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feet apart. Should be ready for use first 

 week in June. Keep half the seed for late 

 planting. 



Early turnips can start another two feet 

 along. Drill half an inch deep, rows a foot 

 apart. First of All peas are semi-dwarf, 

 but yield much better if given some support. 

 We plant every two rows seven inches apart, 

 in a drill one inch deep; and when the peas 

 are two inches high stick brush between the 

 rows, so making a solid hedge of vine when 

 developed. Twin rows should be two feet 

 apart. 



For onion sets make drill an inch and a 

 half deep, placing the sets upright and from 

 four to six inches apart. Firm the earth all 

 round, and the fourth of an inch over them. 

 These will furnish early onions for cooking 

 and the main winter crop. For onion seed, 

 the soil cannot be too carefully prepared, 

 for, like carrots, they are long in germinating 

 and extremely fragile. A few radish seeds 

 can again be used as pioneers. The reason 



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