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over winter as many do, but life, tlicm all 

 and bed them, and they keep excellently. 

 We bed them in this way: In aconvcnient 

 sheltered spot in the garden we throw out 

 a trench about a foot deep and two feet 

 wide, just as if it were an ordinary little 

 pit for potatoes, and here we lay the pars- 

 nips close together, heads up and all even 

 at top, and roots down just as they grew, 

 with some dirt between them; on account 

 of the length of the roots the tO(;s will be 

 some inches above the general ground level 

 but as the earth that had been thrown 

 out of the trench forms a bank on either 

 side, the parsnips are not only earthed 

 full to the top, but the grading bank on 

 each side sheds water from them. A little 

 earth is also spread over the crowns. 

 Then we lay an inverted V shaped wooden 

 cover over the trench, ahd cover it over 

 with leaves and sedge enough to exclude 

 hard frost. In this way the parsnips keep 

 as well and as plump and fresh and for as 

 long a time as they would were they left 

 in the open ground. I bed salsify in the 

 same way, in fact in the same trench. 



Pepper —Ruby King answers every 

 purpose, but for pickling include a few 

 plants of Cayenne. Treat the same as 

 eggplant. 



PEAS.^ust as soon as spnng opens I 

 sow First of All, Alpha, and Heroine, in 

 a warm well drained piece of ground, and 

 8 to 12 days later, according to the 

 weather, repeat the same sowing. This 

 gives me a tine succession. After that I 

 sow only Juno and Heroine, two splen- 

 did peas. The last sowing for summer is 

 put in about June 20. About the first of 

 August I sow again, this time First of 

 All and American Wonder, and repeat 

 sowings of the same sorts twice, say 

 about the 10th and 20th. Fall peas are 

 not always a satisfactory crop; should 

 the weather prove hot and dry they will 

 neither pod well nor grow well; they like 

 moisture and long cool nights. 



Potatoes. — Even at the risk of being 

 called old-fashioned I still stick to Early 

 Rose and Beauty of Hebron. Manure 

 broadcast, run the drills 2',2 feet apart, 

 sprinkle a little fertilizer in the rows. 



Radishes.— Early Scarlet Turnip and 

 French Breakfast are what I use. We 

 make our first sowing in a hotbed as 

 early in March as the weather will allow. 



RnuBARi?.— It is pretty hard to say 

 which variety is best, we generally lift 

 and divide our biggest and finest leaved 

 clumps and in this way keep up a good 

 selection. For winter forcing we lift a 

 lot now and store it inside or in a shed 

 with some leaves or sedge over it to keep 

 it away from wind and sunshine, but not 

 from frost, and bring it into a warm 

 greenhouse as required. A dark place 

 under the bench suits it all right. 



Salsify or Oyster Plant.— The 

 Sandwich Island variety has displaced 

 the old and smaller sort. In sowing, 

 growing and storing for winter treat the 

 same as parsnips. 



ScoRZONERA being so much like salsify, 

 but harder to get a good crop of, I have 

 given up growing it. 



Spinach. — I always sow a row of 

 Round Leaved Spinach between the rows 

 of peas in spring, and make a few suc- 

 cessional sowings nine or ten days apart. 

 But after we get marrow peas there is 

 not much demand for spinach till fall, 

 when I again sow it between the rows of 

 peas, and at the same time as the peas. 

 This gives us good spinach till into No- 

 vember. If we want it in winter we have 

 to cover it with frames, or grow it in a 

 cool greenhouse. For wintering over out 

 of doors I sow a patch in rows ir> inches 

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