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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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EVERYBODY'S GARDEN. 
A Day’s Doings.— One clay during the 
past week I called at the grounds of 
Beard Bros., florists and market gar¬ 
deners. I was curious to see how they 
had weathered the storms of the past 
season. Their work is diversified, part y 
floral and in part vegetable gardening, 
the latter chiefly confined to early cab¬ 
bage and celery growing. After one of 
the severe storms of August I was at 
their place just as the floods were sub¬ 
siding. There were acres of celery 
sticking up out of the mud, and under 
the hot sunshine it had a very tired 
lcok. The cabbage crop having ma¬ 
tured before the heaviest storms, was 
looking fairly well, but the flowering 
plants bedded out in the open field were 
halting between two opinions, whether 
to live or die. Upon this recent visit, 
the scene had changed to one of activity 
and thrift. The cabbage crop had been 
marketed long ago. The celery had 
beaten the expectation of the growers, 
and had turned a fair crop, although 
considerably below the average, through 
fai too frequent shower baths. That 
crop is nearly all i:i storage now, and is 
being daily drawn upon for the present 
market operations. The bedded-out 
plants were in from the field and occu¬ 
pying their Winter quarters. Several 
branches of the work were in full blast, 
for in this diversified work, all days are 
busy days. One man was plowing the 
cabbage ground for the next season’s 
crop. A heavy dressing of stable ma¬ 
nure was being buried, which will be 
again turned up in the Spring, and thor¬ 
oughly mixed with the soil by cultiva¬ 
tion previous to planting out the crop. 
The Cabbage maggots have been the 
bane of the early cabbage here, as well 
as in many other sections, and their 
ravages have driven some of the grow¬ 
ers out of the market. For this trouble 
they have found their most successful 
remedy in abundant manuring and in¬ 
tensive culture. Keeping the -cabbage 
growing from start to finish has been 
the secret of their success thus far. 
Indoor Work.— Some of the men were 
busy caring for the plants upon the 
greenhouse Denches. Others were pre¬ 
paring carnation cuttings for the sand 
where they will be rooted. At present 
the principal blooms in evidence are car¬ 
nations, and just now is an off season 
for cut flowers in their line, so their 
chief market crop is the celery. To pre¬ 
pare one, two or three hundred dozen 
celery for the market is no light task, 
and two men were kept busy in taking 
the plants out of storage, washing and 
wheeling to the packing room, an apart¬ 
ment of the greenhouse. It was trans¬ 
ferred from the wheelbarrow to the 
benches, and was bunched in dozens and 
held in position by one man, while a 
second one tied the bunches at butts and 
tops, and did the final trimming of roots 
and leaves. The load would be started 
at 6 A. M. the following day, and a 
three-mile drive to the commission 
house would be made in half to three- 
quarters of an hour. If thought advis¬ 
able to take the chances of the open 
market a still farther drive of two miles 
would bring them to the Eastern vege¬ 
table market. In either case, at present 
prices the celery would bring from 20 
to 25 cents per dozen, and the load of 
200 or 300 dozen would be a comfortable 
sum to carry home. The floral products, 
af this time chiefly carnations, ferns and 
smilax, are mostly sold upon special 
orders and delivered when and where 
desired by the purchasers. 
Possibilities of Gardening. —The 
above is only an incident in one phase of 
gardening where the floral and vegetable 
work are combined. But while a dual or 
two-fold work would be neither prac¬ 
tical nor advisable for all, yet I believe 
there are possibilities in either or both 
that have not yet been dreamed of. I 
am not advising a wholesale rush into 
the garden business, neither am i asking 
every farmer to turn market gardener. t 
I do wish, however, that every farmer 
in this broad land would make the pious I 
resolve and keep it too, never to pass 
another year without a well ordered and 
fully supplied kitchen garden. In the 
cities there is a woeful amount of stale 
and worthless garden truck sold and 
eaten, that never ought to have found 
its way to market. There aro also vast 
amounts of the very choicest vegetables 
that the earth can produce sold and 
eaten there. Now' the wonder is, how so 
many of the very choicest products are 
to bo found in the city when so often 
there are very few or none to be found 
upon the farmer’s table. The country is 
the place where they chiefly grow; why 
then, should they not be consumed 
there? I firmly believe that the farmers 
and gardeners have the prior right to 
their fill of the choicest that the earth 
produces. After them, not before, come 
the rights of the city dwellers. As it 
now is, they are allowed the first and 
best of the fruits of the farmer’s toil, 
and then spend the strength derived 
therefrom in “joshing” the farmer on 
account of his benighted and terribly 
heathenish condition. There isn’t a 
farmer in the land who cannot afford a 
bountiful supply of garden products. On 
the contrary, he cannot afford to go 
without them. Now what I am after is 
to see every rural home abundantly sup¬ 
plied with the best that the earth pro¬ 
duces, and let the city cousins take to 
the woods for their supply. True, all 
may be fully supplied, and the more the 
merrier; but for a time let the order be 
reversed so that the producers may take 
first choice. To this end I very much de¬ 
sire that every reader of The R. N.-Y. 
shall take time by the forelock and be¬ 
gin to plan for the betterment of next 
year’s garden and a revised and enlarg¬ 
ed bill of fare for the home table, and 
later on the tables of our city friends. 
But the foregoing thoughts call to mind 
The Dinners I Have Eaten. —I am 
not a farmer’s wife or daughter (which 
doubtless is just as well), else I should 
take both a certain article and the writer 
thereof to task. I refer to “Is this accur¬ 
ate?” page 743. I believe I have eaten 
about as many meals as most men of my 
age. I have gathered those meals from 
the humble rural homes along the lanes 
and by-ways, from the palatial homes 
along the city avenues, the restaurants 
and hotels, high and low. 1 have dined 
all the way from as good as money could 
buy to smoked mule beef and knapsack 
soup. Now I confess that I have found 
the counterpart of what Rose Terry 
Cooke so glowingly describes, but I have 
found it just as often in the city as up¬ 
on the farm. I am perfectly frank to 
say that the conditions as described do 
actually exist even in the country, for all 
farmers’ wives were not to the “manor 
born” in the art of cooking any more 
than were their city sisters. I am equal¬ 
ly frank to say that the same conditions 
are met far more frequently in the city, 
and also that the farmers’ wives and 
daughters in general have no need to sit 
at the feet of the city-bred wives and 
learn of them as to their ways of cook¬ 
ing. Does the writer of that article re¬ 
member that nearly all the good things 
which the city wives cook or spoil, the 
fruit and vegetables, the eggs and but¬ 
ter, the milk and cream, the meat, etc., 
are all produced right on those awfully 
awful farms? Does she recall that many 
of the above things are produced right 
under the personal supervision of those 
benighted farmers’ wives and daughters? 
To one who is well up, in both city and 
country fare, and the general manner of 
its preparation, it is not a little amus¬ 
ing to see the city cousins strain at eat¬ 
ing a nice dish of country peas with a 
spoon, and then see them swallow down 
the embalmed milk and doctored cream, 
the “reproduced” butter, the well- 
ripened eggs that were they fertile 
would be ready to pip the shell. These 
things are very amusing, but it is tire¬ 
some to see with what mingled pity and 
disgust the people of the farms are look¬ 
ed down upon by the city relatives. 
This is more than passing strange when 
we remember that the cities have al¬ 
ways in the past, and for the future 
must continue to recruit their brain 
power from the country. 
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