruit wili not continue ripening once it it put into tin* vacuum, and this fact permits of gathering when the conditions are the best. A large plant has been established at Antioch for the unlimited production of vacuum boxes. Air- tight receptacles of practically any size are made, and when the fruit or other produce is placed in them the vacuum apparatus is applied and the air exhausted. Pure nitrogen is then forced in to produce an equilibrium, so that atmospheric pressure will not cause a collapse. Those behind the scheme claim that its adoption will greatly increase the fruit-growers' profits. A refrigerator car from San Francisco to New York involves an expenditure of C150, while the promoters of this process: claim that a car load of fruit can be forwarded across the continent for £ 40, as fruit can be shipped in ordinary freight cars, without the necessity of refrigerator cars and ice. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. T. C.Tlio only way to procure the bulbs of the wild hyacinth or bluebell is to dig them up from the woods or any other place where they prow; but that is a hard task, as the bulbs grow very deep. It is doubtful if they will stand transplanting, but you can get the bulbs of garden hyacinths, which are pretty when in- bloom, though they are shorter in the bell, through any nurseryman, &uch as Carter's*. Holborn, London, OT Daniel's, Norwich.
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