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Show FLOWER AND KITCHEN GARDEN. GAR-DEN. DEEP OE SHALLOW PLANTING. We want ordinary flower secJs as near tbe Bin face as we cau getj them. Scrape from the bed of mellow mel-low earth soil to Ibe ihicknus of aj trowel blado. Sow tbo st-ed, draw the soil back, and beat firmly down ou the seed. The principle is ihut seeds want moisture lo make them grow, but Iht-y wiuot have air one i an evil without ihe other, If deep. ! they get only water, in which caec they rot. II entirely on Iho surface, ll.ey got only air, and then they dry up. As to heating the soil, the principle is that large spaces in soil, enable the. earth 10 dry out rapidly. Small spaced, on the uiher baail, hold water. Ciushme earth, wlieri dry, gives it thee small spaces, or, as gardeners call it, makes it purous. Fianted as directed, the seeds are where they will be nuir the air, and yet so used that they will be regularly moidt. Gardener s Monthly. STARTING CUTTINGS. Daiey Eyebright makes the follow ing suggestions respecting tho starting start-ing of cuttings, which no doubt will be of interest to many a lover of tiowers: "Cuttings of many pluuts can be readily started in wateer; and in the early spring, if you have not a greenhouse or hotbed, it ia tho safest plan. Fill small botiles or phials with warmish water, and remove the lower leaves of tho cuttings (be sure to have a bud at the bast) and put them in water; hang up the phial tn tbo window sash, tying a string about tbe mouth for thU purpose. If cotton cot-ton or wool is put around the mouth of the phial, it will prevent the evaporation evap-oration of tbo water, and make the roots sprout more quickly by keeping up a more even temperature. Oleanders Olean-ders can be routed ia this manner; also heliotropes, verbena, rose?, fuchsias and all kinds of bidding out plants. The prc-cce i to simp'u that a mere child can succeed with it. Aa soon as the roots are au inch lung, the cutting should bo tratwplan'.cd, taking care lo spread out the tir-y rootlets as they gruw in the water. Some fill up the bottle with rich earth, let it dry oil for two or three days and then bre:ik the cutting; without disturbing its roots in the least degree. Tins U the most certain way of obtaining p!ann Irom cutting;." cut-ting;." TAI'-LY CCCMntKa. About tho middle of April cut sods from an old p.isture, six inches equare ai:d thrco thick, and phice these, grass side down, in a cold Irame or hot-bed, from which cabbage or let tuce plants have 1-fceu removed. Tn tiie ceutre of each sod plant eight or : tt-n ?eds; cover them with an inch of rich soil and put on the saabei. Water evsry few days. In a Week tho plauU will appear. Now give them plenty of air; on warm davs strip the sash entirely off. ThU is to keep them from growing tender and spiudiing and enables them better to 'stand tbe change when transferred to j the open ground. A3 soon as the I roub loaf appi-nrs thin out three in a Bod. About the middU of May ' plough tho ground and murk, it off in i check rows thrco ft-et apart each way, and on each intersection place a shovelful ot well-rotted comport. Now carefully take up the sods, place 'them iu a wagon, aui from thence trasftr them to the manured hills in every other row. In the other rows plaul Lima beans or sweet corn, as j the cucumbers will do bolter it slightly ahaieil, and the beans will do better , if thev have plenty or room. In this way I think that on one aero I can .grow as many cucumbers and Lima beans as I could on an acre and a half with each planted separately. The remainder ol the work can now be done with boo and plough. The cucumbers are out of tho way ot the Btriped bug, and Boon begin to run, Ubua entailing less cultivation than if planted in the old way; so that all things considered the labor is but little more. They are fit to market Ht least two Wfeks sooner.-Correspondence New Fugland Farmer. |