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strain carefully. A teacupful of the liquid 

 may be used once or twice a week, diluted 

 in four gallons of water. If the liquid is 

 strained carefully it will not spot or discolor 

 the fruit when the vines are syring-ed with it. 

 The liquid can be kept for a long- time 

 corked up in bottles or jars. 



Vegetable Garden. — There should be a 

 good supply of fresh vegetables ready for 

 use now in this department that will be 

 most acceptable, as potatoes, beans, peas 

 and early planted cabbage and cauliflower 

 should now be giving returns for labor and 

 care bestowed on them earlier in the season. 



A row or two of beans may be planted, if 

 the weather is suitable they will furnish a 

 supply of this useful vegetable until the first 

 pinch of frosty weather touches them. 



Late cabbages should be planted at once 

 if not already done ; these can be planted 

 where crops of early peas or potatoes have 

 been taken off. Dig and manure the ground 

 well before planting them. 



A row or two of beets may be sown, these 

 are much more tender eating during fall 

 and winter than those sown early in spring. 

 Sow a few rows of spinach seed, it may 

 come in nicely for use in early autumn. 



Plant celery in shallow, well-manured 

 trenches. Celery requires plenty of water 

 during dry weather. The end of July will 

 be early enough to plant celery for winter 

 use. 



White turnips may be sown if you have a 

 spare piece of ground ; mix a few Chinese 

 rose or white radish seeds with the turnip 

 seed before sowing. Light, rich soil suits 

 white turnips best. 



Spray or sprinkle potatoes with Bordeaux 

 mixture ; a little more Paris green may be 

 used than is usual in this mixture to keep 

 down the potato bug 



Keep the hoe busy, surface stirring the 

 soil helps to keep it moist and cool as well 

 as to destroy the weeds. 



HoRTUS, Hamilton. 



TRADESCANTIA. 



Fig. 1841. Tradescantia. 



Tr.\descantia, or Wandering Jew, issuch 

 a favorite with all amateurs being so easily 

 grown and withal so pretty that our readers 

 will be interested in the following note from 

 Vick's Magazine concerning the florist 

 whose name it bears : Its botanical name 

 is associated with a celebrated florist, John 

 Tradescant, gardener to that unfortunate 

 monarch, Charles I. Tradescant was a 



Dutchman, and was called Tradeskin by his 

 associates. He established a botanic garden 

 in Lambeth, England, as early as 1629, 

 which was then a rare thing. He also col- 

 lected a botanical museum, of which Flat- 

 man, the painter-poet, said 



Thus John Tradeskin starves our wandering eyes 

 By bu5dng^ up his new-born rarities. 



He bequeathed this museum to his friend 

 Elias Ashmole. His wife contested the will, 

 but failing in her suit, and not willing to be 

 resigned to the loss of the museum, she 

 foolishly drowned herself ; this tragedy so 

 aff"ected Ashmole that he did not care to 

 keep it in his possession, and he presented 

 the museum to the University of Oxford in 

 1677. 



