NO. 17. 



THE FARMERS CABINET. 



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plant them, the plants have longer time to 

 grow in, and will attain a much larger size 

 than if sown late. 



PEAS. 



As soon as the frost leaves the ground, you 

 may put in all sorts of early peas, and if 

 planted at intervals of a week or two through- 

 out the spring, you may secure a continuous 

 succession of this delightful vegetable, either 

 for the table or market. The soil most suita- 

 ble for peas, is a light sandy loam, t'lough they 

 will grow well in any ground except it be in 

 a stiff tenacious cold clay. From 3 to 4 feet 

 is a good distance for the rows to be apart, 

 the peas to be dropped about 4 inches asunder. 

 Generous manuring tends not only to increase 

 their quality of product, but to accelerate the 

 maturing of the pea family. The pease 

 should be stuck before the plants throw out 

 runners, 



WINDSOR BEANS. 



Ail of this tribe of vegetables may very 

 safely be planted in open culture after the 

 20lh of this month. 



Hysop, Sea Kale, Garlic, Artichokes, Fen- 

 nel, Rhubarb or pie plant. Lettuce, Radish, 

 Spinach, Carrots, Parsneps, small Salading of 

 all kinds. Celery, Onions, Beet, Leeks, 

 Shives, Parsley, Thyme, Sage, Broccole, and 

 Asparagus seeds, should now be sown and 

 planted. 



ASPARAGXJS. 



Your asparagus beds should be forked and 

 dressed the latter end of this month. In 

 forking be especially careful to stir and loosen 

 every part of your beds, and equally so not to 

 go deep enough to wound the crowns of the 

 roots. 



If you desire to make new plantations of 

 this vegetable, you may with perfect safety 

 put out your plants as soon as the ground is 

 rid of the effects of the winter frosts. 



TURNEPS. 



If you desire to have early turneps for your 

 table, sow the seed any time after the 20th of 

 of this month. 



All the fruit trees in your garden may now 

 be advantageously trimmed and pruned — so 

 also your gooseberry, current and raspberry 

 bushes; the cuttings taken from the three last 

 should be planted out to form the material for 

 future plantations of these excellent and 

 healthful fruits. — Let the ground be thor- 

 oughly stirred around the old bushes. 



FIGS. 



This is the best month for planting out fig 

 trees, or for setting out cuttings, layers or 

 suckers from them. 



GRAPES. 



The earlier after the frost is ont of tho 

 ground that you transplant vines, or put out 

 your cuttings the better, for it is important 

 tliat they each start in flieir growth with the 

 earliest vegetating power of the earth in 

 spring. 



Rose, Snow-ball, Lilac, and all other bushes 

 of the flowering tribes should be set out as 

 early this month as possible. 



As soon as the plants in your strawberry 

 beds push through the earth, the beds should 

 receive a drcssmg. Clear out all the weeds, 

 decayed leaves, and old runners: loosen the 

 earlli round tiie plants, and apply some rich 

 mould about them, digging it in so as to pre- 

 vent a loss from evaporation or washing. • 



IN THE ORCHARD, 



All the different kinds of fruit trees which 

 have not been pruned, should undergo that 

 operation as speedily as possiljle, and the 

 wounds should bo immediately covered with 

 M'Mahon's medicated tar, or some other 

 mixture competent to effect the same object; 

 this tar is thus made and compounded : — 



Take 1-2 oz. Corrosive Sublimate, reduced 

 to a fine powder, and 1-2 gill of gin or spirit 

 Put these into an earthen pipkin, stir there 

 well until the sublimate is dis.solved ; ther 

 graduallij add three pints of tar into this miX' 

 ture until the whole is throughly incorporated 

 when a half pound of finely pounded chalk tc 

 give the tar an adhesive property must alsc 

 be added. 



This composition, says M'Mahon, will b( 

 found eminently useful, as no worm of anj 

 kind, can live near its influence, and no evi 

 whatever, will arise to the trees from its poi 

 sonous quality ; it yields to the growth of th( 

 bark, and afibrds a comfortable protection t( 

 the parts against the effects of the weather. 



Young apple, peach, plumb, apricot, pear 

 cherry, and indeed all kinds of trees, anc 

 shrubs, whether fruit or ornamental, may b( 

 set out as soon as the frost is out of the ground 



The same e.vcellent author farther advises 

 that you should examine your fruit trees, par 

 ticularly the peaches, and if annoyed b^ 

 worms either in their trunks or branchep,abou 

 the surface of the ground and a little under 

 pick out as many as you can with a shnq 

 pointed knife, and with as little injury to th( 

 bark as possible; scrape off all the gum tha 

 appears on the stem or branches, and vvasl 

 all these parts, and any other that you suspec 

 to be infested with these insects, or their em 

 bryos, with a solution made by dissolving ] 

 drachm of corrosive sublimate in a gill of gin 

 which when dissolved must be incorporatet 

 with 4 quarts of water, — after which dresi 

 the wounded parts with the medicated ta' 

 described above. 



