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strain carefully. A teacupful of the liquid A row or two of beets mav be sown, these 



may be used once or twice a week, diluted are much more tender eating- during- fall 

 in four gallons of water. If the liquid is and winter than those sown early in spring". 



strained carefully it will not spot or discolor 

 the fruit when the vines are syringed with it. 

 The liquid can be kept for a long time 

 corked up in bottles or jars. 



Vegetable Garden. — There should be a 



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 



good supply of fresh vegetables ready for be early enough to plant celery for winter 



use now in this department that will be use. 



most acceptable, as potatoes, beans, peas White turnips may be sown if you have a 



and early planted cabbage and cauliflower spare piece of ground ; mix a few Chinese 



should now be giving returns for labor and rose or white radish seeds with the turnip 



care bestowed on them earlier in the season. seed before sowing. Light, rich soil suits 



A row or two of beans may be planted, if white turnips best, 

 the weather is suitable they will furnish a Spray or sprinkle potatoes with Bordeaux 



supply of this useful vegetable until the first mixture ; a little more Paris g-reen may be 



pinch of frosty weather touches them. used than is usual in this mixture to keep 



Late cabbages should be planted at once down the potato bug- 

 if not already done ; these can be planted Keep the hoe busy, surface stirring- the 



where crops of early peas or potatoes have soil helps to keep it moist and cool as well 



been taken off. Dig and manure the ground as to destrov the weeds, 

 well before planting them. Hortus, Hamilton. 



TRADESCANTIA. 



Fig. 1841. TRADESCANTIA. 

 TRADESCANTIA, 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 ej^es 

 By buying 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. 



