THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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?rove hot and drj; but in deep, rich ground never, 

 'lant the rows five or six feet apart, this will leave 

 room for the celery trenches between them; which 

 will be planted before the peas are cleared away. 



If some old barrel^ with the heads knocked out, 

 be placed over some of the rhubarb plants and the 

 barrels hanked round with warm manure, about two 

 feet thick; the rhubarb will bo fit for use a week or 

 two beforL* that in the open ground without protec- 

 tion, and much nicer. 'I'he barrel should be covered 

 eveiT night with old mats or boards, and uncovered 

 in- warm days. 



Asparairns beds should be lightly forked up and 

 dressed with a little rotten manure, lluspberry canes 

 should be taken out of their winter covering, tied to 

 stakes and the strongest cut to four and the weakest 

 to two or three feet in length. Josiau Salter. 



FLOWERS FOR SPRING SOWING. 



Ix this climate where late springs, and hot, dry, sum- 

 mers so offer occur, recourse is generally had to an- 

 nuals for the adornment of gardens, on which, indeed, 

 in a great measure we depend for flosvers during the 

 mwnmer months., but so little judgment is shown in the 

 selection of kinds, oflimes through luck of forethought, 

 but generally through an imperfect knowledge of 

 what is being planted, that I have thought, at this 

 time, that a short sketch of a few of the best annual;;, 

 tc, would not be unwelcome to your readers, especi- 

 ally the lady portion of them. 



The double balsam is one of those annuals, which, 

 when well grown, is one of the most beautiful pro- 

 ductions of Flora, and yet how seldom do we see it 

 entering into the composition of the flower garden, 

 and when there, is seldom more than semi double, and 

 ortencT single. Now, it c^b's no more to raise 

 good plants, than it does to grow poor ones, 

 and we should no longer have such a^thing as 

 a single balsam in the garden. Piocure your seed 

 of reliable persons, and if it does cost si.xpence more 

 than you can get it for e sewhere, do not hesitate to 

 pay it and take out the pay afterward in satisfaction 

 at having good flowers, and in laughing at your neigh- 

 bors who would not buy good seed and got cheated. 

 The balsam, to do well requires a warm, moist spot. 

 and should never be allov;ed to flower where the seed 

 was sown. The plants should be raised in the house, 

 or in a warm spot in the garden, and when about 

 three inches high, transiplanted to the place where 

 they are to bloom. It requireB rich soil and liberal 

 treatment, and cannot brook starvation. The colors 

 are scarlet, crimson, purple, white, yellow and 

 mottled. The plants should never be grown nearer 

 t^an two feet a{)urt. Sow seed 1st to middle of May. 



The China astec is the greatest ornament to our 

 flower gardens in the autumn, that can be well grown; 

 like the balsam, the plants should be raised early and 

 when about two inches high be transplanted where 

 they are to flower. They may be grown in rows or 

 in masses, and the plants should be about eighteen 

 inches apart. Colors — crimson, red, pink, white, blue 

 an 1 purple, and variegated, all the above colors in 

 different varieties, being mixed with white. Should 

 be grown in good soil. 



The Drummond phlox, is an annual, unrivalled by 

 any other for beauty and diversity of color, and should 

 be grown in masses, by which method it becomes very 

 effective. The seed should be sown about the 2nd 



week in May, where it is to flower, in a warm, sunny 

 spot, and in dry weather it should be carefully 

 watered. 



The centaurca too, is but Fcldom grown, although 

 deserving of attention from the unique shiipe of the 

 flowers, they being of all shades of blue, purple and 

 crimson and sometimes white. Plant seed same time 

 as Phlox Drummondii. 



Mimulus cardinalis, or cardinal monkey ilowei, 

 should be in every good garden. The seed is very 

 minute and should be planted early, in a well pre- 

 pared bed, and shaded from the bright sun till tba 

 pl.ants are up. 



The Marvel of Peru, oi four o'clock, is a large 

 spreading tuberous rooted annual, well known, but 

 not sufiiciently planted. The plants should he grown 

 about three feet apart in a warm sunny spot. Th« 

 improved varieties are beautifully striped pink ami 

 white, purple and white, and orange and crimson. 



Candytuft should be in every garden, especially 

 the tall white and purple sorts, which are fine for 

 growing in masses. 



The sweet pea is u.=eful fofr hiding fences or bare 

 spots, the flowers being not only extremely gay, but 

 also very fragrant. It also looks well planted in cir- 

 cles, with a large branch or other support for them 

 to cling to. 



Nemophila, insignis and maculata, are very deli- 

 cate and pretty, and useful for sowing in shady placea 

 where other things will not thrive. 



Portulacca is indispensable for growing in hot, 

 dry places, for no sun can be too hot, or weather too 

 dry for it. Colors — scarlet, crimson, yellow and white. 

 Plant seed about the middle of May, in clumps or 

 masses. 



The petunia, although a perenial, blooms the first 

 season from seed, and makes one of the most showy 

 flower beds imaginable, the flowers being large, and 

 varying in color from dark crimson to white. 



The dout)le flowered china pink, is also worthy of 

 general attention, the flowers being beauti.''ully varie- 

 gated and the colors extremely gay. 



All the foregoing, with a few others for winter or- 

 naments, such as Gnaphalium, Xeranthemum, Amar- 

 anthus, &c., together with a well chosen coll'ction of 

 perennials, if well grown will make a display through 

 the whole season that will be hard to beat, and will 

 require but little attention other thin keeping clear 

 of weeds and watering carefully during dry weather. 



Rochester, JV. Y. \Y. T. Goldsmith. 



EIRDS-THEIR UST FULNESS, &c. 



It is a well known fact that the alarming increase 

 of insects and worms in making ravages upon our 

 fruit trees and fruit, not only paralizes the efi'orts, and 

 disheartens the hopes of the cultivator, but tlireatens 

 total destruction to many of the most delicious fruits. 

 So extensive are their ravages, that but very few of 

 our apYicots and plums ripen without premature de- 

 cay from the worm generated by the beetles which 

 surround our trees in the twilight of the evening, in 

 great numbers, when the fruit is quite young. And 

 when the produce of our apple, pear, or peach tr&ca 

 is small, but few of th?se escape the same fate. 



The birds are to the farmer and gardener of gTeat 

 value. They were designed by the Creator to check 

 the too great increase of insects, and no farmer should 

 sufier them to be wantonly destroyed on his premiaea 



