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beets, kale, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, cu- 

 cumbers, corn salad, endive, eggplant, kohlrabi, lettuce, 

 muskmelon, onions, peppers, peas, salsify, radish, spinach, 

 squash, tomatoes, turnips, rutabagas, escarole, chives, 

 shallot, parsley, sweet and Irish potatoes, and nearly a dozen 

 different kinds of sweet herbs." 



"In the larger garden, tomatoes followed peas, turnips 

 the wax beans, early lettuce for fall use took the place of 

 Refugee beans. Corn salad succeeded lettuce." 



"The spinach was followed by cabbage, while turnips, 

 beets, carrots, celery, and spinach gave a second crop in the 

 plot occupied by Gardus peas and Emperor William beans." 



" Winter radishes came after telephone peas, Paris Golden 

 celery was planted in between the hills of Stowell's blanching. 

 The plot of early corn was sown to turnips. The hotbed 

 was used during the late fall and winter to store some of the 

 hardy vegetables, and the latter part of October there was 

 placed in it some endive, escarole, celeriac, and the remain- 

 ing space was filled up by transplanting leeks, chives, and 

 parsley." (Bailey, "Principles of Vegetable Gardening," 

 page 38.) 



"If spinach is grown hi frames, the sash used for one of 

 the late crops above may be used through the following 

 winter. 



"This, like the last case, makes a total of five frames, 

 the cost, depending on make and material, from one to five 

 dollars ; twenty sash and covers, at, say, $2.75, $55 ; manure 

 at market price, calculating at least three or four loads per 

 frame. This is a liberal estimate of space, and should allow 

 for all ordinary loss of plants, and for discarding the weak 

 and inferior ones. It supposes that most or all of the plants 

 are to be transplanted once or more in the frames. Many 



