Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11

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Useful Garden G1eanings.
President J, M. Smith, says the N.
Y, Tribune, of he Wisconsin Horticul-
tural Society, is one of the most intel
ligent and successful gardeners and
fruit growers of our acquaintance.
He raises all the List of good things for
family use and for market, with. the re-
suit, in one case, of adding much to
home happiness, and, in the other, of
realizing more from forty-five acres in
a single year than many an average
farmer" gets from seven times as large
q surface in three times as many sea-
sons. He read at various public meet
ings the past winter report of some
phases of his experience and observa-
ton during a quarter of q century, MAX
ing most valuable statement, some
leading practical points Of which we
transcribe, in condensed form for read
ers of the Tribune. First, as to the
character and layout of the garden:
Select, if you can have choice, q
piece of light, loamy soil, with little
sand, if you can get it. 4 heavy clay
soil will raise as large crop, but it is
not so early, and is much more expen-
sive and difficult to work. Corn, beans,
peppers, tomatoes, vines of all kinds,
require a warm soil and will do their
best in no other. A place for the wife
and children's flowers should not be for
gotten or neglected. In laying out g
garden on farm take plenty of room,
and arrange the rows in such q manner
that the greatest possible amount of
work can be performed with the horse.
Now few words in reference to time
of planting:
''Peas and onions should be put in as
early as the land is in good condition to
work. If the ground freezes hard soon
after they are sprouted it will not injure
them. Parsnips, beets, carrots, radishes,
turnips, cabbage and caulihover, lettuce
and satisfy will all bear a little frost
after they come up, but not much.
The selection of seed will be puzzling
and difficult in proportion to the desire
one may have for testing the numerous
new varieties which, like the poor, are
always with us. Our authority has
done good deal of "lottery business"
in this direction, and, he says, "drawn a
marvellous number of blanks, some of
them very annoying and expensive and
only rarely a prize" So he puts faith
now in the appended list, mostly of the
old standard kinds:
Asparagus--Conoyer's Colossal.
Beans-Bush German Dwarf Black
Wax; pole, Lima. Beets-Egyptian
for first Blood Turnip for fall and win
ter, Cabbage-First, Early Jersey
Wakefield; fall and winter, Premium
Flat Dutch. Carrots Larry Scarlet
Horn, Caulihower-Early Erfurt.
Celery-Golden Dwarf Cucumbers-
White Spine. Lettuce-Curled Simp-
son and Boston Market Musk melons
White Japan and Hackensack. Par
snips-Common Dutch Hollow Crown
Peas-Extra Early Dan O'Rourke,
American Wonder. Champion of
England. Pepper-Large Bell and
Butternosed. Radishes-French Break
fast and Covent Garden. Ruta Bagas
American Purple top, improved.
Squash-Scallop, American Turban
Hubbard. Sweet corn--Early Mime
sofa. Crosby's Early, Stowell's Ever
green. These, if planted at the same
time, will give proper succession. To
mato-Trophy and Acme. Turnips--
Flat Dutch. Watermelons-Mou
Sweet.
An evil under the sun is miscellane-
GUS nomenclature. For instance:
II have had early peas sent to me
under different names and by different
seedsmen and all planted on the same
day, all cared for precisely alike, and
all alike claiming to be remarkably
early and prolific as we'll as excellent in
quality, and yet every one of them pre-
cisely like the old Extra
Early Dan O'Rourke that used to grow
do not know how many years ago.
The American Wonder is the only one
Of the new varieties that I have tried in
many years that really, seems to be an
acquisition to our list. 1t is dwarf
about second early, and with me a good
bearer and of excellent quality. linen
ton this to show the farmer that ts a
rule it is better for him to rely upon the
old standard list, until some grower
with whom he is acquainted has fairly
tested the new variety, and ascertained
whether or not it is worthy of cultiVa-
ton"
Among small fruits our author has
tried to recommend only what will do
we'll with fair cultivation in any good
soil. Wilson is the strawberry-if YOU
can only get it true to name--with No.
80 and Sharpless "for few show Der
ries," Bonner Prolific as "a fair
bearer Of excellent quality" and Ken
lucky, admirable for prolonging the
season: -
II ain constantly trying those of the
new varieties that seem to me most likely
to do we'll, but almost invariably lose
both time and money. I have some
twelve Or fifteen varieties of these now
on trial, but presume the result with
nearly or quite all will be the same as
with hundreds of others I have had DUR
ing the last twenty-five years, namely,
after two or three years of trouble and
expense plough them under for manure. =
In conclusion President Smith recalls
a fact or two showing that exercise Of
some good, common sense" is ell that is
| needed to insure success. In twenty
five years he has failed but once to har-
vestSa paying crop, even Of straw erries,
but during the same period potatoes
have repeatedly proven unproftable. b
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Cottage Cheese. IS
a kind Of cheese recently coming into
idemand in all our chief towns and cities,
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