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the best variety for taWe use. It is a good cropper, continues in 

 use for some time, and is of a very ricli, sweet, and pleasant 

 flavor. By planting as soon as the weather will admit, which 

 varies in different parts of the country from the 20th of May to 

 the 10th of June, and again planting three weeks later, a supply 

 of most delicious Green Corn can he had until frosts cut it up in 

 the faU. 



Stowell's Evergreen. — Has the merit of being a late 

 variety, and remaining soft all the season, but it does not com- 

 pare in quality, in our estimation, with the Early Eight-Rowed. 



White Parching. — This is the very best Pop-Corn, and 

 every child should be made glad with a store of this for the 

 winter evenings. It is an eight-rowed Corn, ears about six inches 

 long ; kernels small, flinty, and of a semi-transparent white. 

 When parched it is snowy white, very tender, brittle, and sweet. 

 Always select the slender, small-sized ears that are well filled 

 with only small white kernels, for seed corn, and keep it pure, as 

 any mixture will impair its quality as a Pop-Corn. It is best 

 when grown in dry, sandy or gravelly soil, and when the sum- 

 mers are warm and short. 



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This salad plant is not much used in this country. Celery 

 and Lettuce taking the place. It thrives in any good garden 

 soil, and may be sown in drills about a foot apart. The seed 

 should be sown thinly and covered but slightly, and after the 

 plants are well up, they shoidd be thinned out to about ten 

 inches apart in the rows. As this salad is usually wanted for 

 winter and early spring, the seed may be sown about the middle 

 of July. In order to prepare it for use it is necessary to blanch 

 the leaves. This is done by drawing the outer leaves together 

 over the centre, and tying them fast with a string, or a mat may 

 be thrown over the plants. In order to keep them through the 

 winter, it is necessary to transplant them on the approach of 



