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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 1 



shanks with a little dry silted earth, which will 

 much assist them. IT your heat is too intense run 

 a slick into the middle of the dung, through the 

 sides of the heap in two or three places, which 

 will give vent to the steam. If it be too slack, co- 

 ver the sides of your heap with more litter. 

 When the 3d or rough leaf appears, you are 

 to prepare atio:her heap, in which you are to 

 make holes about a loot deep and eight or nine 

 inches over, which are to be filled with light fresh 

 earth, and in these, in four or five days, you trans- 

 plant your plants, observing to water them as be- 

 ibre, and to put lour plants into each, with their 

 roots sloping toward the centre, lest they should 

 get to the dung and be injured by if. You should 

 avoid keeping your glasses too close, lor the 

 steam may cause such a damp as will very much 

 injure the plants. Your plants tending upwards 

 when they are lour or five inches high, should be 

 forked down, and when you weed them, hold the 

 leaves very gently with one hand and weed them 



your plants in the form of a basin, to hold the 

 water that is given them, and take care that your 

 plants don't interweave with one another, and if 

 any plants appear fading, or declining, pull them 

 up. Fifty holes is the number advised, from 

 whence you may expect to gather about two thou- 

 sand in the season. Miller mentions the putting 

 your plants into baskets, when they are fit to 

 transplant, filled with earth, which may be remov- 

 ed with the plants in them, into other hot beds 

 with great security, by which means you have a 

 crop much earlier than in the method belbre men- 

 tioned. If cucumbers are stuck as you do peas, 

 they will run to a great height, and will bear till 

 the frosts destroy them. 



Currants, or corintiis, so called from a 

 near resemblance to a Corinthian grape, (ribes bij 

 the bota7iists) have many species, but the two 

 principal are the red, and white of which the 

 Dutch sorts are chiefly propagated in England. 



with the other. Pulling otT the male blossom is They are to be propagated from cuttings, planted 



not recommended, neither is pruning the vines; 

 but if your glasses are filled with too much vine, 

 you ought to draw out one of the plants, provided 

 jt is not malted with those you intend to stand. 

 Whenever your bed loses its heat in any degree, 

 it ought to be repaired; and though the plant de- 

 lights in heat, yet you must cover your glasses 

 when the sun is in the meridian, and hot. Jn wa- 

 tering these beds, you nmst throw the water all 

 over the vines, but not in the heat of the day, )br 

 the drops vt^ill collect the rays of the sun to a locus, 

 blister and ruin the plants. And as at this season 

 you have often cold nights, you should preserve 

 the heat of the beds; and liom this management 

 your cucumbers will last till the beginning of 

 July, when your second crop will come to bear. 

 The management of the second crop is pretty 

 much the same with the Ibrmer, only yoti must 

 raise your glasses otiener as the weather will be 

 warmer, and your seeds are to be put into the 

 ground in March or April. Miller directs that 

 beds of dung should be made lor the second crop 

 as well as die first, and the same culture observed, 

 but I believe if your seeds are sown in April in 

 rich light hills and sheltered from the cold with 

 glasses, it will answer just as well, provided you 

 keep them free from weeds, and watered with 

 temperate water. Most people are fond of gath- 

 ering their seed from the first early fruit, leaving 

 one cucumber only on a vine, nearest the heart 

 oft he |)lant, and this is a good way. In August 

 your seeds will be ripe enough, and then cut open 

 the cucumber and put pulp and seed into a tub 



in the fall, (September) and are directed to re- 

 main two years, when they are to be removed into 

 beds, and planted in rows ten feet asunder, and 

 four feet from each other. But the cuttings will 

 succeed as well if planted in a rich light bed to 

 stand without any removal at all. They will 

 grow either against walls, pales, or espaliers. If 

 some are planted against a south wall or in a 

 warm place, and others in a colder situation under 

 a north wall, the fruit will last a long time, as 

 there will be a succession. The fruit grows on the 

 former year's wood, on small snags, which come 

 out of the old wood; wherefore, in pruning, these 

 snags ought to be preserved, and the young 

 shoots shortened in proportion to their strength. 

 In pruning, cut off the old wood, and not in heads. 

 I find no directions as to keeping them on single 

 stalks, but 1 believe this method is best. They 

 will grow in any soil or situation, even under trees, 

 though the open air is best. Your plantation 

 must be renewed in seven or eight years. 



CHAMOMir^E, Chamomclum, (from melon, gr. an 

 apple, because it has the scent of one,) or ^n- 

 ihemis, as its called by Dr. Lirmfeus. There are 

 different species, but the Chamomelum odoratisi- 

 mum repcns, flore simplici, is the sort chiefly pro- 

 pagated. Ii is used medicinally, and in making 

 green walks or edgings; the method of planting is, 

 to separate the roots, as they grow very close, and 

 prick each root into poor land, about ten inches 

 asunder, in the month of March; they will quickly 

 stretch themselves into contact with each other. 



there to remain 8 or 10 days, stirring them every I ^"'^ f .^'f ^Zf'^ 'l'^-^?' I^-''^ ^''""''^ ^-^ gathered 

 day to the bottom with a stick; at the expiration of j ^""^ '^"l\ .,^''^" ^'^''^'^' ^" j'f'I "^ '"''^ '" 't« '^'"r 

 that lime, pour water into the tub, and by stirring it I ^^'' ^° '^^^ '^ ""^lit now and then to be thmned. 

 often, and repealing it, the scum will rise to The] Celandine, J/ojws CM(«fomimi, is a medicinal 

 top and your seed subside, which are to be dried i herb, often culiivated in gardens. The several 

 and put into a bag, and are best when three or | varieties are propagated by sowing the seed, and 

 tour years old. Your seed that are intended for j the plants will cast their seeds, and keep you con- 

 pickles, should be sown in May, about nii;e in a j ptantiv with a stock of young plants without 

 hill, and in five or six days they will appear above j further trouble. It is an annual celandine; the lef- 

 ground; and lor about a^week after, till the plant { fer is a ranunculus, 

 has made some progress, are very liable to be de- 



stroyed by sparrows, they being very fond of 

 ihem. Leave only lour or five of the most vigo- 

 rous plants in a hill, and observe to water in a dry 

 season, and keep the ground about them loose and 

 free from weeds. The earth should be laid round 



Clary, Sclarea, from Skleras. gr. hard, because 

 it has a hard stalk. These are propagated either 

 from the seed in a light soil, or parting the roota 

 and planting them out at Michaelmas, about eigh- 

 teen inches asunder; these will last many years. 



