Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-13
NEW SERIES--VOL. IS, NO. a.
GARDEN TOPICS.


/ have often transplanted grape
vines as late as the 1st Of June. after
the leaves were as large as a dollar,
and they did well. The leaves will
wilt and drop off, but new ones will
grow speedily; and in the tall the
vines are apparently as good as If set
earlier; but the proper time TO set
them is in May before the vines have
leaved out. Never buy old vines,
thinking to obtain a crop Of fruit
year or two earlier than from those
two and three years old, the limit in
age that vines should be reset. Cut
tings set to produce young vines should
be shaded little with hay or grass
till they take root, which is not till
late in June. When the thermometer
is in the nineties in the shade, the heat
OF the sun will often kill the buds of
cuttings that have not taken root AS
the canes to your old vines grow, SO
as to be in danger of being broken off
by high winds, they should be tied to
the trclhs; and watch kept on them
till July, tying the new canes as need
ed. Most vines overbear, and if the
smallest clusters be cut out, so as to
leave about two-thirds of the fruit that
set, the remainder will be better in
quality, and equal to the whole guam
tity, il none had been cut out.
Beans, melons and squashes may be
planted as late as July |, and will pro.
duce good crops. The succession of
peas and green corn should not be neg
lected. Plant corn every two weeks
till July, and peas ill the middle of
June, and they should be planted con-
siderably deeper in hot weather than
in the spring. Good crops may be
grown in rows three feet apart with
out any bushing, but they yield better
by bushing. Make the drills SO that
the peas will cover a width in the
drills about three inches wide. Winter
eabbages should not be set before July
lst and it should not be grown two
years in succession in the same place.
If your currant bushes are attacked by
worms, as they are in many localities,
white hellebore is a sure remedy. A
spoonful dissolved in q pail of water
and sprinkled upon the bushes from u
watering-pot will be effective; but be
careful that this solution does not go
upon your Strawberries in fruit, as il
Is a strong poison. You can kill the
slugs on your dwarf pear trees by the
use of this current-worm remedy.
Paris green operates in about the same
way. When you have done cutting
your asparagus it should be allowed to
90 to seed, and not disturbed till fall.
1t is advisable to grow all OF your own
seeds, and then you have what you
can depend on. A part Of row of
peas should be saved for seed or q few
hills OF corn, and single cabbage, car.
rot, beet, parsnip, turnip, &c, will sup
ply all the seed needed in an ordinary
garden. Tomatoes are much benefited
by bushing them to keep the vines off
the ground. Cut brush about two feet
high when set, and stick down four OF
them when your tomatoes begin TO
need support quite close to the plants,
and you will sec how finely the plan
operates. If you have celery plants,
il is not necessary to set them in
trenches, as was the old custom, but
they may be grown on the surface of
the ground; and at the proper time
the earth may be banked up against
them, as is done by market-gardeners |
by running double mould-board |
plough between the rows In working |
your garden stake time by the fore.
lock" and don't allow the weeds to get |
ahead of you. A clean, well cultivated |
garden is an ornament to place, and |
the garden is generally an index TO |
the habits ofitsowner. II. NJ. MINER.
Linden, N. j.