Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-04-13
4 AGRfGUbT f}RAL,
What a Garden Nav Be.

Here let me outline, in brief, what far
mers garden may be made, without other
than home Dor. A broad walk shall run
down through the middle of either square
enclosure, or loug paraIelog,am. A box
edgiug upon either side is of little cost,
and contributes emiaently to neatness; it
will hold good for eight years, without
too great encroachment and at the time,
will sell to the nurssrymen for more than
enough to pay the cost of resetting. On
either side of this walk, in border of six
feet wide, the farmer may plant his dwarf
fruit, with grapes at intervals, to climb on
a home made cedar trellis, that should over
arch aud embower the walk If he love
ar evening pipe in his garden, he may
plant some simple seat under one or more
Of these Ieafy arbors.
At least one half the garden, as [ be.
fore suggested, he may easily arrange, to
tIll,-spring aud autumn,-with the plow
and whatever he places there in the way
Of tree and shrub. must be in lines parallel
with the walk. On the other half, he will
he subjected to no such limitations; there,
he will establish hls perenuials-his aspar
agus, his thyme, his sage, and parsely, his
rhubarb, his gooseherries, strawberries, and
raspberries and in an angle-hidden if
he chooses by 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 pre-
fer, and he may enliven the groupings,
and win the good wife's favor. By here and
there little circlet of such old fashioned
flowers as tutips-ye low lilies and white,
with roses of all shades
L pom the other half he may make dis
frihution of parts. by banding the various
crops with border lines of China or Refu
gee beans; and he may split the whole
cros,w'se, by a walk overarched with climb
ing Limas, or the London Horticultural
setting off the two ends with an abut-
ment of Scarlet runners, and surbase of
fiery Nasturtium
There are also available and pretty de.
vices for MAX ing the land do double duty.
The border lines of China beans, which
will be ripened in early August, may have
Swedes sown in their shadow in the first
days of July, so that when the Chinas
have fulfilled their mission, there shall be
new line of purple green in their place
The early radishes aud salads may have
their little circIets of cucumber pits, no way
interfering with the first, aud covering the
ground when the first are done The ear
ly Bassano beets will come away in time
to leave space for the tull flow of the mel
ons that have been planted at intervals
among them The cauIifower will find
grateful shade under the lines of sweet
corn, and the newly set winter Cal hages,
temporary refuge from the sun, under shell
ter OF the ripened peas | do not make
these suggestions at random, but as the re
suits Of successful experience.
With such simple and orderly arrange
ments involving no excessive labor, think
every farmer and cuuntry-liver may take
pleasure II his garden and objects OF beau.
ty ty;-making Of it a little farm in minia-
ture, with its coppices of dwarf trees, its
hedge rows OF currants and goosberries,
and its meadows of strawberries and thyme.
From the very d y 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 Limas, and
sprawling, bloody tomstoes are smitten by
the frost, it offers field of constant pro-
gress, and of successive triumphs. Line
by line, and company by company, the
army Of green things take position; the
howery banners are flung to the wind;
and 10! presently every soldier of them
ail-plundering only the earth and sun
shine is loaded With booty.
Ike Maruek.