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use, sowing should be deferred until July or August. 

 The Ruta Baga or Swedes are sown in July, and the 



Fig. 139.— EXTRA EARLY MILAN TrRNIP. 



earlier winter sorts, such as Yellow Globe or Flat 

 Dutch, in August. 



8UCCESSI0NAL CROPS OF VEGETABLES. 



To get the full benefit of fresh vegetables during the 

 entire season, it is necessary to sow or plant successional 

 crops every two or three weeks, particularly with such 

 crops as Bush Beans, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Sweet Corn, 

 Cress, Cucumber, Lettuce, Peas, Radish, Spinach, and 

 Turnip. Even small areas of ground, if well manured, 

 may double or treble the crop if judiciously sown or 

 planted. For example, the ground first sown in Radishes, 

 Spinach, Turnip, or Lettuce, in April, will have ripened 

 these crops so that the ground can be cleared, dug up, and 

 manured, and again used by the first of June, when such 

 crops as Sweet Corn, Cucumbers, Peas, or Tomatoes can 

 be planted, and so on all through the list, and thus from 

 May to October the table can be daily supplied with fresh 

 vegetables for a moderate sized family, even from a quarter 

 of an acre of ground, if labor is given sufficient to sow 

 one crop after another has been exhausted. 



