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Turnips may be sown from July 15 to August 15, and winter spinach about 

 September 1 to 15. 



Now with this range of dates we can keep the ground occupied all the year 

 through, and by so doing will leave no space to grow up to weeds, but the 

 ground must be kept rich to bear the burden. 



Let me suggest a few successions: 



1. Peas till the best are picked, say the first week in June. Get an early, 

 dwarf kind that needs no bushing. Then pull the vines and give them to the 

 pig. Tnen put in cucumbers that have been started on a sod as suggested 

 above. Put in a few seeds also, to come on if the vine is injured. Then by 

 and by at the last hoeing scatter some flat white turnip seeds over the ground 

 and boe in lightly. The first frost will kill the cucumbers and the turnips will 

 come on. 



2. Follow the peas with early potatoes and after the potatoes are dug, smooth 

 the ground and sow spinach in drills, which will get quite a growth in fall and 

 be left where it grows, to be pulled in spring. 



3. Onion sets — radishes between the rows of onions and when both are off 

 drill in turnips. 



4. After the onions set out tomato plants. 



5. Early potatoes followed by celery plants set in July or first of August. 



6. Early beans and then corn, or early corn and then wax beans. 



7. Potatoes. Then dig the first hills, not in one spot but all over the patch 

 at intervals of eight or ten feet, and plant seeds of Hubbard squash which will 

 occupy the ground as the potatoes are dug around them. 



Make any other combinations yon choose, saving this list for reference, culti- 

 vate well and the experience will do you no harm. 



GARDEN FURNITURE. 



The objects of planting the space about our dwellings with trees, shrubbery, 

 vines, etc., I have already noted as being first, the beauty and grace of the 

 plants themselves, apart from their effect on the surroundings. Second, to 

 hide the objectionable features of the place. Third, to conceal the boun- 

 daries and give some privacy to the garden. Fourth, to relieve the bareness 

 of too open a lawn, with small groups or single specimens; all being included 

 in the general purpose to improve the appearance of the place, to make it 

 more hospitable and comfortable as a borne, and to increase its value if for 

 sale. 



Now to properly accomplish these objects requires some study as to the best 

 material to use, and the right location for it. Many people in looking over a 

 nurseryman's catalogue, or in talking with an agent, are very much at a loss 

 to know what to select from the great number of plants, with most of which 

 they are not familiar, and all of which are highly praised by the nurseryman 

 And if they should get a good assortment of plants, it is difficult to decide 

 which is best adapted to a given purpose. Some will grow very large in time, 

 or will sucker and spread over a very large area. Others are small and com- 

 pact. Some have flowers or showy fruit. Others are chiefly valuable for 

 a windbreak or screen, and so through the list. I propose, therefore, to give 

 the principal characteristics of the more common things, and the purpose 

 which they best subserve. I would also recommend sending for several nursery- 

 men's catalogues and getting what information can be had from this source. 



