The Penn's Grove record., 1897-06-04
Plea for the Garden.

Lively III i'AhB ~ thS NOoAN
or in any suburban place where land
is not too costly should make it n of
their duties to cultivate a garden,
however small it may be. Even though
it is nothing more than a hot-bed, it
has its uses and must not be neglected.
Indeed, a good hot-bed is by no les
au unimportant item in bleprovision.
Its close second is the cold frame,
which may be kept in use all summer
long for the purpose of raising q few
tender vegetables and the cuttings in
which every lover of flowers delights.
The cold frame is SO easily arranged
and so manageable that nc n who
has ever enjoyed the possession of
such luxury will willingly be without.
In a cold frame of four ordinary
hot-bed sashes, three feet by six, one
may raise lettuce for a small family,
parsley, radishes and young onions.
There are few more highly priced
delicacies than the little onions n
may grow iii a well-managed cold
frame. Mixed with cucumbers they
are a most relishable and healthful
dish, and n that the epicure finds
specially toothsome in the earlier days
of summer.
The vegetable garden will be more
and more valuable to the family as the
processes af nptting-n vegetables be-
ee46e more 4esfly understood. To
can garden products of all sorts is ex-
tremely easy if one only knows how
and has the patience TO do the few
necessary things thoroughly and at
the proper time.
Homegrown garden stuff gathered
freshly and put up before any OF
the processes Of fermentation have
begun is far superior to any and oil
factory-canned goods, ave possibly a
few fancy brands which command very
high prices and have a well deserved
reputation for extremely high quality.
Factory goods are made up for the
most part of the miscellaneous gath
erings from the gardens of the farmers
in the immediate neighborhoods OF
from the markets of the towns and
cities. 1t is scarcely to be supposed
that those who supply such products
will use extra care in sorting them
Every one counts either in number OIL
in weight or in bulk and yields JUS
so much greater profit to the grower.
A critical examination of the fruit and
vegetables that go into the great FAC
tories to be put up for good trade
would not create an appetite for sucf
wares.
The careful and skillful housewife
who puts into her preserving Kettle
only perfect specimens, who sees tina
they are absolutely clean and tina
there are no landings by soiled lin
gers, has canned fruit and vegetables
that N might eat with the keenes
relish. The dainty and fastidiou
cook appreciates these minor point
and enjoys the preparation OF ZOO
which she knows is Immaculate as !.
cleanliness and irreproachable as U
the quality of the original product.
With a little forethought and plan
ming one may put up a large quantit
of fruit at a very small cost OF time an
trouble. Do not undertake crate upo
crate al one and the same time. 1T
the other extreme. Get q doze
boxes of berries or a small basket
tomatoes, and some day while Dime
is cooking prepare and can a few bo'
ties, and see if the canning OF tru'
carried on by such easy stages is NJ
; very much more satisfactory tina
when done with a rush and hurrah:
String beans, peas, asparagus, lin
beans. corn and almost all other vel
etables may be canned by q very SIN
pie process Make them ready as K
cooking for the table, put them I'M
glass Jars, place them in a boiler
water containing a little straw
shavings so that the glass VIII n
come in contact with the boiler; the
pnt on the cove of the boiler an
cook for about six hours. Lit u
cover at the end of this time, put {
the rubbers and covers OF b can
which must be very hot and adlust'
quickly, after which the boiler
, again covered. Let the boiling co
i time for twenty minutes, then scre
the can covers down tightly and d.
, for half an hour longer; then take 7
:, boiler. cans and all, from the tre al
: allow the cans to cool in the water.
I Another way is to putthe vegetabl
into tho cans and put the covers a.
! rubbers on at once, but leaving I
= covers loose. After four hours be
int screw down the covers as tigh'
accessible and boil two hours long
razApve from the fire and cool befe
: rel bving the cans from the water.
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