Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-05-16
Farm and Household.


etabIes that may be RAISED.
Asparagus is a vegetable seldom found on
the farmers table, but one that deserves n
place there as it is very productive and very
wholesome. When an asparagus bed is once
well started it requires little attention, and
will furnish score Of crops each year II
hls the great ayantage OF coming carly in the
spring. when green vegetables are scarce,
aud lasting till peas put in an appearance.
By many it is relished more than peas, and
certainly it can be grown for a succession Of
years at half the expense. An asparagus bed
will last fora quarter of Il century if it is only
top-dressed each year.
Spinach is another vegetable that is too sell
dom found in the farmers garden. This also
comes early grows mXurantly, and is deli
cous. Good for green's is an old saying
that applies with full force to spinach
Lettuce is more common, but is too fire.
quently raised in such crowded state rs to
have no room for perfect development. To
secure large, crisp cabbagc-hcad of lettuce,
the plants must stand foot apart in the
rows and the soil cannot be too rich or too
frequently stirred. Lettuce is cmphatcally
spring vegetable, MS it delights in cool
weather and moist soil, but with little care
it can be grown through the season, and with
n hot. house can be furnished for n Christmas
dinner The relish for lettuce, as for most
vegetables. grows with indulgence. Market
gardeners find the demand for lettuce increas-
ing each year, and it can be found in the city
markets at all times, but it will not pay far
mers to grow it for their own use in winter,
when cole-slaw answers as a good substitute.
Tomatoes, a modern vegetable, and repug-
nant to many at first taste, have conquered
for themselves place in almost every far
mer's garden, and they well deserve it, They
are very wholesome, and are so easily grown
and so easily preserved in cans, that they
should occupy n large space in the garden,
aud be found on the table at all seasons of
the year. Most stomachs require some sort
of vegetable acid to keep them in tone, and
next to apples there is no acid more general
ly congenial than that of tomatoes. There is
no excuse for any farmer if he does not fur
nish his family with a years supply of this
delicious vegetable, for it can be preserved as
easily as it can be raised 1t is not necessary
even to can tomatoes Cooked and put into
Jugs while hot, and closely corked, they come
out in the winter and spring about as fresh as
when picked from the vines
Sweet corn needs no recommendation to
farmers or others. 1t is favorite vegetable
with all, and finds place in every garden.
With many, however, the season for the en-
joymcnt of this delicious vegetable is short
lasting sometimes only month. With prop
err management, it can be protracted through
the year The dwarf variety natures a fort
night earlier than MOores Early, aud month
before the Stowell Evergreen, and when this
latter is ready for eating it should also be
canned and slowed away for winter use.
Corn is not so good vegetable for canning
us tomatoes, rs it ferments more easily but
it can be successfully canned, and it is so
good dish in winter that it will pay for n lit
tie extra care. 1t can be easily dried also in
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winter, but not equal to the well-canned arti-
Gle.
Not to make too long a catalogue of veg
etables for the farmers garden We will con-
clude with celery. This is another of the de-
licous and wholesome vegetables which is
cOnQuering success wherever it is known.
No vegetable improves more on acquaintance
than celery 1t is sometimes objected to its
cultivation by farmers that there is too much
labor about it, and this was a serious objec-
ton when the fashion was to cultivate it in
trenches, but it is found that pillow makes all
the trench necessary for the dwarf and medi-
um varieties, which are really more crisp,
solid and better favored than the giant.
"Boston market celery" can be grown with
little more labor than crop of cabbages, and
as it adorns the table, tickles the palate and
tones the stomach, it deserves wider cult
vntion by farmers than it has secured.
One word as to fertilizing the garden. Far
mers are apt to stint the allowance of manure
here, thinking that it will pay better on corr
and tobacco. This IS a mistake. Market gar.
deners use piles of manure, and are only sue
cessful when liberal with fertilizers If barn
yard manure does not hold out for both the
field and garden, use some of the commercial
fertilizers on the latter, rs these bring in nc
weeds, the great bane of garden culture. Gu
ano, phosphate and Stockbridge will pay OF
the garden if they will pay anywhere.
"A. Hyde, in country Gentleman.