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MARKET GARDENING AND FARMERS' GARDENS. 649 



Immense quantities of later cucumbers are used for pickling, 

 and we have before us the advertisement of a Chicago house for 

 five hundred acres of cucumbers for pickles. In growing them 

 for this purpose, land from which some early crop has been 

 taken can be used, and the cucumber seed planted at any time 

 from the first of June to the last of July. Mark out the ground 

 as for corn, four feet each w^ay, and add a shovelful of well 

 rotted manure, dug in at each angle where the hills are to be. 

 Sow about a dozen seeds in each hill. The Gherkin and Early 

 Cluster we deem the best for extensive cultivation. 



Horseradish is one of the most important and most profit- 

 able second crops of the New York gardeners. The average 

 weight of the crop is five tons per acre, and the average price 

 two hundred dollars per ton; and, notwithstanding there are 

 over two hundred acres grown near New York, the price has 

 steadily advanced for twenty years. The following is a sum- 

 mary of Mr. Henderson's method of cultivation: "In prepar- 

 ing the roots for market in Avinter, all the rootlets are preserved, 

 cut in pieces five inches long, and put away in sand. Tied in 

 small bundles, and a layer of sand between each bundle, they 

 will not heat, if kept in boxes in a cool cellar or buried in the 

 open ground. After the cabbages or cauliflower are set, these 

 rootlets are set between the rows, usually about the first of May. 

 The planting is done with the crowbar; a hole being made eight 

 inches deep and the root dropped in so as to be two or three 

 inches under the surface. It can be grown between the rows 

 of beets or any other vegetable. I* should be dug the same 

 season, just before the frost closes up the ground. Grown in 

 the deep rich soil of our market gardens, horseradish has been, 

 for the past twenty years, one of our most profitable second 

 crops." 



Lettuce may be sown the middle of September, and a month 



