Mid-Season Vegetables 



four feet apart each way and plant five or six 

 beans to each hill and thin to three when the 

 plants are up; when the plants have reached the 

 top of the pole pinch out the top ; add a spadeful 

 of well-rotted manure to each hill before planting, 

 mixing it thoroughly with the soil. Carpenteria is 

 about the best of the pole limas and Early Levia- 

 than Lima is another good sort. Wire netting 

 may be used in place of poles and will be found 

 more convenient and economical. Treating the 

 beans with farmogerm, Mulford or other culture 

 is advisable. 



CABBAGE 



For early cabbage sow seed in the hotbed or 

 in flats in the house and transplant to the open 

 ground in May. Cabbage are not injured by 

 light frosts and can go into the ground earlier 

 than most other garden stuff; usually the early 

 sorts are selected for first planting but the late 

 and winter sorts will, if started in heat, do about 

 as well as the early; it is largely a matter of 

 handling. The Late Flat Dutch is an excellent 



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