THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



I give the receipt, as it does not seem to be 

 generally known. 



Place enough peas for eight persons in a 

 double boiler, add two tablespoonfuls of 

 butter, six leaves of lettuce, and three tiny 

 onions as big as the top of one's finger. 

 Keep the water boiling under them for 

 three hours, when they are ready to serve. 

 The butter and lettuce add to the juice, 

 and the baby onion gives such a soup9on 

 of flavor that one scarcely knows it to be 

 onion. 



Peppers. The seed for peppers may be 

 sown in the hot-bed, but I have it sown 

 directly in the garden about May 10th; two 

 packets of seed will raise quite enough 

 plants. The soil should be rich and finely 

 pulverized. Sow the seeds thinly and when 

 the young plants are well up thin them out 

 to eighteen inches apart. Peppers are apt 

 to be killed by the first frost, so it is well 

 when frost is expected to have all that re- 

 main on the plants gathered at once. If 

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