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beds, but an old carpet or blanket or coverlid will answer the 

 purpose. There is no part of the country where a variety of 

 plants may not be started in March, by ihe use of the hot-bed. 



Potatoes, A few early potatoes should be grown in the 

 farmer's garden, as those usually eaten after the first of June are 

 absolutely jinwholesome. The farmer may also use his garden 

 to test the qualities of any new sorts before he invests largely 

 in them. Ashes in the drills, covered with one inch of earth, 

 form a most fertile bed for the potatoes. We recommend the 

 Early Rose for garden culture, as the best early potatoe ever 

 grown in this country. 



Beets should be sown only in a deep rich loam. Clay or 

 gravel is not suitable. None but well decomposed manure 

 should be used, with the addition of ashes and a little salt. 

 An ounce of seed will sow over one hundred feet of drill very 

 thickly. Two crops should be sown, one as early as the 

 ground can be worked, and the other six weeks later, for fall 

 and winter use. 



The drillB may be one foot apart, and when the plants get two 

 nches high, they should be thinned. These little plants make 

 the best of greens, and if a large bed is gradually thinned will 

 furnish a daily dish for two or three weeks. The market 

 gardeners make these small beets and tops pay for the labor of 

 thinning the crop. Six inches apart in the drills is the distance 

 at which they should stand, when the thinning is completed. 

 They should be kept free from weeds, and for this purpose, and 

 for all the operations of the garden, " Allen's weed killer" will 

 be found a very efficient implement. The long smooth blood 

 beet for the late crop, and the early blood turnip rooted beet for 

 the early crop, are the two varieties we recommend. The seed 

 is good two years. 



Carrots will usually pay about double the profit received 



