262 PRIZE GARDENING 



Radishes quickly follow, and as soon as the ist 

 to the loth of May we begin to put in sweet corn. Of 

 this we make two and often three plantings. We are 

 very fond of this delicacy and manage to have it early 

 and late in the season. Crosby's Early and Perry's 

 Hybrid are favorites for early planting, and for later 

 use Stowell's Evergreen. Beans, cucumbers, squashes 

 and beets may come now at any time. Tomato, celery, 

 turnip and cabbage plants are started in the house 

 early and set out at intervals in June. We like toma- 

 toes very much and usually put out about twenty-five 

 plants for our own use. A row of rhubarb plants 

 along one side of the garden furnishes material for 

 sauce and pies early in the season. At one end of our 

 garden we also have a few raspberries and grapevines. 

 Strawberries we have in another field. Just as soon 

 as the potatoes begin to peep out we start the culti- 

 vator, and from that time on we keep the horse and 

 plow busy subduing weeds. What cannot be done in 

 that way we finish with the hand hoe. 



All that remains from the summer's using is care- 

 fully harvested in the fall. Celery we bank in October 

 and take in a month later, packing it with plenty of 

 dirt in a deep box in the cellar and covering it with old 

 sacks. Here it bleaches nicely and keeps till far into 

 the winter. Giant Paschal we hold to be the finest. 

 It is very tender and remains fresh until February. 

 Our garden is no longer a source of pleasure and 

 profit ; it has come to be an absolute necessity. Very 

 few of us realize how much help a good garden is in 

 maintaining the family. Such a garden as I have 

 described is in every way practical upon every farm. — 

 [Edgar L. Vincent, New York. 



Marketing. — In all sections of the country, prices 

 for garden stuff seem to rule comparatively high. In 

 the corn and wheat belts, where staple farm produce 



