Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-04-18

with your early vegetables, and unless you
attack them vigorously, and keep them un-
der, they will be sure to get the start OF your
crop.
Set out early Cabbages, Peppers, Toma-
toes, Egg Plants, &c. Transplant Lettuce.
Force your young vegetables into vigorous
and rapid growth, by repeated applications
Of liquid manure-to prepare which, use 4
quarts of we'll rotted stable manure; 4 quarts
of hen.house manure; 8 gallons of chamber
ley, and 2 quarts of finely pulverized guano,
to one barrel of rain.water, keeping the bar
rel covered, and the liquid well stirred up
Saturate the earth around your plants occa-
sioually with this compound from the rose
of a watering pot, early in the morning, or
late in the afternoon, not allowing the IL
quid to fall on the plants. Plant Water
melons, Mask Melons, CucumberS, Squashes,
&C., &c. Plant pole Beans, such as the
Lima, or butter bean" &C., four feet apart
each way. Also, bush or dwarf Beans,
may be planted now, dropping them from
two to four inches apart in the drill. Sow
a full crop of Okra in rich, we'll drained
spot, in beds or ridges four feet apart-drop-
ping four or five seeds in each hill, and three
feet apart on the ridges. When well up,
thin out to a single plant, leaving the most
thrifty. Keep the earth around them well
worked, and haul little soil around the
stems of the plant from time to time. The
"Dwarf" or Prolific Okra is the frest varie
ty we know. 1t needs no topping" and
often produces over 100 pods on one stalk.
Sow Red Cabbage, for picking. Sow Cou-
Haouers and Broccoli early this month, for
full crop. Sow, also, in warm borders. in
the open ground, Tomatoes, Peppers, &c.
Sow Radishes, in deep, light soil, every
three weeks, for a succession. Sow Citron
Melons and the small Glass Melons, for pre-
serves Cultivate these as you would the
Water or Musk Melon. Plant Gherkins in
the middle of this month, and cultivate like
Cucumbers. Plant an abundance of the
different culinary herbs, such as Parsley,
Sarory, Mayiorum, Fcnnel, &c.
The ORcuARD.-Examine your Peach
trees closely, and if any borers yet remain
under the bark, just below the surface re.
move the earth and dig them out carefully
with a thin, sharp pointed knife or piece
of iron wire; then apply to the excorated
bark with a white.wash or large paint
brush) mixture composed Of 10 parts Of
lime 5 of ashes; 2 of sail, and 2 Of coal or
gas tar. Let all these ingredients Except
the tar) be mixed with water until the
wash is of the thickness of cream-then stir
in the gas tar, and apply the mixture with
a liberal hand, from the top or main roots
to the height of 10 or II inches above the
surface When the wash dries and hardens,
fill the cavity or basis around the tree with
fresh earth and heap it up around the trunk
8 or 10 inches above the surface. Work
or loosen the earth around your fruit trees
apply good coat Of well rotted manure
destroy all suckers-cut out dead wood,
&C.. &c. Caterpillar nests will now begin
to be distinctly visible; and now is the time
to destroy myriads Of them. Take long a,
light pole-drive into one end of it cross.
wise, Ia quarter Of an inch apart, and on all
sides,) s or 10 large nails. Let a boy pass
along the rows Of fruit trees, pole in hand,
and whenever he espies nest, thrust of
the pole and a downward twist will bring
the nest and its inmates to his feet, when
they can easily be crushed and prevented
from spreading. Budded trees of last year,
should now be headed down 10 the bud, and
all shoots below the latter removed, so that
it may have the full strength of the stock.
Cuttings of the Ounce, Fig, Pomegranate,
&C., should be treated in a similar manner,
viz: all buds but the strongest, or leading
one rubbed off with the 6ngers-the ground
kept loose and mellow, and mulched with
straw or leaves, during the summer months.
THE FLOWER GARDEN AND SnRUBBERY.
Sow seeds of hardy Annals in borders,
and thin out to proper distances, when suf.
fcently grown. Dahlias that have been
started in pots, may now be set out in the
open ground; and tender annual may now
be pricked out from the hot.bed, the latter
part of this month. Ercrgrecns of all kinds,
may now be transplanted; in doing which
lift good ball Of earth with the roots, ap.
ply water copiously when planting, and keep
the ground around their stems well mulched
with pine straw or other leaves. Water
frequently afterwards