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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
' March 28 
THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 
What Varieties Shall We Plant? 
Paiit II. 
Paper read by E. D. Darlington, of Ford- 
hook Farms, Doylestown, Pa., at a farm¬ 
ers’ institute held in Philadelphia February 
last: 
Radishes may be had in ample supply 
at all times in the home garden, if a bed 
of rich loose soil is prepared for them, 
and frequent sowings of seed made. You 
can either select a very quick-growing 
variety and make repeated plantings of 
the one variety (for this purpose the 
French Breakfast and Paris Beauty are 
possibly the best), or sow at one time a 
short row each of three or four varie¬ 
ties which will come up in succession, 
choosing Rosy Gem for earliest, follow¬ 
ed by French Breakfast, Paris Beauty 
and Long Cardinal, which come in in 
the order named. These are all bright 
scarlet sorts tipped with white at the 
root end. An equally good succession of 
white sorts may be had by-planting the 
White Olive Shaped, White Box, Vienna 
and Strasburg. Late in the Summer 
make a planting of the Large White 
Chinese or Celestial, which grows to a 
very large size and has crisp, juicy flesh 
of mild flavor, mainly desirable, how¬ 
ever, as an oddity, as it does not come 
up to the small sorts planted in Spring. 
Mustard is but little known in our 
northern gardens, but the new varieties. 
Southern Giant Curled and Fordhook 
I'^ancy, are worthy of being planted in 
the home garden. The seed should be 
sown early in August and the young 
plants thinned out to stand four to six 
inches apart in the row'. The leaves are 
used as a boiling green and in the fresh 
state as a salad. Those of the Ford- 
hook Fancy are as deeply fringed as the 
finest parsley, making a choice garnish. 
Parsley should always be at hand in 
liberal quantities both for garnishing 
and flavoring, and as the cost of the seed 
is practically the same for all varieties 
only the very best strain with heavily 
curled leaves should be planted. The 
Champion Moss-Curled, and Extra Dark 
Moss-Curled are the leading varieties. 
Seed should be sown early in tae Spring 
and the young plants transplanted to 
stand 10 inches apart. Fresh sowings 
should be made each Spring, as the 
jjlants run to seed the second year. The 
most useful herbs are sage, thyme, tar¬ 
ragon, Summer and Winter savory. 
Balm should also be planted, as the 
young shoots have a delightful fragrance 
rosembling that of the lemon verbena, 
and can be used in floral decorations and 
for scenting linen, etc., in the old-fash¬ 
ioned way when dry. All of these can 
be readily grown from seed, which ger¬ 
minates best from early plantings while 
the soil is still cool and moist. When 
the young plants are well started they 
should be transplanted to stand 12 
inches or more apart, and kept well 
hoed and free from weeds. Cut off the 
old tops in the Fall and cover with a 
liglit coat of manure during Winter. 
The tall or running nasturtiums will 
climb readily if planted along the bot¬ 
tom of an ordinary pale fence or the 
modern wire fence, and add to the 
beauty of the garden by their profusion 
of brilliant flowers. The flowers and 
young leaves are now quite largely used 
as a salad, and the young tender seed 
pods make an excellent relish when 
pickled. A bowl of the flowers when 
gathered early in the morning will 
brighten the table and retain their 
freshness for several days. 
Beans of the bush type are the most 
easily grown in the home garden, occu¬ 
pying but little space, and yielding an 
ample supply from small plantings. For 
superior quality I would recommend the 
Stringless Greenpod, and the Saddle¬ 
back Wax for snap sorts, and Burpee’s 
Bush Lima and Dreer’s Bush Lima for 
shell beans. These bush Limas have the 
added merit of being ready for u.se three 
or four weeks earlier than the corre¬ 
sponding pole sorts. Plantings of the 
bush varieties for snap sorts should be 
made every three or four weeks to keep 
up a constant supply of young tender 
pods. Plantings made in August will 
yield pods in October when there are 
none in the markets, and this is fre¬ 
quently the iinest crop. A single plant¬ 
ing of the bush Lima is sufficient, as 
they will continue in bearing until cut 
off by frost, but it should be understood 
that the bean plant is a gross feeder, 
and for good results the soil must be 
made rich and kept well cultivated. 
Dwarf peas are most easily grown in 
the small garden; one pint, planting 50 
feet of row, will yield sufficient pods for 
a good-sized family, and for a continu¬ 
ous supply you should either plant three 
varieties at one time, or make plantings 
of one early variety every week. Two 
of the triple plantings may be made in 
the Spring a month apart and one early 
in August for Fall use. The wrinkled 
peas have the sweetest flavor, and for a 
Spring succession I would suggest Sur¬ 
prise or Alaska as first early, Nott’s Ex¬ 
celsior for medium and Improved Strata¬ 
gem for late. About 60 days are re¬ 
quired with beans and peas from plant¬ 
ing until the pods are ready for use. For 
Fall plantings the extra early, such as 
Alaska and Surprise, give the best re¬ 
sults, setting pods most freely and are 
least injured by mildew. The Gradus, 
or Prosperity is a splendid large-podded 
extra early of dwarf growth, and the 
Thomas Laxton even better in quality, 
but the quantity of seed of these varie¬ 
ties offered for sale is so limited that it 
will be some time before they become 
well known. 
In sweet corn it is desirable at least 
to plant for early use, and of the extra 
early sorts the new Golden Bantam, 
Fordhook First, and Early Champion 
are probably the best in quality. For 
second earlies Early Evergreen, Crosby’s 
Early and Shaker’s Large Early are of 
good size and quality; for late plant 
Slowell’s Evergreen for large ears and 
Country Gentleman for the small deep- 
grain ears. 
Among cucumbers the Arlington and 
White Spine are the best of common 
types, but the large fruits of the Giant 
Pera are milder in flavor and have a 
larger portion of flesh and fewer seeds. 
For Summer squashes a few hills of the 
bush patty-pans or scalloped sorts will 
give a good supply of fruits, which are 
useful for frying like egg plant, or 
boiled in the southern style. The Bush 
Fordhook is a new type, the fruits being 
much sweeter in flavor, and are good 
either in Summer or kept for pies and 
baking whole during the Winter months. 
Tomatoes will be of the best flavor 
when grown in the home garden from 
seed of choice varieties, being greatly 
superior in solidity and flavor to the 
common market grade, and to develop 
thf; finest flavor the fruit should be gath¬ 
ered from the plant after ripening but 
before it becomes soft, while the mar¬ 
ket product is generally gathered before 
it is fully ripe, aiitd is decidedly acid in 
flavor. For the finest flavored fruits it 
is best to train a single stem or stalk to 
a pole or stake, trimming off all the side 
shoots as soon as they appear. This 
plan economizes space and gives the 
earliest fruits. In this type the Match¬ 
less and Stone are the best bright scar¬ 
lets, and the Ponderosa, Mikado and 
Trucker’s Favorite the best purple-fruit¬ 
ed sorts. Another type of growth has a 
stiffly erect bush habit until the plants 
are weighted with fruit, and even then 
they can be supported with a short 
stake. These have heavy potato-leaf fo¬ 
liage, growing only two feet high, and 
are quite hardy, admitting of very early 
planting, and the plants can be set quite 
closely in the garden. For the best 
scarlets in this type plant the Quarter- 
Century and the Dwarf Stone, and for 
purple the Dwarf Champion. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— A(li\ 
O NE of your New Year resolutions 
should have been to make your 
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this year by planting 
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A sport of the Blue Victor, originated in the arid 
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