Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-05-22

umes-together with the ever eAcci'e"'
Southern Cultipator, were more eXten-
sivelv patronised by the planting commu.
nifty. Let all good practical and scientific
farmers, and all those who wish to become
good practical and scientific farmers sub
scribe without delay to these agricultural
luminaries. The three can be had ior
s5.OO,-and money thus invested wilLpay
On hundred fold to those who profit by
the great mass Of Invaluable iniornation
monthly spread before them.
Plant FIowers-Beautiiui FleWers'
From the Cuit;rator for May we en-
tract the following article ~ The orna'
mental," from the polished pen Of DR..
N. w. PH1l1Ips. and only wish that we
could impress on each of our readers
our lady readers in par:icular-'he pleas
nre and recreation in, and indisputable
necessity Of: planting and cuItlvatins
Aowers--pure, sweet beautiful flowers
Gas we PITY the blind" truly says an
exchange, $50 we pity those who can see
no use in flowers. They do have their
uses and not the least of these is their
hamanizing power. They refine and ele-
vatc; they cultivate our taste, enlarge
the boundaries of our thoughts, deepen
our love of the beautiful, and quicken all
our better feelings"
But here are the reflections of DIR.
Phillips, alluded to above. Ponder well
as you read, and at once resolve to adorn
and beautify yoar home with trelllsed
vines and beautiful flowers.
EpiroRs SOUTHERN CuLTIvAToR Our
Master has given in Nature not alone the
useful, but He has scattered all along our
pathway the beautiful, and invites us with
!. libera! hand to enjoy what is pleasing to
the eye and delightful to the taste, or fra
grant to the smell. Why should we not en-
Joy the blessings our God has given us, and
thus elevate our faculties above the sordid
cares of life? There is something rea-
sonable in it, and in reality, economical.
Man and woman, but more especially the
young, must something asa recreation;
and how can we give our youth love for
home, and wean them from wandering
and joining too often vicious associates,
better than to indulge natural fondness
for the beautiful? We say, by all means
prepare place for evergreens, Towering
plants, bulbs, tubers, perenn;als and an
nuals. 1t involves some expense-it in
wolves some labor and attention, but there
is wise economy in it. There need not
be large expenditure; one or two dollars
will purchase large variety of annual
flower seeds, and the preparing land sui
table, but few hours labor, and world
of pleasure is in it. Away, and in all
preparation about the farm or about the
homestead, let this cardinal principle pre-
vail; prepare thoroughly with spade and
rake, and liberal supply of old and we'll
rotted manure and ashes-spade deep
make firm tlie soil, and well mix in the
rotten manure. Sow seeds according to
size, on or in the soil; the finer seeds will
only require compression on the earth;
and to be sown as early in the season as
the frost and proper condition of the soil
will admit. As they come into bloom,
who can fail to admire thcm9 Especially
the new varieties of the Portrlaca, the
Verbena, the new Zinnias, the Petunia.
Then there are new Pinks that vie in ele-
gance and beauty with the old carnations,
but much easier to grow.
Every one admires the Rose, and with
its thousands of various shades, growths
and peculiarties, all can have tavorite.
The many are too parsimonious in giving
manure, and do not prune severel y enough.
1t is thought by some, their proper prn
ming leaves not enough wood for full
display of bloom-the reverse is true, if
manure and ashes be forked in, in saffi-
cient quantity. 1t full blow be desira
BILE, cut down to within a few inches, and
manure high; when the bloom buds are
formed, by reducing the number, the
blooms are fine. The most superb Rose
we ever saw, was Malmaison-one sin
Gle rose only allowed on Il stem. We
have seen Roses we admired more than
the Malmaison. yet this specimen was so
large and so finely colored that it outdid
itself. For years.we gave all the atten-
ton to our flower garden; again for years
it was in other hands; and for the past S
or 10 years we fell back on our first love,
and we can say, with the liberal use CT
the knife, and of manure, and the fork
and the hoe, no one could dispute as to
the result. We have had the Giant Of
Battles, day after day for weeks, with a.
fresh blow of that superb bloom, vieing
in extent of petals, with the leaf on the
bush. Many others equally full, and
very few so brilliant.
Having no young folk to help us ap-
preciate them, those Of our neighbors
would visit our home to enjoy the beauti-
ful-we being the only individual for
miles around that expended either money
or perspiration on an article not produ-
cling dimes.
We love those silent messengers of our
great Father, and we would be the hap.
pier could we induce even one or two
friends to eypend little money and much
labo- upon such.
Happiness consists not in accumulatipg
,.l-Hie of rubbish, to be pulled down and
.wastsJ by those who come after US; yet
there lis happiness in propagating and the