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Show FLOWER AND KITCHEN GARDEN. GAR-DEN. TO DlllVi; AWAY rilK UhlMK BUO. Set a tomato plant into each hill of cucumbers or melons, and you will have no trouble from the striped buga that are so destructive to these plants. Tho plants can bo tied to stakes, and if well pruned when large, both iub-jeots iub-jeots can proct ed with their fruiting without detriment to ono another. l'A8 IS A SMALL CAMDEN. J. 0. Weston of Bangor, Maine, says lhataflor a trial of Iwcuty years he finda tho following method ol raising rais-ing peas in a email garden the moat profitable and satisfactory : A warm sheltered situation is selected, and trenches aro dug about a foot and a halt wide an ! three feet apart; tho bo'.toin is filled with old manure which is covered wilh loam. The soil being light, he then eows tho peas and then covers them six inches deep with soil. After tho first hoeing the sticks are inserted lor their support. sup-port. The manure imparls great vigor to the plant, und the depth of covering prevent the efTecU of drought and furnishes peas for nearly a mouth. HAISI.NO Afcl'AKACUiS. A correspondent n Iho Gardeners' Monthly tells of a bed of asparagus, some twelve by twenty feet in aize, plunttd on good soil, which, when its growth became Hlrong. wan year by your covered by two or three inches ..i ..,! -;..t i.i 'ri. .. .i. .1.1. shot the stalks and crept the roots. The method was followed up every ' seuHon wilh the result of larger growth nnd product, till Ihe b :d bo-came bo-came an oblong mound some two or three feet in height, und a perfect wonrfi-r us regards ihe quality anil (juantity ol apparsgus furnished at the table. That yearly blanket ol noil, it is thought, waa the only culture or enrichment given. '1 be bird was never dug wilh a fork or spade. HOW TO TKEIT CL'CL'MB, 113. You can cultivate the ground of your cucumber patch till the vinesi ro in buarmg and after that, thus keeping out weed a and favoring moisture. Tho htlln uhonld te wide enough apart broad, foil hiila so i time i no intcrmixictt till toward the cloe of the season. When the vines have spread so as to m ike the working work-ing ol the toil dilhcuit, gather the ends of one bide by bund and mine and lay hack over iho tahe-r hilt nl . tho hill. It can be done aa though it i were a blauktt. When Ihe ground ia ' mellowed tite cuhiTator be is the 'ben for this turn back tu before ! Not a vine or leaf neid U; hurt. Treat 11. v wwier iinn i tin- game w.y. in litia wy you can do perfect work, and do it in a ule-rt lime. If k iu ot the vint-s ahou'd rearh info the vines of other hiils, a h;:U c .re will dis-n-langlu them, or, to x; -lue the work, they m y be cuppol aud no hunn done. |