SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



week or ten days they are set into six-inch pots, 

 two plants to a pot. These pots will form a ball 

 of dirt by the time the house is ready. 



Successive sowing of the seed should be made 

 every week for houses to follow the first house 

 after crops of lettuce have been pulled. 



Cucumbers in March will bring from 12 to 15 

 cents each wholesale, 6 to 10 cents during April 

 and 4 to 6 cents during May. 



For the first early out-door crop the plants 

 should be started under glass about five weeks 

 before they are wanted for transplanting. Thirty- 

 two hills are started under each 3x6 sash; and 

 when the fourth leaf is well out the hills are 

 transplanted to the field. The roots can be 

 saved from disturbance by using a piece of stove- 

 pipe eight inches in diameter and six high, to cut 

 down around each hill; the shovel being then 

 thrust under, and the plants thus enclosed and 

 supported during removal. Where sods can be 

 obtained to plant in they are often used, for con- 

 venience in handling; but the supply is apt to be 

 deficient. The rows should be six feet apart; 

 hills four feet apart in the row, and slightly elevated 

 so that water cannot settle on them. 



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