Watering Trees In Hot Weather

There is uo prautice on wliich we instruction, that is ■; littie micjerstood as that of watering i ewly fect tice,-: mid Bhrubi) daring tho I) )L and ih'y wj.iI :.■;■ of sir.unier. Maü'y persons dush water on tho sur face and j never examino whetlier it goos down half in inch l!1' Llu iiioli, whilo tho roots may m six rneFies or a föot biilo.v, nmJ :is llttle ifiected by it as a iLirety horso would be liy pounng a puil of water ou bis tnil. It would bu well wortliy oí tho experiment for any readei of these rein u'ks, to givo tho sui'feee of a hard piece df dry soil a drenohing with a wapr-pot, and thuu a few l.ours afterwards, un and examine tho dopth to wjiich tho moi-ture bad peuetrated, and compare it wiili an a'djoining spot that had not been wterod. The result would bo a valuablo lesson. Lot tho experiment bü exteiiïïed. Ailow ooe portion of gronud to bjcoino hard and crusted, ar,d keep anolber loóse and iüi-Üow. Examine tho moisture ia tho Boil rix inches down, durlng drouth - the crustod poriion will bü dry, the niellow pari moist and favorablo for tbs growth ol plauts. Aguin, examine a portion of tho soil wbreh had beon allowed to grow with vveeds aud grasa, as compared with tho clear and rneüow part, and the difi'eence will bo surprismft, to thoso who have not beforo witneused nuything of the kind. Grass and other pknts pump water up from the soü and scatter it to the air in the fora of insensibb vapor through tho loaTes. many timos faster thau it can evaporáis it om bare soil ; and beneath the grass tho earth will sometimes appeur as dry as ashes, while tliat whioh lias been kopt pulvorized will bo found as moist as a wet sponge. Actual observación of those differcnces, requiring u few minutes occasional examination, v.ill bo more convinoing than any amount of rtasoniug. ■ It will show in a inost satisfaotory manner the importance of keeping the soil clear and obnstantly pulvi.i izod, both for retainiug moisture and lor favoring tho ready extensión of roots. Somo'years ago an acquaintance set out thirty young uhorry trees. Fifteeu of thetn were ocaasionally and möiferately watered, and the romaining fifteen wêre lüft untouched. Tho owner was much surprisad that seven out of tho tifteen watered ones died by ïnid-summer, and only two out cf tho unwatered ones. The truth was, the water which had been applied never reached half-way down to tliy roots, while it hardeued tho surface' iato a stift' crust, whieh ia esliooiniiy untavoi-able to young and tiewly set eherry trees, if he had kept the suiiaoe constantly mollowed by rening, and had mulched tho ft% "grass or old straw fora few weeks at the hottest time of sumruer, the wholo thirty trees would probably have lived aud grjwn woll, - Bte ldüg;iis jgft&