The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-02-06
FIR the farmer.
the VEGETABLE GARDEN IN FEE.
RTARY. :

Vegetable Plants-Many, who have gardens
omit or neglect TO provide stock of cabbage,
tomato, pepper, and other plants depending up
on some good-natured neighoor to supply them
from his surplus. Ii is well to be neighborly in
such matters, but it is also we'll that those who
neglect TO provide themselves with such plants,
should pay those who are at the trouble of rails
ing them. Many boy, or man either If he lets
it be known that he will have plants to sell at
the proper season. may establish q profitable
little trade. 1t is about as much trouble to raise
n hundred plants as il is several thousand, aud
when it is known that the plants may be had
with certainty, those who need but q small
number will buy in preference to raising them
For the very earliest cabbages, cauiifowers and
lettuce for marketing,
Cold frame Plants are preferable, but these
have to be prepared in the previous fall. In the
absence of these, the next best are properly
treated hot-bed plants, and if these are well
managed, they are almost as good as those that
have been wintered in cold frames. OF course,
to get the plants early, there must be hot-beds.
We are not able to give every year full ac-
count of the method of making these important
aids in gardening, and ct best, we can not give
10 full o description of their management as one
making business of raising plants requires.
As part of his ontft, one should have
Book on Gardening. not only for this, but for
month, Gardening for Profit" by Henderson,
money in the Garden" by Quinn, and EARN
Gardening and Seed Growing" by Brill, are
works that one who undertakes to grow veg
ctablcs for sale, whether as young plants or ma :
tured crops, can afford to be without If one
making q hot-bed, let him send 15c. for the
Ameriodn AgricHitrrisf for February, 1877.
What 10 Sow.-Cabbages, Cauliaowers, and
Lettuce, are the earliest to be set in the open
ground, and should be sown first. Tomatoes,
and other plants from warm climates, may be
sown two weeks later. As an early cabbage,
nothing has yet superseded the trne Jersey
Wakefield Some prefer the early York, !" bn
that is too small for market. "Henderson's
Early Summer" is the earliest hard cabbage.
For second early, and for general use every
where, nothing surpasses the "Winningstadt."
Among Caulifowers, the "Early Erfurt" is the
most generally sown, and there are new kinds
offered. In Lettuces, the best heading kinds
are "Tennis- Ball, !" "Boston Market" and "But-
teri" Early Simpson" is snowy, early, does
not head.
Seeds for Outdoor Soring.-The catalogues are
usually ont this month they should he well
studied, and the supply likely to be needed or
dered early. There can be no more i'll -judged
economy than sowing doubtful seeds, whether
the doubt lie as to their age or name. IL is vast
ly cheaper, every way, to throw away all such
and start afresh.
Noreities are offered every year, and while
many of these pass out of sight, once in a while
q real prize turns up. The testing of novelties
while NO established SORT should be given up
for an untried one, the new things that prom
Use well should be tried as far ones means al
low. The Egyptian Beet amply repays one for
scores of failures
Getting Ready.-Much indoor work and some
outdoor work can be done in the way of prepa
ration. OF the latter, the cutting of pea-brush
is o job that is often delayed. While there are
substitutes that answer tolera bly,, and must be
made to serve where brush can not be had, We
have found nothing quite so satisfactory as good
s'sticks." We illustrated in May last a wire
trellis that is the best substitute we have test
best pea-brusb. Bean-polcs may be dispensed
with, but as with peas, we have found no sub
stitute quite equal to good poles. Last year we
procured a set of fine straight red-cedar poles,
and are probably provided with bean-poles for
the rest Of our gardening days-American Agri
caltnrisf for February 1.