American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . e principal use is in the green state 144r AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. [April, for pickles, for which it is prized by some. Acorrespondent, whose name we have mislaid,says: The West India Burr Gherkin, or OysterGherkin, is easily raised. Plant in hills 3 or 4feet apart like other cucumbers, say twentyseeds in a hill, for the small black fleas are veryfond of them; thin out to two plants. Theyare generally made into pickles, but are muchbetter and more wholesome cooked. Cut intwo and boil, and season a3 may be term Gherkin is
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . e principal use is in the green state 144r AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. [April, for pickles, for which it is prized by some. Acorrespondent, whose name we have mislaid,says: The West India Burr Gherkin, or OysterGherkin, is easily raised. Plant in hills 3 or 4feet apart like other cucumbers, say twentyseeds in a hill, for the small black fleas are veryfond of them; thin out to two plants. Theyare generally made into pickles, but are muchbetter and more wholesome cooked. Cut intwo and boil, and season a3 may be term Gherkin is properly applied to a smallpickled cucumber. We know of an instance inwhich a farmer who wished to raise cucumbersfor pickles sent to a seedsman for the seeds ofGherkins and received those of this plant Hedid not find out the mistake until his acre ofplants began to bear this small, prickly fruit. The Grape Vine—How it Grows and Whatto Do with it.—3d Article. In procuring vines it is best to get good one-year-old plans—older plants, or layers, may be. equally good in certain cases, but not generallyso. The manner of planting is sufficiently de-scribed in Notes for the Month. The vinsists of a mass of roots attached to a giless length of stem. If the variety is rare thestem will have but two or three buds, b it. ofti ait will be two or three feet long. If a longvine, cut it off to three buds before questions will be asked, What for ? Whynot let all the buds remain ? What is the use ofrutting away so much vine? It does seemunnecessary to destroy such an amount ofgrowth, and the questions are natural oni -. Ananswer to them is to answer the query of Whyprune at all? Upon pruning, and pruning in-telligently, the whole success of vine growingdepends. If a young vine, three, four, or morefeet in length, were planted, and, as is often thecase, left to itself, most of the buds would throwout shoots, the uppermost being the most vigor-ous. The next year nearly all of
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