472 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



will afford hoeing and weeding enough to keep the boys and girls out of mis- 

 chief — and money enough to lessen the cares and anxieties of the mother and 

 father. Onions want rich land, but 750 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre, 

 and 400 pounds of superphosphate will make any of our ordinary land richer, 

 for the first crop of onions, than seventy-five tons of barnyard manure. This 

 is true, no doubt, as far as it goes. But how about the potash? 



THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 



Live Well. — In Our Country Home we find the following: 



The farmer can be the very best liver in the land, just as easily as not, and 

 he should be. He has his choice of the world's produce. He holds a first 

 mortgage on the herds and flocks. The crops and fruits of the earth are his 

 to begin with, and he should "fare sumptuously every day." Why not? He 

 will be all the better man, and btetter farmer for it, and it is his duty as well as 

 his privilege. The only reason that he does not, is that he has permitted him- 

 self and his family to get ints a rut of beef and cabbage, pork and potatoes, 

 that he finds it diffiicult to get out of. This is all wrong from every point of 

 view. He should get out, he must get out, if he would make the most of him- 

 self and his family, and now is the time to make a beginning. Here's spring, 

 with all its gardening opportunities — improve them. Enlarge the bound- 

 aries of the garden, and enlarge your ideas of gardening at the same time. 

 Plan with liberal views, and plant with a liberal hand. Is the old garden 

 cramped? Turn it over to the women for the herbs, and a "posy bed," and 

 go out to the nearest side of the corn-field, and make a garden big enough in 

 which to spread yourself. Make the rows as long as the field is wide, and as 

 far apart as will admit your cultivator or horse-hoe, and some space to spare, 

 and in them plant something besides onions and cabbage. Take the catalogue 

 of the best seedsman you know, and let the whole list of vegetables, from 

 artichokes to turnips, be represented by one or two of the best sorts. Plant 

 every third row with some one of the "small fruits," giving it an extra liberal 

 share of space. Now give this side of the corn-field a little extra attention 

 during the season. Let it be the first when you begin to "cultivate," the last 

 when you finish up. You will never miss the time, and you will live better 

 than you have ever lived before. 



Celery in Beds. — People having but limited area for garden might grow 



celery in beds successfully, and have a good quality of product. We give 



below a very full account of how it is done in Maryland, on a large scale. 



It is from the pen of a Country Gentleman correspondent: 



The plants are such as are usually grown from seed sown in the open ground 

 in April. Planting is usually begun late in July, and for that which is to be 

 kept until spring, not until August 15. We usually plant celery in ground that 

 has been heavily manured in spring and planted in lettuce or some other early 

 crop that is soon out of the way. As soon as this crop is off, the land is 

 plowed, cultivated, rolled, and harrowed until it is perfectly fine. The beds 



