The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-04-10
The Opening Work of the Season.
Good Plans and Resolutions.

Every farmer and gardner should be-
gin the seasons work with new plans and
resolutions. He should, first of all, feel
hearty interest in his calling. Some
engage in their business as if it were
mere drudgery thing they hated to do,
but did SO from sheer necessity. With
what heavy step and lOck-lustrc eye
they go to their daily employment! Life
has little poetry for them, little present
enjoyment, and little hope for the future
Nobody ehvies such men. Away with
such feelings, friends, and begin this hap
py April work with new zest and alacrity.
Resolve on getting tho most pleasure and
usefulness this Summer can possibly yield.
Look out upon those handsome and
fertile acres which Providence has com
mitted TO your care. They are under our
entire control. If YOU neglect them,
they will produce but a scanty harvest
By your industry and skill they will soon
spring with young crops, on which the
eye can rest with delight all Summer, and
in the Autumn they will fill your barns
with plenty. And you, horticulturist,
the lawn and garden wait your call and
the touch of your hand. At your com
ing they will wake to beauty and fertility;
they will reward you all the long season
with shade and fragrance, and fruit and
flowers. What more delightful pursuit
oyou not think so? Then follow up
such thoughts with good plans and reso-
lutions. Assuredly, every mans work
should proceed according to plan, Or
else his business will be only half done
and poorly done. 1t should be definitely
settled, early in the Spring. that this field
should have this kind of treatment aud
crop, and that the other should be man
aged so and so. This and that farm
building need certain repairs, and they
shall have them. | must sell such and
such Of my stock, and buy such and SUCH
Jane must go to Miss High School,
to afford her better advantages for com
pletiDg her education. The lumber wagon
must no longer serve as family carriage,
because | can afford n better, and self
respect and comfort require that should
have ono Such and such other things,
Providence favoring, shall be the result of
this seasons endeavors, says the farmer.
So the gardener: tho small piece of
ground committed to me shall not lie idle.
In the fruit and vegetable department, l
will, this year. attempt some things new,
but will hold fast to the old that arc
known to be good. My neighbors shall
not out do me in the line of salads,
cucumbcrs, melons, Strawberries, raspber-
ries and dwarf pears. Ny grapes shall
have the best of care. The famous Del
aware, about which the whole country is
debating, has already yielded me few
delicious clusters; this year, if care can
avail anything, it shall do more. The
Concord, Diana, and Rebecca have win.
tered well; and | mean that they shall
venture only upon the Crevelling and tho
Cuyahoga.
In the ornamental line, my lawn shall
have the first care. Nothing rewards my
labor so we'll rs this. My shade trees
need little trimming to keep them in
good shape; aud my hedges must not be
forgotten. In May and June | must en-
large my collection of evergreens. The
flower-garden must, by no means, be neg
lected. The crocuses, now peeping up,
will be followed by hyacinths and tulips
and other flowers in long succession
And | must add little TO their number.
A few novelties among the dahlias must
be had, also the newer gladiclia. Then,
there are Japan lilies, scarlet geraniums,
petunias, verbenas, pyrethrums, perpetual
roses, and the like. My neigbbor Smith,
o Jealous amateur, recommends the Trito-
ma Uvaria, the Farfugium grande, the
double zinnas, and the Gazaria splcndens,
as among the finest novelties, and must
have them.
So solloquzcs our gardener, but wo
need not listen to him any longer. We
shall be satisfied if he and the farmer be-
como inspired with new zeal in their call
ings, on the opening of this Springs cam
paign, and if their zeal is crystalized into
well formed plans and resolutions.
Agricuturist, April.