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horse, hog, or chip-clung in the hill. Continue to 

 plant late peas. Plant early corn, such as the small 

 tucket, sweet corn, Canada corn, and great tucket. 

 Sow cabbages, cauliflowers and broccoli; plant 

 early squashes, musk-melons, canteloupes and water- 

 melons. Begin to cut asparagus for use. Continue 

 to sow celery, spinach, parsely, sage, thyme, and 

 other aromatics, with beets, carrots, &c. Continue 

 to plant potatoes ; plant broom-corn, hokus bicolor, 

 or chocolate broom, and close your seeding before 

 the 25th. 



Culture of the Carrot. 



Select a deep rich garden mould for the culture of 

 this root ; a warm sandy loam answers best. Pre- 

 pare this land with high manuring, by the richest 

 and best rotted manures, and deep ploughing. Let 

 the earth be nicely pulverized with the harrow, and 

 struck out into beds of 3 1-2, or 4 feet wide. In 

 striking out these beds, let the plough pass up and 

 down, or return back, in the same furrow ; this will 

 turn the earth equally up to each bed. When the 

 beds are thus struck out, haul in the loose dirt from 

 the furrows on to the beds, either with a hoe, or a 

 rake, and let it meet on the centre of each bed ; (his 

 will lay the beds crowning ; then break all the clods 

 upon the beds fine with the back of the hoe, or with 

 a wooden clod-knocker, made for the purpose, and 

 finish the beds by pulverizing as fine, and as deep 

 as possible with the rake ; (a rake with sharp iron 

 teeth is preferred.) When the beds are thus pre- 

 pared, mark them off into rows 10 inches asunder, 

 with a large heavy rake made for the purpose, with 

 3 or 4 teeth placed at that distance, and about 5 or 

 6 inches in length, well sharpened at the points. 



The beds are now ready for sowing ; prepare your 

 carrot-seed by rubbing it with the hands, alter it is 

 shelled, until the seeds are all separated, so as not 

 to stick together ; then mix them with plaster of Pa- 



