Early Spring Vegetables 



distinct improvement upon the old form. It is 

 earlier, the color fine and the quality very sweet 

 and tender. Early Model beet is a new comer 

 with an excellent reputation and both are good 

 selections for the home or the market garden. 



In sowing in the hotbed it is not necessary 

 to cover more than a fourth of an inch; scatter 

 the seed thinly and transplant in about three 

 to four weeks from the sowing of the seed, or 

 when the plants and weather make the successful 

 planting most assured; set the plants about an 

 inch to an inch and a quarter apart and in using 

 remove every other one; this leaves abundant 

 room for them to develop and makes cultivating 

 and freedom from weeds more assured. 



A light application of nitrate of soda will work 

 wonders in growing early beets; scatter the ni- 

 trate thinly along the rows and cultivate in, or 

 the nitrate may be dissolved in water and applied 

 from a watering can, care being taken to apply 

 to the soil only and not to the plants. A hand- 

 ful of nitrate, about the usual quantity applied 

 to a two-gallon watering-pot of water, will be 



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