Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-04-16
agrtcultural s. <enttHr.
TNR KITCHEN aAnpss.

j Who does not love gardenl Cynics
may sneer at the flower yard: but the
kitchen garden. has charms for an even
should nothing but the long collard grace its
beds. A gardens garden whether It be
ornamented with blooming borders and fen.
ced with fancy palings, or occupies tho
more humble square, fenced in with the bent
boards of the country. Much depends upon
the thrift and good management of the wife
in having good garden but the wife can
not do all. She may plan the beds putin
the seeds, but she cannot be expected to ma
nure it and keep it in fertility. All, YES INV
good lady! if the "gude mon" is too much
occupied with his business affairs to even
provide you with the necessary fertihzers
for your garden we will show you how eve
ry judicious housewife, by saving that which
is too often wasted, may enrich and beauti.
fy the garden, with small thanks to the
"anld gentleman" Are you careful nv
good woman, to save and apply all your
soap suds to the garden! Do you keep your
chickens together, so that all Of their manure
may be saved' Are you aware that bush
el OF hen-house manure is worth moreto
your garden than two-horse load of stable
manurc5 1t is not the quantity but the
quality of manures that is valuable. Do YOU
save and apply all your leached ashes to
your gardens If you do all this then may
you have garden of Choice vegetables from
January to January again. We would not
discourage the application of stable manures
to the garden but it should be done in the
TALL and winter; otherwise the vegetables
Will be burnt by the droughts of summer;
and even to those who have an abundance
OF manure at hand we would say husband
your soap suds; the potash and nitre which
they contain is the very thing which your
vegetables want; there is no danger of firing
your garden with soap suds or leached ash
es. But you say you keep SO few chickens
that its no object to save their manure. Ifit
is an object for Government to intercede for
the Guano trade and for ships to cross the
trackless deep to bring it to our shores sure
ly it should be an object for every one who
tills rod of earth to preserve our native GU
ano which is better suited to our culture
than the Peruvian. No one who has never
tried the experiment can realize how much
manure fifty hens will make in season.
We keep on an average about seventy
chickens, take little precaution to mako
them roost together and We have from them
ten solid barrels of manure in the year
which is worth twice the quantity of best
peruvian guano. There is no truth now
more generally admitted than that if we ex-
pect gardens or fields to feed us we must
feed them. We propose through these col.
umns to give monthly calendar of all that
appertains to the kitchen garden and, the
fruit orchard in the south. The instructions
will be for Middle Georgia and Alabama,
but the intelligent reader, north and south
OF US, can make reasonable difference in
planting &c. But here is fact which will
suit every latitude. Most kitchen garden
vegetables are artificial productions, and un.
less high feed and generous culture are civ.
en- them they may be expected to 90 back
to their native bar6arism. We shall also
advocate the plantation garden.
Cabbages and ocra beans andsquash, to.
mattoes and onions are not as costly as
quinine and calomel and are powerful enc.
mics to DOCTORS bills. Seed time is at hand
planters, prepare-seed time is at hand.--
Ladies' beware-seed time is at hand.--
Gardeners, begin-seed time is at hand.--
Ho all put them in.