LAE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
{NOVEMBER 28, 1874, 
a great fav 
more or less culti- 
ns on account of its young seed- 
s, which are produ ced in t abundance, | several 
on a ttle spray- “om — and are used for pic 
Some seeds may bi in heat and transplanted, 
but most ory ‘the seminer are sown in a cold frame 
bor e last wi o 
when fit in rows 2 fee 
rans is used in the dramael 
es these out-of-doors as we 
seeds in hills about 6 feet 
The yan pa 
Whi ereo and Persian sora 
Onions.—We w large quantities of these 
chie fly "Danvers Yellow, Wethersfield ma Large 
Red, White an ellow 
Yellow, Early R 
Dutch, 
Our noticeable cultural Uat ee sow 
as possible, in lines a ok ezm n timely, 
and keep rigidly clean. They requi rich soil, an 
e ri = A when they are “laid out on the 
pe ugust, 
tot horoughly ripen before storing in barn lofts, 
ky In order to get big 
hi 
Potato Onions are c eekly powi The finest 
Onions I have seen in meee were exhibited at ~ 
chuset! mber I 
= of this pn by 
setts an ne exhibition, 
urn & C 
da 
than Onions. Thes were grown in 
England, by Messrs. cane & Cu, ea High Ho Pen, 
London 
Potalos, — These, are known throughout the States 
the name of I t 
fiend pets its = 
It is widely caltivn and f lands. 
ractise the system of planting to a great 
extent, but I consider it a w ground. Th 
of o ete 4 feet apart, length- 
wise and crosswise, and at every crossing a hollow is 
i a fork of romani ot 
anted in 
wice the quantity of Potatos from the 
others who grow in hills, “and the 
and size are equally fine, 
how a a nei ighbour of mine, who is more remarka ble 
ing, managed his ap of Ponts this year, He 
bits, has a large frechold 
in his ha 
as 
eaba tn in quality 
I cannot help telling you 
any. Our most popular kinds are 
Davis’ suskind Early Rose, Early Dykema wo ar 
’s fi arn 
a on. It is 
oer mei Er that purpose, also for sauce—a daily 
accompanim during the season at the supper 
table. 
Squa a garden grows a 
few Squas arly me into use in July, 
a the late ‘kinds ig keep well till the following March, 
hey are a asa hhc doen at 
wn and country 
ashes. agai da S who Sr 
ashes. 
ort 3 but 
bee from Canada’ to he Gulf s Mexico 
as the soil is warm and in good w 
ning say ait mid-May, we sow the Eai or early 
sorts in hills i 
early varieties are White and Yellow 
Bush ‘colons, Crooknecked (wany. skin, ton the 
best s er Squash grown), and Boston Marr 
paar a ait acre bigger, and a “Tittle ater than 
ngst late ones are the d 
1 int 
ike them too, as th 
lose favour. 
About the end of September, or as soon as 
is l the Squashes are cut and huddled 
heaps on the ground or under the verandah, so th 
t 
in cellar, from whence they are take required, 
us ell and long. Sq just after 
inating are fearfully pend ith bugs, tha 
eat up the seed-leaves and kill the plants : hand: pick- 
ing is the only true remedy. Aor ash vines 
are left earn = have se zens killed ; in 
fact, plan ns almost e ely reduced zi an insect 
that bores ‘right through the neck of the plants under- 
ound, 
Tomatos.—Ame ag = a os of these : 
erecybouy grows t them, as all eat them, 
From the middle a e July rali weige by frost they 
are in abundance, and from E ril till July we gett them 
the South and from housek the 
height of the season a bushel of Tomatos may k pur- 
in Boston for a dollar or 75 cents. They are 
aut raw, cross slices and some sugar sprinkled 
onei r and vinegar are sometimes 
Some prefer m cooked (stewed), and in pee 
they are aeinn A 
ft ae ae = By 
ictor has fn Bas Seg Boil it is not quite so. 
penen spoiled, 
him—a thee y, Hathaway s Excelsior, and General Gran 
gu 
whe 
This atte done ries say, Friday, tl the: manure world ay 
unless 
we found X. he 
his a ior tee | ce the manure, planting two sets 
of Davis’ Seed! n each hill, and — over 
with niin soil, putting aside the turfy clods. I saw 
— field six weeks later, but such a mass of weeds— 
l, grass, &c. I seldom have 
> one could scarcely tell what crop wes 
was scooping out little hollows with 
harden them off in pots or 
‘do, b { 
roirabe for = crop here 
than in in England. S 
times we get a dish on the e “ Fourth of July,” 
= it is often a week later. A grower some 10 
orth Easton, near Mansfield, informs 
em that ipebi he sold dollars’ worth of 
ae that he forced in a fags yinery. William 
weather. person can eat 
stakor pe eey rt. When they 
them 
— 
Dotices of Books, 
Amaz Riven ji 
Jrom the Nn Book yE an s Baloti. oa a 
Keller. Chapman & Hall. 4to, pp. 177, Tanz 
We apprehend the time is not far distant when 
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of hri from bota anists ree oneal ors to . 
the Magdalena, and other rivers of tropical Som} 
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River. m ent scenery, ` 
Te m other sources of interest to the intelli- 
gent o obse Walaa tat o 
material resources of indiarubber. 
roductions, pie "the like 
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compared most favour H F 
phytes, O chids, Bre 
the slaughtered animal ithe iat is sai 
lent, ‘‘tasting much like beef. The 
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and equally es 
eich yield when boiled a rich jelly.” 
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used the to assume an 
e quote from the author’s emia on the 
the following passage 
“Splendid trunks, some of them from 6 to 10 ™ 
in diameter, rise like so man ae 
P 
a Cecropieæ exhibit other extravagancies 
pear as if standing on silts, the 
green. 
found a greater 
species, as well as in individuals, in the 
the richer of t 
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