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HORTICULTURE AND CHRONOLOGY. 11
H@RTICULTURE ]F@R DIARCH.
Keep the ground well worked and the weeds down. Set out Cabbage-plants, Lettuce, Turnips,
Beets, Tomatoes, Egg-Plants, &c. Sow a succession of Cabbage, Stone Turnip, Blood-Turnip,
Beet, Long Orange and Long Scarlet Carrot, Long Scarlet and Scarlet Turnip Radish. Divide
and set out Onions and Eschalots, and make new beds. Plant Irish Potatoes, Okra, Squash,
Cucumbers, Nutmeg, Musk and Water-Melons, also Corn for roasting-ears. Sow English Peas
for the last crop: the large Marrowfat is the best at this season. Plant the White and'Gray
Crowder Pea'for an early crop. Plant Bush, Lima or Carolina Beans. Set dut Sweet Potato
slips if the weather is favorable. Hoe and plow among Irish Potatoes, and keep the ground
about all the plants loose. Grafting may still be done, and, if the clay should be cracked or'
have fallen from the trees grafted last month, it should be carefully replaced. If the grafts
have sprouted and begun to grow, the. clay should be taken off and the binding loosened, to
give the graft room to swell. It should then be replaced and bound up as before with fresh clay,
and in dry seasons cover the clay with moss, and water frequently to prevent cracking. In
place of clay, the following composition may be used. Take one pound of pitch, one pound of
rosin, half a pound of beeswwx, a quarter of a pound of lard and a quarter of a pound of tir-
pentine. Mix and nrlt all together, and, when used, melt and apply evenly with a brush to
sheets of strong brown paper or domestic, which, when cold, should be cut into slips of about
three-quarters oT an inch wide. The scion being fitted to the stock, warm the slips by breath-
ing, and bind round the graft, which will answer for binding and playing.
THEORY OF GRAFTING.
The theory of grafting is simple. A shoot of the desired variety is made by close mechanical
fitting to unite with the stock or natural seedling, which would bear fruit of no value. When
this mechanical union is made, the sap flows up, through the sap-vessels or pores of the stock,
into corresponding vessels of the scion or graft; and, passing on, expands the buds of thelatter.
The leaves, when expanded, produce or elaborate sap as fast as it flows into them, and which
before was nearly pure water, into the proper juice of the plant, which now contains ample ms-
terials for new wood derived through the leaves. This descends through the inner bark and
deposits new layers of wood. This new deposit cements and secures firmly the stock and graft
together, and they become one tree.
iMIarc 1, 135--The Legislature of Coahuila and Texas meet at Monclova, and Governor
Viesca enters on the duties of his office.
Iarch 14, 1835-The Legislature sell four hundred and eleven leagues of land, or nearly two
millions of acres, for the sum of $30,000. The previous year they had also granted immense
bodies of land to John T. lason. It was this reckless spirit of land-speculation in the Legis-
lature that destroyed public confidence in that body and 'served more than any thing else
to build up a part in oppositiori to the Revolution.
6larch 1, 1836-The Convention meet in Washington and choose Richard Ellis President.
March '2 1836-The Declaration of Independence unanimously adopted. Dr. Grant and
twenty-three men under him surprised and killed near San Patricio. General Houston
issues a proclamation "that war was raging on the frontier," and that the garrison of one
hundred and fifty men now in San Antonio was besleged.by two thousand of the enemy.
IMarch 6, 1836-The whole Mexican army, commanded by Santa Anna in person, storm the
~Alamu a little past midnight. The garrison is overpowered, andhall slain except rs. Dick-
enson and negro servant of Travis, who are spared.
IarcIh 9 13836-Captain King with fourteen men', while attempting to remove some families.
from Slisson de Iefugio, were met by a superior force and compelled to surrender next
day. By order of Urrea, they were shot on the 16th.
l[larch 10 1836-General Houston retreats from Gonzales towards the Colorado, burning all
the buildings and destroying all the property in the toi'n.
March 11, 36--Sant Anna orders General Sesma and General Woll to march from San
Antonio towards San Felipe, with seven hundred and twenty-five men.
March 18, IS36-The Convention at Washington'adjourns, after having chosen an execu-
tive government ad interim. Colonel Fannin commences his retreat from Goliad, and is
overtaken by Urrea at Encinal del Perdido, to whom he surrenders the day following.
March 6, 1836-General Houston, with thirteen hundred men, retreats from the Co-
lorado.
MIarch '27, 1S36-Colonel Fannin's men are taken out and shot by order of Santa Anna,
but few escaping.
MInrch 29, 1s 36--Houston retreats from San Felipe, and the town is burned to ashes by the
citizens, on the supposed approach of the Mexicans.
lMarch 31, 1S36-Santa Anna and Felisola set out from San Antonio with their staff for
Gonzales.
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