The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-04-02
Kitchen Garden.

Seed .Soacing is to be done according to
locality. Garden vegetables are divided
into hardy and tender. Onions, leeks,
heets, carrots, spinach, cabbage and its rel
atives, lettuce, parsley, parsnips, peas. rad
ish, cress satisfy and turnip are hardy, and
may be sown when the soil can be well
worked. Beans, melons, cucumber, squash,
tomato, okra, nasturtium and sweet corn
are tender, and need the same conditions of
soil and temperature as required by Indian
corn.
Seed Beds are used for all plants that
require transplanting, or that it is most
convenient to raise in this way. These
should be of light and rich soil, placed in
sheltered part of the garden.
Norelties.-Each year the seedsmen offer
new varieties. Some of them prove good,
and some inferior to old sorts. 1t is well
to try a few new things every year, if one
can afford it.
asparagus. over old beds. Make
new beds by setting one-year-old plants
Conever's Colossal is the leading variety.
Beons.-Early Valentine is the standard
bush sort. Black Wax is excellent. Plant
in drills, ? feet apart. Among pole beans,
the Giant Wax is best for snaps, and Large
for shelling.
Beets.-Bassano is earliest, but Early
Blood Turnip is better. Dewing's, Hatch's
and Egyptian are new and highly praised.
Drills a foot apart.
Broccoli White and Purple Cape are
good. Treat the same as cabbages.
Co5Jage.-Early Wakefield and Little
Pixie are good early. Early Wyman, new
and large. Winningstadt is best for light
soils and medium late. Marblehead Drum
head, Fottler's, Flat Dutch and others are
good late. Early, Blue Savoy and Drum
head. Sow in Seed-bcd or cold frame. Set
plants out from cold frame, 1G inches apart
in rows J feet apart rs early as the sell can
he worked.
Carrors-Sow same as beets. Early
Horn.
CauliForer.-lIa Early Paris, of which
the Boston Market is strain. is the best
for general culture. Treatment. as for cab
bage.
Celery.-Dwarf White Solid, Boston
Market. Some of the red sorts, such as
Incompatible, and Dwarf Crimson, are
fine Sow in seed-bed. Turnip-rooted is
fer soups and salads.
Corn-Crosby's Early, Farmers Club,
Mammoth Sweet and Stewell are all good
Mexican, though black. is the sweetest of
all.
C,sss--Snw the Curled at intervals of a
week.
Cucumjers.-Early Russian, earliest:
White Spine, for general crop; Green Prick
ly for pickles. General Grant is new
variety highly comm ended.
Egg Pont.-Long Purple, earliest; Black
Pekin best Always sown under glass.
Horse-radiM.-Plant sets in MANFRED
trenches. and fill up with earth rs the plant
grows.
Kohl.raJi-Early White. Sow in rows
, feet apart.
Leek.-Flag ana Musselburg. Sow the
same as onions. or in a Seed-bed to trans
plant.
LeHucc.-Curled Silesia, Curled Simpson.
Tennis Ball: many other sorts are in the
catalogues. Sow in seed bed: set out plants
from celd-irames a foot apart each way.
Nelon'-Ward' Nectar Skillman'S Net
ted. among the the older sorts; Sills' Hybrid
and CaSsabar, are new and fine. Treat the
same as cucumberS.
OAiDRS.-Secd must he sowm on very rich
soil in rows - inches apart. Early Red,
DanverS Yellow. White Portugal. Potato
onions are grown from sets.
Parsi,y.-Curlcd. Soak the seeds befos e
sowing.
Pnsnip.-Sow in l5-inch drills last year
seed. Hollow Crowned is best.
Pe0s.-Carter's First Crop. Daniel
O'Ronrke. Little Gem, Champion of Eng
land. all good. See catalogues for a host of
others. Alpha and LaxtoH'S Supreme are
among the novelties.
Peppers. Squash for picking. Sweet
Mountain, for stniiing. Monstrous is 4
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glass.
Potafoes-We have seen nothing equal to
Early Rose for garden culture.
Radish.-Early Scarlet Turnip. Short-top
Long Scarlet, Olive Shaped. Sow early
and at intervals of 10 days wherever there
is room.
Rhuburb. Manure old beds
.SalsJy.-Sow and cultivate the same as
beets.
Spinoch. Sow in 1S-inch drills Round
leaved is the most used. The lettuce leaved
commended. New England is excellent i,
summer. as is the Perpetual Spinach Beet.
Street Potat0cs.-Thc tubcr> should be
put in hot-beds the middle of the month";
Cover the manure with inches of good
compost and lay the tubcrs close together.
When the buds start, cover them with an
inch of compost Nanscmend. the standard
sort, Southern Queen new and good.
| Sq"ash.-Summer Crook Neck is the
best bush variety. Boston Marrow and
| Hubbard, for late.
| T0mato.-Early Smooth Red. General
Grant, are well established. Rising Sun
and Charter Oak are new and fine. Sow
| under glass OF in window boxes.
Turnip.-Flat Dutch, for early. Red
and White-top, for late. OF the Ruta-baga
sorts, the Sweet German and White French
are best for family use.