SEASONABLE WORK 
WHAT TO EAT, 
The season so fur, has been much the same as 
thatof corresponding ones foryears past. Aslight 
exception may be found, perhaps, in the three 
warm days a short time since when the mercury 
indicated a degree of heat rarely seen in April iu 
this latitude. Since that time, rain, sleet, frost, 
and snows with prevailing westerly and north¬ 
erly winds have predominated. The warm days 
in April caused vegetation to developc itself rap¬ 
idly, and, us the event, has proved, somewhat 
prematurely. The consequence is, that some 
damage has been done to the early fruits, but 
less serious probably than was apprehended at 
the time the cold snap occurred. At all events 
there arc some of the earlier kinds of fruit blos¬ 
soms which Indicate sufficient vitality now to 
assure the maturity of fruit in its season unless 
assailed again by a severe frost. At the present 
writing, the second of May, tbe wind comes cut¬ 
tingly from the north indicating that fruits and 
vegetables have still further trials to undergo. 
May they prove equal to the occasion. 
Garden grounds are now being prepared. 
Some have already been seeded, but the chances 
are that Iheir owners will have the annoyance 
or the pleasure, as the case may he, of doing the 
work over again. Be this as it may, nothing has 
been lost yet by delay, and if proper attention 
is now paid to the vegetable garden the costom- 
ary results may be fairly anticipated. In cities 
and the larger towns where lots are small, the 
occupants of them usually make every foot of 
ground, not occupied by buildings, available for 
the production of vegetables. Tills Is good, as 
a matter of simple economy only, but better as 
affording healthful and nutritive luxuries In 
their season which their means might not other¬ 
wise enable them to obtain when wanted. A 
good variety of garden products helps a family 
along amazingly, and when it is remembered 
that every laborer has a few unoccupied hours 
each week at his disposal, he must be held cul¬ 
pably remiss if no vegetable garden well Btocked, 
and.clcar of weeds, flanks or environs his dwell¬ 
ing. »o much for the city and town, but what 
of the farms aud farmers ‘i 
In most instances, perhaps, this class is duly 
provident with respect to garden products, bnt 
it cannot be truthfully denied that some are re¬ 
miss in reference to them. With many the 
appropriate space Is alloted to thlB purpose. 
The ground is plowed and then left to the 
women and children to plant and tend. Possi¬ 
bly some of the labor of planting may he per¬ 
formed by the farm handB, but this done, no 
more attention is paid to the matter and the 
consequence usual ly is a plentiful crop of weeds 
and grass, with here and there a diminutive sam¬ 
ple of vegetable products. Now this Is all 
wrong. It is bad taste and worse economy. 
Where such evidences of slackness are supplied 
by the garden, the chances are many to one 
against It, that it is bnt a too faithful miniature 
of the farm Itself of which this is an appendage. 
This should not be so. A few hours work weekly 
would give a cheerful and lively aspect to the 
vegetable enclosure, while repaying many fold 
in its products tho labor and expense incurred 
in planting aud dressing It. 
Reform this altogether and now Is the time to 
begin. Plant liberally and' variously as you 
have the means; cultivate timely and well, and 
the result, will be something pleasant to look 
upon, as you enjoy your pipe of an evening; a 
seasonable variety of garden products when you 
want them during the summer and a supply for 
the cellar when the hitter harvest shall be gath¬ 
ered in. 
In the preceding remarks, reference is made 
simply to such products sb are embraced in the 
culinary department, bnt these do not constitute 
the whole of a well arranged garden. Flowers 
of various kinds may have a place, blooming at 
intervals daring the season. They are pleasant 
to look upon; Impart fragrance to the air and 
indicate a relind love of nature in those by whom 
they are planted and nurtured. They are to the 
garden what the dessert Is to the feast; not in¬ 
dispensable to it, but rendering it more varied 
and pleasing. 
In a word: provide yourself with a good gar¬ 
den, and ii faithful to this there Is little danger 
that your farm will be neglected, lor attention 
here will incite it there also, and the consequence 
will be that no man, in passing yonr dwelling 
and farm will have a chance to say, “ this Is the 
home of the careless man and the sluggard.” 
The garden is to the farm what the parlor is to 
the house, therefore see to it and keep it clean. 
As the warm season approaches and possibly 
the cholera with it, attention is being called to 
the subjects of diet, cleanliness and the proper 
regimen to be observed for the promotion of 
health and comfort. 
A lady correspondent snyB: — “ During this,” 
the warm season, “ the human system under¬ 
goes a general change in both solids and fluids; 
nature puts forth a spontaneous effort to throw 
off tho peccant or effete matter accumulated 
and deposited during the more sluggish wintry 
season, hence the utter folly of eating for the 
purpose of gaining strength when lassitude over¬ 
takes us. Tho system belug already burdened 
and overtaxed with too much labor, becomes 
faint and weary and has need of our assistance 
iu the form of gentle laxatives, followed up with 
some tonic bitters or sirup; frequent bathing 
of the entire body with pure, soft, tepid or warm 
I water accompained with friction; eating princi¬ 
pally such articles of diet a» will supply the 
waste of the Solids, thereby generating greater 
nerve power and more enduriug muscular 
strength. Pickles, if they were less indigesti¬ 
ble, would be a tit article of diet during this 
season, »s acid has a tendency to separate the 
bile Iroin the blood. Nature bcceib to sanction 
tbe moderate use of acid or tart substaucee, es¬ 
pecially iu the spring time, but emphatically pro¬ 
tests against all sweet, oily or greasy articles of 
diet.”—M. A. 8., terry, hul. 
I The above suggestions will no doubt be gen¬ 
erally acquiesced in by sedentary people, but will 
be less acceptable to those who have to under¬ 
go the rougher tolls of farm labor. To these, 
the exclusion of all greasy articles Jrom the table 
would be a great. loss and no doubt elicit a pretty 
strong protest.J 
FRUITS, Ac., IN NEW YORK MARKET, 
The following are the prices of fruits, vege¬ 
tables, &c., in the New York market, for the 
week ending May lid: 
Fruits.—T he stock of sound apples on the 
market is small, with fair demand at about 
quotations. 
Apples, Fancy Western ** bbl.* 0 00® ii 60 
Apples, Mixed Western tR bbl... 4 BO® 8 BO 
Apples, Common Weatorn V bbl. 1! 00® a 00 
Cranberries, choice, v bbl. is oo®io oo 
Cranberries, second quality, IH bbl.... 6 00® B 00 
Dried Fruits.—D ried apples are scarce, and 
in good demand. Other dried fruits are quiet 
and unchanged. 
Dried Apples, New State & Ohio V n>. 15 ® 16 
Peaches, New Southern, y n>. 25® 80 
PeaclieS, impeded, halves, V to. li® 10 
Peaches, untmrlnd, quarters, V ft. 12® 14 
Cherries, pitted, P «>. 15® 50 
• Blackberries, F in.... ao® 88 
Raspberries, V D»...... 48® 40 
Plums, V lb. 82® 88 
Vegetables.— Potatoes are in light, demand 
at unchanged rates. Onions arc mostly in bad 
spadesfull of surface soil thrown in, upon which 
the roots shall rest. Apply no manure to the 
roots of the tree — it is butter used as a mulch. 
As the process of tilling in about tho tree i& 
going on, it should be shaken up and down that 
the spaces between the roots may be well filled 
In. When the- tree is properly set or planted 
then it should be thoroughly mulched — this 
being regarded by tho Register as the great 
secret of tree-raising. The next step is to cut 
the tree back about one-fourth and wash it 
thoroughly. “ Boiled lye, mixed with soft soap, 
with a piece of saltpetre, about one-third the 
size of a hen's egg, to a pailful of the mix¬ 
ture, iB a valuable wash for the orchard. Let 
the lyc be Btrong, so that it will injure the hand 
If dipped into it, and apply it with a stout swab, 
so that the bark can be thoroughly nibbed and 
scoured. Concentrated potash — a thirty-five 
cent can—dissolved in four gallons of rain water, 
with a smalt piece of saltpetre, will make the 
lice fall in platoons, aud leave the. bark in a clear, 
soft and silky condition.” 
Tbe best manure for the orchard is thought 
to be wood ashes — applied liberally about the 
roots any season. Flow the ground yearly, ma¬ 
nuring the while liberally, but attempt to raise 
no exhaustive crops us the orchard will need all 
the aliment that the ground can well supply. 
fibrous roots, which start the canes to growiug 
as soou as the frost is out of the ground. The 
second year they throw out long tap roots, to 
which are attached the tine, thread-like fibers, 
from which the plants derive their nourishment. 
The blackberry is very different in Its growth. 
It, has not those line, fibrous roots to take up its 
food like the raspberry. The sets spring up 
from the long tap roots, which run In all direc¬ 
tions, giving it tho advantage of the raspberry 
set, by drawing on the parent stalk for its sup¬ 
port, thus causing it to start very early. The 
sets should be dug in the full and heeled in on a 
dry spot where they can be Bhadcd, if need be, 
from the warm bud, so as to keep them from 
starting before the soil can be prepared for plant¬ 
ing them out, which should be done ns soou as 
possible In the spring. w. w. 
Waterloo, Seneca Co., N. Y. 
Who Will Tell Him.—A member of the 
lGth U. 8. Ileavy Artillery, stationed in Virginia, 
wants some of the lady readers of the Rural to 
furnish him a plain recipe for coloring white 
cotton and woolen mixed shirts. Ho says the 
BoldietB can get bark of almost all kinds there 
if they knew how to use it in coloring. He adds: 
“ White woolen soils so easy, and we sollders 
want to look bright and clean.” 
Marrow 0nua*l], V bbl. 1 OO® 5 00 
Bumpkin*, 100. 15 00®20 00 
Beans and Pdas. —Tho beau market is inac¬ 
tive. Frlnm qualities are held above our quota¬ 
tions, but without buyers. Mixed and Inferior 
arc in large supply at buyers’ prlccB. 
Beans- Kidney*, new, X* btiab.$ 2 25® 2 SO 
Beana—Marrow*, V bush. 2 00 ® 2 10 
Beans Mediums, V bn*h... 1 40® 1 50 
Beans--Mixed parcels, bn*l». . i 00® l 25 
Peas—Canada, ¥ bush. 1 20® 1 25 
Peas—CJrccn Marrowfat. 2 60® 2 60 
Clean Your Truth. —Rev. H, W. Beecher 
sayB that a dean tooth never decays. Particles 
of food left between the teeth decay rapidly, 
causing an offensive breath and a decay of the 
teeth at the same time. Unsea qnlll tooth pick 
and rinse the mouth wall after eating; also clean 
it thoroughly on rising in the morning. By this 
attention the teeth will be preserved and an of¬ 
fensive breath measurably if uot wholly avoided 
Horticultural Notes and Queries. 
Enemies to Fruit Growing.— Mr. Henry Griffin 
writes ub from a remote part of Wia. that he has 
“planted somo apple trees In this end of the earth, 
but that various Insects and worms duraago them bo 
much that success in getting fruit is doubtful,” and 
lie asks a remedy of the Rural. “First iu order is 
a small worm that comes on the first appearance of 
the leaf. By “linking the treo they drop off and curl 
up like a hull. They seem to have a short season, and 
then comes the hang-worm. I have no other method 
of killing them than by finger and thumb. Some 
seasons there comes a small insect or green louse; 
they koep possession until tho tree is utterly exhaust¬ 
ed." Our Western fruit growers will doubtless recog¬ 
nize these posts, but who can give a remedy? We 
are almost powerless against the attacks of the le¬ 
gions of noxious insects. 
CELERY 
To Preserve Eggs. —An exchange says that 
an easy and certain way to preserve eggs is to 
take a basketful! and dip into a tub of scalding 
water. They should remain immersed while 
one can rapidly count tweuty. The water con¬ 
geals the surface of tho albumen immediately 
under tbe shell, forming an air-tight coating 
which prevents evaporation and decay. 
TiiEseed of celery Should be but barely pressed j 
Into the mold, and then a board laid upon it, say 
lor forty-eight hours; afterwards raise the board 
up, say about two inches, and keop the celery 
shaded uutil it, has grown an ineh, when the 
shade should be removed, except in the middle 
of the day. It is not necessary to have a hot-bed 
to grow celery plants for next winter's use; but 
if you have a gentle bottom heat from a spent 
hot-bed, all the better. Many burn their seeds 
and young plants by using too strong a bot¬ 
tom heat. 
When transplanting to the rows for perma¬ 
nent growth, trenches may or may not be made. 
We have grown just as good celery planta, when 
planted on level ground—soil having first been 
made deep and loose—as we have in trenches. 
Balt wc have found one of the best manures; 
use at the rate of eight bushels to the acre, or, if 
you have animal manure which you design to 
apply to your celery ground, use half tho quan¬ 
tity in proportion, diluted and poured on, and 
mixed up with the manure before applying it on 
the land.— Horticulturist. 
New Advertisements 
POT CULTURE OF ROSES, 
Training Cucumbers.— In limited gardens where 
but a small portion of ground can bo devoted to any 
one garden vegetable, it may be economical to train 
up tho cucumber on bushes like peas, or on frame* 
made expressly for the purpose. An experiment of 
this kind, made last year, was communicated to tbe. 
Utica IToriild. Tho purty making it planted a hill of 
cucumbers on tho embankment under his pantry 
window on the 25th of June. All died but one vine. 
That was trained up over tho window and ran up to 
the caves of the dwelling, making a fine shade Tor 
the window. The vine was killed on the 87th of Sep¬ 
tember last—nut before it had produced one hundred 
and two nice cucumbers. 
HOURS AT HOME 
The May number begins the second year of Hours at 
Home. The twelve numbers already ls»ued.contain over 
two hundred articles by very many or the ablest and 
mo*t popular writers iu tilts country aud in Europe. For 
the new year the conductors of Hours at Hour an¬ 
nounce the following 
SPECIAL ATT It ACTIONS. 
A scries or papers on rural topics, by 
DONALD G. MITCHELL, (“IK MARVEL,”) 
Will be commenced In tbe June number. 
Al*o, a series by 
DR. J. G. HOT,LAND, (“Timothy Titcomb,”) 
And by 
REV. UK. BUSIlNELL. 
TEHMSs—#8 a year; six copies for 118: thirteen for 
|80. The urn year, elegantly hound In 2 Vols. (1.200 
Grafting Wax.— (Subscriber.) Downing gives the 
following recipe for making grafting wax of excellent 
quality:—Melt together three parts of beeswax, three 
parts, of resin, and two part* of tallow. While yet 
warm work it with tho hand, by the aid of a little 
water." The French gardener* make grafting wax of 
two kinds. One, melted and laid on with a brush, is 
made of half a pound of pitch, half a pound of bees¬ 
wax, and a pound of cow-dung boiled together. The 
second, which is spread on strong paper or cotton 
cloth and wrapped round the graft, is composed of 
equal parts of beeswax, turpentine, and resin. 
MANURING ORCHARDS, 
It is customary to place rnunure near the body 
Of fruit trees and there only. This method is 
wrong, as a little reflection on the subject will 
convince any one. The Working Farmer has a 
report of a recent discussion before the Ameri¬ 
can Institute Farmers’ Club, in which this point 
was canvassed. The remarks of W. 8. Car¬ 
penter were to the point. He contended that 
the orchard fertilizers should cover the entire 
area penetrated by the roots of tbe tree which 
would correspond very nearly with tho space 
covered by Its branches. In other words, that 
the roots projected laterally, from tho main 
trunks, as far as did tho branches, hence the 
necessity of supplying aliment over the entire 
Bpace covered by the latter. That these roots 
may be readily benefited by manure the soil 
Bhould be genily stirred above them and the 
fertilizer mixed with it. 
A rule- Borer—A Cure.—B. F. Dunklky, Mo., has 
a cure for the apple-borer which he sends to the 
Rural World. Thus: —Take one pint of tar, one pint 
of soft soap, and half a pound of Hour of sulphur- 
melt them together, and while It is warm pj^nt 
It on the tree five or six Inches up. The borer will 
net attack that tree the same year. Put It on in April 
or beginning of May every year. 
F OR SALE—10,000 Agriculturist Htrnw- 
bkbries. 5,000 Philadelphia ftasptierriea. 2,000 Wil¬ 
son’s Early Blackberries. All you rig, vigorous plants— 
quality best. Semi for Catalogue* pruU*. 
88Q lit WM. PAKRV, Clnniunlnuon, N. J. 
ORCHARD PLANTING 
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Fruit Jars. 
Tlio mo«t reliable, a perfect success. 
TtJU easieat to open and close. Will pro¬ 
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well. 
t 3 r-Commit j mdbuyno 
other. Wholesale headquarters, No. 22 
Exchange st., Rochester, X. \ 
Protecting Tree* trom Rabbits.—1 completely 
protected about two dozen small pear trees from the 
depredations of rabbits the past winter by wrapping 
them with newspapers, half a sheet to a tree, and 
tying with strings. Tho paper* are in good repair 
yet. All other small trees on the place, apple, pear 
and peach, are completely girdled and spoiled.—8. 
W. A., Cortland, III. 
A LARGE VINE, 
RAISING BERRIES 
On the sea coast, between Tyre aud Sidon.is 
a very ancient mulberry garden, surrounded by 
some enormous Olive trees, whose hollow trunks 
attest their great antiquity. By tho garden side 
stands a cool fountain, fed by one of the moun¬ 
tain streams, eo welcome to the traveler for his 
noontide rest when traveling through - that 
thirsty land. After resting awhile at this pleas¬ 
ant spot, we rambled through tho garden of 
Mulberry trees, partly for the Bake of taking tho 
fruit, but more with the Intent of learning some¬ 
thing about the rearing of silk-worms, which 
was there in full operation. Whilst admiring 
the great size of the fine old Mulberry trees, I 
happened to notice the bark of a tree which ap- 
pearep so vine-like in its character that I stopped 
jjlLOWEB AND VEGKTABLB SJBEDS. 
Vick’s Illustrated Catalogue of Seeds 
Good for Something. — Somebody asserts that 
chickwecd is a good barometer. If tho flower is fully 
expanded no rain may be for looked on that day. If the 
llower is half concealed look out for showers; if 
wholly closed, take an umbrella and overcoat when 
you go out. _ 
Errata. —In the article entitled “ Horticultural 
Uinta," In the last No. of the Rural (May 5th,) for 
the word “beavers” substitute “lawn*-’ Illegible 
copy looks queer in Uyy>e—if it does’nt to the proof- 
FLORAL GUIDE 
for THE BPRIJSTGr OB' 18 06. 
Is now published. It contains full descriptions ot the 
eholuest floral treasure* ot the world and the beat vojtefr 
»b!«». with plain directions for culture. Illustrated WITH 
k COLOKED DOO« 4 U*TT« ANI* FIFTY WOOD ENOltAVINes 
of the newest and be*’. Bower* and containing aiioatTO 
pages t#~ Sent to all who apply euclceinx Ten Gents, 
which l» not hail the cost. 
nr Flower, (rum weds sold by me, obtained the first 
prizes at the principal State Fairs.and bimdrudiof Coun¬ 
ty Fairs, the past rammer Address _ _ 
883-tl -J AALttS VICE, Rochester, N. Y. 
Plant Deep. — Peas planted six or eight inches 
deep it is said will bear ranch longer than when the 
seed is hardly covered enough to cause germination. 
FOWLS, GEESE, DUCKS, Fldeon 
sale. Also Eggs tro m 52 to $3 per doze 
r, address . „ 
K.H. HAINES, Box 58, Elizabeth, N. J 
