Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1868 — Care of Vines and Trees. [ARTICLE]

Care of Vines and Trees.

BY SERENO EDWARDS TODD.

Every vine and fruit-tree should stop growing by the first of October. If branches continne to grow after the twentieth of September, in onr latitude, the terminal buds should all be pinched off with the thumb nail, for the purpose of inducing the wood to ripen and solidify before cold weather and severe frosts occur. In many instances, when young fruit-trees and berry-bushes and grape-vines stand where the soil is unusually fertile, the branches will continue to grow until severe frosts kill every leaf. As the wood is then in an immature condition, the ends of the branches wither and die. A great many grapeviifeg and berry-bushes are oft® injured so seriously by being allowed to grow too late in autumn, that the crop tl)c next season is nearly a failure. A great many young pear-trees that ceased to grow in July, or in August, send out a second growth in September; and these second shoots will often continue to grow till nearly November. Of course, .the wood does not have time to solidify before cold weather; and all the second growth dies before spring. The prnning-knife must then be applied so severely that the growing tree or vine must be mutilated far more than would have been necessary if.fha.fh nigh nail hm i= been applied in the latter part of September. Peach-trees in many instances are growing as luxuriously now, as at any former perioc since last May. This rampant growth should be checked at once, by pinching the extremities of all the green branches. Many blackberry and raspberbushes will grow themselves to death, unless the ends of the green bushes are clipped, or pinched off, so that the remaining wood may ripen before winter.

Potted Ox-Tongue. —Boil tender an unsmoked tongue of good flavor, and the following day cut from it the quantity desired for potting, or take for this purpose the remains of one which has already been served at table. Trim off the skin and rind, weigh the meat, mince it very small, then pound it as fine as possible with four ounces of butter to each pound of tongue, a small teaspoonful of mace, half as much of nutSand cjoves, and a tolerably seasoning of cayenne. After the spices are well beaten with the meat, taste it, and add more if required.

—Few have a constant and abundant supply of small fruits. All might have who who cultivate land. Strawcurraots, raspberries, gooseberries, blackberries and cherries, will supply the table eveiy day in the year with | wholesome fruit. 1

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