October, 
THE 
Vegetables. 
SEASOKABLE HUnS. 
To supply the lack of vegetable matter m 
the soil, there is no readier and cheaper 
means than the plowing under of some green 
crop. 
hot so treated sufiered seveiely^and^^^^^j^g 
Manuring with Sye is an excellent way to 
ameliorate and enrich a garden. Ihe ad¬ 
vantages of this plan outweigh the expense 
and labor manifold. After the crops have 
been removed the ground should be plcrwed 
or spaded, harrowed or roughly raked with 
a prong hoe, then seeded to Eye at the rate 
of two to three bushels per acre and har¬ 
rowed or raked in. 
The seed will soon come up, and the green 
growth presents a cheerful and pleasing ap¬ 
pearance all winter when the ground is bare 
of snow. In spring, just before the land is 
to be planted again, the Eye is turned under. 
It will soon decay and leave the ground in a 
mellow and friable condition which will be 
perceptible for several years; but there is no 
reason why such a system should not be fol¬ 
lowed every year, at least in alternate parts 
of the garden. 
Celery .—When banking up Celery, it is 
important that the soil which is drawn 
around the stalks should be in a mellow con¬ 
dition. This is best accomplished by keep¬ 
ing the ground well cultivated at all times. 
A prong hoe drawn along each side of the 
row does the work completelj'. 
Sometimes it is found difficult to keep the 
soil from working in between the leaves and 
stalks when banking up. By wrapping a 
piece of soft oil-cl-..th around the plants, 
drawing and pressing the soil against it, and 
then withdrawing the cloth, the danger of 
the soil covering up the heart of the plant is 
avoided. 
Selection of Seeds is of far more impoit- 
ance than is generally understood. The 
earliest ripening seeds are, as a rule, the 
best; and by .selecting systematically the 
earliest and most pei-fect seeds for a succes¬ 
sion of years, superior strains of vegetables 
may be produced. 
ISnshel Boxes of some light wood are in 
some respects more convenient for digging, 
marketing and storing Potatoes and various 
root-croi>s than basket.s or barrels. They 
.should be made of uniform size, so as to fit 
clo.sely together, and if well made, will last 
a life time. A box measuring inside 10x1.3x13 
holds, when level full, a good, liberal bushel. 
Perennial Vegeiahles, of which Asparagus 
and Khubarb are the most jirominent repi-e- 
sciitatives, may be planted now to good ad¬ 
vantage, provided the ground is in proper con¬ 
dition. Fall-j)lanting of any kinds of plants 
or trees is not advisable on heav 3 ', wet land. 
be dusted with f Hebron and 
were Early S»ntl»», bad the 
Burbank, and the ro« »'“„g„rona 
sulphur were decidedly 
of any in the field. explana- 
We are not prepared to oft 
tion of this singular result, bu J 1^ 
iment is not exiiensive and is easuy 
it is well worth extensive trials^ 
but whei-e the soil is light, and naturally 
artificially under-drained, much may be ilone 
in this dii-cetion to relieve the pressui-e of 
spring work. 
SULPHUE AftAIHST POTATO BUGS, 
hast spring when ))lanting Potatoes, Mr. 
M. A. Barber of Wyoming Co., N. V'., imt a 
tcaspoontui of sulphur in each hill of four¬ 
teen I’ows in the middle of the Hold. 'I’he 
rows were 25 rods long, ami were not at- 
taeked by bugs at any time, while those im¬ 
mediately along side of tiiein and all those 
of 
the tomato 
notes on VAKIETIES. 
Among the more Promising varieties of 
Tomatoes of recent int'-o^uction, the Opti 
uius, introduced I believe the present season 
by Messrs. Perry & Co., will perhaps Mce 
the lead. In form and color it resemffies 
laviiigston’s Favorite, but with us it npe“e 
its first fruit eleven days earlier. It should 
be remembered, however, that comparative 
earliness of diflerent varieties of the iomato 
is by no means constant. Plants moderately 
vigorous, with deep green foliage, fruit 
borne in clusters of two to four each, dis¬ 
tinctly flattened, remarkably smooth and 
regular in form; bright scarlet; two-and-a- 
half to three'inches in diameter; basin (hol¬ 
low at the blossom cud) very small, or of- 
tener entirely wanting; cavity (hollow about 
the stem) shallow and scarcely fun owed; 
cells, three to six. The flesh is firm and 
excellent quality. 
The Emery (Farquhar) is of ratiier more 
vigorous growth, and a little larger in size 
than the Optimus. In form it is rather less 
regular; in season about two weeks later. 
The Fulton Market of Tilliughast, which 
seems to be the same as the Essex Bound 
Bed Smooth of Gregory, is a vigorous gi-ow- 
ing variety, with roundish or .-^lightly flat¬ 
tened, very sinooth andreguiar, bright scai- 
let frait, two to two-and-a-half inches in 
diameter; basin veiy smail or wanting, cav¬ 
ity shailow, very little furrowed; cells two 
to five, flesh firm and of good quality; ri¬ 
pened a week earlier than Optimus. 
Early Eichniond(Landreth) in our test, boro 
fruits too much furrowed and too irregnlai’ 
in form to make a desirable variety. In sea¬ 
son about the same as the bust. 
King Humbert. 1 have been much inter¬ 
ested in this variety, because it seems to 
ofler a new type of fi uit. So far as 1 know, 
this is the first strictly two-celled red 'roma- 
to that has been sulllciently large tor table 
u.se. The two-celled 'romatoes iire invaria¬ 
bly smooth, and are usually earlier than the 
many-celled varieties, facts that should not 
be forgotten by the gi-owers of new varie¬ 
ties of this vegetable. 
The plant of the King llinnbert is very 
vigorous and prodmdive. The fruit is oval 
slightly flattened longitudinally, and thlck- 
ish toward.sthe blossom end; verv smooth- 
with neither cavity nor basin, bright .scarlet’ 
about mie-aiid-tliree-fmirtlis inches in Ion-! 
est diameter, and two-and-a-lialf inches 
through the axis; borne in clu.st 
five to nine. The flesh is 
and 11 nil; so llrni 
rio-ht in habit and usually so strong as to be 
sSf-supporting. The frtxit is ofgoodqnal- 
itv but so _ 
n- in this climate. Could an early variety 
with the habit of the Tree Tomato be s^ 
om-ed it would be adapted to culture in 
frames, and thus would be extrenjely valu¬ 
able VFe are working in this direction and 
have growing several hundred plants from 
the French Upright fertilized with the Acme, 
Livino-ston’s Favorite and Alpha Tomatoes. 
Some^of these seedlings promise to beat 
least as early as many of the varieties of the 
common Tomato. _ 
The Rochester Tomato introduced in 1883 
by Messrs. Sibley & Co., bears a few re¬ 
markably fine fruits, but unfortunately the 
majority are quite mal-formed. With us, it 
rots badly. 
Some strains of the Mayflower retain the 
original good quality of this variety, while 
others have much degenerated. It is possi¬ 
ble that this and the Rochester were sent out 
prematurely. I find in my experience that 
it takes at least four generations to fix the 
character of a Tomato secured by crossing. 
The Trophy as grown by us through four 
years, from seed of our own saving, is evi¬ 
dently deteriorating in quality. How much 
if any of this retrogression is due to cross- 
fertilization, I do not know. As the fruits 
of the Tomato vary so much on the same 
piant it is very difficult to understand how 
many distinct varieties we have. It is prob¬ 
able, however, that our list of catalogue 
names may be considerably reduced. 
“Eoi.” 
New York xlgricultural Experiment Station. 
late that it is scarcely worth grow- 
MANTJEING IN DST SEASONS. 
How to guard against the evil effects of 
drought as much as possible, is alw.ays one 
of the lending questions with the gardener 
and farmer, and the following incident may 
prove suggestive to some readers of The 
e.rs of from 
|•cmarkably ihiek 
l"decd, I,I,III, fn,i|,H ,,,,,11 
and ,,laced I, I *1'1-7 nmiii will .shrivel ike a, 
Apple before deeaylng. “ 
'J’he French Upright or Tree'|’oi,„,|,, -i. 
niato-de-Uaye of the Fren,.i, , ’ 
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Ameuican Gakoek. 
Last year a piece of ground that had been 
quite liberally enriched with commercial fer¬ 
tilizers yielded but a moderate ci'op of Dwarf 
Beans, while an adjoining piece of groiuid 
to which manure from the horse-stable had 
been applied, produced a remarkably good 
cro]) of the same kind of Beans. The Infer¬ 
ence from this was that in the first instance 
the drought prevented the full action of the 
fertilizer, which had only been harrowed in 
on the surface, while in the other piece the 
stable manure retained sufficient moisture 
and furnished nourishiuent for the crop. 
Taking this as a hint I adoptcll the follow¬ 
ing Ilian. 
j\fter jilowing and harrowing my ground, 
I made deep furrows across the field at a dis¬ 
tance of live feet from each other. Intothesel 
deposited stable manure to the amount of 12 
'»■ 1-1 loads to the acre. This manure was 
covered by a light, single-horse plow throw¬ 
ing a furrow on it from each side. On the 
iid.ervals between the ridges 1 scattered su¬ 
perphosphate. 'Phen 1 planted in the shal¬ 
low furrows each side of the ridges, having 
still space enough hetween the ridges for 
tile horse and cultivator. 
On ail acre and a half the work of plo"'- 
Ing, mainirliig and ridging was done last 
lull, and as .soon as the ground would do to 
work this spring, 1. used !Mapus soil-llRor in 
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