The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



sufficient, or a hundred pounds to the acre — 

 this would amount to about twenty-five pounds 

 to the ordinary garden. 



Beets may be sown for succession up to the 

 middle of July and will mature a crop for winter 

 use. Late sown beets are less care to cultivate 

 owing to the fact that the season's crop of weeds 

 is by that time pretty well under control. 



SWISS CHARD 



Has been for several years much exploited by 

 seedsmen as the one indispensable vegetable for 

 the city garden. It is no doubt a dependable 

 source of greens, making a rapid growth of suc- 

 culent leaves and is one of the showy, effective 

 things in the garden that gives an air of abun- 

 dance and successful gardening unsurpassed by 

 any other vegetable, but, in my opinion, its merit 

 ends right there and if it were not for its value in 

 furnishing green food in the greatest quantity in 

 the least time I should not give it space in the gar- 

 den ; the mid-rib, so much recommended for cook- 

 ing like asparagus, has an unpleasant, earthy 



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