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the leading products of the garden. I was in a field of cabbage 

 the other day, and I presume some of them were as high as 

 that chair, the stalk running that high — heads that tall, and 

 about that big around (indicating). It all came from the buy- 

 ing of improper seed. If you know where you can secure seed 

 that is reliable from a reliable house, there is the place for you 

 to buy it, and having tested the thing hold fast to that which is 

 good. The same thing is true in regard to celery. A great 

 many in buying celery think they should buy the self-bleaching 

 seed. They may buy something under the name of White 

 Heading, and it will turn out a different kind. These things 

 we must take into consideration. In selecting the ground as I 

 said before, any ground that will produce good corn will raise 

 fairly good garden; but there is nothing that responds to gen- 

 erous treatment more readily than a garden crop. The more 

 you enrich your soil, the more you fertilize it, the better re- 

 suits you will obtain in every variety of garden plant. I know 

 of but one exception and that is perhaps the potato; that is a 

 vegetable that will not stand ground that is freshly manured. 

 The ground wants fertilizing a year or two ahead, a crop of 

 something else raised on it, and then plant the potato and you 

 will avoid the scab. I have a process of dealing with the potato 

 scab, the corrosive-sublimate treatment, but it is a tedious 

 treatment and it is a deadly poison, and I don't like to handle 

 it. My seed last spring was usually a little scabby in that re- 

 spect. I didn't treat them last spring a year ago and they 

 were little infected with the scab owing to the wet season, but 

 this spring I bought my seed potatoes and got ready when the 

 time came to plant. I sprayed the seed over until they became 

 wet, and used about a pint of flour of sulphur to a barrel of 

 potatoes, stirred them up until the sulphur adhered to all the 

 parts of the potato, and dropped them in the row. This year I 

 find 95 per cent of my potatoes are entirely clean from scab 

 notwithstanding the wet weather we have had. 



There is another thing in the cabbage crop. Some times 

 this is affected by the black rot. I speak of these three veget- 

 ables because they are the most profitable in the market gar- 

 dening, and most important in the family garden. Some times 

 they are affected by black rot. The plant wiU start all right. 



