1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
153 
THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 
Soil Treatment. —The piece of ground 
that has been selected for the culture of 
a variety of vegetables should be a friable 
sandy loam, good drainage and an open 
sunny exposure. This piece of land should 
at least once every year be thoroughly 
plowed, turned over and loosened to the 
depth of eight or nine inches. Heavy 
clay soil should thus be worked up after 
receiving a heavy coat of manure in the 
Fall, and left lying in the rough all Win¬ 
ter. The atmospheric action will do more 
toward improving the condition of the 
soil than labor and mechanical devices. 
The ground so prepared will be in readi¬ 
ness for work early in the Spring, when 
all such seeds as early peas, radish, beets, 
spinach, onions, lettuce and other varie¬ 
ties not harmed by cold spells of weather 
should be planted. 
Peas. —These are perhaps the most sat¬ 
isfactory and indispensable vegetables that 
one can grow in his own garden. Where 
early peas are desired they should be the 
first thing planted in Spring. For the 
garden or home use we prefer to sow 
them in double rows, which saves one- 
half the labor in staking or brushing up, 
and gives about the same crop to the row 
as if sown in single rows. Double rows 
are made eight inches apart and three or 
four feet from other rows. A good com¬ 
post of stable manure is decidedly better 
for growing peas than commercial ferti¬ 
lizers. We usually furrow the ground 
six inches deep and fill furrows half full 
of the compost; cover this with hoc or 
plow, rake the rows level with the soil. 
Set a line in the center of the row so 
prepared, make drill on cither side of the 
line; in these the peas are sown at the 
rate of one quart to 50 feet of double 
row. For field culture we plant about the 
same way, using the single instead of the 
double row, and sow the seed with a 
planter, using V/2 bushel to the acre. The 
seed should be covered from one to two 
inches in depth, and given clean cultiva¬ 
tion, ridging up the rows slightly the last 
plowing. 
Varieties of Peas are almost innumer¬ 
able, and new sorts, or at least sorts with 
new names, are sent out every year. They 
may be classed in two groups, the round 
and the wrinkled peas. The round varie¬ 
ties are the earliest, but they are as much 
inferior to the wrinkled or marrow kinds 
as field is to sweet corn. The earliest 
pea is Daniel O’Rourke, under some of 
its dozen or more names, for most of the 
extra early peas are selections made from 
this welhknown sort, which under other 
names dates back for more than a quarter 
of a century. The wrinkle or marrow 
kinds, unlike the round hard sorts, have 
been greatly improved in recent years. 
Ciadus is now recognized as the leading 
variety. It is without doubt the most re¬ 
markable pea ever introduced, and prom¬ 
ises to take the place of all others for 
general cultivation. It is entirely adapted 
to the purpose of the market gardener, 
attaining a growth of about 15 or IS 
inches, with pods as large as the Tele¬ 
phone at]d filled with large peas of the 
very finest quality. It will be a long time 
before this wonderful pea will be super¬ 
seded. I here are many other excellent 
kinds of wrinkle peas, such at Nott’s Ex¬ 
celsior, Little Gem and American Won¬ 
der, which should be sown every 10 days 
for a succession. 
Radishes. —About the first vegetable 
we crave in the Spring is the rad¬ 
ish. 1 he smallest garden patch will 
give enough for a small family. Sow 
in drills one foot apart; the seed 
must be sown thinly, for almost every 
seed will germinate. The first planting 
should be sown where you expect to put 
your tomatoes, egg plants and such late 
tender crops; they are out of the way in 
time for these to be set out in May. The 
most serious difficulty we have in radish 
culture is the little white worm that at¬ 
tacks the growing roots. The only rem¬ 
edy seems to be to employ new and dif¬ 
ferent soil every year, making it very 
rich so as to secure a rapid growth, ad¬ 
vancing them well out of the way of the 
pest. One ounce of seed will sow 100 feet 
of row. Sow as early as the ground can 
fie worked, and every two weeks through- 
out the season for a succession. The 
Scarlet Globe varieties are the best and 
more attractive either for home supply 
or market. Crimson Giant, ho wever, 
should be grown to some extent; it is 
'lid, crisp and juicy; can be allowed to 
plow for a long time before getting hoi- 
Spinach will also demand the atten¬ 
tion of the market gardener as one of the 
hrst vegetables to be planted in the 
firing,, and where the soil is well en- 
H'hed it is of easy cultivation. Very fre¬ 
quently at the end of the season, the gar- 
' ener finds his spinach crop to have been 
die most profitable one of the year. Sow 
in drills one foot apart, using seed freely, 
12 or 15 pounds to the acre; keep the 
ground free from weeds by the use of the 
hand plow. The round seed varieties are 
used for Fall sowing, the prickly seed for 
Spring. Victoria is a valuable acquisi¬ 
tion to the list of spinach, and is now 
grown very extensively by the truckers 
of our markets. 
Onions that are to be grown from the 
sets should be planted very early. Onion 
sets are small dry onions grown from seed 
the previous year; when planted early 
they can be used in the green state, or 
bunched for market in June, or ripened 
off in July. Plant three inches apart in 
the row; the amount required for a given 
piece of ground depends on the size of the 
sets. Globe Danvers and White Portugal 
arc about the only varieties grown from 
the sets. Sow onion seed early, for if 
delayed until late they do not make suffi¬ 
cient growth before the warm weather 
sets in. and the Onion blight develops 
most rapidly, sometimes sweeping off tbe 
entire crop. Where soil is not well 
adapted for growing onions from seed, 
which should be cool and moist, it is more 
satisfactory to grow them from the sets. 
The White, Yellow and Red Globe are 
the popular kinds to plant where onions 
are to be grown from seed. 
Lettuce plants that have been wintered 
over in the cold frame should be planted 
at the earliest possible date in Spring, 
and a sowing of the seed should be made 
at about the same time. There are a 
number of kinds of vegetables that will 
yield good returns on land but moderate¬ 
ly enriched, but lettuce can only be grown 
to perfection in very rich and heavily 
manured ground. Plant in rows 12 or 15 
inches apart; plants should be set eight 
inches apart in the row, and the seed 
sown in drill and when large enough 
thinned out to about eight or 10 inches. 
Give clean and thorough cultivation. 
Varieties of lettuce are exceedingly nu¬ 
merous, and the selection of a few good 
kinds is not without difficulty. Salamander 
is an old favorite with the market gar¬ 
deners, but in many resepects it is sur¬ 
passed by some of the newer introduc- 
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