The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Orchard and Garden Notes.

the beds and carefully fork In the hne
manure.
Lettuce from the frames is set a foot
apart, in rows, between the cabbages and
caulifowers.
Shrubs may be transplanted and
pruned, taking care to preserve their
natural habit.
Turfing is best for small plots, and
should be laid on large lawns along the
edges of roads and beds.
RHuBARB.-Make new beds by divid-
f, 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 VEaETABLEs.-The principal
are: Beet cabbage, carrot, cress, cauli-
flower, celery, endive, lettuce, parsley,
parsnip, onions, peas, radish, turnip and
spinach.
MIsoEnLANEoUs.- Repair roads and
paths. Uncover beds of bulbs. Lift
and divide large dumps of perenniais.
Sow seeds of hardy flowers, American
AgricuIturist.
Tender vegetables, not to be sown
until the soil is well warmed, or at corn.
planting time, are: Beans-snap and
pole; cucumber, corn, 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, bluegrass, with perhaps
| little white clover, is in our experience
preferable to mixed seeds. Four to six
bushels to the acre are needed to make
a good velvety turf.
PEARs.-Dwarf trees may be grown in
the garden, and afford 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 is bewildering. For
one dwarf tree, the " Duchesse d'Angou-
leme."
EARLY CABBAeEs AND CAULFLowRRs.
The earliest crop is from the plants
thus treated. The ground should be
heavily manured-seventy-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-four to thirty inches
apart, and the plants set every sixteen
inches.
Household Hints.
To CLEAN BRAss.-Immerse or wash
it several times in sour milk or whey,
this will brighten it without securing, it
may then be secured with wooden cloth
dipped in ashes.
To PRESERVE Eaas.-A pound of lime
and one pint OF. salt to three gallons of
water. Put all eggs not wanted for
daily use into this brine, and they Will
keep all the year round, and the whites
roth almost as we'll as fresh eggs.
ORNAMENTAL TREES. Plant when the
soil is in condition; evergreens may wait
4 month or more. Where old trees in
terfere, branches may be removed, but
they never should be pruned in such
manner as to change their natural shape.
Old lawns will need op-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 bring
in no weeds.
Early sowing in drills twelve to fifteen
inches apart should be made of beet,
carrot, leek, onion, parsnip, spinach.
Radish and turnip-radish 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 CHINA. Mix a little lime
with tue white of an egg, to use it take
sufficient quantity of the egg to mend
one article at time shave off 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 FROM STOCKINGS
Place them to soak in tepid water over
night in the morning put pailful of
water in your boiler over the fire and
cut up an ounce of soap in it, stirring
until it melts and forms q lather when
it comes to the boiling point put into it
tablespoonful OF the magical mixture /;
stir it around, and having previously
soaped the stains on the stockings, put
them into the boiler and 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 GREASE SpoTs.-To ex.
tract grease spots from books or paper.
gently warm the creased or spotted part
of the book or paper, and then press
upon it pieces of blotting paper, one
after another, 80 as to absorb as much
of the grease as possible. Have ready
some fine, clear essential oil of turpen.
tine. heated almost to a boiling state /:
warm the creased leaf little, and then
with soft, clean brush wet with the
heated turpentine both sides of the
spotted part. BY repeating this appi-
cation the grease will be extracted
Lastly, with another brush dipped Ein
rectified spirits of wine, go over the
place, and the grease will no longer ap-
pear, nor will the paper be discolored.
Cauiinower.
This very common vegetable is one of
the market gardeners most profitable
crops. 1t is closely related to the cab
bage plant, and, like that, the eatable
part forms head; but while the head
of the cabbage is formed of the leaves,
the head of the caulifower is formed Of
the fower-stalks, which grow up in one
compact, conical mass that, in we'll
grown specimens, measures nine inches
to foot across. There are many yari
cites in cultivation. A kind known as
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