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THE GARDENER. 



It will sooB be time to prepare for garden- 

 ing. Every man knows that the ground 

 should be put in good order, should be rich, 

 — weii manured with well rotted maaure. 

 When this is done, you should have fresh 

 sound seed. Seed that has been handed 

 dowu and carried about in boxes from year 

 to year, though they may be had very 

 cheap, pay poorly. * 



For a common garden, where you wish a 

 few varieties of good vegetables,. — you wanf 

 Earlv SnaoBeaus; Pole Beans: EnHv and 

 lute Beets; Early and late Cabbage; a*few 

 rnrro*:- Ce'ery; "r^T'v and ;:ite Cucumbers' 

 Cref!s; Egg r.ai.t; varietio? sngar Corn; 

 early and late samraer Lettuce • Cantaloupe ; 

 watermelons; Onions- Parsley; Porsnins; 

 Early and iate i^eas; Peppers; Early and 

 'atetlaaish; 6<Js'fv; Summer, auvtiui;'; and. 

 winter Fr|unsh- Tomatoes; Early aud fall 

 and winter Tuiv.ips, Sage. Th" -"e, Coriander 

 ana other herb>-. These make a good '"".'•- 

 ieiy. 



^v\^i^uc TliC ■:;:ire not tnken the pains to 



understand the fact, would be liLmlv to bp 

 surpr sed at the great improvements which 

 Utive b^en made wiihm the iast few years i;i 

 vegeiauies. Seed G-ardners,' who make it 

 their business to raise seeds, are constantly 

 perfecting their vegetables. Instead of saf- 

 fering them to degenerate, they are contin- 

 ually improving them. An evidence of this 

 can be seen in the seed Peas now in market 

 — Early Emperor, Comstock's Dwarf, 

 Champion of England, &c. Sweet Corn — 

 Early, large and Mammoth; Cabbages — 

 "Wakefield, Battersea, Comstock's Flat 

 Dutch, &c., &c. 



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The China Cane.— ^On the second day of 



the meeting of the National Agricultural 

 Society at Washington, as we learn from 

 the proceedings of the Society, Mr. J. D. 

 Browne, of the Patent Office, was called 

 upon for his "experience" in respect to this 

 cane. This he gave with great readiness, 

 tact and ability, and apparently to the gen- 

 eral satisfaction of the numerous and intelli- 

 gent members of the Society. Every sort 

 of inquiry was made, and as promptly an- 

 swered by Mr. Browne. We append the 

 main noints in relatioa to this addition to 

 our cultivated plants, as elicited from* the 

 remarks and replies of that gentleman. He 

 tirst oboei vcd thut iie could say no more 

 than had been already published, but was 

 willing to icply to any queries that ini^;!.! be 

 put. .ixb to i\.i. process of granulation of 

 the ior^huiQ lie could r.?: say mucli, but tl'c 

 proportion of c ■; Li-ilizablc ?jr'jp depends 

 on the uryiie?s or moisture of the l.ii.d on 

 which the nlaiit, grows. It siiOuid ue cu^ 

 v'hen in its milky state. When pressed it is 

 deprived of i-s leaves and passed through 



Food for Chickens. — Mr. J. J. Gold- 

 smith, of Morgan counfy, in a business let- 

 ter, says: »"I enclose you a sample of 

 Dourah Corn. It will be appreciated by 

 the poulterer in one season in the raising of 

 young broods of chickens. This corn will 

 accelerate their growth, and enable him to 

 dispense with the wet and washy diet which 

 destroys so many of them in their early 

 stage." There is much good sense in these 

 sentences. 



rolleio, ai'/l for orys'-^li-zatinn the syrup 

 should be raised a little above blood iieat. 

 In 'O-^ne cases the old-fashioned cider press 

 had succpfded. Could not say how the free 

 acid evolved would be best neutralized, but 

 it is generally done by lime water. When a 

 saccharaie of lime is formed the fluid remains 

 sweet. When the plant is cut at 45 ® or 

 50 of Fahrenheit it does not ferment, but 

 keeps sweet, but if cut earlier in the season 

 that when this temperature prevails it is apt 

 to run into the acetous fermentation. Five 

 cuttings of sorghum had been made in Florida 

 last year. Sugar could sometimes be made 

 from the dried stalks, but it is expensive. 

 It contains saccharine matter as far North as 

 the milky state can be had; in Massachu- 

 setts it has shown 23 per cent, of sugar, 

 here in Washington only 14 per cent. It 

 requires a dry soil and hot sun. Should 

 not be planted so soon as Indian corn by 

 several days. Will mature in less than a 

 hundred days from sowing the seed. For 

 sugar it flourishes best on poor soils, bot for 

 fattening animals on rich soils. For sugar 



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