The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-12-05
Farm, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
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soil and situation, and you can advance
its growth amazingly. And you can di-
rect this growth at will equally amazing
ly You can grow wood, fruit, or both
of course with exceptions. But by
growing the one you will lessen the
other. You cannot grow fruit AMI wood
largely at the same time, not generally.
You can however, grow good crop of
each with the proper knowledge aud care,
soil, treatment and climate suitable.
The aim should always be balance be
tween fruit and wood, as also an avoid
ance of excess and lack of growth. The
medium course is found to be the true
course. Then you get a fair to good
growth of fruit of good quality, good
healthy growth of wood, and yearly
growth of both wood and fruit, because
the vigor is retained and continued all
goes on like perfect machine kept in
good order without strain. In such
cases you can bear, and require, to have
good soil-not rich, necessarily, but
one favorable to good sound growth,
which has reference to the mechanical,
hygrometric, barometric, and other con-
ditioLs of the soil, rather than to fertility
which in the main should not be great:
expansion of the roots, well aerated
soil being OF more account thar high
manuring, to connect quality of fruit
with growth. Land cannot, therefore,
be too deeply and thoroughly drained
and disintegrated for the grape, giving
chance for its roots without danger from
mouldiness or rot, or the evils referred
to wet soil.
Having, then, the proper soil, also
the proper situation and climate-warm,
dry atmosphere-there will remain only
the task Of directing the vine and this
is of equal Importance with the pro-
vision for its roots. Let it go uncheck-
ed, and there will generally be little
fruit. Out close (the wood), and with
our American sorts, there will be disease
and various mischief. The overgrowth
of fruit will defeat itself will hurt lex
haust) the vine, which will show the
year following in lack, and perhaps
failure OF crop, the growth OF the wood
behind suspended entirely in some
parts of the vine, the frost OF winter
getting the credit. This is done by
close pruning especially summer
pruning 1t shows how easily the vine
may be directed. Ii the shears had
been withheld, there would have been an
entirely different state Of things--a
large wood growth--a small, struggling
fruit yield, lacking in quality and quan-
tity, ami good branches but the vine
would have been healthy and remained
vigorous yet it would have defeated its
purpose fruit. Fruit R6c01deT.
WInterinE Celery.
We have seen celery we'll kept through
winter by simply burying an ordinary
-four barrel in the ground, mixing in
the bottom about nine inches of thin
mud, placing the 'celery upright with
the balls of roots in the mud, and cover
ing the tops over with mound of straw,
leaves or manure. The celery came out
finely bleached, snd without 81 sign Of
shriveling. Experience with many
methods has taught us that this is one
of the very best for small lots for family
use. We have also seen excellent re-
suits by placing the barrel in cool cell
lar of course the root should be bedded
in thin mud in this case as WELL and it
will keep fresh for long time. In
quantity celery may be stored in trench
es, say two feet wide, and of sufficient
depth to take all in except the leaves,
when sta sding upright The plants
must be packed closely together, allow
ing ball of earth to remain on the roots
of each bank up slightly on either side;
cover about two feet deep with dry leaves,
and place over this roof-like structure
OF boards to ward off rain. Water among
celery plants during winter is as disad-
vantageous as during its growing season
it is indispensable. OF oil materials for
protecting the tops and to keep out frost,
we have found leaves best. and corn
fodder poorest; the latter appears to
possess some special attraction for mice,
and they will harbor in it in preference
to almsst anything else. As to location
for storing away celery, a hillside in
light sandy or gravelly soil is best, and
the nearest approach to this will give
most satisfactory results. The plants
need not be blanched before storing, as
old-time gardeners believed if properly
stored they will come out white, crisp
and tender up to the leaves. To have
good celery, however, it is, Of course,
needful that it be well grown no plan
OF storing can make amends for defective
culture. --Ne'O York Tribune.
Recipes.
PoT CHEESE. E.-Scald sour milk until
the whey rises to the top; pour it off or
skim out the curd and place it in cot
ton cloth or bag, hang it up to drain,
let it drain five or six hours; do not
squeeze it; after the whey has all dripped
out put the curd in bowl. salt to taste,
and work in well with your hands butter
and little cream; mold into balls OF
pats; keep in cool place.
PoAoHEp Eaas. When the water has
boiled in the frying-pan break the eggs
separately in saucer; remove the pan
from the stove, and slip ths eggs, Zone
at time,) on the surface Of the water;
when all are in. place the pan again on
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