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THE farmers' cabinet 



VOL. I. 



should be put in fliickly, to secure the requi- 

 site quantity of plants. Very rich ground is 

 demanded by tiiis vegetable. 



ONION, 



Silver nJiin, yclloiu Sfra.shurg,— 'Sow the 

 peed early in the Sprinsf, very thickly, in beds 

 or drills — at mid-summer, or whenever the 

 tops die, remove them to a dry place — early 

 in the following Spring rc-plant them in rows, 

 the bulbs two or three inches apart, the rows 

 wide enough to hoe between them. By this 

 process onions of large size are obtained early 

 in the season. 



Wdkersjidd red. — This variety is grown 

 in the middle and eastern states of full size, 

 the first season. Sow the seed early in the 

 Spring in strong ground, thin them to stand 

 two or three inches apart, and keep the 

 ground in fine tilth. 



PARSLEY, 



Curled plain. — Sow early in the Spring, in 

 rows or beds; the former is the better mode. 

 If the seed be soaked in warm water some 

 hours immediately before sowing it, it will 

 vegetate more speedily. It is not uncommon 

 for it to lay in the ground two or three weeks 

 before it vegetates. 



Fine sugar.- 



PARSNEP, 



-Sow early in the Spring, in 

 good ground, deeply dug. The best mode is 

 in drills, eighteen inches apart. When the 

 plants are up two or three inches, thin them 

 to stand six or eight inches apart. The va- 

 riety here named is decidedly the best. 



PEA, 



Landretli's extra early, rods 2^1 feel, early 

 frame, do, 2^ do.; ea^ly Charlton, do. 3 do.; 

 dwarf blue imperial, do. 2 do.; dwarf mar- 

 row, do. 3 do.; tall sugar, do. 5 do.; — Arranged 

 in the order of their ripening. — The first 

 named has been pronounced the earliest in 

 America. The varieties here enumerated 

 are not one-fourth of those in cuU.ivation, but 

 they are among the better sorts, and more 

 than sufficient for any garden. The pea 

 thrives best in light loamy soil. The early 

 sorts, especially, demand rich ground. Sow 

 in drills which may be drawn singly or two 

 nearly together. When the plants are up a 

 few inches, hoe them and draw earth to the 

 stems, and when they begin to vine, rod them. 

 The first plantings may be made so soon as 

 the ground will work, and for a regular suc- 

 cession sow at short intervals during spring 

 and early part of summer. 



PEPPER, 



Suit nose, sweet. — These varieties resemble 

 each other. The sweet possesses less warmth. 

 They are principally used for pickling. 



Cayenne. -^The cayenne is usually ground 

 when dry for table use. The pods, wlien 

 green, are also pickled. Sow each kind in 

 drills, on a warm border, late in Spring or 

 commencement of Summer, and thin them to 

 stand 16 or 18 inches apart. 



POTATO, 



Irish, early and late. — Of the Irish potato 

 several varieties are cultivated. Among the 

 early, Fox^s seedling, a7id Ash-leared Kidney 

 rank high. Among the late, Fo-\ite and 

 Mercer obtain the preference in this section. 



Sweet, — These may be advanced by sprout- 

 ing the roots in a hot-bed ; and when all danger 

 from frost has passed, slipping oft" the sprouts 

 and planting them. 



PUMPKIN, 



Ca.thaw, common field. — There are several 

 varieties of the pumpkin, of which the cashaw, 

 a long crooked-necked kind, is deemed best 

 for cooking. Plant latter end of Spring in 

 hills eight or ten feet apart each way. 



RADISH, 



Long scarlet, long salmon, lohite tumep- 

 rooted, red tumep-rooted. — Tliese are gene- 

 rally used for the earlier sowings, which 

 should be made on a sheltered border, as soon 

 in the Spring as the ground can be worked. 

 The land should be well manured, deeply 

 dug, and raked free from clods and stones ; 

 if cold weather return after the seeds have 

 sprouted, protect by cedar brush, straw, or 

 the like. 



Yellow tumep-rooted, summer while. — 

 These are better adapted to the Summer than 

 the preceding, which in warm dry weather 

 soon become tough and sticky. 



White Spanish, black do. — For Winter and 

 Spring use. Sow early in Autumn. 



RHUBARB, 



Tart. — This species is cultivated for tlie 

 footstalk of the leaf, which pnssesses an 

 agreeable acidity, and resembles the goo.se- 

 berry when made into pies or tarts. Sow the 

 seed in seed-bed early in the Spring and trans- 

 plant in the Autumn or ensuing Spring, to 

 any desired situation, allowing the plants two 

 to three feet square. 



SALSAFY, OR VEGETABLE OYSTER. 



The roots are boiled and stewed like car- 

 rots, as a vegetable dish ; or par-boiled ; made 

 into cakes, with paste, and fried like oysters, 

 which they closely resemble in Ixith taste and 

 scent. The stalk.s of one year old are used in 

 the Spring as asparagus. 



It is cultivated precisely like the carrot and 

 parsnip, withstands the Winter, but for con- 

 venience had hotter be removed in Autumn 

 to some sheltered place. 



