The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1856-06-12
NO. I6..

GARDEN, Work FOR JUNK.-Tbe season
has been so unpropitious for gardening,
that much will yet have 10 be done over in
the vegetable garden. Those who planted
English peas in trenches, will have realized
the advantages Of the moisture and shade
at the bottom Of the trench in this dry and
parching spring. 1t will now be too late
to replant English peas. All the varieties
OF beans may yet be planted. Plant mel
ous, cucumbers, squashes, egg plants, to.
matoes, late cabbage, okra, corn for roast
ing ears. Thin out the growing plants:
the drer the season, the more often stir the
soil around the vegetables. Now is the
time to use soap suds in the garden; liquid
manures Of any kind may be used with
advantage now, if fapplied In the evening.
Bush the tomatoes; pole the running beans;
work the growing cabbages freely with the
hoe; look out now for the miller that lays
the egg which produces the cabbage worm.
II light wood fire be made in the cabbage
bed just at sun down, hundreds of the mil.
rers will fit into the flames and perish.
Remember to save the first and best of all
vegetables for seed. This is tho whole &C.
cret OF extra early vegetables.
THR ORcHARD.-Work around fruit
trees with pronged fork; pinch out SUI
perabundant buds in young trees; it is bet.
ter than pruning next year. Do not per.
init young tree to overbear; thin out the
fruit judic;ou2ly. II any disease is found in
The limbs, cut of the whole limb at once;
cut down to the healthy wood il the wound;
Is large one, put some grating wax over
the wound; look out for caterpillars' pests.
and destroy them as quick as found. Tho
moth which produces these caterpilIars de-
posts its eggs in June and July, in rings
on small branches of the tree; these look
like small beads, and remain in that stale
until the following spring. when they are
Matched; each ring producing from three to
hre hundred caterpillars; these weave a,
web house to live in, from which they sally
forth in search of food, defoliating the tree
IT the ring of eggs is destroyed, It saves al
the trouble OF catching the worms. Vast
quantities of immature fruit will soon be
found under the trees Of tue apple, pear,
peach and plum. Each ons of these fruits
contains "nA nr moro worms, which burrow
in the ground or hue in the crevices of the
bark, to come out next spring, to reproduce
hundreds Of fruit killing worms. Gather
all the immature fruit, and boil II. The
worm must be etfectuaIly destroyed, or its
progeny will lind the trees mex. spring.
ORsAMESrAL GRouNDs.-We presums
that there are many Of our readers that aim
at the beautiful, either iu lawn, yard or
garden. And we are again admonished
by parching dry April and May that
green sward or beautiful flowers are moth.
ing worth without water. Hence, in all
ornamental grounds, water should form the
ground work, or rather the ,cater teork of
beauty. For it is not only beautiful in
itself, but lends enchantment 10 every thing
it touches. What beauty is therein lawn
clothed with sickly, yellow grass, or in
flowers that hang puny, dropping head,
or in walks edged with ever bro,cnsi As
water is the life and soul Of vegetation, SO
it should receive the first care and attention
IN establishing ornamental grounds. The
benefit will more than out balance the COST
There are many ways by which water may
be procdred. The new wind mill, the ny.
drauiic ram, and cisterns may be used.
What is the cost TO those who have the
means and il those who have not the
means will but husband their resources, aud
exert their ingenuity and skill, they may
have water in their grounds and dwellings,
and with water and very little skill, in
this favored cline, any one may have an
ornamental yard or lawn.
AGRICULTURE IN KASsAs.-The accounts
which some of our pioneer friends have
sent back from this embryo keystone State
OF thu West, have almost tempted us 10
emigraie. 1t is represented to possess de.
llghuul climate, remarkable for its salubri-
iy, and soil almost unequalled in its pro-
ducllveness reproductions are wheat, corn
and hemp, averaging, it is said, thirty.ive
bushels OF wheat sixty bushels of corn and
ton OF hemp TO the acre, and at the usu-
al rate of cropping in that country, negro
fellow, 1t Is estimated, will nett screen hun
dred dollars to his owner. If fity per cent.
OF this be deducted for exaggeraiion, it is
the best country for slave labor in the
Union, and Southern men are beginning
10 md IT out. There is already considera-
bic slave population in the territory, aud
1t is stated that the number is increasing
rapidly. We learn from reliable sources
that this species Of property is as secure in
Kansas rs in Georgia or Alabama. The
excitement which prevails ,hare upon the
question OF slavery, so far from ,ndanger-
ing 1t, renders property in slaves more Sc
cure The rapid tide ofimmigration which
IS now pouring into the territory will soon
give II the requisite population to entitIe i,
to admission into the Union as State, and
we presume the question whether it is to
be a slave State, will be determined by the
elections which are to be held mex. October.
Il is now in the power Of the South to de-
termine that question.-SoH Of the South.
WASH FOR ANIMALS AND TREEs.-Make
solution ofaloes, in the proportion ofa
quarter ounce to one quart Of water--put
on with large brush on trunk and bralch-
as of trees This will dasirov all tha var