The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-04-30

Globe. the Yellow-fesh Tankard, the
Long Yellow, and some other varieties OF
this color, are already introduced here, and
are found to succeed well. Tbey are more
solid than the large red varieties.
Kitchen snd Market Garden
IAmerfcan Agriculturist.l
Asparagus should be cut with strong
round pointed knife, and with care not to
iDiure the dormant buds. If marketed, it
should be washed and made into neat
punches.
Egg plant is perhaps the most thoroughly
tropical of all garden plants. Do not set
out until really warm weather has set in,
and then push with fertilizers, and fight
potato bugs.
Tomatoes, in every private garden, should
have a trellis of some kind, not only for the
cake of better fruit, but for neatness. What
ever will keep the plants up from the ground
will answer.
Sow celery in seed bed; be sure and bring
| the earth in close contact with the seed by
| rolling or patting the soil we'll with the
back of the spade. Ii a dry time comes on.
water the seed-bed.
Do not put in the Lima beans until the
long rains are over; thrust them into the
soil, eye downwards. Two vines are enough
| to pole, but to guard against accidents, put
in four or five beans to each; the surplus
may be transplanted to fill gaps. Sow
| succession OF the brush sort.
| Sweet potatoes, at the North should be
| grown on ridges; put down rows of we'll
decomposed manure, 36 inches apart; build
up over these, with pillow and spade, ridges
of,earth, and plant the slips" or "sets" on
| this at Is inches apart The 1st of June is
| early enough near New York.
The time at which corn can be safely plant.
| nd q do fnr fu 10 <bor
| time for sowing seeds of tender plants, or
for setting out plants of this kind that have
been raised under glass. Squashes, melons
and all related vines and other tender plants
may be sown, and tomatoes may be set out
whenever the farmers find it safe to put in
their csrn.
Apply Paris green to potatoes as soon as
up. Sow sweet herbs in a seed-bed for
\ supply of plants to occupy the soil when
other crops come off. Thin all thickly-sown
| crops as soon as they can be handled, while
| the ground is moist. Dust squashes, melons
and all of that family, soon as the plants
are up, with fine airslaked lime, or mix
ture of plaster and ashes, to keep off insects.
What has been said on beginning late ap-
plies especially to the vegetable garden. A
| great many come into the possession of
their garden plot only on the first of this
| month, and there are only few early vege-
| tables that are not as well sown now as earlier.
The better condition of the soil, being now
| dry and warm. will compensate for the lack
of early sowing and planting. Those who
have already begun operations, should
have in mind succession crops to follow
the earliest sowings Of peas, spinach, rad
ishes, lettuce, etc.
Flower Garden and Lawn
Annuals may be sown: the labels n pom the
seed packets usually state whether the plants
| will bear transplanting or must be sown in
place.
| Bedding plants from the gree nhouse should
not be pnt out until settled weather. as cold
storms give a check from which they are
slow to recover.
In making new lawns it is not necessary
to SOW oats other grain with the grass
seed, unless the work is done very late, and
even then we should risk the grass without
it, ss it fills the soil with large roots, to the
detriment of the grass.
Large weeds in lawns can only be eradi-
Gated by wedding; If the pie intains, dandel-
ions docks, ETC., appear, pull them in a moist
time or cut we'll below the surface with a
knife. Annual weeds soon gave way to fre-
quent moving, and die without seeding.
Climbers are useful for shade, for decorat.
ing verandas, and for making a screen to
hide unsightly object1. Where the woody
kinds can not be waited for, ANIMALS may be
used with good effect. Canary vine, thun
bergias, cobae. maurandias, and others, are
all good, and some of the finer morning
gIories though the flowers are shor:-lived
are very snowy.
Frequent moving before the hot weather
sets in, will help thlcken the turf, but new
lawns should be cut less frequently wheI
drouths come on. Ii it has not yet beer
given, the established lawn should have
top dressing of some fertilizer, and differen
: from that applied the year before. Guano
ashes, bone, nitrate of soda, or plaster will
|, be useful. and one or the other should b.
! put ON each year, using guano at the rate o
, 200 pounds to the acre, and others in pro
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