The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-05

Billings ON 1'umpk1nS.
The pumpkin is large, yello fruit,
about one foot in diameter, and not
far from being round.
The seed ov it liz shaped like the
he'd ov an Injun arrow, and liz about
the size ov yure middle finger nail.
The seed liz inserted in the ground
about the 18th ov May, and Gums to
light in about six days.
The pumpkin keeps on bizzy grow.
ing until the fnst day oy October, and
| then gives up the contest.
Pumpkins gro onto a vine, and
| thare liz but few if emmy smarter weeds
than a pumpkin vine. On ritch
ground they will gro four inches
day, besides growing about two inches
each night, and they have large,
yello flowers on them about the size
and shape ov the other end ov keg
bugle, or French horn.
Each one ov these flowers means a
pumpkin, and l have seen sixteen
able boddyed pumpkins on one vine.
This liz called sum pumpkins.
Pumpkins are planted among corn,
and after the corn haz been got of
have seen the pumpkin so mutch on
the ground that you couldn't count
them.
The most remarkable thing about
the pumpkin liz the pi that il in them.
Each able boddyed pumpkin haz
from six t. eight Pie in them, and
thare amt no food, anshunt or mod
ern, kan outstyle them.
Pumpkin pi liz az hard to beat az
the simple truth liz. Pumpkins are
cut up into strips and hung up in the
Gifohap for winter nj
1t liz noble sight to go home to the
old kitchen in the dead ov winter and
see the ceiling ov the dear old room
all frcskoad with long strings ov red
peppers, punches ov sage, knots ov
pennyroyal, links of sassagc, blown-up
bladders, dried sunhowers, dried APP
| pies, bi the yard, katnip blossoms, a
| mink skin or two. and ten-foot pole
stretched klean akrost the room hung
full ov blessed pumpkins, kut an inch
and a quarter wide into strips, ready
| for p.
Thare amt, on the face ov the
whole earth, more joyful place for
memory to go back to than a kind
mothers kitchen, hung around with
| dried pumpkin, and to see again the
dear good woman, with check apron
on, and sleeves rolled up. and arms
| dipt into huge mass of steaming,
pumpkin klear up to the elbows, and
watch the nutmeg, and butter, and
kream, az ii goes into the CRATE tin
pan, and have yure mouth gro liquid
az yu think ov the pumpkin pi that
to morrow will cum out ov the big
bake oven, done just to nicely; az
ye..o az gold, greatly Drowned on the
top, and good enough for George
| Washington to eat, the father ov his
| kouLt =.
Menny man haz been horned in a
palace, or sum elegant manshun, and
| loited on ottomons, and trod on kostly
| karpets all ~his life. and felt grand,
and no doubt thought he was happy,
| but he has misst rare pleasure, he
kant look back to the klean white
floor ov the old kitchen, and remem-
Der how he hung around the crate tin
pan ov pumpkin pi batter, and got a
taste once in while ov the luvly
mixtur before it went into the oven.
Theze are the things that man
never forgits, the elegant things ov
wealth leave no sutch impresshuns.
l don't kno when the pumpkin waz
| fust discovered, or who 1T waz who
| fust workt it up into pi.
| OnrlSCODQer columbus IOuUu All
ika, Newton waz the father ov CRAWL
| tashen, and menny a man has spent
hiz whole life and talents on perpetu-
al moshun and never kaught up with
it, but who fust found pumpkin, or
invented it, IL MYSTERY up to this
hour.
Pumpkins gro the most cheerfully
in NJ England. bekause folks are
most kind to them thare, but the
pumpkin il good natured plant, and
will gro ennywhere, if people amt
| sassy to 1t.
1t haz about $50 seeds in the inside
ov it, and each seed liz receipt in
full for sixteen young pumpkins if the
seed liz hid in good ground.
This amt the fust essay l have
written on the pumpkin, and don't
presume it will be the last one, for
every time i think ov the dear old
vegetable. and the blessed pi that IL
in them am seized with phrenZy,
and kant cool oph, until have vented
my JOY on paper.
[ hope pumpkins won't run out az
long az last, and dvn't want pump
kin pi to run out until the last man
duz.
In conklushun, I would propose
three cheers for pumpkins, and also
three more cheers for the pi that IL
in them.