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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



to keep the ground at all times moist. They should 

 be kept well weeded. 



GnosHBERRiES. — With good trealment, none of the 

 small fruits produce more abundantly than the goose- 

 berry. It succeeds best on a deep, sandy loam, with 

 a northern aspect. It should be trenched, or else 

 worked two spades deep, and enriched with well- 

 rotted manure. To prevent mildew in gooseberries 

 has been the object of horticulturists for several 

 years past. If they are fully exposed to the rays of 

 the sun, nothing short of mulching will prevent the 

 mildew. In order to prevent the necessity of mulch- 

 ing, plant them on the north side of a board fence 

 hedge or stone wall, two or three feet from either. 

 Give them a liberal dressing of compost fall and 

 spring, and keep down the weeds, in order that the 

 air may circulate freely. 



Blackberries, like all other small fruits, can be 

 greatly improved by cultivation. The principal va- 

 rieties are the Lawton and llighbush, the latter of 

 which is a native of New England, and is generally 

 very large. John G. Sampson. 



Laceysvitle, Ohio. 



ON THE MANAGENENT OF A TAEMER'S GAEDEN. 



Being a farmer, and something of a gardener too, 

 I thought I would attempt an article on the above 

 importatat subject. I will premise by saying that 

 no one should consider himself qualified to manage 

 a farm until he has learned to manage a garden. The 

 first thing in laying out a garden, is to select a proper 

 site and soil. If a deep, rich sandy loam, with a 

 southern or south-eastern aspect can be found with- 

 in a reasonable distance of the house, there plant your 

 garden. That the soil be rich and mellow is of the 

 first importance, for few farmers will have the perse- 

 verance to make a good garden on a cold, compact, 

 shallow soil. 



The < arden being located, do not enclose too much 

 ground in your plat. The farmer must depend upon 

 raising a good many vegetables upon a small space, 

 otherwise his garden will very likely be overrun with 

 weeds. 



These cautions being observed, first select the 

 ground for your permanent beds, such as strawberries, 

 asparagus, rhubarb or pie plant, &c. If you care 

 nothing for these luxuries yourself, the wife and child- 

 ren will, and the sight of their enjoyment will amply 

 repay you for all your labor. 



Strawberries. — You may transplant roots from 

 last year's runners of the Large Early Scarlet, Burr's 

 New Pine, Hovey's Seedling, or any variety that you 

 Jcnoiv to be better than the above, in the poorest part 

 of your garden, during the month of April. If you 

 want luxuriant vi7ies and few berries, plant on deep, 

 rich soil, but if you prefer the berries to the viaes, do 

 as I tell you. 



Asparagus. — Make your asparagus bed as early as 

 practicable in the spring, from roots two or three years 

 old. Be sure to dig deep and manure heavy. 



Pie-plant. — For your rhubarb patch, procure from 

 half a dozen to a dozen plants two or three years old, 

 and divide the roots according to the number of eyes, 

 and set them in rows four feet apart, two feet in the 

 TOW. By proper care you have here the material for 

 the most delicious spring pie. 



If properly attended to, these beds will keep good 



for many years, with the exception of strawberies' 

 which require renewing once in three or four years. 

 The better way is to set a kw plants every year, and 

 then you are never without this delicious berry 



Currants, Gooseberries and Raspberries should 

 be planted m the garden — not round the fences — and 

 kept cleanly cultivated. By the way, a correspon- 

 dent of the Genesee Farmer asks for a remedy for 

 the Currant Bush Worm. I had a row of currant 

 bushes in sod along the fence, and several rows 

 througb the garden at right angles to that one. The 

 latter were hoed several times in the season. For 

 several years the bushes in the sod have been regu- 

 larly stripped of their leaves during the bearing sea- 

 son, by a little green worm, while the cultivated ones 

 have escaped untouched. 



IIoTBEn. — A farmer would do well to make a small 

 hot-bed to forward a few Tork cabbage, tomatoes, 

 cauliflower, celery, and a few hills of cucumbers. — 

 The latter can be started on inverted sods and trans- 

 planted without injury. This process not only pro- 

 duces fruit much earlier, but enables one to get the 

 start of weeds. 



I would not recommend raising large beds of such 

 vegetables as require much hand weeding, such as 

 carrots, parnepp, beets. Black- seed onions, &c. ; it costs 

 too much labor. The English potato onion, or Top 

 onions require much less labor and are earlier. 



Peas. — The farmer should have a succession of 

 peas from the middle of June until the family gets 

 tired of them. Beginning with the Early Kent, fol- 

 lowing with the Early Washington, and closing with 

 the unrivaled Marrowfat. 



Beans. — I prefer the bush varieties of beans as 

 you save the labor of poling them. Then, growing 

 near them should be some of the beat sweet corn, and 

 then if the good wife don't make some succotash that 

 will rejoice the children, it will be because she never 

 heard of " down east." 



But space will not permit me to notice all of the 

 different vegetables which it is desirable to have in 

 some nook or corner of ihe farmer's garden, so I will 

 say in general, cultivate all the varieties that will be 

 readily consumed in the family, and above all keep up 

 a succession throughout the season — yes, throughout 

 the year — and be assured it will improve the health, 

 refine the taste, elevate the morals, and augment the 

 happiness of the whole family. 



JVear Palmyra, JV. Y. P. C. Reynolds. 



REASONS WHY OUR AGRICULTURAL SOCrETIES 



SHOULD OFFER PREMIUMS FOR A PUBLIC EX- 



HIBITI9N OF LADY EQUESTRIANISM. 



Years ago, T rem.ember to have seen a beautiful 

 engraving of Cupid riding a lion, to show the power 

 of love in subduing and controlling the most un- 

 governable of the lirute creation. But may it not 

 be questioned whether a skillful lady, riding a noble 

 horse, does not present a more striking representa- 

 tion of power controlled by gentleness ? 



Ideas of beauty and taste are as varied as the hti- 

 man race, and yet I may safely assert tliat the sight 

 of a woman gracefully, yet fearlessly, riding a spirited 

 horse, having him entirely at her command, as if anir 

 mated by her own ideas of grace and beauty, would 

 excite admiration in every beholder. 



More than this : female equestrianism is not only 



