ILLUSTRATIONS 



An Important Adjunct to the Market Garden Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



Testing Seeds for Vitality . . ... 76 



Seedlings of Cucumber Pricked Out from the Seed Bed 76 



Digging Over Hot-bed After Heat is Put in . . 77 



Pulling Radishes for Market 77 



Crosby Egyptian Beet . \ . i . .112 



Rawson's Perfection Cabbage ... . . 113 



Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage . ... 113 



Sea Foam Cauliflower . . * . . . 134 



Paris Golden Self-blanching Celery . .- . 135 



Rawson's Hot-house Cucumber . . *' 154 



Marking for Lettuce Plants . . , . . 155 



Lettuce Plants Ready to Set into the House . . 155 



Putting in Bottom Heat for a Second Crop of Lettuce 172 



Taking up Prickers of Lettuce from Seed Beds . 172 



A House of Lettuce One Week Previous to Marketing 173 



Danvers Yellow Globe Onion, New England Grown 



Strain . . . * . . ... . 182 



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