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buyer of the cities will hardly touch a vegetable or fruit be- 

 hind its season at any price. He will pay 10 cents per bunch 

 for Radishes in May, and will pass by a far better article 

 of the same kind in July or August, though offered at one- 

 fifth the price. He will give 50 cents per quart for Toma- 

 toes, (half-ripe), in June, that he could not be induced to 

 touch in October, if he # could buy them at 25 cents per 

 bushel. 



The Cucumbers, planted in cold frames and forcing 

 pits, are also marketable in the latter part of this month. 

 Great care must be taken to have them abundantly water- 

 ed in dry weather ; inattention to watering, (particularly 

 of all vegetables under glass), is sure to entail loss on the 

 cultivator, by giving an imperfect or partial crop. Water- 

 ing had better be done in the evening, whenever the surface 

 appears dry, not by a mere sprinkling, but by a thorough 

 soaking ; not less than a gallon to every square yard of 

 surface. As soon as the Cucumbers are all cut from the 

 frames, the sashes should be piled up at the ends of each 

 section, and covered with a shutter, and a weight of some 

 kind put on the top, to prevent them being blown off by 

 high winds. 



July. — The remaining part of the spring crops are 

 cleared off in the early part of this month, and by the 

 middle of it, unless the season is unusually dry, all the 

 ground is planted with the second crops of Celery, Sage, 

 Thyme, Late Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, or Leeks. 

 Little is done to these crops this month, as but little 

 growth is made during the hot dry weather, and newly 

 planted crops are merely stirred between the rows with 

 the hoe or cultivator. Some of the other later crops are now 



