VEGETABLES RAISED FOR MARKET 



The seed is sown early in the spring, in drills 

 fourteen inches apart, and covered one inch deep. 

 After the young plants are up, thin to six inches. 

 It is a perennial plant, and requires to be trans- 

 planted the following spring, into ground that has 

 been thoroughly trenched and well manured, 

 being then placed in hills three feet apart each way. 



Late in the fall, when the leaves have separated 

 from the crown, heap over each plant a shovelful 

 of clean sand, and earth up a ridge a foot and a 

 half high over the rows, from a trenching dug 

 along the space between them, and beat it smooth 

 with the back of the spade. 



In the spring, after the cutting is over, the earth 

 should be levelled back into the trenches, so as to 

 expose the crowns of the plants ; and a good coat of 

 strong manure should be spread and dug around 

 them. There is only one variety in cultivation. 



SPINACH (Spinacia oleraced) is fast becoming 

 one of the leading crops of our market gardens, 

 being sold and used during the whole of the year. 

 For winter use it is usually brought from the 

 South. The crop that comes early in the spring 

 is usually sown about the first of September, and 

 at the beginning of winter is protected with a 



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