Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-01
agricultural.


In former paper we spoke of the situation
soil. exposure, DRAWINGS and shelter proper
for the garden We will now give more di-
rectiOn for its general arrangement, or laying
cut and preparation for the seed.
We shall include in a farmers garden land
enough not only for what the market-men
call sdrss, but also for the family supply of
green corn, early potatoes, squashes and to-
matoes, articles really of ordinary field cul-
ture. but of 50 common use that they should
be close at hand where they may be easily
tended, and gathered for daily use quar-
ter acre will supply an ordinary family with
garden products iacluding these, and a. much
more may be added for Il pear orchard and
vineyard as may be desired. Flowers grown
in the kitchen garden only for cut flowers.
and must take their positions in straight lines.
for easy cultivation. like merely useful plants.
as farmers cannot afford the constant care Of
IA flower garden, nor is it in good taste, we
think, to Intcrmix squashes and yiolets, beans
and carnations very intimately, though it is
quite admissible, and often convenient, to
have borders Of perennials or rows Of sweet
peas for bouquet, in places most easy OF
access.
Form of the gdrden--The form Of the gar
den should be rectangular, and it should be
So laid out tina. as much as possible of it NAV
he plowcd, and afterwards tended with the
horse. . What. pillow the garden = we i'm
ag inc to be echoed from every side2 -
thought the spade was the only implement
for preparing the soil. You Will throw it all
into ridges and heaps and tear everything to
pieces; [ never would allow pillow in M
garden
If your garden il only three rods square
and has a walk with row of currant bushes
through the middle. with an asparagus bed
on one side and half dozen bee hives on the
other, perhaps it had better not be powed
We intend, however, to arrange garden
for horse cultivation. first because that is
the best, and secondly, because it is the
cheapest method. We believe that the au-
thor of - Gardening for Profit is right in
saying that = no digging in the ordinary way
can pulverize the soil 50 thoroughly can
be done by the plOw and harrow. nor any
trcnching much surpass in its results that
done by thorough subsoiling."
LINING 0W.-There are some perennial
plants, however, that cannot be disturbed,
and to which permanent position must be
assigned Asparagus, rhubarb and horscrad-
ish belong to this class For these and for
perennial flowers bed of five or six feet
width may be laid out the whole length of
the garden near the northern wall Along
that wall ma be laid narrow border for .
grape-vines. with permanent walk between
1t and the bed, and 50 much of the garden
will never be plowed. Such bed will be 4
found useful for hot-bed frames, for some very
early lettuce, for starting cuttings and many
other purposes. On the SOUTH shady side
of the garden, we may plant currants and
raspberries which like the shade, and they
may occupy strip of three feet width, next
the fence. All the rest of the garden may
be worked with the pillow from end to end
lengthwise, and in preparing to plant, the
various crops should be so disposed as to come
into regular rows, between which the horse
may pass with the cultivator and horse hoe
Corn, potatoes, peas, beans, beets, carrots
tomatoes, may all be placed in line so to
work through them one way, and squashes
and MELONS, occupying double distance of
corn, may be set in the same rows, separated {
by patches of corn, and potatoes, and pole
beans, to prevent mixture
Upon this point of arranging for horse cul-
tiyation we insist. An Irishman can dig up {
the ground with spade, but Yankee can
not, and will go without garden rather '
than undertake it, because he knows it c
- does mt pay and as to hoeing and weed |
ing, a boy and horse can run the horse hoe '
over the whole garden while is hand Il
hoeing single row.
Irenching and SubsoIing We do not ad- {
rise farmers to undertake any such expensive .
process as trenching,-a process oftener rec J.
by those who have not than by i
hose who have practiced it. A double plOw D
an be twelve inches deep, and sub "
'oiler may follow in its track ten inches
ieeper, and this is radical enough for pract o
al purposes If the land be well drained Ii
md not too stony, we should like to see the n
garden plot disturbed to this depth when first q
aid out After this, the common pillow, set
narrow to pillow fine, viii do the work well, Sc
ollowed. of course, with harrows, rollers or Oh
ther implements suited to the nature of the oi
round and crops.
Manuring Now comes the tug of war W
he market gardeners say they must apply "
nnually, in order to get the greatest net OF
roft from their ground, from fifty to one III
undred tons of stable manure, or its equiv
lent, to the acre. Now if we call half
ord or two-horse wagon load ton, which or
our own estimate, we want twenty-five to so
fty such loads to the acre. The New York IN
.arket gardeners apply Peruvian guano at ar
he rate of twelve hundred pounds to the II
re, and find a large profit in it. They, ii,
,wever, double crop most of their land, tax vi
g off cabbages, turnips and celery after