Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-06-08
agricultural.
THE GARDEN.

THE GARDEN.
Mr.. Meigs, Secretary Of the N. Y.
Farmers Club, gives the following hints
on gardening in his remarks before
meeting of the Club, which we copy
from the New York Farmer and Me-
chanic.
GAN the drill plants, especially on
ions. he had found methods of planting
and wedding, which he believed TO be
of his own invention. After preparing
the bed, making it very light, one foot
deep, and well pulverized, he made in
dentations with the edge Of board, a
bout half an inch deep, sowed the seeds
in these little drills and then covered the
seeds about a quarter of an inch deep
with Rockaway white sand, which has
not particle of clay in il; Tie effect of
this was to enable the young onion,
which comes up with its stalk doubled,
to free itself from its knuckled condition
easily and SO go on TO grow. He had
observed how many suffered in COM
mon soil by being held by the tcnaclty
of the clay in the soil, and so losing
their proper constitution. The next
point was wedding, which he conducted
thus He used his foreinger to push
down its whole length, all the weeds
within two inches on each side of the
onions, land several other drill crops, }
and also to push down those onions
which he wished TO have out of the way.
The advantage in this was, not disturb
ing the young plants by pulling up Ell
tber the weeds or superfuous onions in
their neighborhood, a care not to be
sighted, for IN The infancy is decided The
future plant After having thus weeded
the drills then he used a sharp hoe (sharp
enough to cut needs so that they might
not grow again, to clear out the spaces
between the drills. This method rem
dcred it much easier to have clear
crop ofonions, of the rate of three or four
hundred bushels al acre and of decided
ly superior growth. He had followed
the practice of old gardeners of shield
ing transplanted vegetables from the sun
by means of pots, caps and other shell
ter, putting on some hundreds of them
every morning for three weeks and tax =
ing them off at Light. This tedious OPP
Grafton he saved by the following prac-
tice When the nursing plants were
ready he prepared the ground for their
new station, used an iron crow bar to
make the holes where they were to stand,
he had long used pointed stick, kncel-
ing to the work, but found that standing
erect, with the crow bar let fall, the hole
foot or more in depth was made with
half the labor of the old plan, and sway
ing the bar enlarged the hole to some
three inches diameter; then he had a
watering pot ready with soft rcaie,, if it
could be had, he then by putting in the
spade as far off as possible to lift the
young plants, and deep as possible, lift
ed bunch of them and carried them TO
the new position, then having filled a
hole with the water, he selected one OF
the best plants, and holding it in the wa
ter in the hole, with one hand, he stir
ed it with the other hand, the light soil
around the hole, moving little the
plant up and down as the mud became
thicker; as soon as the plant could stand
upright in the mud he proceeded to a
mother. The result of this method was,
that the pepper, The mosl tender of trans
plants, went on to grow without loss ola
day, although transplanted at MONDAY
in dry and very hot time, so with Me-
longena, (egg plant tender transplant !;
so with Caulihower, Cabbage, &c. The
plan seems tedious, but in my opinion it
saves in the end fifty per cent. in the
growth and perfection of the trans
plants"