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with a little bone meal added to it be dug 

 about the plants toward the end of June. 



Two packets of seeds should raise 

 enough plants. Egg Plants are somewhat 

 difficult to raise from seed and the beginner 

 might better buy them. 



Lettuce for very early crops can be started 

 in the hot-bed or in boxes in sunny win- 

 dows of the tool-house, and sown in the 

 garden about the middle of April. Or it 

 can be sowed in the open ground as soon 

 as it is in condition to work. Sow the seed 

 very sparsely and when well up thin out 

 the plants to from six to eight inches apart. 



Lettuce requires a rich and finely pulver- 

 ized soil. Sowings can be made every two 

 or three weeks until the middle of June, but 

 if the Summer proves hot and dry it is well 

 to intermit the sowings until August, when 

 the last crop can be put in. Of the many 

 varieties there are none better than Boston 

 Market and Tennis Ball. 



One-half ounce of seed will raise more 

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