Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-03-01

drills, fifteen inches apart, and an inch
and half deep, AS the plants grow, thin
to six inches in the drills. The best speci-
mems are grown in deep, rich soil, and
where the thinning out is not neglected.
The young plants make excellent green's.
To grow the field varieties, prepare the
ground by deep spadiDg or blowing, and
thoroughly pulverize and enrich the soil.
Sow seed in drills, two to two and a half
feet apart, and thin to stand six or eight
inches in the drills. Use the cultivatOr
and hoe.
CABBAGE.
The varieties are numerous, embracing
kinds especially adapted for summer, fall
| and winter use. For early use, sow seed
Of the early kinds in hOt-bed, or box in the
house. early in April, and transplant when
the weather will permit. For winter, SOW
seed of the winter sorts, early in May. If
early varieties are desired for winter use,
SOW seed about the first of June. Early
varieties may be transplanted from twenty
inches to two feetapaTt each way, and the
later sorts from two to and half to three
and half feet apart distance varying
with size. Cabbage requires good soil,
CAULIFLowER.
The general cultivation of this delicate
and most delicious vegetable cannot be too
past few years has wonderfully increased,
and we think to greater extent than any
other vegetable, perhaps, with the excep-
ton of Celery and Tomato. 1t is as easy
of culture as the Cabbage, to which family
it belongs, and should have place in
every garden. Apart from its more gen
eral use, of being served on the table,
either plain, boiled, or dressed with sauce,
it makes all excellent pickle, either by it
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called mixed pickles. Much of the
delicacy and excellence depends on quick
growth; to promote this, the soil cannot
be too highly enriched or too deeply cult
| tivated. In other respects it requires sim
| liar treatment as given to Cabbage.
CELERY.
This is one of the best, if not the finest,
of salad plants. Although largely grown
at the present time, still its production
should be greatly increased. No dinner
| table is now regarded as well furnished
| without its well filled celery dishes. 1t
may be grown i'll any garden with very
| little labor and especially the D.O01J va
rieties, which really do not require to be
grown i'll trenches. Sow seed in hOt-bed,
or in a box in the house, or i'll the open
| ground, as soon as the soil can be worked !;
| and when the plants are four to six inches
| high, make trenches foot deep and four
| to five feet apart. Enrich Thoroughly the
| bottoms of the trenches, and transplant to
! six or eight inches in the trenches, and
as the plants grow, haul the fine earth up
about them to blanch their stems. The
| Dwarf kinds may be set on the surface, in
rows three feet apart, and the stems
blanched by killing them up.
| Turner's Incompatible Dwarf White,
Haywood's Dwarf White Queen and San
| dringham Dwarf White, choice varieties
of the new dwarf kind, easily cultivated
and worth trying.
CRESS AND PEPPER GRASS.
A we'll known and desirable salad plant.
| Sow rather thick i'll shallow drills, about
ten inches apart at intervals through the
season. Can be used alone or mixed with
mustard or lettuce. Very palatable either
way. 1t is also used for garnishing.
| CUCUMBER.
The Cucumber is a tender annual, and
therefore should not be planted or set out
in the open air until there is a prospect OF
continued warm and pleasant weather 4;
as, when planted early, not only are the
seeds liable to decay in the ground, but
the young plants are frequently cut by
frost. Extreme wet or dry soils should be
equally avoided. Cucumbers succeed best
in warm, moist, rich, lOamy ground. The
each direction. Plant twelve or fifteen
seeds in each, cover half an inch deep,
and press the earth smoothly with the
back of the hoe. When all danger from
bugs or worms is past, leave but three or
four of the strongest plants in hill. We
do not advise planting in the open ground
till the latter part of May. From pound
to pound and half of Seed to the acre
is sufficient.
TOMATO.
The Tomato has come into general use
There is scarcely a garden that does not
now have its Tomato patch, and many
raise them by the acre. The amount year
ly grown and consumed, is immense. The
Tomato crop has, therefore, become I'M
portGnt and UdLudbIe. The quality Of Seeo
used, Is therefore Of considerable conse
quence.
Sow seed in March or early in April, in
hOt-beds, or pot or box in the house. i
convenient, when the plants are about
three inches high, transplant them from
hOt-bed to another hOt-bed or cold frame
placing the plants about five inches apart
to harden them previous to final setting
out. When settled, warm weather comes
J transplant to four feet apart each way, il
good soil. Tomatoes will ripen earlier i
the vines are cut back and the fruit eX
posed to the sun.
SQUASH.
All the varieties are tender, and the seeC
, should not be planted until all danger from
frost is past, as, aside from the tender ma
ture of the plant, the seed is extremely Ii
able to rot in the ground in continued
damp, cold weather For culture, &C.
!. similar treatment as for Cucumbers anC
Melons.
MUSK MELON.
, Both Musk and Water Melon thrive bes
in warm, mellow, rich, sandy loan, ant
in sheltered exposure. After thorough
ly stirring the soil by blowing or spading
d; make the hills four feet apart for the Musl
varieties and four or five feet for Waite
Melons. Work under the surface of tn
hills liberal quantity of good decOmposet
stable manure,