Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-10

lo", 10 NC inc DeSV proportions. Melt them
together in skillet, (Which is the best or
lin cup, and mix well. 1t should remain in
the vessel and used as needed. Twenty or
thirty scions can be waxe6 with one heating
up.
Every farmer should learn to do his own
grating. 1t is very easy operation when
once understood. A sharp penknife and
good line saw are indispensable. Splitting the
stock SO that the bark shall not be bruised
and shaping the scion wedge-fashion both
ways, preserving also the bark uninjured-and
placing the rim of the wood of both stock and
scion exactly together, SO that the sap can IN
termingle--there is no danger of failure if
properly waxed. We make shoulder to the
graft and think it adds to the certainty of
success. We prefer also two eyes or buds to
graft, and would rather have only one than
more than two.
In stalking up raspberries, let the upper tie
be as near the head of the stake, and left
rather loosely, as the crowding together of the
vines has tendency to check the growth and
production. Where the garden is shaded
that's when the sun is excluded two-thirds of
the day-raspberries, currants and gooseber-
rles do we'll Parsnips and carrots also seem
to produce as full crops as where the sun is
unrestricted. This hint will make many
garden spot valuable.
Old hen manure is first rate application
for onions, where the bulbs are beginning to
swell We are frequently inquired of as to
the best manure for raspberries and blackber-
ries. We never knew that the ground for
these fruits required more than a single appl-
cation of barnyard manure to put in fair or
der. After that mulch the canes with the gem
eral oifal OF the garden-a foot deep will be
beneficial OF grass, weeds, leaves, &c. This
Will keep the roots moist and COOL which they
delight in. Currant and gooseberries should
be served in the same way. The north or
the northwest side of board or picket
fence is well adapted for all these fruits.
The surest way to train grape vines is fan
fashion. great fault with some persons
we may say many persons-in pruning grape
vines, is to have main stem in the first place,
and then to allow it to be twice as long as it
ought to be. The tan-tashion suggested pre-
sulnes there are many stems well shortened.
-Ge7mGHt0Wh Telegraph.
GIGANTIC VEGETABLES IN CALIFORNIA.
Cabbages weighing 10 pounds are wonders
in the New York market; in San Francisco
they are common. Whole fields of cabbage
heads weighing 20 pounds each have been
grown; and hard, solid heads, with no loose
leaves, weighing SO pounds each, are on rec
ord. One cabbage, which did not make
head, grew to be feet wide, throwing out
leaves l-2 feet long on each side. In many
cases the cabbage has been converted into Il
perennial, evergreen, tree-like plant, by pre-
venting 1t from ever going to seed. Several
OF these are growing in the state, with stalks
from to feet high and a foliage that grows
through winter and summer.
In 1867, one squash yns y" shc ranch of
james Slmonds, in Yuba county, produced
$50 squashes, weighing in all 3,604 pounds.
In the same year j. Q. A. Ballou, at San
Jose, grew two squashes weighing 2l0 and
2O4 pounds respectively. The largest Cali
fOrnia onion weighed AZ ounces avoirdupois,
and measured y inches in circumference.
The largest red beet weighed | Is pounds, was
FIVE feet long and foot in diameter. 1t was
three years cid. The first year it grew to
weigh As pounds, and because of its large
size was reserved for SEEDS but it dsappoint-
ed its owner, and, instead of producing seed
the next year, merely kept on growing, and
reached the size of So pounds, and the follow
ing year got to Is. Such beels can be grown
in abundance. A beet of 20 pounds is avon
der in New York; in California it is too COM
mon to attract more than glance. Beets
are frequently three feet long, so that it re-
quires no little trouble to dig them out CdI-
lJOrhiG Farmer.
A FRENCH KITCHEN.
n 'SNSAt lSttSl llOlll ais COuldlllS lllC lOl-
lowing Gagatelle which the ladies who read
this department of the Telegraph will doubt
less be amused to see:
''There resides in the Rue de la Chaussee
d'Antin worthy lady who makes a single
apartment in her house more elegant than all
the rest combined. This grand apartment is
the kitchen. Whenever this lady receives
company, all sorts of ingenious plans are
formed, and every description Of little articles
employed, TO induce her guests, without actu-
ally asking them, to have peep at this den,
generally kept as much as possible in the
background, for obvious reasons (nothing is
SO disgusting to true epicure as the smell of
cookery. In most houses, therefore, the
kitchen is as far distant from the drawing
room as possible. In this instance, on the
contrary, the local topography is so arranged
that many persons, wishing to go out mistake
the door, and, just as they are about hastily
backing out, are accosted by the most dazzling
of cooks, who cries, with a smiling air, Its
the kitchen, Monsieur Cor Madame). There
is no HARM Walk in, if you please By
this time the glance Of the visitor has taken
in all sorts of unexpected things hung around
the room, and he is induced to enter this Curl
GUS boudoir kitchen. The walls and floor are
composed of mosaic bricks Numerous colors,
the prevailing being blue and white. Gas
burners issue from rare and beautiful China
saucers, or burn through the artificial wicks
of antique lamps. The dressers and closets
are covered with FURNISHED copper, and con-
tain the thousand and one utensils of tina cui-
sine, all shining with dazzling polish-the
kitchen girl being Holland lass, spares
neither brick dust nor muscle in keeping up
the proud reputation for cleanliness of her
country. What is most surprising in this
model kitchen, is TO see the saucepans and
gridirons, bright as so many new matches.
hung up with roSe-colored ribbons. Evident.
ly these utensils consume more ribbon than
even madames bonnet. A short time ago the
friends of the propretress of this unique es-
adjustment begged her to give breakfast in
this elegant kitchen. She consented, on one
condition: the guests should themselves cook
the breakfast they were to eat, and afterward
they were to wash the dishes and put every
thing back in the same order in which they
found it. The stipulation was stoically ac-
cepted Two ladies who have four or five
thousand francs year to spend, the lady of
an admiral, duchess, and the wives of two
foreign ministers, were present on the occa-
sion, and took part in the novel proceedings
The dish-washing efforts of these fashionable
butterflies must have been amusing"
Use BENZGNE, for the removal of all
~ kinds of dirt and grease suots from
RihhonS Silk and GIovas 8,o