Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — ORCHARD AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

SoAe SiiifCestloim. Onion sets, to produce a good crop, should be perfectly formed—a perfect onion in miniature, as some one put it. Do not give the plants in the house too much water, and if the temperature is low they will need less water, remember, than if it is high. &)me one advises setting small-sized evergreens in boxes in the hallways. If people would set them out-of-doors it would be perfectly satisfactory. Manure the garden, if you desire to make money from it. After you have manured It, mannre it again. There is not much danger in getting too much manure on a market garden. Now suppose that we set out some ornamental trees upon that iarm that has not a tree on it Our Western people, in their new homes, will find it to be a good investment. To achieve the highest success in fruit growing it must receive the greater part of the grower’s time and attention. The average farmer hardly has the time to grow fruit extensively. ( Now comes a horticultural writer and advocates discarding the Crescent strawberries altogether, because, he says, there is more money in other varities.

Goodness, if we could only induce every man to find out just what variffty is th« best and most profitable for him to grow, it would be all there is op the subject. The Crescent will continue to be grown. Ik nitrate of soda will increaso the yield of fruit, one-half what is claimed for it, it is worth trying. The claim is that it will double the yield, especially of strawberries and raspberries. Once in a while some one breaks loose in the agricultural press with advice .to women to cultivate strawberries. As tho agricultural press reaches fanners' wives almost wholly it must be said that the advice is intended for them. It 1s teal kind for these fellows to suggest to the average farmer’s wife that she might find something to do if she would look around carefully. —Western Rural