Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-02
Hot Beds-Progressive Management.

HOT Beds-Progressive Management.
After your plants arc fully up, they
will require considerable care to prevent
their burning, especially IL the SUI
should be hot. Ifyou observe that they
get very small Mt tho bottom and loI
over, you may conclude they arc toe
hot, tho remedy for which is water
them freely with cool water and allow
them moro air. If your plants turn
yellow, thoy arc too cold, and then warm
water, IT any, should be used and they
should DO kept closer, especially in cold
weather and Mt night. 30 careful TO
shut down your sash while before the
sun goes down, 80 that il may generate
some heat in your bed, as preventive
against the cold of night. Cold, cloudy
weather is worst, MS IL is then difficult
TO keep the hot bed close enough, and ut
tho Same time allow tho plants sufll.
cicnt supply Of light, which is us nccos-
sary for their healthy growth as heat
on moisture. We have had plants, when
covered, and light only admitted Mt some
places, lay fiat down on the bed towards
tho light, thus showing beyond question
the necessity of light TO vegetation.
II you want q liberal supply of
plants, make another bod same as ut
first, (only rs the season grows later you
will need less heat, consequently use
less manure,) into which prick out your
tomatoes, egg plants, peppers, etc, four
nchds apart every way, then, in your
old bed, which by this time has lost
considerable Of its heating power, prick
out your cabbage, caulifowcr, and like
plants, also about four inches apart each
way, thus giving them all plenty Of
room TO grow up stocky and firm. Re.
member that one good plant is worth a
dozen poor ones, either for profit, or to
cultivate merely for pleasure, for we
envcy not that man his existence upon
this goodly world Of ours; who takes no
pleasure in beholding the growth of the
vegetable kingdom, especially that part
OF IL which, with the development OF ev-
cry leaf bids us hope for tho plentiful
harvest beyond.
About the middle of April, or as soon
as the grass and oats begin TO grow, TO.
movo your cabbage and like plants to
their final place. Then take up every
alternate row Of your tomatoes, and set
them into the bed from which the cab
bages were taken. In taking up, we
use transplanting trowel, and are
careful to get under the plants so as not
to injure the roots. If you take hold of
n plant and pull it out of the ground,
you destroy all of the fine roots, and
thus prevent it from growing for week
or ten days, or until il re-supplies itself
with them. In selecting ground for
cabbages, take that which has been
made rich with stable or barn yard ma
nure. 1t is folly to plant cabbages in
poor land, or expect good solid heads
manure.-Ohio Caltirdtor.
A SECRET WORTH KNowING.-I tried
q curious experiment with few pota.
loes last season. Some twelve months
since saw letter from a farmer stat
ng the great success that had attended
IN experiment that had been made i'm
he previous season. IL consisted i'm
Inserting a pea in each potato set, and
planting the potato in the usual way,
he result, he stated, was large Weld
IT peas and splendid crop of potatoes.
tut the most important result was the
ntire freedom of the potatoes thus
reated from disease, while all those
planted in the usual way in the Same
ield were extensively detcrioatcd.
vas led by this statement to try the ex-
'criment on small scale in my own
arden last season. / planted not quite
alf n peck, only fifty sets, in six ranks,
utting piece out Of each and putting
pea firmly in. Thepcas grew up and
ourished we'll, and in due time / dug /
he potatoes. They were perfectly free !
rom the slightest faint or specly OF dis
ase, and very fine and largo; while in
ne same bed close 10 them was another 9
II planted in tho old style, nearly half
{ which were rotten. l leave your
eaders to draw their own conclusions
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DO A fruitful source of injury 10
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