Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-11-12
Vegetable Garden.

Proceed with the saving and storing of
the remaining crops. Leeks should be
placed closely in a narrow trench eight inch
es deep and covered when the weather gets
quite cold. Cabbages may be planted close
~ in furrow, but much simpler plan is
to set them, heads downward, where water
will not lie and cover with leaves or straw,
gradually, according as the weather gets
colder. Scatter some brush over the whole
to keep the straw in place. There are vari-
GUS ways Of treating celery, but the usual
method is to earth it up where it grew near
ly to tie top and to cover with straw or lit
ter On the approach of severe weather. 1t
is very important that all winter vegetables
should be covered gradually as we often
have spells of warm weather quite late in
the season when a close, heavy covering
would be certain to rot the plants. Pits
out doors should be ventilated by means Of
a tile OF a tuft Of straw projecting above
the earth covering. The early varieties of
cabbage sown in September will now be
ready to plant out. They require much
more fertilizer than late cabbage as, we re-
peat, most early crops do. Some people
plant them on the sides of burrows slopipg
northward and others with equal success on
burrows sloping southwark, SO that it may
be assumed the point is of no Importance.
1t is we'll to plant them rather closely as
they are often badly damaged by an open
winter. They should also be planted deep
ly as otherwise the frost would split the
ste ms. There is no doubt that spinach
would be benefited by a slight protection
with straw or boughs, but it usually comes
out well enough in spring without any
Seed onions should be protected, but the
sets need none provided they were complete
ly covered with earth at planting time
Bean poles should be removed and the gar
den cleared of rubbish of all kinds before
winter sets in. Parsnips and satisfy are
quite hardy, but nevertheless they should
be lifted and stored ut-doors. When lifted
they will spoil ifnot covered, as protection
from sun and frost, or rather the sudden
changes of temperature caused thereby.
A WAY TO Grow WIsE.-After reading
book or an article, or an item of informa-
tion from any reliable source, before turn
ing your attention to other things, give two
or three minutes quiet thought to the sub
ject that has just been presented to your
mind; see how much you can remember
concerning it; and if there were any new
ideas, instructive facts, Or. points of especial
interest t tltiissst impressed you as you read,
/ force yourself to recall them. 1t may be a
little troublesome at first until your mind
gets under control and learns to obey your
will; but the very effort to think it all out
will engrave the facts deeply upon the
memory, SO deeply that they will not be eff
faced by the rushing in of new and differ
emit set of ideas: whereas, if the matter be
given no further consideration at all, the
| impressions you have received will fade
away SO entirely that within a few weeks
you will be totally unable to remember more
than dim outline of them.
Form the good habit, then, Of always re-
viewing what has just been read. 1t ex-
ercises and disciplines the mental faculties,
strengthens the memory, and teaches con-
centration Of thought.
You will soon learn, in this way, to think
and reason intelligently, to separate and
classify different kinds of information; and
in time the mind, instead of being lumber
room in which the various contents are
thrown together in careless confusion and
disorder, will become store-house where
each special class or item of knowledge has
it's own particular place, and is ready for
use the instant there is need of it.-St.
Nicholas