VEGETABLES 



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VEGETABLES 



EXPLANATION OF SIGNS USED IN THE TABLE 



* To be sown in open ground without transplanting. It is necessary to thin out the plants to secure the proper distance 

 between them. 



1. Sow in the garden seed bed and transplant to a permanent location. 



2. Two sowings in the open ground during the month should be made. 



3. Three sowings in the open ground during the month should be made. 



4. Start the plants in a greenhouse or hotbed, planting them in the ground as soon as it is in good condition and the 

 weather is favorable. 



6. Sow in the open ground as soon as it can be worked. 



6. Plants should be grown in a hotbed or greenhouse. 



7. Sow in cold frame; the plants should be kept there over winter with a little protection and bo planted out in tin- 

 spring as soon as the ground can be worked. 



8. Sow in the open ground and protect with litter over winter. 



9. Plant in frame, and when cold weather begins cover with sash and straw mats. Plants will be ready (or use in 

 December and January. 



10. Plant in barn, cellar or beneath the benches in a greenhouse. 



11. Plant out of -doors in prepared bed*. 



! n order to have a succession of crops sow every week in a greenhouse or frame. 



N. B. For thp IsM planting of beans, sweet corn, kohl-rabi, peas and radishes, or even tomatoes, take the earliest 

 varieties, the same as are used in the first planting. 



The last sowings of vegetable oyster are intended to remain undisturbed over winter. Roots from these sowings will, 

 the next year, attain a site double that usually seen 



one to purchase the most expensive vegetables 



r to secure the necessary variety in one's 



: means who purchases 



ir season fares 



equally wrll with the man whose income leads 

 him to purchase the so-called delicacies, which 

 are merely fruits and vegetables grown in hot- 

 houses and placed on the market out of season. 



