Culture Of Fruit In Europe

In the province of Wurtemburg, Germany, the fruit crop brings, in average seasons, a revenue of $700,000 annually. The culture of fruit trees is increasing, and there now exists a German Pomological Society - embracing Germany, Austria, Hungary and German Switzerland, who have divided all this territory into fifty-six districts.

Culture Of Ginger

In reply to a correspondent concerning the culture of ginger, the Pacific Rural Press says: " It is generally cultivated by divisions of the green roots, which can be obtained of the Chinese merchants in this city. Divide the roots as you would dahlias, and plant two and a half feet apart each way; keep the surface of the soil loose and free from weeds by repeated hoeing, if necessary.

It is safe to assume that the roots are fully grown when the stalks begin to wither; they should then be taken up, except those intended for planting, which can remain in the ground, where they would not be injured by frost."

Culture Of Lilies

A correspondent of the Rural New-Yorker has been very successful with lilies planted in a deep bed formed of rotten sods, gravelly loam, leaf mould and a small portion of rich compost. While the buds are growing, the bed is watered with weak liquid manure. A single bulb of Lilium auratum, undisturbed for four years, had increased and borne more than seventy flowers. The varieties of L. lancifolium had also succeeded finely, and given a profuse bloom.

The Culture Of Sweet Potatoes

I have recently noticed frequent inquiries on the culture of the Sweet Potato. Having had some little experience in this branch of horticulture, I will briefly state the mode and the results.

Culture Of The Pear

The ensuing number will contain an able article on the Comparative Value of the Culture of the Pear and other Fruits, by L. B.,'of New Jersey, fairly written, and favorable to that delicious production. • We shall then have given both sides of the question from valued correspondents, and thus leave our readers to form their own opinions from facts that may come under their own notice, no less than from the experience of good practitioners recorded in these pages.

Culture Of the Olive

The Olive will support our ordinary winters here, by being bound in straw, and will, at any place South of Wilmington, N. C, attain a development sufficient to become a valuable fruit-bearing tree. I noticed in the elevated and temperate regions of Mexico, many extensive orchards of the Olive, but seemingly neglected and going to decay, like everything else in that benighted country, - a decay from which even their Churches were not exempt. As to grafting the Olive on the Privet (Ligustrum), it would be a most useless affair, for although life could be retained, there could be no useful development. You might as well ingraft an Apple tree on any diminutive Hawthorn. The only tree suitable to ingraft it on is the American Olive, but it would be much better not to graft it at all.