Litchfield enquirer., 1838-07-19

and prepare the ground on which you have
 raised, and from which you have gathered your earliest crops of peas, spinage, cab-
 bages, &c. 6c., and prepare such other
 vacant spots as may he cultivated for grow ing vegetables for your table tn autumn and
 winter. Continue to sow crops of small
 salading every eight or ten, days. but it will
 be best to SOW them On shady borders. or
 else the young plants should be occasion-
 ally shaded by mats from the mid.day sun;
 and, ii the season be at all dry, they
 should be frequently watered, both before
 and after their appearance above ground.
 You may now plant celery in trenches, that
 is, if the plants are about from six to
 twelve inches high. About the middle of
 July and from that time to the end of the
 hrs' week in August, you may SOW turnips.
 It may be we'll in sowing lurnip seed, to
 use some cheap and efectual preventive of
 the fly. It appears from trial of
 Knight, at the suggestion of Sir Humphrey
 Davy, that lime slacked with urine. and
 mixed with a treble quantity of soot, if
 sprinkled on the seed at the time of sow
 ing, will protect the seed and germs from
 the ravages of this pernicious insect but
 this antidote cannot be conveniently appii-
 ed unless the sowing be in drills. A still
 simpler remedy has been recommended Nv
 Near, an English Gardener, viz Steep
 the turnip seed in sulphur water, putting
 an ounce of sulphur to pint of water, | which will be sufficient for soaking about
 three pounds of seed." Thin and trans- plant suchlettuces as were sown last month,
 and SOW more lettuce seed in the begin-.
 ming, middle, and last week in this month.
 m order to have a constant supply for
 the table. Sow likewise radishes. and. the
 last week in this month good crop of spi-
 mage may be sown for autumn use it will
 not then be so liable to run to seed as in
 the preceding months. It is good prac-
 tice to SOW early sorts of cabbages in this
 month. for supply of young greens in au-
 tumn. Collect all kinds of seed as they
 come to maturity, cutting off or pulling up
 the stems with the seeds attached as they
 ripen. Spread them in some dry airy place
 under cover, turning them now and then,
 that the seeds may dry, and harden gradu-
 ally, and be careful not to lay them so
 thick as to hazard their heating and fer
 menting. When they are sufficiently dry, beat out and clcan the seeds and deposit
 them in bags and boxes till wanted. Give
 water to such plants as require it, but let
 this always be done in the evening that it
 may be of use to the vegetables before the sun shall come to evaporate it.
 You may now inoculate or bud your
 fruit trees, and, where it can be done with
 out inconvenience, it may be we'll to let swine run in orchards to eat fallen and de- cayed fruits, and thus destroy the insects , which such fruit contains. II, however, this cannot well be done, or you have not swine in sufficient numbers to dcvour all
 your fallen fruit, gather and carry it from the ground before the worms included in it make their way into the earth, and thus perpetuate the plague of their visitation. , Tho best management is to gather wild fal.
 len fruit as soon as possible after it's lapse
 boil it together with little Indian meal or
 some similar farinaceous substance, and
 feed it to swine afier having been cooked
 and thus made the most oE-HOr. Reg. . BENEFITS FROM TASTE FOR GARDEN. , ING.-I think nothing contributes more to : the sobriety, comfort and cleanliness of a : laborer, or any person, than a taste for gar- dening, when it can be instilled, and which !. I think, proprietor ought to promote by V every means in his power. have seldom o known laborer who was fond of and kept his garden neat, whose house and family a also, were not SO, and who did not spend 9 his leisure hours with them, and in his g garden, instead of the ale-house. ! have : generally found them fond of gardening; but, for want of sufficient knowledge, they , often get disgusted by their not succeeding i to their wishes.-E English Paper. c~f :; On Judging Justly.-A perfectly just 7 and sound mind is a rare and invaluable d gift. But it is still much more unusual 10 0 see mind unbiased in all it's actings. Q God has given this soundness of mind to Y but few 5; and 8 very small number of those . few escape the bias of some piedilcction, ! perhaps habitually operating and nonc D are at all times, and perfectly free. Ionce a saw this subject forcibly illustrated. A g watch maker told me that gentleman had - put an excellent watch into his hands that : went irregularly. It was as perfect piece of work as was ever made. He took it to pieces, and put it together again twenty
 times. No manner of defect was disc0v- f cred, and yet the watch went intolerahly. f At last it struck hin' that possibly the bal !, ance wheel might have been near mag 2 net. On applying needle 10 it he found his suspicious true. Here was all the mis- chief. The steel works in the other parts of the watch had . perpetual influence on its motions and the watch went as well as possible with new wheel. If the soun- desi mind be magnetized by any predilec- f tioD, h must act irregularly.--CecI
 
 Two gentlemen inc other day at il pub.