Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — Cutting and Storing Grafts. [ARTICLE]

Cutting and Storing Grafts.

There is no better time to cut grafts, says the London Garden, than at the commencement of winter. In cutting and packing them away there are some precautions to be observed. In the first place, let them be amply anfij distinctly labeled, as it is very annoying to find the names gone at tne moment of using them. For this purpose they should De tied jup in bunches, not over two or three inches in diameter, with three bands around each bunch—at the ends and middle. The names may be written on a strip of pine .board or lath, half an inch wide, a tenth of an inch thick, and nearly as long as the scions. This, if tied up with the bunch, will keep the same secure. For convenience in quickly determining the name there should beanother strip of lath, sharp at one end, and with the name distinctly’'written on the other, thrust into the bundle, with the name projecting from it. If these bunches or bundles are now placed on end in a box, with plenty of damp moss between them and over the top, they will keep in a cellar in good condition and any soft may be selected without disturbing the rest by reading the projecting label. We have never found sand, earth, sawdust or any other packing substance so convenient, clean and easily removed as moss for packing grafts. It is needful, however, to keep an occasional eye’ to them to see that the proper degree of moisture is maintained— which should be just enough to keep them from shriveling, and no more. —The length of Lake Superior on a curved line is 400 miles; greatest breadth, 150 miles; area, 38,875 square miles; area of water-shed, 51,638 square miles; discharge at outlet, 90,783 cubic feet per second; length of coast line, 1,700 miles; temperature of surface water in summer, 50 to 55 deg. Fahrenheit; of the water be low 200 feet, 39 deg.; deepest bounding, 1,014 feet; elevation of its surface above the sea, 600 feet. —The death rate of Montreal is fortysix per 1,000, fifteen per 1,000 more than New York, and twice aS heavy as London, England.