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to July. When transplanted or thinned the plants should 

 stand one foot apart. The seed only requires to be covered 

 with one-fourth inch of soil. The Early Curled Simpson for 

 early sowing and the Curled India for late sowing are the best 

 varieties for garden culture. 



Peppers should be sown in the hot-bed in March, or the 

 cold frame in April, and planted out as soon as the ground gets 

 thoroughly warm, in rows two feet apart, and eighteen inches 

 apart in the rows. The Squash Pepper is the most productive 

 and the Sweet Mountain the largest and mildest flavored. 



Ehubarb or Pie Plant is exceedingly convenient for making 

 pies at a time when nothing else is available. Five heads will 

 supply a family of twenty persons. All that is required is to 

 set out a piece of root and it will grow. Dig the soil deeply, 

 manure it richly before putting out the plant, and fork in a 

 quantity of heating manure every spring. Market gardeners 

 apply one hundred tons of manure to the acre, and realize an 

 average jirofit of three hundred and fifty dollars per acre. 



Tomatoes, in this latitude, may be planted in the cold frame 

 in April, or the hot-bed a month earlier. They are now in uni- 

 versal favor, and an early crop is always in the market at gooc. 

 prices. A few plants will suffice for an ordinary family, and 

 these can be started in a box, in some warm, protected spot. 

 The ground, if in good fertility, should not be enriched for the 

 plants, as they will run to tops. The old early smooth red, and 

 the later large red and large yellow, are as good as the modern 

 varieties. 



Beans are, perhaps, as generally cultivated as any garden 

 crop, and yet but few cultivate them rightly. They contain a 

 larger proportion of nutriment than any other plant or vegeta- 

 ble, and as a garden or field crop deserve more attention than 

 they get. All beans require a light, mellow soil, loell enriched. 



