HOW TO CHOOSE SEEDS 



and the great big seed pod (which is the part we 

 eat) is just as good as can be. You can have 

 squashes white, yellow or green; with a crooked 

 neck ; round and scalloped like a patty pan or oval 

 like a small watermelon. One splendid variety is 

 called "Vegetable Marrow." If you did not know 

 it was a squash you would wonder what in the 

 world it could be. 



Cucumbers grow on a vine which lies flat on the 

 ground but you can train them up on a tree branch 

 or small arbor if you want to. You can have short 

 chunky cucumbers, or long slender ones. If you live 

 where the season is long and you have plenty of sun- 

 shine, you can grow the English frame cucumbers 

 out of doors. They grow 18 to 20 inches long and 

 about five inches around. Cucumbers are seed pods 

 which we eat while they are young and tender. 



You can grow onions two ways ; if you want them 

 very early, plant onion "sets," which are really baby 

 onions ; they grow very quickly and are eaten before 

 they make a bulb. If you want large bulb onions, 

 plant onion seed, but make up your mind you will 

 have patience and give them good care, for when 

 the seedlings finally come up you have to lie down 

 flat and look along the row, where you will see 

 something which looks like hair. They are so tiny 



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