The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-08-11
FOR WINDOW GARDENS.
Simple Ways For Boys and Girls to Gain
Amusement From XegetabIes.

Simple Ways For ISoys and Girls to Gain
Amusement From Vegetables.
A few interesting and pretty features
may be added to young peoples gardens
by the common vegetables. Carrots,
turnips, parsnips, potatoes and beans
can all be put to unique and decorative
uses by any ingenious boy or girl.
Take a large carrot and cut it off
about five inches from the thick end.
Scrape out the pale yellow center until
there is hole three inches deep. Tie
stout string around it, hang i'll n light
place and fill the hollow center with
water. In few days the young sprouts
will begin to shoot, and it will not hc
long before the fcathery carrot leaves
grow out and up so as to almost entirely
cover the yellow root.
The parsnip is treated in the same
way, and when hung alternately with
the carrots they make very effective
showing. The water must be daily re-
newed.
Many amusing little things can be
made with the use of cress seed and
pieces of old wooden material. a bottle
tightly covered with flannel, dipped III
water and rolled i'll cress seed, Will soon
be covered with green, yclvety surface
if kept moist and III the light.
A boy who spends his summers on "a
New England farm, with more in
genuity than opportunity, makes each
year most interesting little garden
with the means of the few vegetables
and seeds at his command.
In one corner of his garden he erects
little square rustic arbor of bean poles.
no y,1a r. at and
as soon as they get to be almost six
inches high he begins to train them up
strings leading to the poles. The scarlet
runner is hardy, grows with great IA
pidity and bears clusters Of scarlet bios
SONS. They will grow in whatever di-
rection the strings along which they
climb are arranged, SO the little garden
er has limitless methods Of arranging
for doors and windows i'll his summer
house.
About the LIST Of June he starts his
carrots and parsnips. He hangs them
alternately along the front side of the
summer house-the one side where the
| scarlet runner is not allowed to creep.
In the little windows formed by tho
creepers he hangs sweet potatoes, al
ways choosing the place where they
will get the most sun.
Iii the center of the summer house he
usually has a small wooden table, over
which is tackled piece of dark blue
| flannel. On this he grows cress seed.
| One year he marked it off like a checker
board and kept it furnishing with crcss
| all through the summer 10y replenishing
| the seed. Just as the green squares We're
reaching perfection he would sprinkle
| the blue ones with fresh seed, so that
when one crop died down another was
ready to take its place.
Another year he covered round
| pumpkin with pale blue flannel, and
with the cress seed designed map Of
| the world He arranged this on a short
! pole and with the aid of a wire man
aged to have it revolve.
Another interesting experiment IS to
| put a bunch of grape blossoms into a
bottle with a small neck and hang the
bottle to the vine. In time the blossoms
will drop off and the grapes will form.
| They will soon completely fill the bot
tie, and if kept in the sun will ripcn.
Care should be taken to empty the bot
tie after each rain storm.
When the grapes have reached perfec-
sors The bunch may be preserved by
filling the bottle with boiling water
into which has been put q few teaspoon
fuls of alcohol and sealing firmly with q
cork and sealing wax.-Boston Globe.
JuIfenne Potatoes.
Wash and peel some potatoes, cut
them into small shreds, wash well and
dry on a cloth. Throw them few at
time into plenty of clear, boiling fat:
shake the potatoes about in the fat I'M
til they are crisp and of deep yellow
color. Drain on cloth, sprinkle slight
ly with salt and serve ON folded nap
kin. In order to move the potatoes well
in the fat SO that they be equal in color
it is best to use a frying basket, in
which the potatoes are placed for fryi
Row to Make a Plum Pie.
In making a plum pie the paste
should be rolled very thin. Pit the
fruit and fill the lined plate, heaping
it. Dredge lightly with flour and sprin-
kle with sugar. Cover with the pie
crust, making large vents to allow the
steam to escape. A plum pie should
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