The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-08
Kitchen Garden.

bles may be prolonged by sowing crops at
intervals of a week or ten days. This may
be done with radishes, lettuce, and other
salad plants, peas, corn, etc.
Beans.-Continne to plant bush Sorts
Limas are very sensitive to cold and wet,
and the ground should be both warm and
dry. Set the poles, which should be six
Or eight feet high, four feet apart each way
The hills should be MANFRED if the ground
is not already rich. Plant five Or six beans
around each pole, pressing them into the
soil, eye down, and covering an inch. If
glass, put them out as soon as the weather
is warm. The Wax bean is an excellent
pole variety to use as snaps.
Beets and Carrots.-Weeding and thin
ming are to be done as soon as the plants
are large enough to work. A slight supre-
macy of the weeds is very injurious to the
carrot.
Cab6ages and Cauliaower.-Keep the
early set crop well hoed. A hoe-fork will
be found useful. Sow seeds of the later
sorts in well-prepaired seed-beds in the
open ground.
Cezery-Sow seeds i'll seed-bed. The
dwarf growing kinds are preferable.
Cucum6ers-Sow seed in frames from
which lettuce has been removed, and in
hills in the open air when it is warm enough;
put in a plenty of seed, to allow some for
I, d. hat
started on sod under glass as soon as it is
safe. Have some kind of a shelter to put
over at night.
Egg Plants are among the most sensitive
uutil cold nights are over. Pot the plants
if it is not already done.
Herbs.-Sow in seed-bed. Sage, Thyme,
Sweet Majoram, and Summer Savory are
most in use; Basil, Tarragon, and some
others, are fancied by few.
Lettuce.-Transplan as soon as large
enough; set foot apart each way. Sow
seed for succession.
Martynia.-The green and tender pods
are used for pickles. Set the plants two
feet apart each way.
Melons.-Plant the same as directed for
cucumbers.
twelve inches apart as soon as the plants
are large enough.
Potat0es.-Use the cultivator or hoe as
soon as they break ground. In most soils,
&c ,,1a 1,a
found of great service.
Peas.-Brush the varieties that need it
before they are large enough to fall down.
In hoeing draw the earth towards them
Plant for late crop.
Peppers are treated much the same as
Egg Plants.
| Rhu6arb-Do not pull from the plants
set this spring. In removing leaves from
established plants never cut them. They
readily come off if given slight sidewise
jerk, which is soon learned.
Sptnach-Sow; thin and weed that
already up.
.S,eeet Potatoes. Prepare the ridges. and
have them ready for the plants, which
must not be set until cold nights are over.
Make the ridges thirty inches apart at the
! top, and we'll manuied set the plants every
! fifteen inches. Insert the plants down to
! the first leaf, press the soil firmly: if the
earth is not moist, pour water into the
holes in planting.
.Squa,Aes.-Observe the same precautions
as with cucumbers. Put the brush sorts
three to four feet apart each way. The
/ Summer Crookneck is the best but the
! scalloped varieties the most salable. Fol
| late varieties, the Boston Marrow and Hub
bard are best. Gregory advises more room
for the vines than is usually given, and we
think he is right. Eight feet each way for
the Marrow, and nine or ten feet for the
| Hubbard, is better than less. Make the
soil rich all over as the vines root at the
| joints.
Tomatoes.-Put out the plants when safe
to do SO, three or feet apart, according to
variety. In gardens, some kind of 4 trel-
lis or support for the vines adds to neatuess
and improves the fruit.
Winter Cherry( Physalis. 1.-The fruit OF
this is priced by many for Sweemeats as
we'll as to eat raw. Sow and cultivate the
same as tomatoes.-Amer. AgricuNuria