The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-05-18
AGRICULTURAL ARTICLES.
WHAT A GARDEN MAY BE.

Here let me outline, in brief, what a
farmer garden may be made, without
other than home labor. A broad walk
shall run down the middle ola square en-
closure, or long parallclogram. A box
edging upon either side is of little cost,
and contributes cminently to ncatness;
il viii hold good for eight years. without
too mach cncroaclment, and ut that time
viii sell to the nursery men for more than
enough To pay the cost of resetting. On
either side Of this walk, in border of
six feet wide, with grapes at intervals, to
climb upon a home made cedar trellis,
that shall oyerarch and bower the walk.
At least one half the garden, as | before
suggested he may easily arranged, 70
till-Spring and autumn-with the
plough, aud whatever he places there i'll
the way of tree and shrub, must he IN
lines parallel with the walk. On the 9th
er half, he will be subjected to no such
limitations; there, he will establish his
parsley. his rhuharb, his gooseberries
strawberries, and raspherries; and in an
anglc--hidde if he choose by y belt of
shrubbery-he may have his hot bed and
compost heap. Fork culture, which all
these crops demand, will admit Of any
arrangement he may prefer, and he may
enliven the groupings, and win the good
wife favor, by here and there Il little
circlet of such old fashioned flowers as
tulips-yellow lilies and white, with 70
scs of all shades.
Upon the other half he may make dis
tribution of part, Ivy banding the vari-
Gus crops with border lines of China or
Refugee beans; and he may split the
whole crosswise, by n walk evcrarched
with climbing Limas, or the London IIor
ticultural-setting Off the two ends with
an abutment of Scarlet runners, and a
subrosa of fiery Nasturtum.
There are also available and pretty
devices for making the land do double
duty. The border line of China beans,
which will be ripened in early autumn,
may have Svedes sown in their shadow
In the first days of July, so that when the
Chinas have fulfilled their mission, there
shall be n new line of purple green in
their places. The early redishes and
salads NAV have their little circlet of
cucumber pits, no way interfering with
the first, and covering the ground when
the first are done. The early Bassano
bects will come away in time to leave
space for the full flow of melons that
have been planted at intervals among
them. The caulahower viii find great
lul shade under tue lines OF sweet corn,
and the newly set winter cabbage, a tenn
porary refuge from the sun, undea shell
ter OF the ripened peas. | do not make
these suggestions at random, but AS the
results OF actual and successful expert
encc.
With such simple and orderly arrange
ment, involving no excessive labor, /
think every farmer and country liver
NAV take pleasure in his garden as an
object OF beauty; making of it q little
farm in miniature, with il coppices of
dwarf trees, its hedge rows of currents
and gooseberrics, and its meadows OF
strawberries and thyme. From the very
day on which, in Spring, he sees the first
FAINT upheaving. tufted lines OF green
from his Dan O Rourkes, to the day when
the dangling Linas. and sprawling bloody
tomatoes are smitten by the frost, it
offers q field Of constant progress and
Of successive triumphs. Line 10y line.
and company, 10y company, the army OF
green things take possession, the little
;lowery banners are flung to the wind;
and 10, presently every soldier Of them
all-plundered only the earth and sun
shine-is loaded with booty.-Ik Marvel