Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Care of Flowers.

quent repetition. Nearly all towering
plants need rest at some season of the
year. 1t should not be expected that
roses, fuschias, ETC., which have been
kept at their best Towering all summer.
will continue to do sosall winter. They
must have rest. Their natural habits
are to grow and bloomi six months and
then rest six. The fuschias require less
rest. If one wants their tea, noisette,
China or bourbon rose, to be gay during
the winter, they should be kept in some
cool. shady place during summer. Keep
the buds picked off and see that the
roots do not grow through the bottom
of the pots.
Most plants require rich soil. But
persons who raise flowers must study
this question carefully, by learning the
history and nature of the plants in their
care. While one plant is a native of
boys and ponds, requiring constant
water, Others are natives of arid deserts,
requiring comparatively no dampness.
While these are the extremes, they all
vary more or less in the degree of damp
ness required for their prosperity. This
must be studied and practiced.
The degree and quality of fertilizers
required for each is also nice question.
Nearly all plants require a fine, friable
soil. The manure of animals which
chew the cud is considered cold, and can
be used safely only on very warm, light
soil. The manure of horses, hogs and
chickens is considered hot, and if used
lavishly will burn the plants. The ma
nUre of birds is the richest, but, like
guano, should not be used where seeds
are sown, as it is to strong for them, and
will destroy their vitality. Guano,
which has been on the shores of the
islands for probably thousands of years,
has lost some of the strength which in
jures the vitality of seeds, yet it is strong
and must be used very sparingly.
Plants require rich soil, and no az
ticle which can be had so easily is as
good as hen manure, used as q liquid,
but for indoor pots too much is Often
sive. Commercial fertilizers have no bad
smell. Charcoal is not sufficiently used
when it can be so easily had. The wood
Goals in the ashes removed from stoves
or 6re-places are Just what is wanted
1t is far better for drainage at bottom OF
pots than gravel, broken crockery OF
brick. Charcoal absorbs ninety times
its bulk of ammonia, and when finely
pulyerized and mixed with earth, il
is highly beneficial to, the growth {
plants.
SCOT is another valuable fertilizer and
insect destroyer. 1t is especially ar
active agent in destroying the aphis
Put quart of it in a gallon of water
Let it stand four or five days
Use it without any sediment in {
syringe, on foliage and about the roots
of plants, and the aphis or green fly viii
disappear. Begonias. Balsams, Canary
Bird flowers, Celosias, Coleus, Cypress
vines, Daturus, Geranium, Heliotropes
Pansies and Passion flowers require thu
very richest soils, and during their rapiC
growth and Towering, the water will
which they are sprinkled should have
some clear and pleasant fertilizers in it
And also some richer liquid manure fol
the roots.-Ioo0G State Register.
Recipes.
RICE PUDDING. A cupful of rict
cooked little, cupful of sugar, hal
cupful of butter, three pints of milk,
teaspoontul of cinnamon, a little nut
meg; bake two hours.
APPLE PUDDING,-One cup milk, on
egg, one teaspoonful cream tartar, one
half teaspoonful soda, flour to make
batter. Pour over this quartered apple
and steam two hours. Sweet sauce.
LYONNAIsE POTATOES. Half poun,
of cold boiled potatoes, two ounces c
onion, a heaping teaspoonful of choppe
parsley, butter the size of an egg. Sic
the cold potatoes; put the butter into
saucepan and when hot throw in tn
onion (mlnced) and fry to light color
add the potatoes; stir until hot and ligh
brown; then mix the parsley and serv
hot.
TEA CAKE.-One cupful of sugar,
cppful of butter, three eggs, a cupful an
half of flour, three tablespoonful {
milk, one teaspoonful of cream tar tar,
half teaspoonful of salt, spice wit
lemon: bake in sheet.
LEMON CAKE.-Two and half cur
euptul of sweet milk, one teaspoonful {
soda sifted in four .cuptuls of flour. thrt
eggs well beaten, the grated rind an
juice Of one lemon; two loaves.
CHICKEN FOR TEA,-Boila chicken e
chickens) in as little water as possibl
until the meat falls from the bone
Chop the meat fine and season with 81
and pepper. Put into the bottom of
mold some slices of hard boiled egg
then layer of the chopped CHECKER
another of egg, then chicken until IL
mold is nearly full. Boil down IL
water in which the chicken was cooke
with a large pinch of gelatine moss
until about a cup and half full is left
season and strain through very coar
net and pour over the mold of chicke
Let it stand over night or all day nei
the ice-to be sliced down for supp
and garnished with celery tops or par
ley.
Economy In Agriculture.
AS rule there is no economy in crow
ing crops; that is, berries do better wit
out having vegetables between the row
and can be kept in better cultivation
But there are plans for economizing
Dor in the garden that are seldom pra
ticed. For instance, plant with yo
early potatoes your early peas; say t
EARLY Rose potato and the All pba pc
The pea will groweto about the height
two feet. 1t will not be in the way
the first hoeing, which should be We
thorough and partial killing, Meth
will it be in the way of the plow, wifi
should do the final killing about Jul
lst. 1t now fails over the side of t
drills or hills, and will be ready for pic
ing about June Goth. By this time s
your celery plants in the burrows /
tween the drills, and let them get go
start by the time the potatoes are tax
out for early use. The pea vines a
then pulled and fed out; the potatoes a
dug and the trenches utilized. The d
is also ready to hand, as soon as the pot
toes are used, to be drawn up to t
celery. In this way three crops are tax
from one piece of soil. The labor is
least, one-third less than it would 9th,
wise be; I think even less. There is,
the same way, no difficulty in DISPOSE
of our beans in the same hills with O