Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-04-06
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Here let me outline, in brief, what a FARM
er's garden may be made, without other than
home labor. 4 broad walk shall run down
the middle ofeither square inclosure, or long
parallelogram. A box edging upon either
side is oflittle cost, and contributes eminent
ly TO neatness; il viii hold good for eight
years, without too great encroachment, and at
that time, win sell tothe nurserymen 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 upon
a home made cedar treIlis, that shall overarch
and embower the walk. If he love an eve
ming pipe in his garden, he may plant some
simple seat under one or more of these leafy
arbors.
At least one-haf the garden. as before
suggested, he may easily arrange, to TILL
spring and 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 hall, he viii be subjected
to no such limitations; there, he viii estab-
Hsh his perennials asparagus, his thyme,
his sage, and parsley; his rhubarb, his goose
berries strawberries, and raspberries; and in
an angle-hidden if he choose by belt OF
shrubbery-he may have his hot-bed and
compost heap. Forkculture, which all these
crops demand, win admit of any arrangement
he may prefer, and he may enliyen the
groupings, and win the good wife's favor, by
here and there = little cirelet of such old
fashioned flowers as tnlips-yellow lilies and
white roses of all shades.
Upon the other half he may make distribu-
ton of parts, by banding the various crops
with border lines of China or Refugee beans;
and he may split the whole crosswise, by a
walk overarched with climbing Limas, or the
London Horticultural off the two
ends with an abutment of scarlet runners,
and surfase of fiery Nasturtium
There are also available and pretty devices
for making the land do double duty. The
border line OF China beans, which viii be ri
pened 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 and
salads may have their little circlets of cucum-
Der pits, no way interfering with the first,
and covering the ground when the first are
done. The early Bassano beets viii come
away in time TO leave space tor the full flow
of the melons that have been planted at in
tervals among them. The caulifower will
find grateful shade under the lines of sweet
corn, and newly-set winter cabbages, a tenn
porary refuge from the sun, under shelter of
the ripened peas. do not make these sug-
gestions at random, but as the results of aetu-
al and successful experience.
With such simple and orderly arrangement
involving no excessive labor, think every
farmer and country liver may take pleasure
in his garden as an object of beauty; making
of it a little farm in a miniature, with its cop
pices of dwarf trees, its hedge rows of cur
rants and gooseberries, and its meadows OF
strawberries and thyme. From the very day
on which, in spring, he sees the first, faint,
upheAving, tuffed lines of green from his
Dan-O' Rourkes, to the eday when the dangling
Limas, and spraKIng, bloody tomatoes are
smittsn by the Frost it offers field of con-
slant progress, and of successive triumphs
Line by line, and company, by company, the
army of green things take position; the little
Aowery banners are flung to the wind; and lo!
presently every soldier of them all-plunder-
ing only the earth and sunshine-is loaded
with booty.-Ik Marcel.