Year: 1860

HINTS FOR THE SEASON.


A little attention at this time to the
Kitchen Garden will be of more service
than a much greater amount of labor at
any other season of the year.


Almost all plants, if the seed is good,
will come up much too thickly for the
good of the crop. If the plants are crowd
ed they cannot be fully developed either
in root or fruit. Irish Potatoes planted
too closely will be small and few in hill
Beets. Carrots, &C, will not attain half
their usual size, and be much later in be-
coming eatable. Beans and Peas will
yield but a small crop, and the vines will
soon die Corn will perish from lack Of
nutriment before the ear is formed. Snap
Beans are almost always too thick; six or
eight inches asunder in the drill being
quite near enough where the greatest
product for the longest time is desired.
OF all crops of which the unripe fruit Is
used, such as Beans, Peas and Okra it is
necessary to allow none of the seed to II
pen. If this is attended to, many varie-
ties will continue to bear an indefinite
time. while they would soon dry up and
perish if the fruit is allowed to mature.
The object and end of plants existence
is to continue its race; and many annual
plants, if the blossoms are removed before
seeding and suitable winter protection Is
given, can be kept year or two in health,
beyond their usual term of existence, but
perish when they mature their seed.


Weeds of all kinds are beginning to
start vigorously, and require immediate
removal before they have robbed the
Young crops of their destined nourish-
ment. 1t is easySby doing the whole
work in season, to Keep a garden clean
| and. indeed, it requires less work to dc
most things thoroughly in their proper
time than to half do them at the wrong
| period.


| DO not gather your asparagus too close
| ~, all the small shoots should be left tC
strengthen the roots. No growth can be
made by plants without the agency of the
| leaves. and if these are removed as fast a
they appear, the plant is greatly weaken
+ ed and finally destroyed. A greater quan
tity can be gathered from a bed of good
shoots, by leaving all that are not quit,
strong, than by taking every shoot tina
| springs up.


In the case of spinach, cabbage, anC
rhubarb, the same caution should be ob
served. Cabbage that Is destined to heaC
should not have a leaf taken from it. Will
from spinach the outside leaves onl,
should be taken, leaving to each plan
full half the foliage. Rhubarb that ha
been planted the past winter must no
have its leaves removed the present sum
mer, all of the foliage is required t
strengthen the root. Another year. if tn
right varieties have been selected. it vii
yield freely, and well-grown, tull-size
leaf stalk will make pie of the commo
dining-plate size. IL becomes fit for us
10y the first April, and lasts through tn
entire summer, and is, in quality, secon
only to the apple. At the North, wher
apples are plenty, tons of rhubarb al
weekly marketed in all the great cities


1t Is perfectly easy to raise it here a
that is required being good roots of tn
Linnaeus Victoria, Colossal, or Cahoon
Mammoth sorts to start with. The
should be planted early in winter, in
deep, good soil, in an open exposure.


root or two may perish the first season
but there will be little difficulty after th
plants get established. Let it be unde
stood that we are speaking of the tru
rhubarb plant with the leaf one an
a half to two feet across, and leaf stall
an inch or two in diameter-not of I'll
Patience Dock. which all through I'll
country bears the name of pie plant,
rhubarb, and is good for nothing exceI
to form an addition to the universal "b
con and green's" The rhubarb was intr
duced into general use about the san
time with the tomato, and wherev,
known is quite as highly esteemed.-Fc
| and FireSide.