this vegetable must be! The ear

GARDENING AND PLANT- being gathered from the plant,

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and the soft covering being taken:

I have received from America off, you boil the ear, whole, about some seeds of four sorts of Ve-20 minutes. A large dish full is getables, which I think would be a valuable addition to our own catalogue; namely, the Early Indian Corn, called Sweet-Corn;

put upon an American table; you take an ear at a time; rub a little butter over it with the point of

your knife; then sprinkle a little salt; then take the ear by the two ends (which seem to be made on purpose) and bite off the grains.

are made of; the Citron-Melon; and the Water-Melon. My Son, at his Political Register Office, A company, thus employed, No. 1, Clement's Inn, has a few parcels of all these seeds to sell. And, I will now say a word or two about the nature of the fruits, and

about the mode of cultivating the plants.

THIS CORN is an early, dwarf

kind, found amongst the Indians

would appear to a beholder, who had never seen such a thing before, to be holding the ends of gags; an idea, by the by, likely enough to receive strength from certain cir

cumstances, which, for fear of meriting banishment,shall, for me, be nameless. It may be thought, that gentility will forbid the use

on the Missouri, and cultivated in the United States solely for the of such fare. Not at all. Let a table. The ear is gathered when delicate lady, with the prettiest it arrives at the state which shows mincing mouth that ever was each grain full of milk. If, in this state, the milk of every grain will engage, that she gets over all of a large ear of Corn were care-scruples about the manner of fully pressed out, the whole would eating it. However, it is a most fill a moderate wine-glass. Judge, wholesome and useful vegetable. then, how good and nutricious In all poor families it supplies

seen, once taste this corn, and I

the place of bread for six weeks air as well as hot sun and earth. every summer. I have many Put the seeds at a foot asunder in

and many a time breakfasted and the row, and put the rows seven.

Cover the seeds with

inches of earth. As

dined wholly upon it. Babies at feet apart. the breast will suck it and mum-about two ble it; and, in sickness, people soon as the plants are two inches, will taste it, when they will high, hoe the ground about them. taste nothing else. But, it will Hoe frequently and, when they have heat. England will, how are eighteen inches high, dig the ever, in a tolerable summer, ground between the rows. When produce it very well: I grew the plants are four feet high, and it at Botley, and saved my own begin to put forth their tassels, seed, for several years; and the dig again, and draw some earth sort I had was not this early sort up against the stems of the plants. neither. The summer before last, You will see when the grains are the late MR. TIMOTHY BROWN full of milk; and then begin to grew, at Peckham, as fine Corn, of eat. Leave some eats fomseed even the backward sort, as I ever saw in my life; and in ground, too, by no means warm and early The plant is full as sensible of frost as the tenderest of the Kid-I say any thing of the beauty of ney-Bean tribe; and, therefore, a plant sobuseful? Yet, those

if you plant (we do not say sow) your Corn on, or about, the 6th of May, it is quite early enough. Let the ground be really rich; as warm at bottom and as full to

the sun as may be; but, not very

near to a wall; for, it likes free

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The grain in them will become perfectly hard by Novemberi when you must gather them, and lay them up till Spring Need

who have never seen a field of Indian Corn, level as a dié, as the fields in Long Island are, and sometimes containing forty acres z those who have not seen such fields, the plants from ten to twelve feet high, and the fine ver

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dant leaves sweeping off in an and milk, and then made like an arched form from the sides, four apple pie, or custard, with a or five feet in length, while, in crust at the bottom of the dish, many cases, the ground beneath if not at the top also. The is covered with pumpkins, squash-proof of the goodness of this, es, and melons of various sorts; is, that it is universally preferred those who have never seen these, before fruit pies of all other can have but imperfect ideas of kinds, though those who give it. the magnificence of vegetation this preference have abundance and of the munificence of the of the finest of apples and even great cause whence it all pro- of peaches. But, then, the sort ceeds. The sort of Corn which is every thing; and the fruit must I am now speaking of is a Dwarf; be ripe and yellow as gold. In but, it will attain, in very rich order to obtain this, there must, ground, the height of eight feet. I fear, be, in England, somePUMPKIN-This plant is thing, at first, more than the grown in England in very rich natural ground. I have not yet ground, as late cucumbers are. made the experiment; but this But, there are scores of sorts; is what I intend to do. Sow the and, the largest are the worst. seed in small pots, one seed in a In America these are grown for pot, in a hot-bed in April; put the plants out on another gentle

hogs and cows. There is only one sort, that are made into pies bed in May, and cover them and tarts. The skin is taken off, with hand-glasses, and let them the seeds taken out, the remain-run out from under the glasses, der is cut in pieces, boiled, and as we do cucumbers. The fruit, squeezed dry, just in the same put by in any place away from way that turnips are. Then this pulp is mashed up with spices, sugar, a little white wine, eggs,

frost, will keep good till the next May or June; and, you may use them as you want them. If you

three or four melon plants under one light! A common melon plant will cover eight feet square of ground, and they put, very frequently, four plants in four

have more than you want for pies, keep them for fouls and chickens during winter. Put one at a time in the fowl-house, and the fowls will eat them clean up, rind and all. Geese will fat upon feet square! Never put but one the fine sort of Pumpkins. plant under one light if you wish

CITRON MELON.-There to have many and fine melons. are in America two distinct classes The WATER MELON must of fruit, called Melons. They be cultivated in the same way; have, there, all the sorts of Me-but, with even more room, and, lons that we have, and these go if you can get it, more bottom by the general name of Musk-Me- heat, and never any water. Plenty lons, that is, Melons that have of bottom heat and plenty of air smell. The others are called is the great maxim in the manageWater-Melons. The Citron Me- ment of hot-beds. The Water lon is of the Musk class; that is Melon got, with me, at Botley, to say, it is of the class cultivated to the weight of eight or nine in England. It is called citron, pounds. Its average weight in I suppose, because its flesh re- America may be 12 or 15 pounds. sembles that of the citron; that It has no smell. The fruit is is to say, is of a very pale yellow. always of a green colour, and the This is so much better a fruit than green grows darker as the fruit any sort that I ever saw in Eng-grows ripe. It requires great land, that I thought it worthy of an skill in the matter to know when endeavour to introduce it, if it it is ripe. The boys, who go to be not here already. It has hardly visit the farmers any rind; the flesh melts in the es," in their fields, “plug" them; mouth, like that of a very fine that is to say, cut a piece out, French Mignonne Peach; and as we do in the tasting of a the flavour is delightful. I an- cheese, and, if not ripe, they crain swer for the sort, and for the it in again. An old hand at it goodness of every seed. The will ascertain the state of the cultivation is the same as that of fruit by rapping the outside with our Melons. But, I cannot help his knuckles; but this is what 1 observing here on the monstrous never could do. A pretty safe practice of most gardeners putting way is, to keep an account of

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· the age of the fruit; for at about never was able to get one single forty-eight days from the time ripe one for myself. Where these that the fruit is the size of a wal-Melons are openly raised for sale, nut, you will find it ripe. When the owners are compelled to guard ripe it consists of a rind about the fields, night and day. Apples, an inch thick, and of flesh within Pears, Cherries, Peaches; all of the colour of Claret Wine these are safely left to take their mized, half and half, with water; chance; the barns, the granaries, and the seeds are of a dark brown and even the houses, are left uncolour, approaching to black. locked; but, the water-melon This flesh requires no movement fields are guarded by men and of the jaws. It melts into driuk guns,

the instant it enters the mouth. Now, as I intend to have some To describe the taste is impossi- of all these things myself, this ble. It is delicious without be-year, I wish others to have some ing at all sweet; and it is refresh- also: and I have had small packing beyond any thing, perhaps, ets of the seeds of each put up, that is known to the human I will answer for the goodness of palate. The liking that people every seed. Each packet is have for it may be known by 2s. 6d. Of the Pumpkin and this; that, while a Water Melon Melon seed there is enough for any sells for an English sixpence at gentleman's garden for a couple New York, six Musk" Melons, of years; and, as to the Indian six even of the finest Citron Me. Corn, the seed can be saved here, lons, may be bought for a Cent, as I have before stated. The that is, about an English half- Pumpkin and Melon seeds will -ponny! Musk" Melons an not be so good if saved in this American farmer may safely climate; for, even in America, trust by the road side; but in the North requires seeds brought, order to have a chance of from time to time, from the keeping his water Melons to South.. himself, he is compelled to sow then seeretly, in the middle, or in some part, of his Indian cornfield, where the boys cannot find them out, I had nearly an acre

WHITE OAKS.

Several gentlemen, hearing me

fwater-melons, in 1819, and mention, last winter, that some