Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-07
FARM AND GARDEN.
sEASONABLE AND sENsIlsLk sUGGEs.
TlONS.
Timely Hints for Ausbandmen from tn
Germantown Telegraph"

The Yucca is one of our lately introduced
and most beautiful Towering plants. 1t
is quite hardy and is best propogated by
separating from the original stock after
being planted two or three years. The
cost of them is reduced to fifty cents. A
lady wrote to US the other day, complain
ing that hers would not flower, and asked
us if they were ever barren. We were not
able to answer, but told her that they
never bloomed until the second year after
planting, and that was, she said, answer
enough, as she was rather in too much OF
hurry to see the flower.
How to Oct EARLY Sweet Corn.
Judge Miller, of Missouri, being on a
visit some time ago, mentioned to US a
fact discovered by himself, in which full
week can be gained in getting sweet corn
for boiling. He said that it was, as soon
as the ear is formed, break the top down
or cut it off, but leave the stalk erect SO
that the pollen Of the tassel will be sure to
dust the silk of the ears, as they may not
be fully impregnated should the stalk be
topped. He stated that he had expert
mented for years and was entirely satisfied
that it was uniformly practical and of
value. In fact, he thinks that the ear be-
comes more fully developed also. This is
a hint easy to adopt, and may be of in
terest to truckers as we'll rs for the private
garden.
Eoneysuckles.
We have many varieties of this always
popular flower. AS vine it has few or
no superiors. The common monthlies,
though at times very fine, do not generally
we'll, and have given place to Japan vari-
cites, of which there arc several kinds.
The most popular Ohc is the Shining
leaved, but they are all moro or less ever
green, as they retain some of their leaves
until spring. They are very pretty upon
a trellis, or they can be made to run up
posts, porticOs or piazza supports. They
bloom more or less throughout the season
and the flowers are very sweet.
Then there is the large Trumpet Creeper,
another variety of the hOncysuckle, which
may he carried over tree and makes a
very attractive appearance. 1t is known
10y botanists as BegnOnic rddicans, and is
the most attractive of all the crecpers,
the flowers being very showy and beauti-
full. The plant is very hardy, no weather
affecting it, and when once carefully set
out and supported, will live for almost any
length Of time. We have them growing
where they have been standing for thirty
years.
For more than thirty years We have
been giving advice in regard to the trans
planting of evergreen trees and still the
question is asked us every season, spring
and fall. how it is to be done, many being
under the impression that there is a secret
in doing the work successfully. Instead
of this being the case the fact is that
there is no tree more easily transplanted
than the several varieties Of evergreens.
OF all that We have set out, taken from
nursery, We do not remember that one
has been lost. They should not be
planted deeper than they naturally stand
in the nursery. The roots should be care
fully spread out and the ground well
pressed. They should be we'll staked, so
that the high winds cannot disturb the
roots as there is nothing moro fatal to
any newly-transplanted tree than this
ioosening of the roots. liz selecting these
trees in the nursery lie sure to choose
those with one straight (not divided) main
stem, with regular branches from the
ground, and uninjured. For it must be
understood that when an evergreen is a
foot or two high it gets no new branches :;
hence. if tree is ragged at the bottom or
has lost any of its branches when set out,
they will always remain SO.
Being FOre-HAnded.
Though most farmers and gardeners
know we'll the value of starting early in
their war against weeds, the importance
of the task is very apt to be forgotten in
the hurry of spring work. We scarcely
Iced give the advice, as advice, but a sug-
gestion is always encouraging, and the
more sO.when we know it to be true. The
great trouble with most of us is that we
fnn !
We get great many things half done,
and work twice as hard rs need be, when
the same amount of labor judiciously ex-
pended would have a threefold result.
This is just how it is in the war against
weeds.
We are accustomed to get into
furry" about getting in the.
crops in time that We forget the weed
crop is already in and going on at a
rapid pace. We have not unfrequently
seen the greatest exertion in getting in
seeds or plants that would have done just
rs we'll a week later, when the same time
spent i'm narrowing or wedding ground,
wOuli have been equal to four times the
time at a later period. These remarks of
course apply more to garden than to farm
work. Where horsepower is at hand,
weeds half an inch high, if annual weeds,
are as easily destroyed by broad-toothed
cultivator, as if they were but Just push
ing through the ground but in garden
work simple raking of tho ground when
the seeds are just sprouting is quite as
effective as tho best hoeing would be- An
hour or two raking of a garden between
the rows Of the various crops will in fact
almost render hoeing unnecessary, and
thus save many hard days work.
Setting Out Tender Plants.
We shall soon arrive at the time when
setting out tomatoes, egg-plants and other
vegetables will be in order and word of
caution against setting them out too early
will save many from disappointment.
There is nothing gained by being first in
the field in cases of this kind. The plants
become stunted, ard do not grow as fast
as others put out later, and not until the
ground is warm. These 70 right on with
out stopping, and generally come into use
before those which it was thought would
beat them. 1t is worse than useless to
set out plants or SOW seeds until the ground
is warm enough to cause them to germinate
or grow.
1t is rather remarkable that this fact is
not more generally recognized than it is.
as most farmers know that it is true of
corn. That which is put in very early
often gets yellow and in other ways shows
evidence of sickness and no one. unless
IN very high, dry warm ground, ever
thinks TO put In the corn crop till all dan
ger OF cold spell is over. Yet in toma
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