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thick-meated, green-fleshed sort, and is considered 

 the best sort, for table use, in existence. Good 

 specimens of its fruit, well grown and ripened, 

 often bring as high as $1 each, at wholesale. As 

 they produce more vines than the other varieties 

 they must be given more room. Where one hill 

 is planted under a sash the beds should be set so 

 that the hills will be twelve feet apart the other 

 way. One plant per hill, at this distance, is suf- 

 ficient. In picking for market, it has to be noted 

 that the fruit is never ripe until the stem will 

 part readily from it. 



MUSTARD (Sinapis alba and nigra). Used to 

 some extent for greens, early in the spring, but 

 more especially as a salad. It may be sown in 

 the open ground (almost any time after the soil 

 can be properly prepared), in rows twelve inches 

 apart : also may be forced in the hot-bed, or hot- 

 house, and thus may be had at all seasons of the 

 year; but the demand is small. 



White Mustard is the variety best liked as a 

 salad; and the seed, which is of a very bright 

 yellow colour, affords, when ground, the mustard 

 which we use on our tables. Black-seeded is 

 much like the preceding, except that the seed 



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