Rural and workman and "Ladies' Little Rock journal." (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1884, 1884-06-21
NRE GHRDER.

Sweet Herbs: Every garden should have small
bed OF sage, thyme, sayory, parsley and marioram.
In TACT, no garden is complete without them. They
can be grown from seed, aud once obtained remain
for long time being prOpagated by the seeds and
roots. vacant corner serves as a good place for
them or along the margin of the walks. The great
difficulty with herbs is that they are usually neg
ected and allowed to die away. If they are to be
permanent they should receive not only care but an
occasional manurng
Early Squash The bush or patty pan is the best
for early use, and may be put out at any time after
warm weather begins. This vegetable is often de-
stroyed by the striped bug, and the proper method
to pursue in order to prevent their attacks is to place
coal tar in water and keepit well sprinkIed with the
solution. They may be allowed to grow until fully
matured, but the squaShes should not become too
hard before being pulled. Pull them before they
begin to turn yellow. Stick the point of the finger
nail in them, and if the flesh yields easily they are
just right Rural and Stockman.
Growing Vegetables: A farmer on Long Island,
n Y; who has a farm of ffty-eght acres, raised on
it last year the following: Strawberries Is 900 quarts
early cabbages 10000 heads; early potatoes, 1900
bushels; early beets, 100 bushels potato onions 66
bushels; onions from Seed 3100 bushels; late pota-
toes $50 bushels; carrots, l. 800 bushels; corn in
ear, 800 bushels; white beans, rs bushels; potato
onions for seed % bushels; Brussels sprouts, 400
bushels; onion SETS 100 bushels; hay, five tons; cab
bage seed, IS pounds; carrot seed, IS pounds onion
seed, Opounds Brussels sprouts seed two pounds;
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Bleaching Celery: A writer in the Canadian Hor-
ticulturist, says: Some time since in strolling
through Stratford, the market garden of Bridge
port and Birmingham, Conn, | was much interested
in meeting w H. Benjamin and learning his method
ofbleachng celery Instead of earthing it up, as is
usually done Mr.. Benjamin simply tiesit up closely
in old news or other papers when it is ready for
bleaching, and at the end of from twelve to twenty
DAYS finds it is as nicely beached as though it had
been laboriously banked up. He says one-third
more celery can be got from an acre, because when
it is banked it does not need to be planted so far
apart; that great amount of labor is saved, and
that by this process the celery never ruSts.
Jerusalem Artichoke: Canon ElIacomb, very good
Pauthoritv, says the prevalent idea that Jerusalem
Artichoke is from the Italian "Girasoe"-tuning
with the sum e. "Sunaower," is nothing more
than clever guess He says the Italians do not
call the plant Girasoe, but Carciofo. There are
other plants with the prefix Jerusalem, i. e., Jeru-
salem Sage Jerusalem Oak Jerusalem Thorn, cru
salem Cowsip, etc, none of which ever came from
Jerusalem. And if we would know why this plant
is called Jerusalem Artichoke we must look back
through the centuries and find out why the name
Jerusalem was given to such things as these There
was probably a meaning, but the meaning has been
lost
One of the important things about the garden to
he closely watched, is the little corners, uncuIlyated
that grow up in weeds. Make vigorous war upon
these before the seed ripens
AS soon as garden crop is matured it should be
succeeded by something else. A crop of turnps
nc hundiIV ANYTHING else