Sec. 30.] GARDEN CULINARY VEGETABLES. 4)8 



roots may \>q put in at any time when tlio weatlier will admit. Tl»o great 

 secret ofsiiceess is to get a deep, rich bed to begin witli. It can not be too 

 deep or too ricli. We would dig it five feet deep for family u»e, and fill one 

 foot witli cobble-stone, if we could, or with broken brick, timber, anil brusli, 

 so arrijnged as to give a good drainage. Then till up with eods, chip 

 manure, wood's mold, good soil, and v.ell-coniposted nianuro in a homo- 

 geneous nuiss, casting away the sul)Suil. Such a made bed will hut a» long 

 as its maker will, and if ten feet wide and twenty feet long, sc't with three 

 rows of roots, two feet ai)art in the row, it will furnish the largest family 

 with more than they can use, so that some of their indolent neighbors can 

 get a jiortion. Except when grown for market, we would not select the 

 largest variety of rhubarb. Seedling plants may be cut after the tirbt year 

 to a small extent. It is good to nndch the bed ftummor niicl winter. Scc<l 

 stalks must be kejit carefully cut away as fast as they appear, and the bed 

 must 1)0 licldy manured every fall. 



Some of the sorts in highest repute are the Victoria, Linnipu-i, Iloyal Al- 

 bert, Scarlet Xonpareil, and ^lammoth. The largest sort is known as Ga- 

 boon's Seedling. It is better esteemed for wine-making than eating. Fif- 

 teen hundred gallons an aero liavc been made from this sort, grown njx>n 

 well-drained, rich, loamy laml in Wisconsin. The stalks are cut in lengths of 

 two or three inches, and ground and pressed in a cider-mill, one hundred 

 pounds of stalks yielding ten gallons of juice, which is mixed with an eipial 

 quantity of water, and about three and a half pounds of rctine<l sugar to 

 each gallon of the mixture. This, if treated like other small fruit wines, 

 gives a palatable beverage, salable, and very profitalde to the grower and 

 manufacturer. 



5&2. Savory and Mrdiriiial Cardm Plants.— There is a variety of plants 

 which every farmer's family should grow in the garden, which are u.-, fid in 

 the kitchen, nursery, or sick chamber, a few of which wo will name. 



Jluarliinmd. — This jilant ( .1/'</t(/^'|"«;« vul*jart)'\A called hoar on a>-count 

 of the white, downy growth upon the leaves and branches, which rc.semble« 

 hoar frost. The plant is in high repute as a remedy for colds and ccyighs. 

 It is not a native of America, but was intnxluced by the fin.t settlers as a 

 valuable medicinal plant, and from the garden it has spread to the rowl- 

 eide and fields in every favorable location, as it propagates readily from 



the seed. 



A "ood many other medicinal plants were introduced in the snmo way a* 

 hoarlfound by the New England inlgrims. Among them we may name 

 lavenihr, from which sjiirits of lavemler ami oil of spike are mwle, although 

 another plant (Z. splcn) gives the name. I'omt'nj is another of llio old-timo 

 medicines that our ancestors made nso of in eases of inllaniod throat and ii - 

 testines, and for etnollient poultices ami salves. 



rqipermint and SjH-urmint are pretty well known and generally wtocmcd. 

 One, if not both, come from Euroi>e, and have been largely cullivati-.! in this 

 countrv for the oil which, when diluted, or "cut" with alcohol, forming 



J 



