Litchfield enquirer., 1862-05-08
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WHAT CAN BE RAISED IN A SMALL
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- . srnalf garden, which after business hours, he szkss special pleasure in cultivsting with his own hnnds. A part ef the garden, near the houss, b devoted to howers. The remainder i. cultivated as vegetable garden. The latter, by actual measurment, contains 23l square yards equal to . little over Is yards square, or abou the tWenfiefh part of an acre.
 s Ikis is . very small garden, and it would seen impossible to obtain much from it. But tho fact is few people have any idea how much { small plot of ground may be made to produce il . single season by good cultivation and judi cious succession of crops.
 We cannot undertake to enumerate every thing which eur friend raised on his little gar dsn- Sufice it to say he had enough to suppi hiB table during the season, with the choices vegetables, and to present well grown speci men occasionally to his friends and he has now in his cellar good supply of celery, and some cabbage, carrots, beets, &c.
 As soon as it would permit in the spring, he e0Hed, on warm southern border, seeds or eau f90Wef. cabbage, lettuce, red pepper, faolsn' mustard and cress. Later in the season ne SOW cd on the same border, cucumbers, melons, &c:, to occupy the ground after the other crops nad bean estsa or transplanted. Along the whole 1eucth of the border, which is thirty-hve yards lone, he planted . row of early Kent peas. From th,s he had several meals on the goth of June, and the peas were then removed to make room for the cucumben 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 eauliaowers were 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 pre- vieusly occupied by the peas. Some of the cab bsges wers cut early, and the stocks produced a sscond crop of small heads, two, three and four on each stalk. Late cabbage plants were also sst out in places occupied by the early Paris eaulinowers, and thus 6 few good heads were ob- tained from between the rows of celery.
 Let US enumerate There were on his little plot, which would have ordinarily been exclu- sively to peas, first crop of lettuce, peas, rad ishes, &c. second, full crop of celery fourth, . good crop of second head of cabbage; and fifth, two large rows of celery. Five crops in one ssason and all well grown.
 On another plot, ten yards wide, he had two lows of early short.horn carrots, two rows of onions, one row of vegetable oysters. Then a row of early caulifowers, and next trench of celery. and the remainder of the plot was eccu- pied with melons and cucumbers The latter on the one side of the celery trench, and the cauli- flowers on the other were off in time to allow the celery to be earthed up.
 There was not a 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 flmiy consisting of six persons, had a 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 plen- ty of small onions for pickling.
 He had over 100 heads of cauliaowers and cabbage too numerous to mention." Cucun,- bers enough to eat, to pickle and to give away. He had at least Q hundred good, ripe delicious melons, and a few for mangoes. He had hun dred and twenty large, wellbalanced sticks of celery, and as many more planted later that may b chased as " fair as good"
 We have not mentioned all that our friend had in his little garden, but full enough to show how much can be obtained from few square rods of earth. He used no barn-yard manure at all, but gave the plants liberal dressing of su- perphosphate of lime and sulphate of ammonia. He attributes his success, however, more to thor, 0ugh cultivation than to those artificial fertili- sers. The ground was well spaded in the spring and constantly hoed during the summer-hoeing being our friends recreationand delight.-Gene see Fwmer.
 FRUSTRATING IN THE NIGHT.-A friend, in whose powers of observation we have conf- dence, and who is an exact experimenter, in forms us that last spring and summer be made the following experiments |: He transpanted ten cherry trees while in blossom, commencing ct four o'clock in the afternoon, and transplant ing one each hour, until one in the morning. Those transplanted during daylight, shed their blossoms, producing little or no fruit, while those planted during the darker portions main- tained their condition fully. He did the same vth ten dwarf peartrees, after the fruit was one third grown. Those transplanted during the day, shed their fruit; those transplanted during the night, perfected their crop, and showed no injury from having been removed. With each of these trees he removed some earth with the roots. We are well aware that when plants are accidentally frozen in greenhouses, it is custom ary to render the house dark before applying cold water to thaw them, and that when this is not observed, they are injured, while, if entire darkness be secured during the operation, many of them are saved. But the experiment of our friend seems to have but little analogy to this iaet, and it is entirely new to us.-Worhing Farmer.
 FRuir TRsEs.-Now is good time to look sfter the various fruit trees Dig about them and dung them, and by that we mean as far as the roots extend, and not merely three or four ieet around the body. Look out for the borers tfom till the first or middle of June. You will md them under the bark near the ground. They are white worm, about 3-4ths of an inch long. with small, pointed. black head the body is large near the head, and tapers, in folds, to point at shs taii. With sharp knife cut out what you can, always cutting up and down the tree, and not across It, and punch to death with a wire vhat you cannot cut out. The eggs are laid very near the surface of the ground, under some old. leose piece of bark hence the necessity of keep ing the tree scraped clean, and pile of ashes around the bodies, three or four inches high, will Keep them away from the trees. Put the ashes around in the month of May, and first of August scatter them under the trees and put under more, me next May and August doing the same, and snnl the trees are eight inches through. From .our to sixteen quarts, according to the size of ne tree, may be used several years h succession, v1shout injury te the tree. &sg5Ssl
 now TO PROPAGATE CuRRANrs.-In order to sa..s caItant bushes from cuttings so that they aY aase clean stem and but one set of roots, s.u ..ose - 1e lower end, like seedlings, take
 ..'.i ,s "S0as 'ea inches long, prepare it in the gssaa way' ny cutting of the lower end suuare,- then cut out the buds or eyes. excent;na tbe three or four uppsrmost ones, which are reserved to make the top. l then stretch line. star. tba cuttings by its sids eight inches anart n .hs sns their ends one inch in the ground. and ,,',Ti them mp four or five inches in depth. Eta oOn,' hills when planted in drills. When they becom,a well established by having roots, which viii he ;n midsummer, level the mould of earth back to