Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1880 — Fruit front Barren Trees. [ARTICLE]

Fruit front Barren Trees.

A correspondent of The American Aariculturalini savs: ■ I wish to describe to you a method of making fruit trees l>ear, that I blundered on. Borne fifteen years ago I bad a small apple tree that leaned considerably. I drove a stake beside It, tied a string to a limb, and fastened it to the stake. The ne*t year that limb blossomed full . and not another blossom appeared on the tree, and as Tom Bunker said, “it set me to thinking,” and I came to the conclusion that the string was so tight that it prevented the sap returning to the roots; consequently it formed fruit buds. Having a couple of pear trees that were large enough to l)ear but had never blossomed, I took a coarse twine and wound it several times around the tree above the lower limbs, and tied it as tight as I could. The next spring all the top above the cord blossomed as white as snow, and there was not one blossom below where the chord was tied. I have since tried the experiment on several trees, with the same result. I think it is a much better .way than cutting off the roots. In early summer, say June or July, wind a strong string twine around the tree of a single limb, and tie it, the tighter the better, and you will be blessed with the result. The next winter ,or spring the cord may be taken off Tills was the costume of a Mexican belle at a French watering place: A dress of Bordeaux wine colored surah, Klaited and flounced very full at the ottom of the skirt; a tunic of chenille net Bordeaux wine color, a little deeper tone than the color of the skirt, trimmed with a wide chenille fringe, dotted with gold. A very’ tight fitting bodice, forming a plait nehTna, made of surah of the same shade, with chenille falling over a very close fitting sleeve. A small pocket, with a handkerchief peeping out from it, embroidered on the edge with Bordeaux wine Color and gold. Her hair rolled in a Picador’s net, Bordeaux wine, color, with a gold sword passed through it. A black felt hat, trimmed with large Spanish tufts, Bordeaux wine color. On her arm a little striped Spanish cape: very, very small boots, made of Bordeaux wine colored Russian leather, with gold heels: very short earrings, as is now the fashion, representing two small bulls’ heads, made in dial gold. Her nose was also Bordeaux wine color.

The death is announced of Leary D. Key, at Springfield. 111. He was a sergeant in the 16th Illinois cavalry during the war ; was captured at Cumberland gap and taken to Audersonville, where he organized and commanded the prison regulars. In this position he arrested and tried the raiding prisoners who were robbing the sick and dying, and condemned six of them to be hung, the sentence being carried out under his supervision. He was a man of strong constitution and great statue, but the horrors of the prison destroyed his-health. Governor Colquitt received a silver watch accompanied by a letter, pro- ; fessedly from one of a gang of pickpockets which infested Atlanta during the recent fair. The letter said that they had met with the greatest success, capturing so many watches that they had no use for tlii one accompanying the letter, and had decided to present it to the governor as a memento of the police arrangements of the Gate City which enabled them to ply their avocations without fear of arrest.