American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1825-09-06
EXTRACT FROM
AGRICULTURAL REMARKS.

through part Of VHaryidnd, Pennsyiraniu and
VNem Iork--addressed to the Editor of the
american Farmer.
ON my arrival in Philadelphia, visited the mar.
ket gardens south of the city, on what is called the
neck, from whence the city is principally supplied
with cabbage, onions, potatoes and ufnips ii is
generally divided into lots OF Ten acres each on
which IS erected house and stable we'll suited for
! gardeners purpose, which he mostly owns and
from 1t he makes as comfortable living as some
farmers do on two hundred acres This land is
naturally rich stiff clay loan. capable of receiving
large quantities oil manure without iniuripr the
crops, and as those gardens are only distant from
Inc city from one 20 two miles, they can obtain as
much OF that article as they please Their vegeta-
bic ground is laid ou in long BEDS and kept clear oF
shrubs, consequently convenient to TILL with the
plough The following is their method of raising
their onion and cabbage crop, viz the land is oanur.
cd and poughed in the early part OF winter, ard left
rough until the first dry weather, in The spring
they then plough and harrow until the ground Is
hne and spread thin coat OF ashes over IT, then
strain line across the whole plat Of ground and
set in small onions of the last years raising ftcu
seed, along the line ut three inches distant then
move the line rlne inches and plant as before then
move the line a second time and plant before f-
rected again move the line eight inches, and com
mence second bed or plat and so on until the
crop planted, in plas containing three rows, dis
lant from the next plat eight inches, in The centre
OF which and between the plats OF onions about
The hrs OF sixth month, June they plant the cab
baee crop, leaving The rows three feet apart which
are cultivated as the onion crop is removed
he rch prepa atoms necessary for the onions pro-
duce great crop of eabbages. One of the ptinci.
pal gardeners informed me that he had its com
mon produce, four Thousand lunches oil onions per
acre. and four thousand eight hundred heads Of cab
bage of the same ground-price in market len
cents per bunch or opions and three cents per head
for cabbage.
1000 lunches Of onions, per acre, say
VI Genus $3.50 90
1900 heads Of cabbage on the same acre,
500 bushels OF potatoes per acre so cents $50 oD
Tulnips, after the potatoes, 400 bushes per
acre, at - cents 100 90
5000 90
The labor in raising these crops must be consid-
erabe yet as most of it may be done by women
and children, the profit must be great Every
gardener has at least from to three acres of
onions and the same Of early potatoes and tul nips
by this means they get two crops per snnuin, off
their ground. Alter lettuce radishps, rape and ear
IL corn, they plant cabbage, turnips, SC. also
but nothing attracted my attention more than an
acre OF strawberries, which the gardener showed
me- full ripe, the 18th of 9Th month, Juue1 from
which he said he had pulled and sold the day before,
500 quarts, and expected to pull the same quantity
per day, Tor some time; which had no doubt OF,
ior thought person from any one station in the
patch. might pull half bushel, without moving
further than he could reach. They having had tie
best possible cultivation were large and fuil Of rich
vinous juice. They were cultivated on rounding
beds, about four feet wide, with walks between The
plants set about one foot apart, the beds we,e kept
quite clean from grass and manured with lone straw
manure in the winter, which protected h- plaats
from the severity at the frost whilst il was inpart-
ing fertility to the soil and KEEP, the vines off the
ground and gut. | visited Edward IL Bfnsal, in
Germantown, who is very ingenious and iH:tlG-
gent agricuturist, and has been ior seveIal years
the current bush, and had succeeded in
hat and making wine from the berries OF the same,
he best OF any person have become acquainted
With; bis ehod of cultivatng the curran bush is as
ollows 81 He takes the young shoots Of last years
growth, cuts them ten twelve inches long. and
uts out all the eyes The end to be planedas lar as
he ground is to cover them, and plants them ia
mellow rich moist ground, in nursery !; they are
,etter by being shaded from the southwest sun;
,ere they must be kept clean the first season, and
he next fall or spring be planted where they
re TO stand after the ground is prepared BY deep
,loughiDg, manuriDg and narrowing, then set down
he garden line across the ground to be planted and
ct in the plants along the line and half feet
isant, then move the line five feet hich will give
efficient room to cultivate them with the plough,
nd by removing the eyes as above directed, will
fectually prevent suckers from rising from the
oots of the plants and cause them to grow a haod.
ONE | lasted some of bis currant vine,
hch part of thirty barrels he had made /,
as superior to any have ever tasted of the kind,
eng entirely clear of that sweet ,ich taste, so COM
ION TO home made wine, and partakiog o! that dry
ess SO much admired in the best Lisbon and Ma.
eira.
Where is the hoe ssida gentleman TO his negro.
Wild de barrown Where is the harrow XVid