The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-03-20
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Orchard and Garden Notes,


the beds and carefully fork in the fin,
manure.
Lettuce from the frames is set foo
apart, in rows, between the cabbages ant
caulifowers.
Shrubs may he transplanted an6
pruned, taking ctre to preserve thei,
natural habit.
Turing is best for small plots, and
should be laid on large lawns along the
edges of roads and beds.
RHUBABB.-Makes new beds by divid.
! ing the old roots so that each portion
has bud. Set three or four feet apart
each way,s manuring the hills very
heavily.
HARDY VEaETABhKs.-The principal
are: Beet cabbage, carrot, cress, cauli.
flower, celery, endive, lettuce, parsley,
parsnip, onions, pens, radish, turnip and
spinach. - .-.
Observation-Disclosures roads and
paths. Uncover beds of bulbs. Lift
and divide large clllmps of perenniais.
Sow seeds of hardy flowers. .-American
Agricultus'ist.
Tender vegetablab not to be sown
until the soil is well warmed, or at corn.
planting time, are: Beans-snap and
pole; cucumber, com, melons, okra,
pumpkin, squash, tomato, watermelon.
New lawns should be made as early
as the ground is in good condition to
have the grass well established before
hot weather. For light soils, red top,
for stony ones, blue grass, with perhaps
little white clover, is in our experience
preferable to mixed seeds. Four to six
bushels to the acre are neededSto make
a good velvety turf.
PEARs.-Dwarf tEaes may be grown in
the garden, and affHd fair amount Of
choice fruit, while their cultivation will
afford much pleasure; but for fruit in
quantities, plant standards in the Or
chard. Set dwarfs, eight or ten feet
apart. The variety il bewilderine. For
one dwarf tree, the "Duchesse d d'lngou-
leme." /
EARLY CABBAeEs AND CAUIn1oHERs.
The earliest crop is from the plants
thus treated. The ground should be
heavily manured-stventy. five tons Of
stable manure to the,acre is not unusual,
or part manure, and enough guano to
make the whole equal to the above heavy
manuring. The ground is marked out
in rows twenty-fouf to thirty inches
apart, and the plants set every sixteen.
inches.
Household Hints. -aa.
To CLEAN BRASS Immerse or wash
it several times in sour milk or whey,
this will brighten il without securing, It
may then be soouredwith a WOODEN cloth
dipped in ashes. z
water: a ~ Put al eggs not WRatsdh Rsd dhFes
daily use into this brine, and they will
keep all the year rouad, and the whites
roth almost as well a5 fresh eggs.
ORNAMENTAL TREEs.-Plant when the
soil is in condition; erergreens may wait
\ month or more. Where old trees in
terfere, branches MAJ be removed, but
they never should be pruned in such a
manner as to change their natural shape.
Old lawns will need top.dressing
and sprinkling of seed in places where
the grass is poor. If manure is applied,
let it be so thoroughly decomposed that
no weed seeds remain alive. Ashes,
guano, nitrate of soda and fine bone are
all good manures for lawns, and br1lg
in no weeds.
EARLY sowing in drills twelve to fifteen
inches apart should be made OF beet,
carrot, leek, onion, parsnip, spinach.
Rsdish and turnip-redish seeds may be
sown with beets, as they will mature
and come off before they are in the way.
Early potatoes should be planted and
early peas sown.
To MEND CHNA.-Mix little lime
with the white of an egg, to use it take q
sufficient quantity of the egg to mend
one article at time ; shave of guam
tity of the lime, and mix thoroughly
apply quickly to the edges and place
firmly together, when it soon sets and
becomes strong. Calcined plaster OF
paris will answer in the place of lime.
To REMOVE STAINS IRON STooKNas.--
Place them to soak in tepid water over
night in the morning put pailful OF
water in your boiler over the fire and
cut MP an ounce of soap in it, stirring
until it melts and forms lather (; when
it GENES to the boiling point put into ii
a tablespoonful of the magical mixture
stir it around, and having previously
soaped the stains on the stockings, put
them into the boiler ard stir them around
for ten minutes; take them out, and un.
less very badly stained, they will need
but very little rubbing rinse and blue,
and when dried you will find them free
from all stain.
To REMOVE GREAaE SPoTs.-To OK
tract grease spots from books or paper
gently warm the CREASED or spotted par
of the book or paper, and then press
upon it pieces of blotting paper, on,
after another, 30 as 10 absorb as mucf
of the grease as possible. Have read.
some fine, clear essential oil Of turpen,
tine, heated almost 10 boiling state
warm the creased leaf little, and thel
with O soft, clean brush wet with tn
heated turpentine both sides Of the
spotted part. BY repeating this appli
cation the grease will be extracted
Lastly, with another brush dipped III
rectifed spirits of wine, 60 over tn
place, and the grease will no longer ap
pear, nor will the paper be discolored
, CaulihovTer.
This very common vegetable is one
the market gardeners most proftabl
, crops. It is closely related to the cab
bage plant, and, like that, the eatabl
? part forms head; but while the hea
! Of the cabbage is formed of the leaves
| the head of the caulihower is formed {