The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-04-24
AGRICULTURE.
Work in ths Garaen.

Should you desire. 10 your garden an object
OF Just pride to your wife and daughters; should
you wish to it abounding in all those vegetable
necessaries and luxuries, which make up so much
Of the comforts and enjoyments of home and
which add so much to its hospitalities, you must
exert your every energy this month. Do not in
into the belief that they have not time to provide
we'll filled and appointed garden; you may rest
assured that such garden is fruitful of profit
than five times the quantity of land occupied in
field culture, TO say nothing of the convenience re-
sulting to the domestic arrangements Of the house
hold, in having ready at hand full supplies of vege
tables for the table But independent of these con-
siderations there are Others which should operate
with equal force in deciding the question; il is i'm
dspensablc To health that vegetable should be free
ly mixed with animal food, and that, to encourage
free use of the former, variety and choice kinda
should be presented to tempt the appetite To ndul-
gence
With these preliminary remarks, we shall ask
you To walk with us into your garden, TO what
seeds should now be sown, what plants transplanted
| and what else may be needed to complete those
| arrangements necessary to make it worthy of the
imitation OF your neighbors
CAuLITLowERs.- your caulifiower plants of
sufficient size, you may Get them out early this
month. In preparing the ground for them, be sure
to give the bed you allot for their growth a full
dressing OF manure, to dig it deeply and rake tho
roughly every few feet. so as to have the soil in
fine tilth; your ground thus prepared, set out your
plants about the same distance as cabbage plants
are usually placed.
IL you nave no plants TO set out, and desire to
grow some caulihowers, select spot of loamy soil,
on warm border facing the South, manure it with
stable dung, say about two or three inches deep,
and dig that in at least spade deep, rake as you
GO as to pulverze the soil, then spread thereon
about an inch in depth of we'll l-roted manure, rake
that in freely, then SOW your cauhower seed, rake
them in lightly and pat the earth with the back of
your spade, Should the weather prove dry, water
so never to let the plants suffer from drought
This attention to watering must be attended to in
their after culture, there but few vegetables
SO liable to injury from drought as is the cauli
flower. Occasional waterings Of soap -suds improve
their growth wonderfully, will tea made in
the proportion of one gallon of SCOT to ten gallons
Of water.
SETTING OUT CABBAGE PLANTs.--If you have been
provident enough to provide yourself with cabbage
plants set them out early this month. In the first
place, select suitable bed of deep loan, it
heavily, dig it up nicely to the full depth OF the
spade, being careful to rake it well as the spring
progresses. Then set out your plants about two
feet each way, keep them clean, and water in dry
seasons, and you cannot fail to have early sup
ply of coards and we'll headed cabbages
SowINa CABBAGE SEEp.--If you have no carly
plants, prepare bed we have advised for caui
fowers, and SOW two three kinds of early cab
bage seed; water the plants in dry weather, and
they will be fit to transplant in five or six weeks
The earlier the better you attend to this possible
get your seed sowed the first week in this month.
PEAs.--Drill in few rows of peas the first of
this week, and continue to do at intervals of
week throughout the month
BRUssELs sSPRoUTs.-Prepare a bed of good, loamy
soil, by manuring heavily, dig in the manure a
spade deep, rake WELL then broadcast pretty liber
ally with compost formed of seven parts OF rotten
manure and part ashes rake that in pretty thor
oughly; then SOW your seeds, rake in lightly, and
roll or pat the bed with the back Of a shovel or
spade, and in two months you will have plentiful
supply of most delicious sprouts greens either for
| table market.
| BRoccoLI-Prepare bed recommended for
caulihowers, and sow broccoli seed
BEAss.-Plant beans of good kinds, during this
month II their planting be timed of intervals Of
week, during this and the ensuing month, con-
tinuous supply may be secured throughout the
son.
RApisHEs. Sow radish seed every few days dur
ing the month.
LErTUcE.-The same advice given for rsdishes
will answer for lettuce.
| SMALL SALApINo.-Sow the seeds of all kinds OF
small salading carly this month, and continue TO do
so throughout the month at intervals of few days