THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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about the culture horse-radish usually receives 

 in America. 



It may be planted here from November to 

 March, or during the whole season in which 

 frost falls. The sets should be planted fifteen 

 inches apart each way, and the ground should 

 be trenched to the extent of two feet — the cut- 

 tings being placed along the bottoms of the 

 trenches. The earth from one trench should 

 be cast upon the trench preceding it, and after 

 the bed is finished, the ground should be raked 

 over evenly and smoothly, and kept (dean of 

 weeds, which is all the cultivation this plant 

 requires the first year. In April or May, the 

 long straight shouts makes their appearance. 

 In autumn the dead leaves must be carefully re- 

 moved, and the ground raked and hoed over. 

 Repeat this hoeing the next spring, before the 

 plants vegetate. In the succeeding autumn, 

 the same treatment must be pursued ; and the 

 roots being now fit for use, may be taken up as 

 desired. It is best to have three- beds of diffe- 

 rent ages ; for, by this rotation of use, one will 

 always be lying idle and improving. A good 

 plan recommended to take up the roots, is to 

 trench along the outside row, down to the bot- 

 tom of the upright roots, which are cut off 

 above the old stool, and the earth of the next 

 row is turned over them, and so on until the 

 bed is finished. A bed may, by this treatment, 

 be kept up for half a duzeu years. But the 

 best plan is to take the crop up annually, and 

 form a new bed — observing the triennial rota- 

 tion necessary to ensure perfectly matured 

 roots ; for it causes the roots to be finer, and 

 allows the situation to be changed, which is 

 necessary in the cultivation of most vegetables. 

 To such of our readers as cultivate this vegeta- 

 ble, Ave shall shortly furnish the modes of pre- 

 paring it for the purposes of the table. It 

 might be made an extremely profitable crop in 

 the vicinity of the large cities of the South. — 

 Southern Cultivator. 



a gutter was formed and cemented at the bot- 

 tom, so as to conduct the water to the lowest 

 corner into a drain. The space outside of the 

 wall was then filled with broken stones, brick- 

 bats, &c, and these covered with earth. The 

 object was to let the water pass rapidly down 

 to the gutter, run round to the drain, and thus 

 pass off without entering the cellar. 



The drain was made of earthenware, the first 

 joint of which entered the Aval], and commu- 

 nicated Avith the inside; the joint just outside 

 of the Avail Avas pierced with holes to admit 

 the water from the gutter outside, and the 

 drain had sufficient descent to prevent the wa- 

 ter from backing into the cellar. About six 

 inches common gravel was then thrown into 

 the bottom of the cellar and graded, so as to 

 make a gutter all round next to the Avail. — 

 Clean coarse gravel Avas procured and mixed 

 with cement, in the proportion of two parts 

 gravel to one of cement, forming a mortar with 

 which the cellar bottom was covered four inches 

 thick. A light coat of cement and sand was 

 applied after the first had dried, to make the 

 surface smooth. The inside of the walls Avas 

 plastered with common plastering mortar. The 

 windoAvs were large, and entirely above ground, 

 with wire screens outside, and sash filled with 

 glass inside, and hung with hinges at the top, 

 which were never closed except in the severest 

 weather. 



Results. — A dry cellar, well ventilated ; a 

 floor like one solid rock; no dampness, no 

 mouldiness, no freezing, no rats. 



II . J. COX. 



Dcerjidd, Warren County, 0. 



From the Ohio Valley Farmer. 

 DRY CELLARS. 

 A dry cellar is conceded to be an important 

 requisite to a good house. Health is material- 

 ly impaired by a damp atmosphere, preventing 

 a free escape of the insensible perspiration from 

 the surface of the body by evaporation. This 

 is so well known, that a damp house is prover- 

 bially unhealthy. How shall this be avoided, 

 is a desideratum to many. To such, I offer the 

 details of an effort to make a dry cellar, and 

 the result. 



In July 1853, the cellar was dug on a stiff 

 clay soil, Avhere it was thought impossible to 

 succeed. The clay was .thrown out one foot 

 Avider all round, than the walls were intended 

 to be; the Avails Avcre built of stone, laid 



THE BEAUTIFUL IN AGRICULTURE. 



Both, the art and the sciences of agriculture 

 are sufficiently advanced in. the country to ena- 

 ble its citizens to study and practice the Beau- 

 tiful in planting, and in all farming operations, 

 with entire success. Beauty in rural objects 

 and scenery is not confined to embellishments, 

 but is attainable in all that relates to plants and 

 their culture, to domesticated animals, forests, 

 parks, fields, orchards and gardens, Nature 

 kindly favors, and often suggests agreeable 

 features to such as have an eye to see and heart 

 to feel the charms of beauty. She aids in a 

 thousand ways to quicken into life and activity 

 the dormant taste for the Beautiful placed in 

 every bosom by a beneficent Creator. To de- 

 velop and cultivate this latent and prolific 

 source of enjoyment in mankind, is one of the 

 highest duties'of educated persons. It should 

 prompt all to investigate the elements of beau- 

 ty in natural objects, and in rural arts, wheth- 

 er they relate to the vegetable, animal, or min- 

 eral kingdom. With each of these grand de- 

 partments of Nature the cultivator has much 



do; and he should ieai n her p 



in common mortar, and faced on both sides, sc 



that they could be plastered. The outside of I and laws, from which he will 

 the walls was then plastered with cement, and ' understand that Beauty ami Utility t 



o cesses and 

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