The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-05-10

Garden Work for May.-The Maryland
| Farmer makes the following suggestions for work
in the garden this month:
Cabbage Plants.-These are to be planted out
in well MANFRED land, where cabbages have not
been grown for at least three years they dislike
| being planted on the same ground in successive
years. Sow seeds for late crop of Flat Dutch,
| American Drum head Savoy, green curled Savoy,
and Red Picking cabbage.
Broccoli and Cauiifower.-Sow seeds of these
| for late fall crops.
Peppers-May yet be sown in a rich bed. The
| different varieties should be planted q distance
| apart, they will intermiX and be hybrids,
neither one thing the other. Set out the
| plants grown in the hot-bed.
COMPLIANT more early corn for q succession
of this delightful vegetable.
Speet Pofaioes.-Plant these early this month.
Beans-Plant Lima and other pole beans this
month. Sow few rows every ten days of snap
| or string beans; the best of these is the White
Wax Bean, delicious, free from strings; they are
eatable as soon as the pods are yellowish white
| color.
Cucumbsrs.-Plant your principal crop of Gu
cumbers early. When they come up, keep them
busted with SCOT and little sulphur, or cover
them with hand glasses or gauze, to protect them
from the flies and bugs until they got into the
rough leaf. When they begin to form the blossom,
pinch off the ends of the vines; they will then
branch and bear fruit earlier and longer. For
pickles, plant in July.
Brussels Sprouts.-Sow the seeds Of these for
plants to be set out in July.
Salading.-Sow seeds of small salading of all
sorts. They never come amiss.
Beets.-Sow the long, red beet for fall and win
ter use. The Egyptian beet for early use.
Irnips.-Work and thin your early turnips
and sow more seeds for succession of the crop.
Radish.-Sow few seeds often of this nice
breakfast and tea relish, that you may always
have them crisp and tender for use. To have
them so, the bed must be extremely rich, that
they may grow rapidly.
Spinach.-Sow some spinach two or three times
this month. 1t is a wholesome and popular vege-
table, and cannot well be too often brought the
table.
Squash and Cymlings.-Plant cymlings for sum-
mer use, and Hubbard squash for winter use.
The Hubbard keeps all winter, md cooke dry and
sweet; it is inestimable to the housekeeper, and
valued by every lover of fresh vegetables in win
ter.
Pot Herbs.-Sow the seeds of pot herbs in
somewhat shaded spot, keep the ground moist
until they come up.
Nastmti,tms-Plant nasturtiums this month !;
they are ornamental, and some can be planted in
the flower garden. They make a nice pickle, and
the blossoms and bud leaves are good pun
gent relish with bread and butter.
SalsJy.-Sow some satisfy seed for winter crop.
Okra.-Plant okra for general crop this month.
Egg Plant-Set out egg plants the last of the
month. They should have been, must at once
be transplanted from hotbeds to cold frames, so
as to grow stocky and strong, to be taken up
with ball of earth, and put in open ground,
when the weather gets settled and warm, where
they will grow right off, not checked by the trans
planting but benefited.
EndiUe.-Sow seeds Of endive early, and for
second or late crop, the last of the month. Well
ohpd 10 NIL M 10 ad NV hos fop
of salads. 1t in well after lettuce season is
over. 1t is graceful, pretty dish on table.
Borecole.-Sow seeds of borecole, that suffi-
cient quantity of this species of cabbage may be
planted out for winter use. Standing out all
winter it furnishes its tall stalks incest sprouts
in early spring that are to be had. We deem
them superior to the famous Brussels sprouts, or
the common cabbage sprouts. They are very
saleable at high price in market.
Grape Vfnes.-Of course your grape-vines have
been pruned and tied to the stakes or trellses.-
Now work about them, and throw coal-ashes
around them, two or three inches deep for couple
of feet on each side of vine.
Garden ImpiementS.-A good wheelbarrow is a
necessity. No implement equals it in utility
about the garden, or on the farm for that matter.
The Miseries of Spring.-The Baltimore
Evening Ne,os says: "Spring has come upon us
with a bound. The sun seems to have thrown
tied right down to serious business. And the
spring fever has unimbered itself and crawled all
through the muscles and bones and veins, and
man and beast are certainly tired. Spring clothes
are too warm and the weather is too uncertain to
leave off underclothes and put summer stuts.
Man is just at that point where he must swelter
and fret and occasionally take the worst cold he
ever had in his life.
"And the walking match, too, is fresh in the land.
AS if the sun, drawing bead on us and shooting
his hottest rays at us, were not enough, we have
a gang of human jackasses amblng around @
ring and scoring laps and miles until the whole
reading world is nervous.
"And to this is added the base ball craze. With
the first opening of spring, indeed while the
weather was still wet and cold, the crowds focked
out to see the games, and with the first warm out
burst men and women, boys and girls, caught the
base ball fever and went wild. Old men who have
to lift their feet Off the ground with both hands
when they walk, are inquiring of all they meet
what the score is, and how many runs the Balti-
more's earned or some passing club scored, and
balls fly over the pavements from one boys hands
to another's and fathers and sons, staid citizens
and solemn Christians are all affected alike.
"And the strawberry festival Surely life is
growing unbearable, and the beautiful season
fearful visitation Is it surprising that many
suicides are happening in every direction"
An Active Old Man.-Mr. Henry Alban,