The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



early spring onions it will be well to give the beds 

 a covering of straw or marsh hay at the approach 

 of cold weather. The rhubarb rows may be 

 banked with coarse manure from the barnyard 

 and the asparagus bed may have the tops removed 

 and the roots protected with manure; this will 

 hasten the production of shoots in the spring and 

 make stronger roots. 



If there is a bit of land available for early peas 

 it may be ploughed and the furrows filled with 

 well-rotted manure, each furrow turned over the 

 manure in the next and the rows marked with 

 sticks ; in early spring, drills may be opened with 

 the hand cultivators and the seed for the very 

 earliest peas sown. 



If the lettuce, carrots, beets, salsify, endive, 

 spinach, parsnips and radishes have proved satis- 

 f actoiy and any of the annual varieties have been 

 allowed to go to seed it will be wise to save the seed 

 for the coming season as the increasing shortage of 

 seeds makes it more or less problematical whether 

 a supply may be forthcoming another season. 



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