Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-01-30

bleed or lose sap, while the larger toma
toes, still on your stalk, will, on their full
exposure to the sun and air not only by
their extra-iucrease Of growth make up
more than you have lost by cutting of
these snail ones, but will also ripeu for you
a good deal earlier and so secure you a
market price that VIII pay you well for al
your extra-la labor.
If you wish TO have ripe Tomatoes still
earlier, you can SOW your seed IN a small
box III md winter, and let your plants
grow in your sitting room where no Ies-
tructiye frost comes, and then transplant
the young plants luto your garden IN tie
spring when the danger Of frost Is over.
These house plants will exert heaitEiul
influence in your sitting room, for they
vii! absorb the carLOnic acid gas genera
ted BY the heat Of your stove and breath
lng-which is an urwholesome gas-and
at the same time emit from tier leaves
W
ccssary for the support Of animal life.
If you desire to make what are called
Tomato FiiyS, here is the recipe of MIS-.
Steigcr, of Washington city, for making
them, to wit:
"Take six pounds Of sugar to one peck
Cor IL pounG>j Of the iruI'. Scald and re-
"a, h, ba pa Il
way. Cook them over a TIRE, their own
juice bcin. sufficient without the addition
Of water, until the sugar peuetrates and
they are clarified. They are then taken
out, spread on dishes, tlattened and dried
in the sun. \ small quantity of the syr-
up should be occasionally sprinkled over
them, whilst drying: after which, pack
them down in boxes, treating each layer
with powdered sugar. The syrup Is alter
wards concentrated and bottled for use
They keep well from year to year, anu re-
tain surprisingly their favor, which Is
nearly that Of the best quality Of fresh
figs, The pear shaped or single tomatoes
answer the purpose best. Ordinary brown
sugar may be used, a large portion OF
which is retained in the syrup"
II. L. Ellsworth, then Commissioner OF
the t. s Patent office, in communicating
this recipe to to the American FarD,er, in
letter dated Patent Office, July 10, 1913,
says:
"a sample nf Tnmatn Figs has ju=t heen
deposited at the Pateut Office, of very
superior quality From the taste, should
suppose all the good qualities of the fruit
are retained In appearance, the drum OF
tomatoes resembles one Of figs SO nearly,
that they might easily be mistaken for the
same The sample is deposited by Mrs
Steiger Of this city, and the recipe trans,
mitted with it, is enclosed for publication. -
RHUBARB.
The Rhubarb plant affords choice,
slightly-acid material in its pealed and
sliced stalks, for baking pies and tarts, just
at that early season in the spring when
other pie materials are usually scarce, and
hence deserves the attention of every gar
den anG lot-owner
The best soil for this plant seems to be
a deep, dry, rich, and wel-pulverized san
dy or loamy one The best manure for it,
is bone dust, salts, plaster, wood ashes, or
fine, well.rotted horse dung, which should
be literally applied to its roots every spring
and autumn. The plant is easily propa-
gated by dividing its roots and planting
such of them only as have bud or two
on the crown or top of each section or root,
in rows and hills from two and a half to
three feet apart each way. Close-planting
is not injurious, as the plants do not in
jure each other by shading each Other
with their leaves, for shade is rather bene
fetal, ard hence they should always bC
planted in a shaded or Northern situation
as the stalks will be finer and better wheI
not too much exposed to the sun. Som'
prefer raising the plant from the seed, a
this will, it is thought, produce more VIC
orous plant, but it will require two year
before your stalks will be fit for use. Henc
it is more usual to transplant sections o
the old roots, as above. directed, as you vii
by this mode obtain stalks fit for use tn
first year. The only after-culture requir
ed is keeping them free from weeds an
the ground loose around the stalks by stir
ring it deeply at times through the sum
mer with ,hree.pronged dung or othe
fork. Care should always be taken to pre-
vent the plants from producing blossom
and running to seed, by cutting or break
, ing off such tops, as the production of see
will soon exhaust the vital powers of th
plant. Armstrong informs us that Rhr
barb patch, "once established, uW last
cent.ry," so that careful cultivator ma
easily transmit it to his children and gran
, children. Autumn is the best season {
, the year for transplanting Rhubarb, but
, may be done in the spring.
, Our common Rhubarb pie-plant is tt
: Rheum Rhoponticum, which has very I'm
: favored leafs,alks. But there are al:
.rcb "a tho Rb.u,,, H,bT