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GARDENING. 



Oct. IS, 



Break an outside leaf in over the heads 

 of the hearting cauHflowers to save the 

 curds from frost. We lift and store our 

 cabbage in November, but people living in 

 colder parts mustn't wait as long. 



Gather your surplus Lima beans if the 

 the frost hasn't already damaged them; 

 the half ripe ones will do for cooking 

 later on, and the full ripe ones both for 

 cooking and seed. 



Attend to the winter spinach and Ger- 

 man kale, keep the ground clean about 

 them, and sweeten it by an occasional 

 scarifying with a steel prong hoe. 



Clear away all old and waste crops, 

 cart out the manure, and do all you can 

 towards getting the cleaning, manuring 

 and digging or plowing finished in the 

 fall to lighten the work in spring. 



VEOBTflBLE GARDEN NOTES. 



Bush Lim.\s.— We have had the Thor- 

 bum, Burpee and Henderson bush Limas 

 and consider them all desirable, the last 

 especially for earliness. Dreer's we have 

 long regarded as the best pole Lima and 

 we always plant it for main crop. It is 

 productive, but its tenderness and sweet- 

 ness are what we prize it for. 



Beets —The yellow tumipbeet has our 

 preference for sweetness, though we have 

 some red kinds to enliven the color 

 of the dish. 



Cabbage and Cauliflower —Savoy 

 cabbages we often find almost as good as 

 cauliflower, and except for early we want 

 no other forboiling. Mr. Thomas Bennett 

 of Trenton, N. J., told me of having ad- 

 mirable success with cauliflower in a gar- 

 den in which others had failed by water- 

 ing them freely with soap suds from the 

 weekly wash. 



Celery.— Having regard to flavor we 

 now raise only some of the pink or red 

 celeries. 



Tailbv-'s hybrid cucumber we esteem 

 as best of all in table qualitv. It is large 

 •and prolific. 



Egg Plant.— We tried the "Large 

 White" egg plant. It is productive but 

 small, and after two cookings we let all 

 the rest go to waste, because of qualitv. 

 But we tried another novelty in egg 

 plants which we can heartily recommend. 

 It is the Black Prince, introduced by a 

 European house. The fruit though small 

 is early, abundant and most delicious, 

 and the plant is handsome with its dark 

 stems and leaf veins. We shall want it 

 again. 



Heroine pea has been very satisfactory 

 through a succession of plantings. 



Carmine radish was as early and per- 

 haps of better quality than an extra early 

 fine French forcing sort. 



SC0R20NERA has nearly all run to seed. 

 Is that usual? [Under ordinary conditions 

 no. If sown before May, however, it has 

 always a lot of "bolting" or flowering 

 plants. No doubt the very dry summer 

 helped to drive the plants 'into bloom.— 

 Ed.] Still it is good on the table 



Thorburn Lemon Blush Tomato has 

 been more productive than several red 

 kinds the past dry .season on a very heavy 

 soil [Had it a bright red skin instead o'f 

 a lemon-blush one, this variety as it be- 

 haved with us this summer on enriched 

 sandy land, would be a triumph among 

 tomatoes, the fruits were so full, so juicy, 

 and so good.— Ed ] 



Turnips —A novelty in garden turnips, 

 the "Smooth White Forcing" from 

 Heinemann, is the best early summer tur- 

 nip » e ever h id, tender and sweet; but it 

 should be said that it had the advantage 

 over kinds formerly planted, of being well 

 watered with a hose. The White egg for 



early winter and Breadstone for late ar 

 favorite sorts with us. E. R. 



Plainfield, N.J. 



Hungarian grass as a fertilizer— I 

 find that Hungarian grass plowed under 

 will modify the effe ts of a long drouth. 

 Where I have my carnations planted out 



was sod land plowed over last August, 

 and notwithstanding the severe drouth 

 we have had this ground has been moist 

 all the time. Sow a little Hungarian 

 grass when your peas come off and plow 

 it under later, and watch results next 

 summer. 

 Long Island. C. H. A. 



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