BOOK OF THE HOME GARDEN 



which is red and very sweet. It grows on a low 

 spreading bush and has a husk over it which looks 

 like paper. Tomatoes are seed pods. 



Turnips like the cool weather of late summer 

 and early spring. You can have them yellow, or 

 white, or white with a purple rim around the top; 

 and they grow egg shaped, top shaped, and disc 

 shaped. The white and white with purple top are 

 the most delicate. 



Peanuts are lots of fun to grow if you live where 

 there is a long growing season and plenty of sun- 

 shine. We grow some every year, we are so fond 

 of them. There are two kinds, one very large, the 

 other very small; strange to say the smaller is the 

 better. 



White Potatoes are very easy to grow where the 

 weather is fairly cool. They require quite a little 

 room but are extremely nice to have in our gardens. 

 They grow in a very peculiar manner. We do not 

 plant the seed that grows as others do, but we use 

 the potato itself to make a new plant. No doubt 

 you have all noticed the eyes or dimples on white 

 potatoes. These are really buds and a plant comes 

 from each one of them, so when we are ready to 

 plant we cut a potato into pieces so there will be 

 about three eyes on each piece. If you have some 



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