St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-30
Farm and Horticultural Notes.

Plants add so much to the beauty OF
| home; they make the dull winter Gays ana
| nights so cheerful that 1t is worm "hile
| to nurse them If we do not try to MAKE
life pleasant it is very doubtful II IL Will
| be pleasant.
Fall is by all means the best time to
start an asparagus bed, unless the SOIL o.
very heavy, damp and unframed ana N
the latter case some provision should p9
made for taking off the surplus moisture
at whatever time you plant.
According to q publication that gives
special attention to such matters, JusI no"
fashion declared the Chinese lily Inc mosI
popular flower. Although our government
has passed law prohibiting Cn,nese I'M
migration, it has not restricted the Celes-
tial from serding to us bulbs OF his sacred
lily"
Few people ever pass window filled
with Towering plants that they % not az
mire the taste that places them there.
A lady writing for the Farm Journ"1
gives some detailed advice shout canning
irnit She saws: With some fruits,
especially plums, there is apt to be sur
plus of syrup; it is best 10 fill the j4rs
with the proper proportion and then bottle
the extra syrup. 1t will be excellent to
eat on buildings or to put in mince pies
next winter. 1t could be made into jelly
by adding more sugar and cooking. but
rich iellies and jams do not agree very
we'll with modern habits of dyspepsia.
In town gardens we often see the mis-
take made of planting too close. The
area is limited and the town gardener
thinks he will make every inch respond to
his efforts. There is an excuse IN SUCH
cases for making the mistake; but there
is no excuse for planting too close on
quarter section.
We believe that the safest and surest
method is to diversity.
The growing of the larger fruits is of so
much importance to every farm that IL Is
worth while for US to sprnd vast deal OF
effort to solve the difficulties that have
been presented.
Carrots are good for stock. There is no
objection to using them on the table II
anybody likes them. Indeed, they make
healthful food
Nature plants plums in thickets. The
opium thicket" is familiar childhood
phrase.
Bury bones about the roots of the grape
vine. The vine has great love for bones.
Chopped straw, according to Prof. Beal
makes the best mulch for straw berries
Corn stalks or coar-e grass cut hne would
be equally good. Leaves from the forest
are good Chopping the straw makes it
more valuable for both mulching and bed
ding 1t makes it spread easier, and at
the same time it is more porous, holding
moro moisture and permitting air to pene-
trate more freely.
1t is a fac that most of the ounces that
are grown ara grown in haphazard way,
and perhaps if the ounce tree was better
taken care of it might pay to grow ounces.
The ounce usually bears well.
The American Stockman says many of
our fruits have been deprived of popularity
because of the difficult pronunciation of
their names. People are not going to ask
for variety of fruit, if they cannot pro-
nounce it's name. That is as sure as the
rising of the sun. The American Pomo-
logical Society did an excellent service
when it entered upon the work of simplify
ing the nomenclature of fruits 1t took
some of the hard compound names, cut eff
part of the nomenclature, and retained the
simplest, most easily pronounced part. At
the last meeting of the American Pomo-
logical Society, TOO, a gentleman pitched
into the Latin names which are applied to
fruits, in vigorous style. He said it was
nonsense and it is He affirmed that when
one of one nationality wrote to another of
another nationality about fruits he did not
use the Latin name, but the name as it was
10 the language of one of the nationalities
depending upon translation, if necessary,
to make the matter plain. This is true,
too. In this country we want to apply the
United States language to the nomencla-
| ture of our fruits and the simpler the name,
other things being equal, the greater the
popularity of the fruit, every time.