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late varieties between tlie rows of early one?, make your ground bear two or 

 three crops a year. 



For planting tlie garden select the best of everything — the best varieties, 

 the best jilants or seeds. Even if the first cost is a little more, it will pay in 

 the end. 



In the sowing of seeds great care should be taken with regard to tlie depth 

 of planting, tenqicrature, condition of soil, and moisture. 



The nature of the seed must be consulted. Peas and beans do not need as 

 finely pulverized a soil as celery, neither should the depth of sowing be the 

 same. Peas will germinate at a temperature but little above the freezing 

 point, while beans would decay. Some seeds have tender skins and germinate 

 quickly, while others have almost a horny covering and refpiirc a much longer 

 time. Wiien the seeds are out of the ground work begins in earnest. Some 

 one says ''garden work needs a large stock of patience, and is said to be an 

 excellent discijiline for an irritable temper." 



The weeds will grow as Avell as useful plants, and constant care is needed to 

 keep them in subjection. 



Work one week and rest the next will not answer, but a little done every day 

 will accomplish all. 



A crop of weeds and otlicr plants cannot be raised together under any circum- 

 stances, and one must cultivate in season and out of season. 



A gardener says, "remember tillage is manure, tillage is earliness, tillage is 

 moisture in drought, and you cannot give too much of it."' 



But the garden has other enemies than weeds. Cutworms and other worms, 

 insects of various kinds, for all of which there are prescriptions innumerable, — 

 fresh sods or balls of clover laid among the plants to trap the cutworms, boxes 

 with glass tops, Paris green, ashes, etc., etc., for insects, salt for worms, — but 

 highly enriched soil and thorough cultivation, so that plants shall grow rapidly, 

 seems one of the most effective measures. 



• One gentleman has had excellent success in destroying insects by the use of 

 manure water. Cut-worms have also lied before it. lie showers the whole 

 plant, whetlier flowering or vegetable, with the water. 



Althougli gardening signifies labor, it also means pleasure and beauty, and 

 we believe that every man, woman and child would be happier, healthier and 

 better for the cultivation of a little plot of ground. 



The Home Journal says, "the day is coming when a lady will feel more 

 ashamed to confess an ignorance of flowers than of music," but there is cer- 

 tainly no reason t(j limit her knowledge to jloivers. Let her be acquainted with 

 all plant life. 



Our insane asylums would doubtless have fewer innnites, if some of the wives 

 and niotliers who toil from earlv mornim:! until late at night indoors could have 

 an opportunity to spend a little time each day out of doors, breathing the 

 fresh air, and resting by a change of occupation, while watching the growth 

 of a variety of plants would give a liealthy tone to the mind. Mr. Henderson 

 tells of an acquaintance whose duties compelled him to be at his desk in the 

 city from 9 a. m. until 4 p. ii., and as a consequence dyspepsia was likely to 

 compel him to resign. He was a man of forty, without any knowledge of 

 country life, and very reluctantly he changed his city home for a cottage in 

 the country. This was built upon a lot fifty by one hundred feet, and he 

 was troubled what to do with the land. Mr. llenderson told him he believed 

 the cure for all his bodily ills lay in that little plat of ground, besides it would 



