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annual crop reaches 5,000 tons. An acre 
j contains from 25,000 to 30.000 plants. The 
| land was originally a sandy marsh, 
j 
Gardening, like other pursuits had its 
origin in the supply of primitive wants, 
these increasing, with development on every 
| hand, its details extended till the “Goose- 
bei ry bush and cabbage,” which compre¬ 
hended a garden in the eyes of Lord Wal¬ 
pole, over-leaped the fence and went abroad 
! into the fields to out-rank in its money re¬ 
turns acre for acre any other agricultural 
pursuit. Vegetables are among the most 
important of foods, being alike used by rich 
, and poor. To a colonist they are invaluable, 
and when he makes a garden and has plants 
; in growth he begins to feel himself again; 
’tis evidence of ownership, he has made 
wild nature his servant. 
Men of genius are often dull and inert in 
society; as the blazing meteor, when it de¬ 
scends to the earth, is only a stone.— Long¬ 
fellow. 
American celery is better than that in 
Great Britain. There the attention is given 
to producing giant stalks. They are rather 
coarse and green. Here the dwarf stalks 
are the favorite, and they have a crisp, del¬ 
icate, nutty flavor unknown on the other 
side of the water. 
From the well-known experiments of Sir 
John B. Laws, Joseph Harris estimates that 
10 acres of clover will evaporate 15,547 
pounds of water in a June day. 
An Arizona man has stopped taking an 
agricultural paper. He wrote to the editor 
asking how to get rid of gnats. The an¬ 
swer came in the next issue of the paper, 
“Kill them.” 
Joseph Harris gives an account of his 
oerrot crop, his object being to save need¬ 
less expense. The seed was sown in rows 
twenty-one inches apart. The plants came 
up thick, and when he most wanted his day 
hands they left him. He kept the cultiva¬ 
tor running within an inch of the plants, 
which kept down the weeds, and the carrots 
grew “with astonishing rapidity.” But 
they must be thinned or the crop would be 
worthless, so the men went through the 
patch with hoes and^cut spaces clear across, 
the width of the hoe, leaving bunches of 
four to ten young carrots. The cultivator 
was kept going, and after harvest the weeds 
which escaped were cut out by hand. The 
entire labor thus expended was no more 
than for a crop of potatoes, and Mr. Harris 
says: “I do not want a better crop.” The 
roots were diverse in siz e, but the whole 
crop was larger than where regularly thin¬ 
ned. 
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