Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-06

anu nan ucep, AS Ine plants grow, lhii
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 greens.
To grow the field varieties, prepare the
ground by deep spading or blowing, and
thoroughly puiyerize and enrich the soil;
Sow seed in drills, two to two and half
feet apart, and thin to stand six or eight
inches in the drills. Use the cultivator
and hoe.
,CABBAGEI
The varieties are numerous, embracing
kinds especially adapted for summer, fall
and winter use. For carly 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 feet apart each way, and the
later sorts from two to and half to three
and half feet apart distance varying
with size. Cabbage requires 9ood soil,
CAULIFLowER.
The general cultivation of this delicate
and most delicious vegetable cannot be too
highly recommended. Its use within the
past few years has wonderfully increased
and we think to a 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 an excellent pickle, either by it.
self, or as forming an ingredient i'll what is
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 culti-
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 in any garden with very
little labor, and especially the DlCdrf va
rieties, which really do not require to be
grown in trenches. Sow seed in hot-bed,
or in box in the house, or in the open
ground, as soon as the soil can be worked
and when the plants are four to six inches
high, make trenches a 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.
y well known and Desirable salad plant.
Sow rather thick in 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 prospect of
continued warm and pleasant weather
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
hills should be four or five feet apart in
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 nave its Tomato patch, and many
raise them by the acre. The amount wear
ly grown and consumed is immense. The
Tomato crop has, therefore, become i'm
l1Ortdnt and rdtud6Le. The quality Of seed
used, Is therefore Of considerable conse-
quence.
Sow seed in March or early i'm April i'm
hot-beds, or pot or box in the house. If
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,
10 harden them previous to final setting
out. When settled, warm weather Gomez
transplant to four feet apart each way. i'm
good soil. Tomatoes will ripen earlier If
the vines are cut back and the fruit ex-
posed to the sun.
SQUASH.
All the varieties are tender and the seed
should not be planted until ali danger from
Irost is past, as, aside from the tender ma
lure OF the plant, the seed is extremely Ii
able to rot in the ground in Continued
uanp, cola weather. For culture, &c.
similar treatment as for Cucumbers and
Melons.
MUSK MELON,
Both Musk and Water Melon thriyeLest
~ warm, mellow, rich, sandy loan, and
Ia Ia sheltered exposure. After thorough