Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — ORCHARD AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

Contrivance for Gathering Apple*. ' Take a ton foot pole; attach a wire ring with loop for breaking off the apples, and a bag for catching the apples. Tho wire ring should be largo enough to

admit a largo apple. Tho loop should bo three inches long, and one inch wide. This pickor can bo used where you cannot reach with your hand.— Practical Farmer. The Paa Patch. In hot weather tho pea vines turn yellow. This chocks growth, chocks the filling of tho pods, and soon tho whole plant is down. All this is caused by Insufficient covering of tho roots. Hoe up on each side tho row. Koop the plants off tho ground (if of tho low bush sorts), and now flowers, now pods and new life will respond. Tho pea plant is extremely susceptible to heat, drouth and neglect, and if well nursed, will keep on till you got tired of peas. When that time comes, can tho rest Tho late crop is the best for this purpose. Tho cook book will tell you how to do this. Horticultural Hint*. There Is now a purple-leaved variety of the common catalpa. Too much manure on blackberries will induce too much wood. Le Delabme is ono of tho finest grapes for quality, but is not so profitable as some others. Gardening Illustrated advises paraffine oil as a fruit tree cleanser, especially trees Infested with insects. It Is claimed that with proper cultivation and an equal acreage. Texas would exceed California in tho production of superior fruits. The sulphite of iron has proven In some cases to be a fair tonic for plants with weak flower stems. Weak solutions should bo given at first When red rust apffeafs upon raspberries or blackberries the canes should at onco be carefully cut away and burned. Would you have an extraordinary development of fine folfago in cannas, caladiums, castor-oil beans, eulallas, reeds, ailanthus, pawlonia. etc? Then rely on an abundance of manure in the soil and abundant summer watering. The conditions provided and It is very easy to make a grand success with this class of plants. Try It.