Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-24


LIMA BEANs.-A correspondent of Tilton's
Journal Of Horticulture gives his mode of rails
lng Lima beans, so as to have them for more
than two months, beginning before the middle
of August, as follows:
As had in my garden Lmas in pelection for
more than two months, and on exhibition in
Massachusetts Horticultural hall, August 18th,
and September 10th, and received the first prize,
| take the liberty to communicate my mode OF
culture, believing it will be of some interest to
amateur cultivatOrs, if not to others. The beans
were planted in box frames, (''cucumber boxes"
so called by market gardeners about the first
of May, in the cold grapery, transpanted into
open ground May 3Oth Cucumber boxes"
are simply sides Of a box seven inches wide at
the top, eight inches at bottom, and six inches
high. The box being one inch smaller at the top
than bottom, allows plants, when transplanted
in open ground to slip out easily without injury.
warm exposure was selected, the soil well en-
riched and pulverized, and tthe box containing
the plants taken from the cold grapery "a cold
frame will answer as well,) by placing shovel
under the box to prevent the plants from being
disturbed in the removal. The boxes were
placed about three and one-half feet apart, the
earth heaped on the outside of the box even
with the top, and the box was then lifted, draw
ing it Off over the plants. The plants were I'M
disturbed by the change, and grew finely,
month or six weeks being gained by this mode
of culture Cucumber boxes" purchased at
the DOS manufacturers tOf SIN dollars and Il half
per hundred, will last many years, and be equal
ly useful for melons, cucumberS, Squashes, etc.
The Catholic hero of "Lothair." the young
marquis of Butte, although admitted to be the
greatest "catch," matrmonlally speaking, in
Great Britain, and one of the largest land own
crs in The realm, has never yet made his respects
to the queen at court. This singular crcum-
stance is now accounted for by the Court Jour
nal, which states that the young marquis prom
ised his mother on her death-bed never to per-
nit himself TO be presented to Queen Victoria
The reason Of this extraordinary promise, which
the marquis has religiousy kept, is to be found
in the implacable hostility of the maTchoness to
the queen. The late marchioness of Butte was
the sister of Lady Flora Hastings, the Young
and beautiful maid of honor, whom Queen
Victoria, then girl of eighteen, suffered soon
after her accession to the throne to be driven from
her presence and hunted 10 death by ISLANDERS long
since disproved. The cold and cruel conduct of the
young sovereign at that time the family of the
victim have never forgotten or forgiven. When
the queen some years ago visited Rothesay
Bay in her yacht, and lay for several days in
sight of the superb residence of the marchioness
Of Butte, Mount Stuart house, the marchoness
not only RETAINED from attempting to pay her
court to the queen, bat actually ordered all the
blinds of the windows in Mount Stuart house to
be kept closed so long as the royal yacht lay
within sight of them. Time has not softened in
the son the bitter sense of injustice which hard
ened the mothers heart. 1t is even said that
horror at the notion of being obliged to consid
er Queen Victoria the head of his church plays
no small part in inducing the marquis of Butte
to abandon that church for the communion of