The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-04
THE FARM AND THE GARDEN
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURIsT AND HOUSEWIFE.

past twenty-five or thirty years.
To some extent, however, there has
been Improvement in some directions and
to such an extent as to render the kinds
most commonly used twenty-five years
ago nearly obsolete.
There has been decided Improvement in
few vegetables at any rate in that
time, such as beans, celery, garden corn,
caulhower, cabbage and perhaps a few
others. That is, we have varieties of these
vegetables that are more readily grown
to perfection by the average gardener
than they were twenty-five or thirty
years ago Many gardeners nowadays
can grow perfect celery, caulifower, but
ter beans, hardhead cabbage, sweet corn,
etc, where they failed to do 50 some
years ago.
The seed catalogues of to-day TEEN with
a useless enumeration of varieties that
only puzzle the average gardener. In
cabbage, beans, potatoes, tomatoes AMI
others there are hundreds of named sorts
listed that are of no use whatever. There
are synonyms world without end, and if
the proper thing was done nine-tenths
of these would be eliminated. At the fur
thest, there is no excuse for naming more
than a dozen different varieties of any
garden vegetables. In one or two in
stances as many as twenty varieties
might be properly included in a practical
catalogue
There are few gardeners who make use
of more than three different kinds of any
one vegetable. There is nearly always
only one best kind for a particular pur-
pose. though there may be a number Of
good sorts that may be used as second
or third choice.
The amateur, for the sake of pleasure of
having great variety. may plant many
varieties of the different vegetables that
differ from one another in eariness or
color or shape, but the practical grower
would not concern himself with anything
of this character.
Eariness is usually obtained at the
expense of quantity or quality, perhaps
both. The best varieties of the different
vegetables. the kind that will pay the
best profit are not usually the kinds that
the amateur chooses.
And of those vegetables that are also
grown for feeding stock there are al
ways better kinds to be grown for table
use. These are mostly root crops-beets,
turnips carrots parspips and potatoes.
For table purposes there exists vast
difference in cabbage, onions. squashes.
beans and many other vegetables. Some
are tender and delicate, while others are
coarse and uninviting, compared TO the
better kinds. An astute and experienced
vegetarian will soon observe the diff
ference.
OF the two score of garden vegetables
there is rarely found in the average far
mer's garden more than six or eight dill
ferent species. In the home garden of
the jealous amateur there should be
found from first to last of the garden
a
tables. From such a garden life is east
ly lived well if one attaches any import
ance TO such living.
In naming the best varieties of vege-
tables for table use, il is not possible to
name just one that will suit every one
above all others. Soil and climatic condi-
tons make a great difference oftentimes.
So while in some instances only one kind
is named as the best in many others,
two or three kinds are named, one being
better than another for certain purposes:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Palmetto.
Beans (snap)-Golden Wax; Valentine.
Beans, Butter-Southern Pole; Hender-
sens bush.
Beets-Dewings: Bastians.
Carrots-Early Danvers.
Cabbage-Surehead; Fottlers; Ameri
can Savoy, All Seasons.
Cauliflower-Dry Weather; Snowfall.
Celery-White Plume: Mexican.
Cucumber-Early Frame White Spine.
Corn-Adams'; Tuscarora; Blounts.
Eggplant-New York Improved.
Onion-Bermuda: Creole Queen.
Leeks-Giant American.
Okra-Southern Smooth Pod.
Lettuce-Big Boston; Improved Cos.
Potato, Irish-Triumph Goodrich;
Ohio.
Potato. Sweet-Bunch Yam; Pink Span
ish.
Turnip-Early Milan: Kashmyre.
Tomato-Moore's Tail; Dwarf; Cham
pion; Matchless Golden Queen.
Spinach-Long Standing; New Zealand.
Peas-English, John L., American
Wonder.
Salsify-Sandwich Island
Squash-Yellow Crookneck.
Radish-All kinds mixed; Long Scar
let.
Parsley-Fern Leaf.
Parsnip-Improved Hollow Crown
Pepper-Ruby King; Birds Eye.
Misunderstanding MONARCHY; Triumph;
Augusta Rattlesnake.
This is choice list of vegetables
for table use it could not be easily inn
proved.
There are a few other vegetables that
should be found in every well-conducted
garden, Such as rhuOarb, French artl-
choke, mustard, Brussels sprouts Cele-
riac, kohlrabi, dress. kale, and then there
are several herbs that should likewise
and a place therein in them-sage, bore
hound, lavender ramsay. carraway.
No country garden should contain less
than an acre and it should be so arranged
and cultivated as to take on the aspect
of a little park-the most enjoyable acre
about the farm.
1t should contain several of the small
fruits. In one section there should be
few Japan plums, a few pears 50 or 100
grapes few raspberries, more strawber-
ries, some dewberries, some blackberries.
OF course it requires labor and care to
keep up such a garden, but il will al
ways be worth vastly more than its cost.
1t isn't every one. of course, who can
have an acre garden so conducted. Some
must be content with a half; others with
a quarter. some less. But il should al
ways be as large and well managed as
circumstances will allow. Ii is an econ
omy. 1t is a recreation. 1t is a school
for the children. A small family could
live well from the product of one-acre
garden. managed as a Frenchman or a
Hollander would manage it. God speed
the day when the state Of Georgia alone
will contain thousands of such gardens
that bring more ready money to the intel
! ligent, energetic small farmer than he
now gets from the reckless hap-hazard
cultivation of twenty acres. The day
VIII come. no doubt. when II will be better
understood what an acre of land, rich to