Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-29


near the house, is devoted 10 flowers. Tie
remainder Is cultivated as vegetable garden.
The latter, by actual measurement, contains
23l square yards-equal to little over Is
yards square, or about the twentieth part OF
an acre.
This is a very small garden, and it would
seem impossible TO obtain much from it. But
the fact is, few people have any idea how
much small plot of ground may be made to
produce in a single season by good cultivation
and judicious succession of crops
We cannot undertake TO enumerate every
thing which our friend raised on his little gar
den. Suffice it to say, he had enough to sup
ply his table during the season, with the
choicest vegetables, and to present we'll
grown specimen occasionally to his friends;
and he has now in his cellar good supply of
celery, and some cabbage, carrots beets, &C.
As soon as il would permit in the spring, he
sowed, on a warm southern border, seeds of
caulifower, cabbage, lettuce, red-pepper,
radish, mustard and cress- Later in the sea-
sin, he sowed on the same border, eucumbers,
melons, &C., to occupy the ground after the
other crops had been eaten or transplanted
Along the whole length of the border, which
is 80 yards long, he planted row of early
hent peas. rom tIlS ne ndu several meals
tiy the 20th of June, and the peas were then
removed to make room for the cucumbers and
melons, which by this time were beginning to
run. He also trained some tomato plants
against tight board fence.
Five rows of dwarf peas, each ten yards
long, were also set out on another plot, and
between the rows cauliflowers and cabbage
we're planted. The peas produced well, and
as soon as they were removed, trenches were
dug, and celery plants were set out between
the rows of cabbages, in the place previously
occupied by the peas. Some of the cabbages
were cut early, and the stocks produced a
second crop of small heads, two, three and
four on each stalk. Late cabbage plants were
also set out In places occupied by the early
Paris caulflowers, and thus few good heads
were obtained from between the rows of Gel
cry.
Let us enumerate. There were on his lit
tie plot, which would have ordinarily been ex-
clusively to peas, first crop of lettuce, peas,
radshes, &C.; second, full crop of early cab
bages and caulilowers; third, full crop of
celery; fourth, a good crop of second head Of
cabbage; and fifth, two large rows of celery.
Five crops in one season and all well-grown.
On another plot, ten yards wide, he had
of onions, one row of parsnips, two rows of
beets, and one row of vegetable oysters.
Then row of early Paris caulifowsrs, and
next trench of celery, and the remainder of
the plot was occupied with melons and cucum-
bcrs. The latter on the one side of the celery
t5ench, and the cauliflowers on the other were
of in time to allow the celery to be earthed
up.
There was not poorly grown vegetable in
the garden. The carrots were sown quite
thick, and thinned out as they got large
enough for the table. In this way, the family,
consisting OF six persons, had full supply
during the whole summer, and there were
over two bushels to put in the cellar So OF
the beets and onions. They were thinned
out as wanted for the table, and there were
enough beets for winter use, and plenty of
small onions for picking
He had over 100 heads of cauliflowers, and
cabbage "too numerous to mention" Cucum-
bers enough to eat, to pickle, and to give
away. He had at least hundred good, ripe
delicious melons, and few for mangoes. He
had a hundred and twenty large, fine we'll
blanched sticks of celery, and as many more
planted later that may be classed as fair to
good"
We have not mentioned all that our friend
had in his little garden, but full enough to
show how much can he obtained from few
square rods of earth. He used no barn-yard
manure at all, but gave the plants liberal
dressing of superphosphate of lime and sui
phate of ammonia. He attributes his success
however, more to thorough cultivation than to
those artificial fertilizers. The ground was
well spaded in the spring, and constantly hoed
during the summer-hoeing being our friends
recreation and delight.-Genesee Farmer
Hymn of the grO-WOrshipers.
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