328 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



lay your glass aside for another year. During some of the hot 

 days it will be necessary to take off the glass, or the intense heat 

 may destroy the plants entirely. We find this an excellent plan 

 for ail the vines from which we wish to get an early crop. One of 

 the chief causes]of failure among our farmers with their melon crop, 

 is getting them too thick. The varieties of nutmeg melons should 

 be not less than six feet apart each way; and then not more than 

 three plants allowed to grow in the hill, and often two is better 

 than three. Watermelons at this distance, not more than two, and 

 if the land is in such order as it should be, one is still better. Cu- 

 cumbers about the same as nutmeg melons. 



Now, a few words about planting for late crops. Cabbage for 

 winter use should not be set sooner than the middle of June, and I 

 like July 1 still better. In fact, we set cabbage until the loth of 

 July with the expectation of getting a full crop. Cauliflower 

 should be started with your first early cabbage, or else left and not 

 set until the latest of the cabbage is set. When the plants come 

 to their maturity in our hot, dry weather, there is not one chance 

 in ten of their making a nice flower. Celery seeds should be sown 

 in the early spring in a very carefully prepared place, and then the 

 plants set where they are expected to grow not earlier than the 

 middle of July. The finest crop I ever raised, and I think the finest 

 I ever saw, was set on the 5th of August. It may be laid down as 

 a general rule, that for winter vegetables, the later the seeds are 

 planted, provided they have sufficient time to mature, the better 

 will be the quality, and the better they will keep through the winter. 



Suppose I give you a list of some varieties of plants, such as I 

 have found to be best adapted to our soil and climate. The names 

 of the different varieties are numbered by thousands, and yet the 

 standards among them are really very few. Of peas, for the first 

 early, the Dan O'Rourke or the early Philadelphia; for the main 

 crop, Champion of England; lettuce, early Simpson; beets, early 

 blood turnip; late, either the same, or the long blood beet; carrots, 

 early short-horn; cabbage, first early, Jer,sey, Wakefield; main crop, 

 Fotler's; radishes, Covent Garden and French Breakfast; I have 

 been unable to distinguish the different varieties of parsnips, except 

 upon the seecfman's papers; tomatoes, first early, the early York; 

 main crop, the Trophy; onions, sets for early, and yellow Danver's 

 for main crop. 



