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Alai'kct Garacuiug. 



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hill is planted under a sash the beds should be set so 

 that the hills will be twelve feet apart the other way. 

 One plant per hill, at this distance, is sufficient. In 

 picking for market, it has to be noted that the fruit is 

 never ripe until the stem will part readily from it. 



Mustard {Sinapis alba and nigra). Used to some 

 extent for greens, early in the spring, but more espe- 



Black Seeded Mustard. 



cially as a salad. It may be sown in the open ground 

 (almost any time after the soil can be properly prepared) 

 in rows twelve inches apart : also may be forced in the 

 hot-bed, or hot-house, and thus may be had at all 

 seasons of the year. 



White Mustard is the variety best liked as a salad ; 

 and the seed, which is of a very bright yellow color, 

 affords, when ground, the mustard which we use on 

 our tables. Filack seeded is much like tlie preceding. 



