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from each other in the row. This plot has 
been cultivated much like that of Mr. Sey¬ 
mour, with the exception of mulching. Up 
to this date, (July 26,) 101 baskets have been 
picked, a dozen of which have been used in 
the family. The balance have been sold in 
Fulton Market for $13 25, or $11 04net, 
after deducting one-sixth for commission to 
the retailers. A number of the first bask¬ 
ets were retailed from the market for 18 to 
22 cents each. The plot is still bearing. 
No account is kept of the expense of culti¬ 
vation or picking, as this is done before and 
after business hours. 
There are thousands of men engaged in 
various occupations in this and other cities, 
who reside in the country or in suburban 
villages, where they have their garden plots. 
How many of them might have a plot of 
raspberries like No. 2. 
There is scarcely any limit to the demand. 
The improved methods of preserving now 
coming into use, will largely increase the 
call for most of the small fruits. The price 
has been quite as high the present year as 
for some time past, notwithstanding that 
the increase in the number of new cultiva¬ 
tors of such fruits has almost doubled the 
products within a year or two. 
As described above, Autumn is the 
best season for setting out raspberry plants, 
though they can be moved in the Spring, 
even up to the middle of May in this lati¬ 
tude. For two weeks past we have been 
gathering small quantities of fine Fastolfs 
from plants transferred to our garden on the 
17th of May the present year.— [Ed. 
THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 
SOME THINGS THAT MAY BE PLANTED AT THIS 
SEASON. 
Cucumbers. —Those who are fond of 
pickled cucumbers, but who have lost their 
first plantings from the attacks of bugs—and 
we have heard an unusual number of com¬ 
plaints on this score the present season— 
may still secure a fair crop from seed plant¬ 
ed as late as Aug. 1, especially in localities 
not further north than 42 ° north latitude. 
Prepare the soil by spading it deeply and 
pulverizing it well, mixing with it a fair 
supply of decomposed manure. The vines 
will be hastened forward by an occasional 
watering with liquid manure, weak guano 
water, wash from the sink, urine, &c. The 
soap suds made on washing-day is also very 
good for cucumbers. They are quickly 
grown by such treatment. We gathered 
nice cucumbers for the table the present sea¬ 
son in fifty-nine days after planting. The 
soil was but moderately fertile. A little 
finely ground bone was mixed with the soil 
in the hill, and the plants afterwards watered 
with ‘ sink slops.’ We put a large number 
of seeds in broad hills, and started plants 
enough to satisfy the bugs, and some to 
spare. As they grew too thickly, even after 
considerable destruction from insects, the 
vines were thinned out as fast as they crowd¬ 
ed too close upon each other. 
Green Peas.—W e have just put in a bed 
of peas for late use and for drying in a green 
state. A variety called the Daniel O’Rourke, 
planted May 12, were ready for the table 
June 9. These were from Germany, ob¬ 
tained by the agent of the Patent Office. 
Another variety, called the Dwarf Hamburg, 
received also from the Commissioner of 
Patents, was sown May 12 and were picked 
for cooking June 23. These are genuine 
dwarfs, growing scarcely six inches inhight. 
Both of these varieties promise to be valua¬ 
ble acquisitions. The earlier kinds of peas 
may be sown now, and they will be ready 
for use the latter part of September. Soak 
the seed 24 hours, and sow on light or mod¬ 
erately light soil, manured with well decom¬ 
posed yard manure. Stimulating manures 
produce too great a growth of vines, with a 
lack of pods. 
Radishes. —May be sown at any time and 
on almost any soil. Early radishes do best 
on light, rich, dry sandy loam, but at this 
season a deep moist soil is preferable. Win¬ 
ter radishes may be sown all through Au¬ 
gust and into September, taken up before 
freezing, and stored in sand in the cellar for 
table use in Winter. The Black Fall Span¬ 
ish, White Fall Spanish, and Rose-colored 
China Winter, are good varieties for the 
purpose. The last named is a new variety, 
well spoken of. 
Kidney Beans. —These may still be plant¬ 
ed, and produce a good crop of string beans 
either for cooking or pickling. The early 
Mohawk has frequently been ready for the 
table in five weeks after planting. Green 
beans are by many preferred to cucumbers 
for pickling, and not without good reason, 
we think. For a late crop choose a light 
soil, tolerably dry. If poor, apply a good 
dressing of well-rotted manure in the hill, 
mixing it well with earth before putting in 
the seed. If strong green manures are used 
they are apt to produce too large growth of 
vines at the expense of the pods. 
Carrots. —If the garden is not yet provi¬ 
ded with a bed of carrots, a small plot may 
be sown in this latitude. For a large crop 
the sowing should have been done previous 
to this date. The Early Horn variety is the 
most forward in ripening. Carrots grow 
best on a deep, light sandy soil, well manur¬ 
ed. The seed may be soaked a few hours, 
and then sown pretty thickly in’ drills, to be 
thinned out to three or four inches after 
they are well started. 
Destruction of Weeds in Paved Paths 
and Courts. —The growing of weeds be¬ 
tween the stones of a pavement is often 
vey injurious, as well as unsightly. The 
following method of destroying them is 
adopted at the Mint in Paris and elsewhere, 
with good effect. One hundred pounds of 
water, twenty pounds of quick-lime, and two 
pounds of flour of sulphur, are boiled in an 
iron vessel; the liquor allowed to settle, 
the clear part drawn off, and being more or 
less diluted, according to circumstances, is 
to be used for watering the alleys and pave¬ 
ments. The weeds will not reappear for 
several years. 
This plan will probably prove effectual, 
but remember that the liquid will.be death 
to the box or other plants upon the borders 
of such plots or paths, if it be allowed to 
reach the roots.— [Ed. 
SHOKT CHAPTER ON SEEDS. 
True, a seed is a seed ; but it is a good deal 
more than a seed. It is a history, and it is 
ready for another history. A whole summer 
is wrapped up in that pea. A whole sum¬ 
mer wrought to form that bean. A whole 
summer spent its time about that ear of 
corn. It came forth small as a needle. It 
stood tremulous and yellow for weeks, it 
waxed apace in June, it rustled in July, it 
stood up the noblest of all the grasses in 
August, with a many-fringed band of flow¬ 
ers on its lap, and with a little baby ear at 
its breast, with silken hair hanging down 
uncombed yet untangled, and spotted and 
powdered with pollen. This is the time to 
wander in the corn ! You are hidden at six 
steps. It is a pet forest. People ride past 
and wagons roll within a few rods of you, 
and you are unseeing and unseen. The 
wind comes in gentle puffs, and sets all the 
pliant sword leaves a-quake. Little birds 
that do not know that you are there, fly in 
and alight within hand reach, but at a glance, 
seeing their mistake, fly as if the tassel was 
hot and burned their feet! We see all that , 
in those barrels of Tuscarora corn, in that 
white flint corn, and in that yard-long ear 
of yellow flint. H. W. Beecher. 
A celebrated geologist, member of the 
Academy of Sciences in France, was recent¬ 
ly traveling in the southern part of that coun¬ 
try, when he stopped at a miserable inn to 
dine. He could not get any thing to eat but 
a meager omelet, overdosed with garlic. 
“ Why in the world,” said he to the landlady, 
“ did you put so much garlic into the omelet V’ 
“ Dear me, sir!” was the reply, “ the eggs 
were so bad!” 
Genealogical. —So far as we know, all 
those bearing the name of Judd in this coun¬ 
try, are the descendants of Thomas Judd, 
who came from England in 1633, and set¬ 
tled at Cambridge, Mass., from whence he 
removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1636. All 
bearing that name, as well as descendants in 
a female line, will be pleased to learn.that a 
genealogical register giving the succession, 
names, ages, and many particulars of resi¬ 
dence, occupation, &c., of the Judd family in 
its different branches^ has just been comple¬ 
ted and printed by Sylvester Judd, Esq., of 
Northampton, Mass., formerly for many 
years editor of the Hampshire Gazette. 
This has been the work of several years, and 
it has been well done, we think. The names 
of some two thousand or more persons have 
been collected. Those interested in this 
matter who may desire the book can have 
it forwarded by mail in pamphlet form of 112 
pages. The price is only 50 cents, with 4 
cents additional if postage is prepaid.— [Ed. 
Do all the good you can, 
At all the times you can, . 
In all the ways you can, 
To all the people you can, 
And as long as you can. 
