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apart about September 15, and scatter 

 some sedge over it about the end of No- 

 vember to save it from sunshine and 

 frosty vi^iuds in winter. The Round 

 Leaved is what I use for all sowings 

 either for summer or winter. 



Squ.\sh.— Hubbard and Boston Mar- 

 row are my favorites. I sow them in 

 May. I winter the squashes in a warm 

 cellar, laying thtm on the cement floor. 

 A cool room is not good for them, neither 

 is a damp one. 



Tomatoes.— Like most folks I grow 

 more varieties of these than there is any 

 need for and run them all, except the 

 dwarf sorts, up and over a make-shift 

 wire trellis, to keep the fruit up off the 

 ground and lessen its tendency to rot. 

 This year I had Ponderosa, Crimson 

 Cushion, Mikado, Table Oueen, and 

 Ruby, but the two last ones are the best 

 oftlie lot. Ruby is a fine early, being 

 nearly two weeks ahead of Table Queen, 

 but for main crop the last named is best, 

 indeed, as regards quality I don't know 

 of a better sort. I sow in March in the 

 greenhouse and afterwards prick the 

 seedlings out into frames and otherwise 

 treat them in the same way as we do egg 

 plants and peppers, except that we plant 

 them out of doors much earlier, and fur- 

 ther apart in the hills. 



Turnips.— For early I like the Snow- 

 ball, for summer the White Egg and or 

 winter the White Rutabaga. Ot the 

 spring and summer varieties I make a 

 sov^-ing every 14 or 20 days, for summer 

 turnips soon get foggy inside and bitter 

 tasted, and we can enjoy them only when 

 they are young and tender. The rut.i- 

 bagas are sown about the middle oijnly. 

 We alw'hys sow our turnips in rows on 

 level ground; I don't like sowing on 

 raised drills because the seedlings are apt 

 to bum out in hot dry weather. Sum- 

 mer turnips rotted badly with me this 

 year. Keep the winter turnips in a cool 

 cellar or pit or covered up in a shed. 

 While a little fro.st won't hurt them it is 

 better to keep them free from it. 



George Donald. 



Fairfield, Conn. 



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 it is no use trying; we must have it. Suc- 

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