The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-23
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.

The Value of Brush Arbor-Impie-
ments of the Gnrden-GoOd Seeds.
Oranges for Hedges-Crab Grass
for Hay-Success in Market Gar
dentnG-CrOss-bred Hogs the Best
If we style frame or place wherein
we grow plants in the winter or early
spring cold frame" we might with
due propriety apply the term hot frame
to one in which we grow pants in the
heat of summer.
II the one is intended TO protect from
cold. the other is likewise intended to
protect from h9at. But as we might con-
fuse the term with hotbed which is
well known application of heat to protect
from cold, perhaps it would not be well TO
introduce the term hot frame into. the
vocabulary of gardening.
In starting certain crops 1t is found ad-
vantageous to grow the pants first in
prepared seed beds and afterwards trans
fer them to the open ground. We get
much earlier start with certain crops in
the spring by sowing the seeds in frames
or even in warm borders along a fence
for by this means we procure even grown
plants that we can set out about the time
ii would be safe to risk the sowing of the
seed in the open ground. 1t makes a diff
ference of several weeks in the maturity
of many vegetables.
So in midsummer, from the middle of
June to the middle of August, by SOW
ing the seeds of certain Vegeta bles In a
place that is protected from the direct
rays of the sun from 10 or IL O'Clock in
the morning until or o'clock in the at
ternoon, 1t is quite possible to secure
termination and normal growth of plants
when, if exposed to the steady rays of
tine sun, the young pants would be killed
out even if termination had been erected,
In Southern ATTITUDES a brush arbor for
growing summer plants is as valuable TO
the garden almost as the cold frames are
for growing early spring plants.
This brush arbor usually is most eco
nomically made of pine tops or brush,
but anything that will make intense shade
VIII answer the purpose. The arbor can
be made either along the fence or out in
the open, but it is some better 10 make
il along the west fence 1t should be
raised about six feet above the ground,
and can be any width or length desired
Under this arboT l. is possible, with the
aid of a little wafer to terminate read
lily seeds of celery, cabbage, colards,
beets tomatoes Brussels sprouts, kale, in
fact plants of any thing that comprise the
winter or fail garden, and that should be
started anywhere from June TO August.
We have not tried growing onion plants
thus protected in August to provide plants
to set out in October, but we shall try it
this season. Instead of waiting till Octo-
Der to SOW the seeds In the open ground
it would be a great gain to have plants of
fair size to set out in October and No
vember. 1t is quite possible, however,
that it will be too warm for onions even
under a good shade in August, for it Is
a crop very impatient of heat. Along with
some other plants it requires tempera-
ture of soil below so for good germinatio
and growth.
But with the other plants above named
it is great advantage.
The chief thing to be done is to watch
the young plants that they are not de-
slroyed by their insect foes. of which
there are many at this season of the year
and later.
The proper insecticides must be ready
to hand, to be applied with the sowing
of the seeds and repeated as often as
y
p led with Little bellows is the most re-
liable insecticioe to have on hand. What
ever WAFER is used for watering the DIS
or plan 5 should be tainted with kerosene
oil or carbolic acid. A few tar balls pace
in the soil t int r seems to have
gocd effect in keeping certain insects in
check.
The soil under the arbor should be deep
ly pre- AIRED and puverized, then firmed
10
seeds in four or five-inch drills about half
an inch deep, cover and finn, then water
to satHia on Have at hand some goo1
mulching material to put between the
rows of p,an.s and there will be less need
for watering the beds. For most plants
that are grown for fall or winter use
there is no need to set out befo. e the last
of August in our latitude.
The chief requirements in gardening
are: First. Good seeds. One should go 10
siderable trouble to secure the very
best. There are a great many inferior
seeds palmed off on gardeners and far
mers and every year there are thousands
Of failures owing to bad seeds.
Second good soil. well prepared is
the next requirement, and third, the next
is good cultiV alton. No crop should ever
be allowed to become weedy, for II Is
much easier to kill the weeds before they
come up than to kill them after tney nave
taken hold among the plants.
Fourth One cannot garden satistactor-
ily without suitable Implements. Besides
the necessary hoes, there should be a
garden pillow, or wheel hoe, as it Is term
ed A hand roller is essential a very
heavy rake and a light one are neces-
sary. A grubbng noe with long han
die is a good tool to have at hand; also
q pronged hoe and a pronged spade
A hand pillow with its several points is
an indispensable tool in any garden I'M
der twenty acres The soil being once
well broken with the horse pillow, there
are many crops that can be carried on TO
maturity with this implement only such
crops as onion, celery, radish, lettuce,
etc, etc.
blackberry Wine.
Mrs. NJ. B.: The making of wine is
,or,, eivonIe Pick over the berries and