THE VEGETABLE PATCH IN MAY 



SOWING and planting for a succession 

 of vegetables for summer and au- 

 tumn use will be one of the main features of 

 vegetable gardening for May. A second 

 sowing of peas can be made. The Hors- 

 ford Market Garden Pea is a good second 

 early variety. These will crop, and can be 

 cleared ofif in time to plant late celery on the 

 same ground. 



Beans of either the dwarf or climbing 

 varieties can be sown at any time from 

 early in May until July, at intervals of two 

 or three weeks as required. Two good 

 kinds of beans for medium and late crops 

 are the Early Valentine and Tabers I. X. L. 

 The latter is one of the best varieties of late 

 beans. It is a strong grower, heavy yielder, 

 and the pods keep fresh and crisp longer 

 during the hot summer months than any 

 other variety I know. The best pole beans 

 are the Asparagus and Kentucky Wonder. 



Corn can be sown at any time during May 

 or June. Two good varieties for a small 

 garden are the Early White Cory and the 

 Country Gentleman. Put a seed or two of 

 the Long White Bush Marrow in every al- 

 ternate hill of com. This bush growing 

 marrow is in many respects preferable to the 

 English marrow, but does not produce a crop 

 for as long a period of time as the latter 



(Continued 



variety, which is of a running habit of 

 growth. 



The best variety of beet for a small gar- 

 den is the Dark Egyptian. The long smooth 

 blood beet is best for winter use. For an 

 all season carrot there is none to beat the 

 Chatitenay. It is the best flavored carrot 

 grown, comes in fairly early, and is a good 

 cropper, 



THE CUCUMBER AND MELON PATCH. 



Cucumber and melon seeds can be sown 

 outside toward the end of the month. Plant 

 double the quantity of seed required, as 

 some of the seed may not grow. The plants 

 not wanted can be easily transplanted when 

 the second leaf has developed, or they can 

 be pulled out and thrown away. Four good 

 plants to a hill is sufficient. 



A second sowing of lettuce should be 

 made early in May. Nonpareil and Gar- 

 deners' Favorite are two good varieties. If 

 you have a nice light piece of fairly rich soil, 

 sow a few turnip rooted or olive shaped 

 radish. The scarlet white tipped and scar- 

 let olive shaped are two of the best kinds. 

 A plate of the first named, fringed with a 

 few lettuce leaves, is not onJy very appetiz- 

 ing in appearance, but is, from a decorative 

 point of view, quite as eflfective as a vase of 

 flowers or a plant jardiniere, 

 on Page 215.) 



CELERY GROWING 



H. R. ROWSOME, BURI.INGTON, ONT. 



NEXT to cauliflower, celery is the most 

 difficult of garden crops to grow 

 and bring to a first class condition for mar- 

 ket. It is considered to be a profitable crop 

 to grow because by sitting in an arm chair 

 with pencil and paper one can figure on a 

 profit of $4,000 per acre when grown by ir- 

 rigation, but practically very few gardeners, 

 one year with another, clear more than $250.- 

 It is the average profit at Kalamazoo, 

 Mich., where 5,000 acres are grown by the 

 hard slugging of a colony of Hollanders, 



who work their women and children. Many 

 gardeners who have commenced growing 

 this vegetable on a large scale have gradual- 

 ly gone out of it because olten the crop is a 

 complete failure. As $200 an acre can 

 easily be thrown away in expenses, the aver- 

 age grower does not want to face a bad year 

 with a large acreage. 



Since celery is an acquatic plant it de- 

 lights in a swamp muck. Some peaty mucks 

 contain a good deal of iron, and it will not 

 grow there. Black sand with a quicksand 



