SEASONABIiE HINTS. 
Transplanting in 
suppose that the most 
Ltttngout vegetable plants is to have the 
tion the plants are m at the time, 
damp, cloudy clay is more favoiable fo 
transplanting than a dry and windy one no 
one ivill dispute; but it is not prudent to let 
plants received from a distance, or such as 
stand too thick in the seed-bed, spoil while 
waiting for rain. It is astonishing how 
much drought and sun young Cabbage- 
plants can . bear, provided they are of first 
quality and are set out carefully. 
Plants that have been packed for several 
days will generally be found to have heated 
somewhat, in which case they should not be 
planted out at once into diy soil and exposed 
to the direct sun. They should be heeled in 
for several days in a damp, shady place, 
until they have fully recovered, and become 
fresh and gi-een again. But it is of no use to 
take the whole bundles of fifty or a hundred 
plants and just cover them with a little soil. 
The brmdles have to be opened, the plants 
spread out close together, and the roots 
carefully covered with fine soil, pressing it 
down firmly and adding more loose soil. In 
this state they may remain one or two weeks 
wfithout injm'y; they ■will, in fact, improve 
all the time, and suffer no check at the final 
transplanting. 
The Ca66nyc-icor)H.—After, trying various 
de'vices for destroying this pest, our corre¬ 
spondent, L. S. A., comes to the conclusion 
that “ the true method for the destruction 
of the Cabbage-wmrm is to catch the butter¬ 
flies with a net attached to a wire hoop two 
feet in diameter, and fastened to a stake six 
or seven feet long. With such an imple¬ 
ment, a boy eight or ten years old can pro¬ 
tect a field of an acre or more. The catching 
must be general, however, and operations 
must begin -with the appearance of the but¬ 
terflies in spring, thus cutting off the ancestry 
of an otherwise large progeny in .July. 
Cucumbers sown during the first week in 
July will produce Pickles fit for use about 
the middle of August, pro'vided the ground 
is in proper condition. Planted as late as 
the 15th of this month, even, a good crop 
may be secured before frost. For pickling, 
the Creen Prolific is the best variety, and 
the Improved White Spine for fresh use. 
Cucumbers require a deep, rich, rather 
moist soil, and have to bo kept scrupulously 
clean until the vines cover tlie entire 
ground. Pickling should commence as soon 
as there are any Pickles of proper size, say 
two to three inches, and bo repeated every 
day, or at least every other day, through the 
season. It is fatal to the productiveness of 
the vines to leave those on that are too largo 
or misshapen. A single Cucumber allowed 
to go to seed on a plant will soon end its 
bearing. 
The Squash Borer.—K solution of an ounce 
of saltpeter in a gallon of water is recom¬ 
mended as a preventive against the Borer. 
As soon as the young plants appear above 
ground, the solution is poured over them in 
sufficient quantity to saturate the gi’ound 
This should bo repeated three or four times 
at intervals of four or five days. 
BAISIN& EABLT left 
Early ui l',tiful specim®"® 
at om- office raised hy bim 
Beauty of Hebron Potatoe 
at Governor’s and condition, 
They were of gthing so remark- 
and, at this season, ® jaarn how 
aWe that the doct^ 
they w©!’© rtiis©©.. 
obligingly replies: , , ^ jn the open 
“The Potatoes were pla , o„ieter 
gi-oimd on March 29t , falling as 
between that date am / p 
low as 25°. On Apnl 8th the g^^^ 
cold-pits was covered wd^^ 
lowing day it snowed. P 
«sible above gi'ound on Ai 1 
the 21st all were well up. The first dig^i g 
ir, .oa. ... J.m. «!., 
ally till June 10th, wnth a total yield 
twLty bushels from a piece ot ground fl y 
by twenty-five feet. 
“Toward the end of February, I pu 
seed Potatoes in a shallow basket and set 
them in a rather warm room (say 60 ), with 
plenty of light. By the time the ground can 
be worked they have made short, thick, dark 
groen shoots, with rootlets showing. _ They 
are then cut to the proper size, chied or 
rolled in ashes, and planted with a pretty 
liberal application of ground bone and guano 
in the fiuTows. Should the season be too 
backward to allow the ground to bo worked 
at the time the Potatoes should be cut,— 
which is apparent by the withering of the 
tubers,—the sets are placed in shallow 
boxes, with a little soil sprinkled over them. 
When the ground is in proper condition, the 
sets are planted out, at -which time they have 
sometimes made roots an inch long. 
“If there is danger of severe frost after 
the vines have appeared above ground, I cover 
them with soil, which operation serves as a 
first hoeing at the same time; but a slight 
frost does not injure them. They are then 
worked and hilled in the usual way. The 
bugs are not likely to attack them, as the 
vines have made nearly their full growth 
before the larvro make their appearance. 
To guard against frost, a mulching of straw 
might be applied, which need not be re¬ 
moved afterward, and, if heavy enough, 
would save all after-cultivation. 
“ Although I have tried this method only 
on a small piece of ground, I see no reason 
why market gardeners near large cities could 
not make it profitable on a larger scale.” 
years or so. 
see ■what kind 
For 
TUENIPB. 
a number of years I had not suc¬ 
ceeded -vvith my Tiiniip “ patch.” The Tur 
nips vvere either too small, some too thick 
and I concluded tbat f must raisr«omeTimi 
of root crop m order to make the “fodCor ’’ 
last until spring, as I did not care to dispose 
whrslm,ii7irf' "'.ostion arose. 
At the south end of my wood lei • 
corner, was a clearing porlians ce’ i"’ 
three-quarters of an acre of ground '''’'"'’"K 
the spot was covorod witht thick’ 
wi.it.. 0 . 1 ,., y 
seen on every hand. The soil b. ‘ 
well turfed, although it had not bn"''"'?’ 
I concluded at length tot..’ 
a of a patch it would mat ' - 
so earlyin July plowed the.cornerandf ^ 
it in (as I pastured the lot), ha^l , 
soil well, and when the time eame 
the seeds, about the twenty-fiftif ^ 
month, I gave the entire piece a liberals 
ing of manure made very fine, drageps . f*- 
sowed the seed (Yellow Globe), and 
for the result. 
They came up finely, and 1 saw at once tt 
I was to have a good Turnip patch for 
I now went over the entire piece, and n u'*' ■ 
up all those in bunches, or where too thi ? 
and so had the young Turnips about the rit’ 
distance apart. They came on, and ^ 
rapidly, and now and then we had shower 
so that the soil was sufficiently moistfortl’ 
Turnips, and a steady and uniform grown 
was kept up all of the time. It was real 
pleasure to watch their growth. The soil 
was very rich of itself, without adding aay 
sort of fertilizers; and so the Turnips grew 
until frost came, and the oxen were hitched 
on to the cart and driven to the patch. iVj 
commenced at one corner, and after worbiag 
for several hours pulling and cutting off the 
tops, we could not see that we were makiiig 
a very large “ hole ” in the piece, as the hoys 
would say. They were very large, but' quite 
uniform, o-wing, in part, no doubt, to our 
thinning them out early in the season. 
But it is the flavor that -we desire to speak 
of, and I think I may say that the old negro 
cook was right when she said of them; 
“ Dey’s jis sweet as honey.” I do not recol¬ 
lect of finding a bitter one in the whole lot, 
so that the crop was particularly valuable 
for marketing. I sold many bushels of them 
iu all the towns around, and put in my cellar 
two hundi’ed and fifty bushels of as nice 
eating and feeding Yellow Globe as ever 
grew. 
Now, what -u'as the secret of my success? 
There was simply no secret at all about it. 
I chose the right soil; new land always, i? 
you wish for sweet Turnips. I had a good 
crop, and what I sold brought me good 
prices. Now, bitter Tiumips may be just as 
good for stock, though I would rather have 
sweet ones, and the crop may be just as 
large; but if the crop is short all aroun , 
and the market is bare, j'ou cannot supply 
the demand unless the roots are fit for * ® 
table. E. R. BmUN®^ 
AstERICAN GaKD® 
olored or 
called “She Weeks 
A PLEA FOE COLOEED BEANS. 
An article on “While Beans” i" * 
■vious number of The 
suggests a good word for the oo 
speckled sort, often 
Bean,” as it comes forward very early. ^ 
Those red-oyod or spoeklod Beans "’"'■Jjj.jj, 
delicious, cooked in the same way a*' ^ 
Beans, and much richer. They jj 
when parboiled, and tho water change^ 
is true they retain their color, but t a^ 
not injure oven their looks, and the) 
need trying to become a favorite 
'The small black Bonus that wo call 
Turtle Soup Beans,” are, perhaps, sti ^ 
although wo have only used them 
in tho same way as split Peas, . 
l.horoughly and changing the {jjaS* 
than once, thou squeezing or 
through a colander. Both those v 
are docidodly hotter for J. 
Lima Beans. 
