OF ONE ACRE. 
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flavor; and owing to its tough rind is a very good 
shipping and keeping variety.* 
RHUBARB, CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES. 
These three I would plant in the same row, in the 
small fruit plot or permanent part of the garden, 
mainly because a third of a row of each will afford 
an ample supply for a good-sized family, and all re¬ 
quire nearly the same treatment. The plants of each 
are all set together, each in its own third of the row, 
not interspersed. The plants should be set as early 
in the spring as possible, or can be planted in the fall 
and well mulched with manure. The crowns of the 
rhubarb should be set an inch or two under the sur- , 
face, and no stalks pulled until the second or third 
season; in the fall, when the ground is frozen hard, 
the old leaves should be pulled off and the row well 
mulched with long manure; in the spring this should 
be worked down to the roots, when the ground is fit 
to work, and the soil kept loose and free from weeds 
while the rhubarb is making its growth. The stalks 
can be pulled as soon as they are large enough for 
use, and can be pulled until they become so small as 
to be unfit for use; then dig in some fine manure or 
compost, and let it grow at will until fall, when the 
stalks will again be fit for use, though this second 
crop is generally allowed to go to waste, mainly, I 
think, through ignorance of the fact that it is just as 
* In addition to the varieties named, we would recommend Phinney’s 
Early, as probably the best early melon of good size; also the Ice Cream 
and Jordan's Gray Monarch, as very choice melons of oblong shape.—E d. 
