St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-11
miles: seventh. ALP miles; eighth, 455
miles and ninth, All miles.
KITCHEN GARDEN.
A Few Points Suggested by the
Season of the Year.

In 1852 that renowned statesman,
Daniel Webster, wrote: Cultivate
your gardens. Be sure that you provide
sufficient quantities of useful vegetables.
A man may half support his family
from a good garden" Webster knew
this from personal experience, says the
Farm and FireSlde. He had ipaSSed his
youthful days on a farm. His father
was one of the intelligent, thinking
farmers of New England.
One would naturally suppose that on
the farm, if nowhere else, the garden
would be we'll cultivated, and at least
the more common varieties of vegetables
would be found in abundance. There is
lust where one finds himself often mis-
taken. There are hosts of farmers who
cultivate their field crops well--thor-
oughly, as the world goes-who do not
give an hours work 10 the garden.
They may plant a few potatoes, and
possibly set out few cabbage plants,
but that is as far as they go. If the
wife can leave her already too numer-
Gus cares long enough to scratch" a
plot Of ground for the sowing of a few
lettuce and radish seeds, very we'll: but
if she can't get out to do it, there will
be no seeds sown in that garden. The
idea. The shame OF it! The garden
work depending on the wife's frail
arms No, this is not fiction. 1t is clear
reality. and can be attested to by many.
Certainly, any reasonable man under
stands that vegetables contain material
for building up and otherwise benefit
ing the human system. Many of them
possess medicinal qualities of great
value. All are calculated to promote
good health. Indeed, the free use of
fresh vegetables, as well as fruit, cheat
the doctors out of many fees,
Then, knowing this. why does not
every farmer see to it that his
farm has a garden that will sup
ply his family with plenty of
fresh vegetables? Well, basing my
opinion on observation and expressed
sentiment. most men sdespise to work
in the garden;" and then it appears to
them that the time spent there is just
so much time needed in the field. The
field, you know, shows off to better adj
vantage. 1t must be that; for there are
few men who do not enjoy vegetables.
Then why deprive themselves and fam
lilies of the pleasure that a days work
will obtain. The garden need not all be
made the same day; the work may be
carried on at different times. few
hours at time. After the oats are
sown is a good time to see to the garden.
But it is not too early to do your
planning row. Vegetable seeds are to
be had very cheap in collections. The
seeds ale sent out by reliable firms in
quantities sufficient to supply an ordi-
nary family with vegetables all summer
and winter.
So many farmers there are who never
think of growing celery. They look
upon it as one of the luxuries to be Oh
tanned only at the market place. How
they err. Celery is as easily grown as
potatoes. The work is not nearly so
hard in reality as writer's on the subject
would have us believe. With the aban
donment of the old trenchng system.
the most of the labor attending celery
culture has disappeared. One thing
should be remembered; that is, never to
handle celery plants while they are
wet.
Vegetable oyster, too, is so delicious,
and of such easy culture, that it should
be more generally cultivated. If you,
reader, are one who thinks his time too
precious to be put in on the garden, do.
just for once, set aside your ideas, and
resolve. for the good of your growing
girls and boys, to have garden this
year. You will need but one trial to
convince you that good kitchen garden
is one of the best paying investments
on the whole farm, and not time lost.