1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
157 
Suggestions from a Woman 
Gardener. 
Since the farmer’s wife has the cook¬ 
ing of the vegetables, why should she 
not have the privilege of their selec¬ 
tion? Surely it is a privilege she will 
not abuse. There are several easily- 
grown plants that one rarely finds in the 
farm garden; yet they would prove 
tempting additions to country fare. 
Swiss chard, with large tender white 
ribs, and large light green leaves, makes 
delicious greens, far superior to beet 
leaves. The Swiss chard is of rapid 
growth, and can be cut quite often. 
The roots are of no value, as this is a 
plant cultivated for its leaves alone. 
The roots live over the Winter, and 
send up at least one mess of greens be¬ 
fore it is time to plow the garden. Start 
a fresh bed every year. Some cook a 
small bit of pork with this. 
Don’t save your own seed. The men 
who make seed-growing a business un¬ 
derstand that better than we, and we 
shall be the gainer in superior vegetables 
at a small cost. If we deal with a re¬ 
liable seedsman, our money will be well 
spent. 
Some people do not like string beans, 
and the reason for this is often found 
to be that they have never had any 
good ones. It can be truly said that 
there are those who do not “know 
beans;” at least, they do not who will 
tolerate the tough, rust-spotted pods, 
when they can have fine-flavored, string¬ 
less, golden-yellow ones. There are the 
Lima beans, too, both the large and 
small varieties. These are very pro¬ 
ductive, if attended to properly. Egg¬ 
plants are the most tantalizing members 
of the garden family. Sometimes they 
grow thriftily, but will not set a fruit 
till so late that the frost nips them be¬ 
fore they are mature; then on the other 
hand, they behave properly, and furnish 
a goodly number of fruit. Endive makes 
a very attractive, as well as appetizing 
salad, with its finely-cut, beautifully 
blanched leaves. This is a late Fall and 
early Winter salad. To many who have 
saved their own lettuce seed, year in and 
year out, of the common old-fashioned, 
slightly bitter and tough sorts, the 
large head varieties are a revelation. 
Said a friend to me last Summer: “1 
never knew before that there were dif¬ 
ferent kinds of lettuce.” The large 
heads, with leaves folded like a cabbage, 
thus blanching the inner leaves, either 
white or creamy yellow, crisp, tender, 
fine-flavored, will often weigh a pound. 
Lettuce will bear transplanting, and the 
heading varieties must be given plenty 
of room for each plant to develop prop¬ 
erly. Start a box in the house, when 
you start your tomato plants. Spinach 
is also easily grown, and proves a wel¬ 
come addition to the list of greens. 
Why anyone will raise an inferior, 
exceedingly irregular tomato, when 
there are so many varieties of perfectly- 
shaped, fine fruits obtainable, is a mys¬ 
tery. Tomato plants are often sold un¬ 
labeled, so the buyer knows nothing of 
the kind he is buying. It takes but little 
time and trouble to raise one’s own 
plants; then you know just what kind 
of tomatoes to expect, as the seedsman’s 
description is reliable. As Spring ap¬ 
proaches, the fancy of the woman who 
loves a good garden turns surely to the 
new catalogues. While the good things 
for the table are liberally ordered, there 
should always be some money left for 
flower seed. I am always granted the 
privilege of sending for the catalogues, 
selecting the order, and my husband has 
me draw a plan of the beds or rows of 
the small vegetables. I start tomatoes, 
lettuce and parsley in the house. Every¬ 
one has some “fad,” and I suppose 
gardening is mine. I plan a different 
flower garden each year, starting all 
plants that can be transplanted in the 
bouse. In this way the weeds never get 
a chance to draw all the goodness out of 
the earth, while I am waiting for my 
ffower seeds to germinate, as would be 
the case if I sowed the seed in the flower 
garden. I think I’ve found out some of 
the secrets of the Asters, as I have had 
truly magnificent ones. One year I had 
a bed of the Mary Semple pink Aster 
that literally fulfilled all that the grower 
claimed for it. I have raised Asparagus 
Sprengeri from seed—10 seeds costing 
10 cents. I raised eight plants. The one 
I kept is now two years old this Spring 
and it is a beauty. I’ve also raised vines 
—the common morning-glory, Brazilian 
ana Japanese, Japanese hop (unsatisfac¬ 
tory) moonflower, also Cobsea scandens, 
from seed; very satisfactory, and cypress 
vine, Mina sanguinea and M. lobata. 
My list of vegetables for this year con¬ 
tains several new items. 
HELEN CURTISS ANDREWS. 
Gardening in Newfoundland. 
It wrings the heart of a man from a 
fertile place to observe with what a 
depth of tenderness the soil of the re¬ 
mote Newfoundland is cultivated. To 
him, used to the sight of large rewards, 
the labor seems futile and tragic. He 
looks upon the fisherman-farmer as 
some old paddle-punt hand might look 
upon an inlander who set out to catch 
a whale with a bent pin and a spool of 
thread. Not only the graveyards, but 
tne gardens, are made by hand. The 
soil is gathered here and there and 
everywhere, scraped from the rocks, and 
dumped, year by year, in some sheltered 
place, until the new land is ready for 
the seed. It took 20 years to make the 
little garden where Aunt Phoebe’s black 
currant bushes and roses marvelously 
prolong a starved existence. Past gen¬ 
erations made the meadow at Exploits 
from which men of to-day reap their 
pounds of hay and gather their quarts 
of potatoes. Moreover, many a Fogo 
garden once blossomed in England. Not 
long ago soil was imported and sold by 
weight. English gardens were shipped 
to Newfoundland in the holds of vessels 
bound out for dried fish. 
“Be you from New York, as they says, 
sir?” a man asked me in a small harbor 
of White Bay. Affirmatively answered, 
he continued: “Won't you come out t’ 
my garden, sir? ’T is some queer things 
I’ve growin’ there. An’ ’t is English 
soil, sir, they thinks, an’ they be doin’ 
well. ’Twould do your heart good t’ see 
um.” 
This was Tom Butts, whose son had 
sent him a package of assorted seeds 
from Maine. Unhappily for Tom, the 
letter had been lost in the mails; nor 
was there a label on a single package. 
“What be that, sir?” said he, pointing 
to a haggard growth of stalks. 
“Corn,” said I. 
“Now, is un?” said he, stroking his 
beard and smiling in an intensely grati¬ 
fied way. “Sure. I’ve long wanted to 
know. So, he be earn, eh? Hem-m-m! 
Does you know what that is in the 
earner?” 
“ ’T is a tomato plant,” said I. 
“Now, is un?” said he. “I thought 
’twas what they calls carrots. ’T is a 
tomato, you says; an’ ’t is what I 
thought was carrots. Well, well! 
Would you think o’ that!”’ 
Tom Butts was eager to rid himself 
of the burden of wonder which had so 
long oppressed him—tremulously eager. 
He had planted in wonder, and waited 
in wonder, and tended in wonder. But 
he was too polite or too cautious to be 
precipitate. The stranger must not be 
offended, must not be frightened away— 
this stranger who had at last come to 
satisfy his heart’s yearnings. 
“This,” he said, stooping to caress a 
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK? 
Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the 
new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is deUclous 
and nourishing and takes the place of coffee. The 
more Grain-0 you give the children the more health 
you distribute through their systems. Grain-0 is 
made of pure grains, and when properly prepared 
tastes like the choice grades of coffee but costs about 
H as much. All grocers sell it. 15c. and 25c. 
small green plant, “is what I calls real 
cabbage.” 
“ ’T is cabbage,” said I. 
“Now, is un?” Tom burst out, his 
face radiant. “Sure, I guessed the right, 
didn’t I? But they be a queer, queer 
thing t’ other side o’ the ’taters. Take a 
look at un, sir. ’T is like you never 
seed such a thing afore. Aft o’ the ’ta¬ 
ters, sir. Sure, ’t is that.” 
It was a pumpkin vine, all run to leaf; 
and it bore one broad yellow blossom, 
which was then wilting without promise 
of fruition. 
“ ’T is but a flower, I think, sir,” said 
Tom. “ ’T is nothing to eat, whatever.” 
“ ’T is a. pumpkin,” said I. 
Tom looked up quickly. “Be you 
sure,” said he, “that you know un? ’T 
is like,” he went on doubtfully, “they 
grows in the gardens t’ New York? Well, 
maybe, it’s a pumpkin, if you say so. I 
hearn tell o’ they things. Woan’t you 
have a glass o’ goat’s milk, sir? No? 
Good-even, sir. ’T is a fine garden, this 
—now, ben’t un?” 
“ ’T is a fine garden, sir,” said I; for, 
as I looked into his glowing face, I had 
no heart to call his child a cripple, even 
though she were one, when she was all 
fair and glorious in his sight.—Ainslee’s 
Magazine. 
RICKETY CHILDREN. 
Loose joints, bow legs, big 
head, and soft bones—mean 
rickets. It is a typical disease 
[or the best workings of Scott’s 
Emulsion. 
For the weak bones Scott’s 
Emulsion supplies those 
powerful tonics the hypophos- 
phites. For the loss of flesh 
Scott’s Emulsion provides the 
nourishing cod-li\ sr oil. 
Scott’s Emulsion corrects 
the effects of imperfect nour¬ 
ishment and brings rapid im¬ 
provement in every way to 
rickety children. 
Send for Free Sample. 
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Fifty years of success prove these 
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Meat smoked in a few hours with 
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Is this 
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Lots of lies have' 
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bo x b u si n ess H ere 
are the facts. 
There are fourteen x 
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for himself and the,devil 
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plead guilty to getting the Kofi'S share'of 
the business, simply because our box has such 
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Worth $1.25 
A SPECIAL OFFER 
made to introduce our 
joods. Satisfaction guar - 
w dnteed } or money refunded. 
20 Pkts. Seeds 
Pkt. Washington Weeping Palm. 
lPkt. Alyssum, Little Getn, mixed* 
1 Pkt. Mary Semple Asters, 4 colors. 
1 Pkt. Rambler Roses, 3 colors, mixed 
Pkt. Phlox Drummondii. 1 Pkt. Umbrella Plant. 
:t. Bouquet Chrysanthemum. 1 Pkt. Diamond Flower. 
Pkt. Pansies, 10 col’s mixed. 1 Pkt. Gian t Verbena, mxd. 
“ California Sweet Peas. “ Petunia Hybrid mixd.' 
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A Return Check Cood for 25 Cents 
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is 
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