The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-18
Useful Garden G1eanings.

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Useful Garden Gleanings.
President J, NJ. Smith, says the N.
Y, Tribune, OF Inc 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
n single year than many an average
farmer" gets from seven times as large
u surface in three times as many sea-
ons He read at various public meet
ings the past winter a report Of some
phases of his experience and observa-
ton during n quarter of a century, max
ing a 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 q choice, o
piece of light, loamy soil, with a little
sand, if you can get it. A heavy clay
soil will raise as large q crop, but it is
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 befor-
gotten or neglected. In laying out q
garden or q farm take plenty Of room,
and arrange the rows in such u manner
that the greatest possible amount of
work can be performed with the horse.
Now a 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 iniure
them. Parsnips, beets, carrots, radishes,
turnips, cabbage and ~caulihower, 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 a good deal of lottery business"
in this direction, and, he says, "drnwn a
marvellous number of blanks, some of
them very annoying and expensive and
only rarely q prize" So he puts faith
now in the appended list, mostly OF the
old standard kinds:
Asparagus-Conover's Colossal.
Beans-Bush German Dwarf Black
Wax; pole, Lima. Beets-Igyptian
for first Blood Turnip for fall and win
ter. Cabbage-Iirst, Early Jersey
Wakefield; fall aud winter, Premium
Flat Dutch. Carrots-Early Scarlet
Horn, Canlifower-Early Erfurt.
Celery-Golden Dwarf. Cucumbers-
White Spine. Lettuce-Curled Simp-
son and Boston Market. Musk-melons
White Japan and Haclsensack. Par
snips-Common Dutch Hollow Crown.
Peas-Extra Early Dan ORourke,
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
tllne' VIII sise proper succession. 70
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