Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming

Chapter 100: GUARDING CHERRY-TREES FROM COLD.

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A series of conversational essays and addresses mixes hands-on horticultural instruction with reflections on rural life, seasonal farm tasks, and domestic economy. Topics include fruit and flower cultivation, pruning, seed saving, plowing, manure theory, animal care, and crop management, alongside practical recipes, seed lists, and work calendars. The pieces pair technical tips with observations on beauty, health, and civic responsibility, encouraging readers to improve breeds and yields, beautify homesteads, and practice careful stewardship of land and gardens.

GUARDING CHERRY-TREES FROM COLD.

This tree is peculiarly liable while young, but more especially when coming into bearing, to be roughly handled by our winters. The bark at the surface of the ground splits, and often the trunk, enfeebling the tree and sometimes destroying it. The evil does not result from the cold, but from the action of bright suns upon the frozen trunk. Let those having valuable young trees, prepare them for winter by giving a cheap covering to the trunks, so that the sun shall not strike them. This may be done by tying about them bass matting, long straw, corn-stalks, or any similar protection.