EDITOR'S TABLE, 



juicy and sweet. Tree an erect, rapid, and handsome grower, and produces abundant crops 

 of fruit, which are borne in large chisters, and hang long on the tree. Kather late. Season 

 at Rochester about middle to end of July. 



No. 8. Blach Bugle — One of Knight's English varieties, like tlie KnigMs Early Blade, a 

 cross between the Yellow Spanish and May Dulce. In form and color it resembles the 

 KnighVs English Blacky but has a longer and more slender stalk. Fruit large, high flavoredi 

 and excellent. One of the best, if not the best black among the old well proved varieties in 

 cultivation. Tree vigorous and hardy, forming a handsome, regular, round head. 



IIiNTS FOG TOE Seasox. — Ovviug to the backwardness of the spring, kitchen garden croj<s 

 will be later than usual in many parts of the country; the first sowing, both in frames and 

 in the open ground, were lost through sudden changes and protracted periods of severely 

 cold weather in March and April. In this part of the country we had no good growing 

 weather till about the 5th or Gth of May. Much may be done to make up for this, by se- 

 lecting such varieties of vegetables as come most quickly to maturity, and by encouraging 

 their growth with extra care and cultivation, a constant use of the hoe, and frequent appli- 

 cation of liquid manure, should the weather be dry. It should be borne in mind that a con- 

 stant supply of vegetables, of the best quality, cannot be kept up without good manage- 

 ment in regard to successive sowings. This is especially the case with Radishes, Peas, and 

 String Beans, which are only fit for use in a young state, and for a short time. Lettuce is 

 another thing of which a continual supply of young plants should be kept up by every one 

 who wishes a good salad for the table every day. Too little attention is given to the cul- 

 ture of vegetables for soup. Our American housewives give too much attention to cake 

 and confectionery, and far too little to soups. No dinner table in this country should be 

 without its soup. The kitchen garden should send into the cook a regular daily supply of 

 small Carrots, Turnips, Leeks or Onions, Parsley, with a little of such flavoring herbs as 

 Thyme, Sweet Marjoram, Summer Savory, Mint, (fee. "We wish that some of those good 

 ladies who are devoting their time to public affairs, would turn their attention towards rev- 

 olutionizing our system of cookery. The preparation of food is a science, if womeft would 

 so regard it ; few of them, however, give it the least attention. They can boil or bake a 

 Potatoe, roast a joint of meat, and make two or three sorts of pies or puddings; and there 

 is an end of it. Our miserable system of cookery is a cause leading to a rapid deterioration 



of the race. 



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The Flowek Gaedex. — Bedding out Plants. — In many parts of the country it is not safe 

 to trust bedding plants from houses or frames, to the open garden, before the first of June. 

 "We prefer waiting until the weather is settled, the ground well warmed, and all danger of 

 frost over. Then get well-established plants, bed out thickly, water overhead freely in the 

 evenings, and the ground will soon be covered; thinly planted beds look meagre. Among 

 the plants adapted to our summer climate, the Verhena, Petunia, Scarlet Pelargonium, 

 Ileliotrope, Salvia, and Lantana, are prominent. The Cuphea platyceritra, Argcratum ccb- 

 lestinum, Bouvardia tripliylla, and Veronica Lindlcyana, are also excellent plants for this 

 purpose. Select pure and brilliant colors, and arrange the masses of each so as to produce 

 the greatest effect. A great variety of plants is not so essential to the formation of glowing 

 masses of flowers as an abundant supply of the best sorts. 



lias. — ^^I'lant the first and second week of this month, (we seldom plant our principal 

 till the latter end) ; strong, well-established pot-plants, raised from cuttings, are bet- 



