The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1860-05-02
N u NJ B E R 70.
lqruultural.
From the Southern Field and Fireside
Kitchen Garden.
HINTS FOR TIE SEASON.

piNio roR lie SEASON,
little attention at this time 10 the
Kitchen Garden will be of more service
than a much greater amount of labor at
any other season OF the year.
Almost al! plants. il tue seed is good.
will come up much TOO thickly for the
good OF the crop. II the plants are crow
ed they cannot lie fully developed either
in root or fruit Irish Potatoes planted
too closely will be small and few in a
hill. Beels, Carrots, &C., will not attain
hall their usual SIZE, aud he much later
III becoming eateabte. Beans aud Peas
will yield but II small crop, and the vines
will soon die. Corn viii perish from lack
OF nutrlmen, before the ear is formed.
Snap Beans are almost always left too
thick SIX or eight inches assunGer IN the
drill beng quite near enough where the
greatest product for the longest time is
desired. OF all crops of which The unripe
nuit Is used. such AS Beans, Peas, and
Okra, II rs necessary 10 allow none of the
seed 10 rlpen. Ii this is attend TO, MANY
varieties will continue to bear an lndefi-
mite time, while they would soon dry up
aud perish # the fruit is allowed to ma.
tnre The Object end ofa pants ex s ence
is 10 continue It's race {; aud many annual
plants, II the blossoms are removed be.
fore seeding and suitable winter protec-
tl"n is given, can he kept a year or :wo
III health, beyond their usual term Of ex-
'stence, but perish when they mature
their seed
Weeds of AL kinds are beginning to
start vigorously, and require immediate
removal before they have rohhei the
Young crops Of their. destined nonrsh-
memt. it is easy, toy doing the whole
work III season. 10 keep II garden clean
aud indeed, i. requires less wolk % do
most things thoroughly il their proper
time than TO half do them at the wrong
erod.
DO not gather your asparagus too
closely, all Tie small shoots should lie left
to strengthen the roo,s. No growth can
be made by plants without the agency of
the leaves. aud il these are removed as
ias, AS they appear, the plant is greatly
weakened and finally destroyed. A great.
er quanti'y can lie gathered from bed
of good shoots, 10y leaving all hat are
not quite strong, than 10y taking every
| shoot that spiIrgs up.
In the case of spinach, cabbage, AT d
ihubarb, the sane caution should be ob.
red. Cabbage that is destined 20 head
should not have leaf taken Gom il,
While from spinach the outside leaves
o"Iy should lie taken, leaving TO each
| plant full hail the foliage. Rhubarb that
has been planted the past winter must
not have It's leaves removed the present
summer, all Of the foliage is required TO
strengthen the root. Another year. il the
right varieties have been selected, it will
yield freely, ard well gown, iuli,sizeG
Leaf stalk will make pie Of the common
dIn'ng plate, size. 1t becomes fit for use
hy the first of April, aud lasts through
The entire summer, aud is, IN quality, sec
ond only TO the apple. At the North,
where apples are plenty, tons Of rhubsrb
are weekly marketed in ali the great ii, es.
II Is perfectly easy TO raise IT here all
that is required beiug good roots OF tho
L'nnaeus Victoria, Colossal, or Caihoon's
Mammoth sorts to start with. The, should
Ue planted early in winter, in deep,
good soil, in an open exposure. A root
or two may perish the first season, but
there. will he little difficulty after the
plants get established. Let il be under.
stood 'ha, We are speaking Of the true
| rhuh"rb, plant with the leaf one and a
half to two feet across, and Ieatt stalks an
inch or two in di"meter-not Of the Pa
tience Dock, which all through the coun.
Try bears the name Of pie plant, or rbu-
haih, and is good for nothing except TO
! t"rm an addition to the universal bacon
aud green's The rhuharb WAS introduced
into general Use al out the same time
with The tomato, and wherever known is
quite as highly esteemed.