The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-18
Notes From Carolina Garden.

We are now in the full rush of get
/ ting ready for the fall and winter
crops. The first lettuce has been sown,
and to-day we are getting land ready
for onion sets and spinach, and in a
short time will have to be making the
succession sowing Of lettuce. For the
| first time we have no Big Boston let
| tuce. Our frames this winter will be
! planted with Maximum. Giant Crystal
| Heal and California Cream Butter let
tuce. We are counting greatly on the
| Giant Crystal Heal. from the way il
acted from spring soWn seed. Maxi
mum makes sharper and more sugar
loafed head than Big Boston, and is
bigger, too. But we expect the Crys-
tai Head to come in first The Won
derful we will SOW last. to winter over
for spring setting, and for this crop
it is really a wonderfully fine lettuce.
The Chinese Winter radishes will be-
sown early in September and we have
both the white and the red.
In the flower garden the gladoli are
nearly ripe enough to lift and we will
get them out of the ground III time To
put turnips in their place. This looks
Il little like mixing things, but it is AL,
one big garden and the gladoli are
just as much a crop Wills us as the
turnips.
We have a late crop of corn comina
on from seed ripened this season. ans
hope that we will get roasting ears
from it. What a climate we have, to
be sure, where one can plant corn
from the middle of March to the mid
die of August and have d constant
succession of ears for the table. AS
frost sometimes holds off until late ny
November, we have very good chance
for roasting ears on our corn, now but
few inches above the ground, and
the third crop this season on the lana
where it is growing.
We have but one variety of egg-
plant this season, the old New York
Improved, and it is hard to find any
better. They have done wonderfully
this season, and the plants are almost
tree-like in stature, producing more
fruit than We can possibly consume.
though as we have said. the blight
struck part of them early In the sea-
son, but it proceeded no further than
where COW manure was put on in the
fall Those mulched. after planting,
with horse stable manure have not
blighted at all. Perhaps the COW ma
nure, which was bought, brought the
fungus with it.
We have the finest crop of figs for
several years, Notwithstanding the
cold weather last winter. In fact, I
have about come to the conclusion that
it was an ideal winter. for at no time
did it get as cold as we have had it at
times nor did it get warm enough at
any time to excite vegetation, as Is
too often the case here. The result
was that everything wintered we'll.
Some of the fig trees in low ground
were nlpped, but none on high land.
Now the farmers wagons are brings
ing in figs and peddling them AT so
cents a peck. I find that the Bruins
wick is as hardy as any ana is much
better than the Brown Turkey, which
is the sort most generally grown here.
| have the two sorts side by side, and
when the young folks go into the gar
den to eat figs they take at once to
the Brunswick, mainly because it is a
| larger fig and more attractive in ap-
pearance, and it is really a better Zig.
The young trees from cuttings sent me
from Washington have not yet borne,
and j will look with a great deal of
interest to their fruiting, for though in
years past | have grown over so vari-
cites OF figs, l have never had these
varieties, and they are said to be pecu.
| liarly hardy. But as Mr.. Meehan has
told the readers of The PracticaI
Farmer, it is perfectly easy to have
| figs in abundance even where the mer-
laying them down and covering with
earth. j formerly grew them in cold
section of Northern Maryland up near
the Pennsylvania line. as fine as they
grow here. My trees were branchad
from the ground, and in the late fail
after the leaves were off, the limbs