The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-03-17

and its skin is covered with millions OF
little stickers that run into your fingers
and your mouth, no matter how careful
you are, and make ;ou uncomfortable
all day.
They raise all the vegetables here we
do at home, and some more. The most
ridiculous of them all is the cabbage. If
you take stout walking stick, tie a head
OF cabbage to its top, and stick the other
end in the ground, you have a Bermuda
cabbage. The farmers set out few
around the edges of their onion beds, and
let them grow. When the cabbage is
ripe it is cut oft, and the stalk, with
merely little surprise at finding itself
headless, goes to work and produces ano-
Their head. At this time the stalk is in
creasing in length, till it reaches some
times three or four feet. After awhile,
discouraged at having its head chopped
OF every two or three months, the stalk
gives up the fight and dies. Industrious
cabbage-stalks may be seen sticking all
over the Islands preparing to produce
new heads The onion seed used is pre-
cisely the same as ours, though it pro-
duccs very different and much better
onions. This is, Of course, on account of
the difference in soil and climate. A
forcible illustration Of what different
vegetable can be raised from the same
seed is furnished by the potato. They
send from here and buy Early Rose
potatoes to plant, and when they come
up no Northerner would believe they
were potatoes at all. When | first came
here, in passing potato field one day, l
asked the driver what the plants were.
lie was duly astonished, knowing that
the seed came from my own country.
But the vines looked entirely different
from our potato vines. They looked
more like sweet potatoes, with broader
leaf than ours, a more delicate texture,
and weaker stalks, that bent over the
rows, nearly covering the ground, instead
of going straight up in the air like ours.
But there is no mistaking the onions.
They look just like ours; taste just like
ours: smell just like ours.
Tomatoes should be planted in january:
carrots should also be plated, and peas
cabbage, cauli flowers, cucumbers, beans
turnips aud sweet potatoes. In February
corn should be planted, oats, lettuce,
squashes and melons, and fruit vines be
set out. Ia march arrowroot is ready
to take up and potatoes should be hoed.
The arrowroot is planted in April and
early planted potatoes are ready to take
up. Onions are to be cultivated for the
last time. IN May the remainder of the
Irish potatoes are taken out, and oranges
are grated. In June onions are taken
up and melons begin to ripen. In July
gather onion seed. In August there is
not much to be done, except transplanting
AFRO Hroot; it is too dry and hot In sep
TENDER more Irish potatoes are planted
for an early crop. Turnips are also
planted, and cabbage, carrots, beets,
peas, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, spinach,
celery and parsnips. Early Rose potatoes
are planted from the 10th to the 10Th of
October. In November oats, barley, and
rye are sown. In December SOW any
thing that we could SOW around New
York in June.
in short, SOW. anything you please,
whenever you feel like it. Let the shadow
of d hoe fall on your garden patch and
you get good crops. While you are
asleep your vegetables are growing, no
matter whether it is July or January.
The only reason for having particular
seasons TO SOW particular crops is so that
they may reach the New York market
at the right time to be profitable. Every
thing raised in Bermuda brings more
than double the price of our native crops
! because it always comes i'll out of season.
The best of this good land, outside OF
the two towns, can be bought for $500 an
acre-often for much less. The crops
raised on little bits of patches would as.
touish Northern farmer. On place
not much bigger than building lot, a
Bermuda gardener raises 5000 or $500
worth of onions, besides several other
crops. When the onions are ripe there
is Il busy time at the wharf on steamer
days. Donkey carts and teams come il
from everywhere, from the uttermost
parts of the earth, sometimes from az
much as fifteen miles away, bringing
loads of onions, all to be shipped to New
York. If the season is good one, anC
onions and potatoes bring good prices il
New York, Bermuda gardeners are il
clover. If it is bad season-that is, i
We have so many potatoes and onions il
the market that Bermudas do not bring
high prices-the gardeners chew the cue
for the next twelvemonth and run theil
credit at the stores. 1t is this credit sys
TEN that keeps them poor, and makes
the Storckcerers rich.