VEGETABLES RAISED FOR MARKET 



During this period of expanding cultivation 

 there has been great improvement in varieties, 

 not so much in respect of earliness, perhaps, as 

 in size and quality. 



In order to induce a stocky growth, the young 

 plants are twice transplanted. The second trans- 

 planting should be made before the plants com- 

 mence to crowd and grow spindling, and this 

 time they should be put eight inches apart. This 

 last transplanting is always made in hot-beds, 

 but the first is usually made in the house; the 

 plants being put four inches apart. 



About the 25th of May the plants sown the 

 middle of February may generally be set in the 

 open ground; and should be planted in rows six 

 feet apart, with plants five feet in the row. The 

 tomatoes usually follow a crop of spinach; and 

 but little additional manure is applied except 

 in the hill; five or six cords per acre are usually 

 put on w T here the crop does not follow spinach; 

 but merely for hills about two cords will be 

 sufficient, and will push the crop along wonder- 

 fully. 



In very rich soil a tendency to grow too much 

 to vines may be expected. The best results, 



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