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18 TEXAs ALMANA
TULY.
* THE PLANTATION.
NEITHER corn nor cotton are tended as late in the season a.s they should
be, and especially the latter. Plows, sweeps, or cultivators should now be
kept constantly going in the cotton, and particularly in upland crops, to
encourage a late growth, and the retention of forms and bolls which are
otherwise apt to drop off; it is very desirable that the whole crop should
be perfectly clean before picking begins. Fodder-pulling greatly inter-
feres with this, adding another serious item to its cost, already great enough
in the time and labor required to save it; the tending of cotton during
this month being either altogether prevented or greatly hurried in con-
sequence. Every requisite provision for cotton-picking should be made
by the first of the month, that no tine may be lost and nothing hurried
when the crop opens.
GARDEN CALENDAR.-JULY.
CENTRAL TEXAs, ETc.-Every preparation should be made for a brisk onset
next month, to insure a good fall and winter garden. The ground must be
cleaned off, manured and well plowed and harrowed, or dug. Cabbage, broc-
coli and celery-seeds sown; if there is not a full supply of plants, procure
a supply of fresh seeds, from a source that may be relied on. During the
showery weather plant a few kidney beans; they will require partial, shad-
ing and watering. Sow ruta-baga turnips early in the month, and the other
sorts during the last week.- New land yields the sweetest and best flavored
turnips. Ruta-bagas should be sown on well-manured drills, and tended.
Sow endive, lettuce, and radishes; and transplant, last week, if the season
prove favorable, cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli, celery, tomatoes, leeks, shal-
lots, etc. A few Irish potatoes may be planted. Tomatoes will furnish a
supply when the spring-sown crop has ceased to bear, and will continue good
until frost; and when frost is expected, if a few strong plants, ful) of fruit,
be taken up by the roots, and hung up in a cool, dry cellar, the fruit will
gradually ripen for some time.
THE FRUIT GARDEN AND ORCHARD.-The peach and the nectarine are
emphatically Southern fruits; yet the great attention and care bestowed
upon their cultivation in some of the Northern States, New-Jersey, for instance,
have produced crops there when our neglected trees failed. The richest and
most luscious, juicy peaches and nectarines we have ever seen,were grown in
this State. The belief that it is necessary to rely solely upon seedlings grown
on the spot where they are to bear, and not upon worked trees, is an errone-
ous one; the finest and most productive trees we know of are of well-known
American and European sorts, worked upon the Southern-grown seedlings in
the nursery-row, and afterward transplanted....
The peach and nectarine bear their fruit upon the young wood of the pre-
vious year's growth; the pear and apple upon short fruit-spurs.
Orchards of these fruits should be formed of thrifty, compact, well-rooted
young irees, worked close to the ground, and with a stem of only some two
or three feet. Thrifty trees of moderate size being procured, and not more
than two years old from the bud, plant as soon as possible after the falling
of the leaf. When planting, open a large hole, not too deep, and plant the
tree no deeper than it stood before, spreading out the roots evenly and care.
fully with the hand. Do not be afraid to cut the young wood well back.
The orchard should have the plow, hoe, and cultivator through it sufficiently
often to keep= The oung, trees growing vigorously, whether or not the inter-
mediate pace is occupied by any other crop.
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/20/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.