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not tlic Grapes until they are soft, though the Frost comes; Better have them with- 

 ered than unripe; but if they continue green and hard WW Nmember, then make Vine- 

 gar of them. 



November. 

 If you desire to raise Cabbage Seed, pluck up the best Cabbage by the Roots, and set 

 it again in some sunshiny Place so deep that you can but see the Crown of it. Cut the 

 Tops of your Artichokes, and make Trenches between the Rows, casting up the Earth 

 upon the Roots as a Bank, and cover all the Bed with Horse-Litter; also cover the 

 Asparagus Bed with Horse-Litter or good Earth. 



December, 



If you did not prune your Vine soon after you gathered the Grapes, now nail the strong- 

 est to the Wall with Shoemakers' Leather, each Branch near one yard asunder, cutting 

 off all the young Shoots within an Inch of each knot, so will j'our pruning Work be lit- 

 tle yearly. But when j'ou have a long Branch that begins near the Root, you may nail 

 that to the Wall, and cut off an old Arm ; by this Means, in Time, you may cause your 

 Vine to look young again ; yet the fewer Branches any Fruit-tree hath the larger will 

 the Fruit be. Lay Beasts' Blood and Sheep's Dung to the Roots ; or about half a yard 

 from the body of your old Vine, you may pour a Quart of Man's Urine twice a week or 

 oftener. And in a very dry Time wrap a List of Woolen about the Body, and the other 

 End into a Bottle of Water, and it will suck out the Water. 



Although the above was published in London, England, so long a time ago, some of 

 the suggestions may be profitably observed at the present day. 



The Carden.— Why Neglected I 



Bt Calvin Bradley, Nauvoo, III. 



I am so situated that I have access to several agricultural papers and periodicals, all of 

 which are read with care and attention. In doing this I notice that the many and various 

 interests of the farm and farmer are well attended to by editors and correspondents, to 

 the great neglect of the Garden. The common kitchen or vegetable garden seems to be 

 disregarded and in a great measure forgotten. With your permission, I will say a few 

 words for this poor, neglected part of the farm. A small proportion of our farmers have 

 a good garden. The reason given for this neglect is that they have no time to attend to 

 it. The garden requires daily care, and demands thought, patience and system in order 

 to secure success and profit. These are just what most of flirmers dislike, preferring to 

 tend the larger crops, where less thought and more muscular power are required. They 

 would be glad of the rich products of the garden upon their tables, and the pleasure, 

 health and profit they would yield to the femily, but the habit of neglect in this particu- 

 lar has become so deeply implanted, that no common influence will break it up. With 

 the knowledge that half the ground devoted to garden culture would produce more profit 

 than five times as much land in other crops of the farm, thousands remain without a gar- 

 den even that is worthy of the name. 



It would seem that due regard for the health and comfort of the family would over- 

 come the dislike to cultivate a garden, but the aversion to systematic care and labor over- 

 rides all these considerations, and the garden remains only in anticipation, or in some out 

 of the way place, consisting of a few rows of potatoes, a bed of scrubby beets and onions, 

 and a lot of starved cabbages, all struggling for life through a swamp of grass and weeds. 

 Without a garden the winter diet of a family is mainly confined to bread, meat, potatoes 

 and sour kraut. As the genial warmth of spring returns the system requires less stimula- 

 ting food, and demands cooling and juicy vegetables, fresh from the soil, yet many farmers 

 have no garden, not even an apology for one. Their tables are never graced with early 

 vegetables, such as asparagus, radishes, lettuce, early beets, potatoes and beans, when they 

 might be crowned with all those luxuries peculiar to the season, by a little labor and sys- 

 tematic care. And in addition to these he may luxuriate on green corn, squashes, melons. 



