Connecticut western news., 1876-03-24
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
The Gnrdan.,

The Garden.
 Oassaba, Wards Nectar, Prolific Nut meg, and White Japan melons are all good SOW in rich hills six feet apart when the soil is warm.- ~.-.---,' ..
 South of New York onions succeed best from sets plant early in very rich soil in drills fifteen inches apart. When they can be grown from seeds SOW the same distance apart the soil cannot be too fine and rich SOW early. Wethers- field Red, Early Red, and Yellow Dan vers are. standard sorts. For gardens potato and top onions are often used, set in drills fifteen inches apart, and four inches apart in drill. .1
 Sow the Double or Moss Curled parsley early in open ground, or gentle hot-bed. s-. se -..s .... - -. ... ''.'-...
 Sow Hollow Crowned parsnips as soon as the soil can be worked, in drills eighteen inches apart.
 Carter's First Crop, or some other round pea, may be sown when the ground thaws. Alpha is the earliest of the wrinkled peas,j but needs warmer weather. When Champion of England comes, no other pea is wanted. Little Gem, Preminm, Gem, and Blue Peter arc good dwarf sorts, requiring no sticks, and useful to fill odd spaces
 Squash peppers for. picking, and Sweet Mountain for stuffng, may be sown like egg plants. .1 4 ,,. ; .--.aa -- . Put some early sorts of potatoes in a warm place to spront, and plant for early as soon as frost is out. Alpha and Snowflake are new and very early. Early Vermont and Early Rose little later, and good. ,r.....---, -
 Radishes may be sown very early in open ground or may be- forced in a frame. French Breakfast, Early Tur- nip, and Olive-shaped are good short varieties; the. Long Scarlet for long. -~ Salsify and Iscorzonera, there is but one variety of each, SOW the same as parsnips.5 ao.s-llll- s.as1,.s 5.s--.-. .- : E..
 Uncover spinach that wintered over when heavy frosts are passing, and hoe between the rows. Sow seed of Round leaved early j; New Zealand, for mid summer. may be sown in May. X -- ,.- Summer Orookneck squashes are the best bush. Boston Marrow, Yokohama, Hubbard, and Butman, are favorite late sorts. A few for early may be started under glass in pots or on sods.
 Sow tomatoes in hot-bed and trans plant to boxes or another hot bed, or where there are but few, to small pots; the object is to get strong stocky plant, to set out as soon as 1t is safe. Conqueror and Canada Victor for early, and Trophy for the rest of the season, have not been excelled. ..' 7-@l
 White Dutch, or Red Top Strap-leaf turnips for early, and Long White French, is the best late. Get in the early, sorts as soon as the ground is ready.-AgrSculturist. ~ a.issAal slz Domestic Hints. .--4 | ,.- To CLEAN BLACK CAsHMERR.-Wash in hot suds, with a little borax in the water; rinse in bluing water-very blue and iron while damp. It will look equal to new.s fgt=.l-...5
 BITING THE, NAms.-A simple remedy for biting the nails is quassia. Wet the fingers and allow them to dry; if tasted 1t will be bitter reminder. I gave it g trial and it was efectual. |
 CoooANUr CAKE.-Half cup of but ter, one cup of cold water, three of four, four eggs, and a measure each of acid soda; grate one coeeanut, saving out one-quarter of it dry to put upon the top layer; to the remainder add the whites of four eggs, beaten to 8 froth, and one cup of pulyerized sugar; put the cake into four fiat pans, and as fast as each layer is baked, take out and placa one, pon the other, spreading the cocoanut between. .u.a.-
 APPLE, TAPIooA PUDDING.-One tea cup tapioca, salt, one and half pints oi water, let them soak two hours; six ap. ples-pare and take out the cores; put themI in 8 pudding dish, add one teacur of water and bake on the outside of the stove until the apples are tender, then fill the holes with sugar, in which .grate nutmeg and lemon peel. Pour over the tapiocas and bake. in the oven one hour To .5he eaten with butter and sugar
 Something About Paint.
 An exchange gives as ar reason why paint peels from buildings that nearly all the oil sold as pure hnseed is large ly made up of porgy oil. The nature o this fish oil. is entirely different iron that made from seed, and it does not dry nearly so readily. Paint surface witt lead and porgy oil, and in few hours you can press the hand lightly ovel it with impunity, but press the fnge, on it and push slightly and yo1 will find, even after it has beer several days, that the pain has not "set," but the outer skin car be easily removed, leaving that next tn. wood as soft nearly as when first put on The wsy to prevent the paint from peel ing off isito lee-each coat v and 4particu larly the frst-remain from ten days tt several weeks before applying anothe coat.
 Chicken Jelly.
 Boil pair of chickens until you cal pull the meat from the bones; remov all the meat and allow the bones to boi half an hour longer; stand this in coo place and it will become jellied; tn next day cut the meat into small pieces melt the jelly and throw it in; then ad, two tablespoonfuls of Worcestershir, sauce, two of walnut sauce, one table spoonful of salt a pinch of powdered mace, cloves, and allspice; slice tel hard boiled eggs and two lemons, line large bowl, or form, with these slices then pour in the mixture and let it stant in cool place (but not to freeze). Tn, water should just cover the chicken when put to boil. This is a very orna mental dish, and will keep for lon, while.
 Beecher on Belknap.