The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-17
sEAsONABLE HINTS.
For Fruit, Vegetable and Elovers,
About Planting, Insects and Tools.
North west horticultural

For Fruit. Vegetable and Flowers,
About Planting, Insects and Tools.
Northwest Horticultural
Fruit trees may still be set out during
this month. even If the leaves are partly
expanded, but the shoots should never be
cut back after the swelling of the buds.
Keep the sell clean and mellow about the
young trees. Where the soil cannot be
cultivated constantly, young trees should
be mulched. and If set late in the month
it Is better to apply the mulch in all such
cases.
Keep constant watch for caterpillars
which may be Matching out, and sec that
these are destroyed, either by gathering
and burning the nests or drench the
young pest with some emulsion or insecti-
eide.
The hoe and cultivator must be kent
constantly at work among the small
fruits when the ground is not too vet,
not only to keep down weeds, but to
loosen and Grate the soil.
In the vegetable garden, whenever the
soil 10 in good condition. no time should
be lost in sowing the harder sorts of vege.
table seeds. such as cabbages, beets.
parsnips. lettuce. onions. parsley, peas,
IouiSnCS, SpiuoCu, CtC, Sucn OF these
have not already been sown in the month
of March. This should he done in all
cases as early in the month as possible:
for if these varieties of vegetables are de.
iaved until the hot weather in Nav. thew
will not be so early nor will they produce
such good crops.
All potatoes. especially those for early
use, must be planted as soon as possible,
and small sowings made of thyme. mar.
joram, sage. dill and other herbs. without
which no garden is complete.
Cabbage and cauiitiower plants, onion
sets, shallots, ETC., should also be planted
as early in the month as possible, Toma.
toes. egg plants. peppers and other tender
plants may still be sown in the hotbed:
sweet potatoes put in to produce sprouts
to plant out next month, and a few en-
cumbers in hills to remain there and come
in for early use.
In the flower garden see that roses and
vines are properly trained, and prepare
beds for the annual flowers bv thorourhiv
pulverzing the ground. especially il the
soil is heavy, to a considerable depth. In
the field the plows should be kept going
in order to thoroughly pulverize the soil
where large root crops are to be planted.
In planting potatoes it has been rec
commended rs an excellent system to
trench out the soil TO a depth of eipht
inches and a foot wide, distribute fertilizer
in the bottom, which is stirred into thu
soil, cover with two inches of dirt. plant
the seed one foot apart in the row. cut 40
that each piece will have three strong
eyes and cover with soil so that the eronnd
will be nearly level. then when the sprouts
are nearly up to the surface, the ground
can be narrowed, Thus mellowine the soiI
and killing myriads of weeds, If such
there be.
See that all tools are sharp, strong and
in good shape. 90 that no Valuable tune
may be lost in making repairs when the
various kinds of growing crops need every
moments attention<the grower can give.
Every precaution should tie taken to have
strong fences where needed, SO that there
many be no intrusion Of stock to destroy
young tender plants and trees.