The Osceola times., 1878-05-04
SOUTHERN HOME AND FARM.
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Garaeaans nisss fer vsrner-.
w. M. X. writes out afew hints in the
Farm and Fireside relative to the ar
rangement of garden for the farmer:
There ought TO be q good garden on
every farm Not little space fenced in,
with or without pickets, 50 small that all
the cultivation, except the plowing, must
be done BY hand. There should not be
less than half an acre. Let this be long
and narrow, 30 that almost all the cults
vation can be done with horse. Set
apart 100 feet nearest the house for small
fruit. Then a strip four PAGES wide !;
also one at the farthest end OF the garden
upon which 10 turn when cultivatipg
with the horse. Keep the strips in grass,
or plant with potatoes. Lay of path
eight feet in width from the house to the
main garden. Plant ne fruit trees with>
In the inclosure.
The asparagus beds, which need no
after cultivation, should be the first ones
a. you enter the garden. A single row
planted Is inches apart in the center Of
bed four feet In width will be suffi-
cient. Top dress each fall with four
inches Of well-rotted manure and one
bushel OF salt. Plant one row of Linneus
or Victoria rhubarb FIVE feet from the
now of asparagus and three feet apart in
the rev. Top dresses annually with
manure only. -Four feet from the rhu>
barb plant four rows of strawberries
Let the rows be three and half feet
apart and the plants Is inches apart in
the row. Set only the strong growing
Downer's Prolific, Monarch of the West,
Springdale, Triumph OF Cumberland,
Col. Cheney, Kentucky or the Cap
tain Jack, q Seeding, of the Wilson
Albany, and q remarkably vigorous
growing sort. Five feet from the last
rev set half q row Of gooseberries and
half a row of white currants, three
feet apart in the row. Then, five feet
distant row Of red currsnts, the same
distance apart in the row. Next set four
rows Of raspberries in rows six feet the
plants being three feet apart in the row.
Let one row be Doolittle's Improved
Black Cap, on, of the Mammoth Cluster
or Miami, one of the Philadelphia Red,
and another of the Turner Red raspber-
ries. Eight feet distant set row of the
KittAtinny blackberry, placing them
three feet apart in the row. Set four
rows Of this variety eight feet apart.
The small fruits will thus occupy a
space between the house and the open
garden of about one hundred feet. Such
plan would give to every family of
twelve persons an abundant supply OF
vegetables and small fruits. and enough
10 can and dry for winter use. Four
inches annually Of wellrotted man.
ure sn The open garden would
not be any too much. The small
fruits should always be kept well
cultivated and mulched each TALL with a
geod coating OF partly decayed leaves,
weeds aud other trash. Care should be
taken to cover the crowns of the straw
berry plants very lightly.
Should ore prefer to plant the small
fruits 20 as to make continuous rows the
entire length of the garden, then one>
sixteenth part of the garden, beginning at
one end, could be planted, allowing a
proper proportion Of space to each fruit
rs already indicated. That Is, as the
lows In the open garden wsuld be two
and half feet apart, the currsnts,
gooseberry and raspberry plants should
BE- set In rows five feet apart and the
blackberry plants seven and half feet.
After fitting the ground for seeds, and
laying of the row perfectly straight,
two and a half feet apart, begin at
one end and plant all the seeds
Of one kind you wish and con.
tinue with other seeds until the work is
done. Planted In this way, the cultivator
will enable one to do nearly all the hoeing
required. One hours time each week
win be sufficient during summer. There
is nothing to hiuder any farmer from
having lettuce, asparagus, radishes and
rhubarb by the last of March or the first
of April, followed by gooseberries, cur
rants, strawberries, raspberries, blsckber-
ries and early tomatoes and other vege,a.
bles. II desired, the expense of four
wire picket fence is inconsidersble when
compared with what would be likely to
be paid out for medicine during the year,
where large family attempts to live on
too limited supply of fruits and vege.
tables.