Vegetable-Gardening 1405 



Varieties of beans recommended are: 



Bush, Wax : Wardwell's Kidney, Refugee, Golden, Black. 



Green snap: Giant Stringless Green-Pod Valentine, Dwarf 



Horticultural, Mohawk, Bountiful, Refugee. 

 Shell: Dwarf Horticultural, Red Kidney, White Kidney, 



Yellow Eye. 

 Lima: Henderson's, Fordhook. 

 Pole, Green-podded: Horticultural, or Speckled Cranberry; Ken- 

 tucky Wonder, or Old Homestead; Lazy Wife, Case Knife, 

 Red Cranberry. 

 Wax-podded: Golden Butter, Black. 

 Lima: White, Challenge, King of Garden, Sieva. 



Beets 



The garden beet may be grown in any good soil, but rich sandy loam 

 will give the best results. Sow the seeds in drills, 1 to 3 feet apart and 

 not deeper than 1 inch. When the plants are 3 to 5 inches tall they 

 should be thinned so that there are four to six plants to every foot of 

 row. Beet thinnings make very good greens. As a rule, each so-called 

 seed contains more than one real seed; this may account for beets' coming 

 up so thickly sometimes. Beets for winter storage should not be sown 

 until the latter half of July. Culture should be given rather frequently. 

 As the beet is a surface feeder, only shallow cultivation should be the 

 practice. The beet is harvested by being pulled out of the ground, the 

 leaves being topped and a small part of the leaf stem being left on the 

 beet. The beets are then thrown into piles and stored in the field by 

 the method previously described, or in the storehouse. If placed in the 

 storehouse they should be covered with soil in order to prevent their 

 drying out. 



Perhaps one of the best beets for cold-frame and early work is Crosby 

 Egyptian. Eclipse is the best hotbed, or extremely early, beet. For 

 the main season choose Edmands. For a very dark blood-red beet Detroit 

 is good. For table use beets should not be very large; a diameter of 

 1 \ to 2§ inches is quite enough. For the canneries even smaller sizes 

 are in demand. 



Brussels sprouts 



Brussels sprouts may be grown from seed in the hotbed or cold-frame 

 and transplanted directly to the garden, generally about the first of May. 

 The rows should be 18 to 36 inches apart and the plants in the row 12 

 to 18 inches apart. Clean culture should be the practice. 



The little heads grow along the stalk at the base of each leaf petiole. 

 When the heads are about f inch in diameter and quite hard they are ready 



