HINTS FOR YOUNG GARDENERS. 



throughout the season. If half the people in New- York act upon these suggestions they 

 will grow more tomatoes than are now brought into their markets all the year. 



I should mention that although I planted out the purchased plants, I put out by way 

 of experiment, half a dozen of those I sowed in May, when they were six inches high or 

 so, and although they were some weeks later than the others, I am now gathering equally 

 good fruit from them. 



There is no reason whatever why the yards, (for they cannot with much propriety be 

 dignified with the name of garden plots,) in many of our cities should not be made availa- 

 ble either for ornament or usefulness. Amongst flowers, the numerous climbing plants 

 would any of them take off the naked appearance they now almost uniformly present, 

 and amongst vegetables any of the running beans would be better than doing nothing with 

 them. But taking into account the red spider and some other equally " kind friends," 

 who take an interest in gardening pursuits, I doubt whether my tomato idea will not be 

 be found as good a one as many others; that they will succeed I can from experience tes- 

 tify. An Amateur. 



HINTS FOR YOUNG aARDENERS. 



BY AMERICUS. 



We quite agree with our good friend Jeffreys in his remarks contained in the Sep- 

 tember number, that want of taste amongst us, and too much anxiety about dollars and 

 cents, is fearfully impeding our enjoyment of the beauties of nature, as well as depriving 

 us of those feelings of personal satisfaction in the results of our own well directed pur- 

 suits, which contribute so considerable a portion of the happiness of the leisure hours of 

 those who have once learned to appreciate them. But although much is undoubtedly 

 owing to the above causes, this state of things is in a still greater degree owing to the 

 want of knowledge in gardening matters which exists amongst us. Many a man who for 

 the first time gets hold of a piece of ground, would, we think, become a gardener, if he 

 knew how to make a beginning; but he don't want to incur the expense of a gardener con- 

 tinually, and if he buys a book about gardening, he finds so much that he thinks difficult 

 to effect, or too troublesome to undertake, that he lays down the book in disgust, and his 

 intended garden remains a wilderness. 



Let us endeavor to give a few hints to beginners, of quite a homely kind, and try if we 

 can get them to do something that will, with little expenditure of either time or money, 

 put them in the way of having next year something. to look at, and something to eat also, 

 from those few square yards of ground that surround the pretty cottage residence in which 

 may reside as manly a heart, aye, and may be, for its companion, as pretty a face as ever 

 graced a palace. 



Winter is approaching; before it comes, and without loss of time, knock together a few 

 boards, and make a garden frame; get a couple of glass lights to cover it, surround the 

 frame with earth or litter up to its edge, at least eighteen inches or two feet, all round, 

 and provide a cover by making a straw mat, or a wooden one of old boards, to put over 

 the glass at night, when the hard frosts set in. In the frame sow at once some flower 

 of any hardy sorts, such as Nemophilla, Candy Tuft, Larkspur, Phlox Drummon- 

 weet Alyssum, Sweet William, Antirrhinum, Pink, Polyanthus, Stock, Columbine, 



