, 1860-07-13
cueumbers for Pickles.

The genius of our ladies has searched out
many vegetables and fruits of which to
make pickles, yet they find nothing for the
old fashioned cucumber. It makes the best
and most reliable pickle, and is easily OBJ
tained. The best cucumbers for pickles are
those which grow late in the season. II you
have suitable ground, you can plant the
seed from this time to the first Of July.
We have seen productive vines grown with
this culture-Prepare the ground: mark
out places for the hills seven feet aTart:
dig holes where you intend to have the hills
ten inches deep; fill up these holes with
leached ashes (you have plenty Of them vast
ing about half tho depth Of the hole: fill
the hole with fine and rich soil to an inch
below the surface Of the ground: then plant
your seeds, and enough Of them, so that you
can afford to lose some of the young plants
by insects: when they are beyond danger
from insects, remove all but three or four Of
the most vigorous plants, and afterwards
cultivate well. Give your whole patch this
same treatment.
The leached ashes are not supposed to
act as manure. They attract moisture;-
keeping the roots cool and moist, and thus
securing q vigorous growth in dry and
warm weather.
Sometimes the striped bug is very fatal
to young plants. We have known their
depredations arrested by this treatment:
take sufficient quantity Of onions, chop them
up fine, put them into a'vessel, with water
enough to cover them, stand the vessel out
in the sun till the water becomes very fetid.
Then wet your plants as well on the under
few times, and experience has shown that you
need have no fears Of the the striped bug.
For late cucumbers for pickles, seeking
for beauty, productiveness and good keep
ing qualities, we know Of none better than
the Early Short Green. Many prefer,
however, the English Long Green.
THE SWEDISH TURNIP.-The seed Of the
Swedish TurniP, or Ruta Baga, can be sown
in bed, and the plants can be transplanted
like cabbage plants. It Is necessary, how.
ever, that the ground into whichIhey are trans
planted shall be well and deeply plowed and
moist. In few hours, plants enough can be
put out 70 yield hundreds Of bushels Of this
root, which will be found, in winter and spring,
most desirable food for man and beast.
The Ruta Baga seed can also be sown
broadcast on good grounds properly pre-
pared. When the plants have grown 50
large as TO be beyond injury from insects,
they should be thinned out 50 as to be ten
inches apart
PEAs.-The late varieties Of peas are de.
lieious, and good crops can be obtained plant
ed even later than at this time Of the season.
One fact, however, must be borne In mind I;
the seed must be planted deep. The pea
has small roots, and Is q very succulent
plant If these grow just beneath the sur.
iace, IN dry weather, they soon exhaust the
moisture about them, and the plant fails to
be productive. II the roots grow where
tho earth Is moist it will be productive even
In the driest season. +. r. Elliott, the dis
tinguisbed horticulturist Of Ohio, as the
result Of bis experiences, says that 10 the lat
Of June, peas should bo planted TO the
depth Of from seven 10 nine inches, depend.
ing upon the character Of the soil. The low
growing varieties, producing long and we'll
filled pods Of large peas, arc most profitable.
The kinds known as Champion Of England,
Bishops Long Pod and Dwarf Marrowiat,
are excellent. Peas are v.ry acceptas lie food,
green OF dry. Late planted peas have this
advantage: the pea bug does not inhabit
them. 4 az sass
BRE1s ron FALL AND WmrnR.-To GO
cure tender and sweet Beets for fall and
winter use, late planting Is best. The soil,
however, must Be sufficiently moist to grow
them. When that is the case, there will be
no difficulty In maklng good crops. A beet
/ growing the whole season, from early spring
oil late in the fall, necessarily becomes
large, coarse, tough and strong, &c only for
caftie. Start them TO growing late, and
secure quick growth, they possess qualities
the reverse Of these, and they will ever be
welcome upon the table. ~
The Early Bassano Is ono Of the best va
rioiiea. The long Red Blood Is probably
the most productive Soak the seeds for
twenty-four hours. Plant them in drills
and thin the plants when they are 4 few In
1 ches high to 4 distance Of Eve inches apart
and keep out weeds and the ground loose
about them.
CHASoE or CaoPs NEcEssART.-Every
plant derives from the earth, for It's growth,
such properties as are peculiar 10 itself
this plant, when followed successfully for
two or more years, upon the same ground,
viii exhaust the soil Of those properties pc
culiar to ITSELF without lessening its powers
70 produce some other plant; this fact Is
must striking in the article Of fax, which
will not bear 70 be repeated Ohener than