4:34: GARDENING FOR MARKET. 



usually sells in towns (not in the larger cities) for from 8c. 

 to 12c. per head. 



During the latter part of April, plant sixty three-inch 

 pots with half a dozen seeds each of White Spine cucum- 

 ber, and set them in a warm light room in the house. By 

 the time the lettuce is sold off these will be sturdy plants, 

 and they should be thinned to three in each pot. Kow dig 

 holes a foot deep, and a foot in diameter, at intervals 

 of three feet in the lettuce frame, and fill them with very 

 thoroughly rotted and rich compost, covering it with a little 

 soil. On each of these plant the contents of a pot, without 

 disturbing the roots of the plants, and cover closely with 

 the sashes. Give a little air in the middle of the day, but 

 cover close from 4: P.M. until 10 A.M., and during all chilly 

 weather ; water copiously, and uncover to all w r arm rains. 



By the latter part of June the picking will commence (at 

 from 5c. to 30c. each), and it may be continued as long as 

 the price is not less than Ic. each. This crop is more un- 

 certain and varying in its results than lettuce, but it usually 

 pays well, and is very inexpensive. 



Now let us sum up the probable income of 50 sashes, 

 managed as directed above : 



35,000 cabbage plants, at $10 $350 



3,500 lettuces, at 8c 280 



Cucumbers (from $25 to $100), say 50 



$680 

 This is earned with a small investment, and the labor is 



