Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-05-08
Peas, Beans and Sweet Corn.

EDS. RURAL New YORKER Error
my boy hood | have been extravaganza
fond of coed garden, fond of workin
in il, and fond OF most of the vegetable
produced: yet in my early days | i'm
bbed an unconqnerable dislike to certai
talks imposed upon me by my father
which have never been able to over
come. The first was bushing the pea,
To accomplish this | was ordered TO TAX
an axe and gos 10 the nearest woods
Il ere cut suitable quantity of bushe
# suitable length for the variety planned
say from four to eight feet long, bacl
them to the garden, get crowbar o.
sharpened stick, make holes, and stitch
down the brush, making an unsigh;ly
hedge across the garden, and when thi,
hedge was covered with the vines, sha.
ding a goodly strip upon the north side
on which nothing could grow, and after
the peas were gathered there lay the
bushes, and pea haulm, more unsightly
still.
Next came the polling OF the BEANS
Away TO the woods, axe in hand, was
sent, to cut bean-poles, and back them to
the garden, make the holes, and put down
the poles, and after the beans began to
grow was sent with a pocket full OF
strings, ordered to first wind the young
vines around the poles, and to lie them
to keep them in "the way they should
90" will not tell how long it took
me to perform these tasks, but this am
sure of, that my father put but slight
value upon my time, or else his peas and
beans cost him very dear.
Since | have had direction of my own
time and gardens, | have avoided these
two offensive tasks, and / would sooner
see pig in the garden than pea-bushes
or bean-poles. am as fond of green
peas 18th quarter of lamb as most PEG
pie, but | find that ] can have them with
out those offensive hedges so generally
seen in gardens and | am also truly
f nd of string beans, and that renowned
dish, "corn and BEANS" of which every.
Yankee housewife may justly be proud,
but | find can have these without con-
vertng my garden into an unsighily
slash.
When Bishop, of England, first came
out with his Dwarf Prolific Pea, pro-
cured some of them, and have since con-
tinued to raise them in preference to all
others, for several reasons.
FVra--I can raise any quantity suffi-
Gent for family in small garden, with
out interfering with other crops.
Secondy-I do not like peas when too
young or too old, and by planting short
row of these every week from the time
the frost is out Of the ground until the
last of July, family may have peas
form June until frost CONES. AS these
peas do not grow more than eight inches
high they make fine borders for walks
| generally commence planting by st;k
ing into the edge of the first walks made
in the garden, calculating how many the
family will use in one week for these
peas will yield as many upon the same
length of row as the tall growing Ones
Three years since. | gathered from a
small garden one bushel and half OF
dried peas after using all the family
wanted, from June until the vines we're
killed by the frost in October, and after
had gathered them no one could tel
where they had grown. After lining thu
walks, put rows between my rows oil
cucumbers and melons, and they were
all out of the way before the vines occu.
pied the ground.
As for beans, have had as many as
light or ten kinds in the garden the =,
same season. ] have reduced nv assert.
nent to two, and ] think shall never
plant more, and these need no poles. For =,
Early varieties | plant The Early Red
Eyed China. The next have is known
Is the Napoleon, brought from Italy to &
ms country more than thirty years age. =
think it is the same bean that the wise
nan at the Patent Office called the In.
Ian Chief. He called it the best bean
.nown, and so do |. The bean is dark
urple when ripe, and when fit for use n
ne pods first turn TO light straw color. Q
nd than Sc ni-transparent and boil to a NJ
erfect pulp. These when mixed with =,
weet corn, form the ne plus ultra of that
nbroSial mixture called succotaM -
low, this term, succotash implies corn ii
well as beans, and on the choice of h,
lis depends the superiority of the dish. CT
raised two varieties, the early eight es
WED sweet corn and the "Old Colony" =
be first small, and early, the last,
rye variety, ears having IL or 6 rows