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GARDENING. 



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THE WASHINGTON PEAR AS GROWN AT DOSORIS 



ill winter; and leave a part unfUig for 

 digging in spring. 



Of snap iiiiANS we have lots yet in cold 

 frames that are well banked around and 

 covered on top with sashes and mats or 

 sedge. 



Lima Beans.— The pole varieties are 

 I)ast, the straw stripped from the poles 

 and the poles stacked dry for use another 

 year. 



Asparagus. — Cut over the old straw 

 close to the ground, clear it away and 

 l)urn it up. It is worthless as a mulch as 

 all its leaves drop off soon after it is cut. 

 If any roots are required lor forcing dig 

 tliem up now and store them aside till 

 needed. 



Hekts.— Get them all up, topped and 

 covered from frost, and into a pit or 

 cellar as soon as practicable. Keep them 

 cool but away from frost When stored 

 cover the heap with some hay, thin sod, 

 a piece of old caqjet or matting, or the 

 like, to keep the beets from shrivelling; 

 strewing a little moistish earth or sand 

 over them answers the same purpose. 



Bkisskls SPROUTS are pretty hardy so 

 long as they are left undisturbed in the 

 field, but after being pulled ten degrees of 

 frost will hurt them. Strip the rougher 

 leaves from them, then pull them up and 

 store them heads up, and the roots in 

 some earth on the floor, and all close 

 together in some dry outhouse or shed, 

 or cellar not near a dwelling house (they 

 smell so badly ) where they can be kept 

 drv overhead and protected from severe 

 fro'st. Thev keep well till the first of 

 .\pril. 



Cabbage inclidinc, Savii\s.— .\bout 

 the middle of November we pull them, 

 strip oft the rougher leaves, then place 

 the heads close together and tops down 

 in a single or double row, in a furrdV in 

 a dry spot in thejopen ground, burying 

 the heads over with loam, and letting the 

 root endsjtstick up out of the ground. 

 This is good for mature heads. If only a 

 few heads aie needed they can be stored 

 in a shed or outhouse cellar and covered 

 up from hard frost. But as medium sized, 

 green, not t|uite full grown heads are the 

 best flavored cabbages, we lift them, 

 strip off the I oiigher leaves, then set the 

 plants touching close together, heads up 

 and roots in the soil, in a cold frame or 

 t-ellar, where thev mav have ,n little light 



and air in winter and we can get at them 

 easily whenever we want tlieni. 



Cai'Lii'lowhr having well formed heads 

 can be lifted and stored like the green- 

 headed cabbage, except thit we must be 

 more careful about excluding frost from 

 't. Cauliflower whose heads are only 

 forming or "button" size if heeled in in a 

 frame or pit and kept free from frost will 

 heart up about or before the holidays 

 and come in very useful, but they n nst l)c 

 kept from frost. 



Carrots.— Treat the same as beets. 



Celery.- Get it up now and stored 

 past for the winter. If you have only a 

 few bundled heads ina ridge cover itover 

 in the ridge with le.aves, hay, straw, rank 

 manure, or any other convenient mate- 

 rial at hand, and dig it out as you want 

 it. But rather than dig a little'every day 

 dig out enough at a time to last you a 

 week or a month, and store it, heads up, 

 in a packing box in the cellar, having a 

 little moist earth in the bottom of it. If 

 you have plenty room dig it all up and 

 store it heads upclose togetherin a corner 

 of a cool cellar or pit, or in a wide long 

 box, the roots being on moist earth or 

 sand; »nd see that it is dry overhead. We 

 lift it out of the ridges and replant it into 

 other ridges in double or triple rows, full 

 depth deep, packed up with loam and 

 covered on top with leaves or litter antl 

 boards to shed water and keep out frost. 



Cnii-ES.— Lift a few clumps and plant 

 them in one or two small boxes to bring 

 into warm quarters in winter to give 

 young, fresh leaves for cutting for salads. 



Cucumbers can be had all winter if 

 grown in a warm greenhouse; a hotbed 

 is good enough on this side of Christmas, 

 but not so after that. The Telegraph 

 breed of cucumbers are preferred for pri- 

 vate use and winter cropping. 



Endive should begood now. If youlift 

 a lot of it and heel it in pretty close in a 

 frame, keeping it dry overhead and pro- 

 tected from hard frost it will keep in fair 

 using condition for some time to come. 



Horseradish is perfectly hardy, but it 

 it is well to dig up a lot of roots now and 

 store them in sand or earth in a box in a 

 shed, pit or cellar for handiness to let us 

 get at them any time we wish to in winter. 



Kai,e is al.so very hardy, but before the 

 ground closes up "bv frost late in Novem- 

 ber we lift the kale. 'strip off the coarser 

 leaves and licci it in (juitc close together 



in a frame or pit as we do green cabbage. 



Leeks are very hardy, but in order to 

 g't at them in winter we had better lift 

 tlicm and heel them in close together in 

 shed, cellar or pit. 



LivTTUCES in frames should be freely 

 vciililalcd in fine weather, but kept snug 

 ag.iinst frost, and to save them from 

 ilanqiing oft' the ground between them 

 should be scarified now and again to keep 

 it loose, open and dry. 



-Mint. — Get up some roots and ])lant 

 them in a cold frame or in a box to be 

 able to start them early in spring, for we 

 can buy spring lamb long before natural 

 growth mint can be had in the garden. 



Mustard is one of the finest of winter 

 salads. Sow it thickly in shallow flats in 

 a warm house, window or greenhouse; 

 while the soil should be damp we should 

 keep the germinatingplants dry overhead 

 to preserve them from rotting They are 

 fit to cut for use when from five to fifteen 

 days old. White mustard is what iscom- 

 monly used. Curled Cress is also grown 

 and used in the same way. 



Onio.ns.- Sort them over and remove 

 all soft wet, decaying or growing ones. 

 Keep the sound > nes in a basket, box or 

 open-sided barrel, or in heaps on a dry 

 floor of barn or on shelves, in all cases 

 covering them from exposure to dam|)air 

 or much cold. 



Parsley.— By placing a couple of 

 boards like an inverted V over a row and 

 then covering it over with leaves and 

 litter we can pick parsley from out of 

 doors till New Years. For later use wc 

 sho' Id have some in a box or keg in the 

 cellar or in a well covered cold frame. 



Parsnips.— Lift half or two-thirds of 

 them now and store them the same as 

 carrots. Let the others remain in the 

 ground over winter and dig them then. 



Potatoes —Be they in bulk in pits or 

 in barrels in the cellar be careful to pro- 

 tect them from frost and wet, and, too. 

 as careful not to overcover them and 

 cause them to heat and rot. If in the 

 cellar keep them dark. 



Radish. — Nic- ones can yet be had from 

 hotbeds. 



Rhubarb.— Dig up what roos are 

 needed for forcing and store them out of 

 doors or in a shed where frost can get at 

 them. They need a good freezing to 

 make them force kindly in early winter. 



Salsify and Scorzonera.— Treat the 

 same as parsnips. 



Spin \CH.— About the end of the month 

 after the ground freezeshard scatter some 

 sedge, fern, strawy litter or the like over 

 the late spinach to keep it till spring. 

 That for use in winter should also be 

 covered up, but this is better done with 

 a cold frame and sashes and mats. 



Squash.— Bnng them indoors into a 

 warm dry place, 60° is the right temper- 

 ature in which to save them good for 

 winter use By merely ' overing them up 

 enough in the shed or barn to protect 

 them from frost they are apt to start 

 early to rot. 



Turnips, treat like beets. 



I don't kNOW what I should do with- 

 out Gardening. I have just been going 

 through my whole file— I began to have 

 it in February '9-1 — reading over all the 

 articles on my special hobbies and learn- 

 ing afresh things that I ought never to 

 have forgotten. I keep my copies marked 

 with a blue pencil so that I can find 

 quickly the things I want and I also keep 

 a special index of my own in my garden 

 note book of just the articles which have 

 been most valuable tome, and that I need 

 most often to refer to, E. T. 



New Jerscv, October 25, lS9o. 



