CHAPTER IV. 

 On the Season for Planting Corn* 



4Q. In Long Island the season for planting 

 corn is, from the 10th to the 20th of May; that 

 is to say, so as to get it out of the ground as early 

 as possible, without exposing the young plants to 

 the pinchings of the frost, which is frequently 

 pretty sharp in that country so late as the first 

 week in June. In my *^ Year's Residence" I 

 notice, that, on the 1st of June, I saw a man 

 covering over something in his garden in the 

 evening. I stopped and asked him what he was 

 covering so carefully ; he said, " kidney-beans" 

 " Oh," said I, " it is good to know that ; Memo- 

 " randum, there are sharp frosts in Long Island 

 " on the 1 St of June ; frosts, at any rate, suffi- 

 " cient to destroy kidney-beans." But, the 

 Indian corn plant is not so tender, by any means, 

 as that of the kidney-bean. The corn was three 

 inches high at the time I am speaking of. 



47. The corn plant is not destroyed by a frost 

 such as I have been speaking of; but, though not 

 destroyed by such a frost, it does not like it; 

 and it tells you that very plainly by the yellow 



