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quite hardy. Cabbage and cauliflower should be sown in the seed- 

 bed for succession of plants in some places they grow slowly and 

 can be taken out for planting until February. Beets and salsify 

 will start for early summer use, and potatoes for the holidays. 

 Lettuce and onions can be sown in place or plants may be grown 

 in a seed bed for planting out after the rains come. In strictly 

 frostless places, string beans, egg-plant, and tomatoes are planted 

 for very early crop. 



OCTOBER. 



It is still time to plant beets, cabbage, radishes, spinach, onions 

 lettuce, turnips and salsify for midwinter and spring use. Peas of 

 early variety may still make the Christmas table in a favorable 

 locality. Beans, eggplant, and tomatoes are still sown for early 

 crop in frostless places. 



NOVEMBER. 



Still plant for succession. Peas, lettuce, radishes, cabbage, 

 onions, beets, spinach, salsify, turnips. The coast valleys are now 

 usually moist enough to carry all these hardy vegetables without 

 irrigation, for late winter and early spring use. Asparagus roots 

 are in shape for planting. Potatoes, beans, eggplant and to- 

 matoes are planted in frostless places for early crop. 



DECEMBER. 



The higher lands of the interior valley are usually ready for 

 the rainfall garden. Beets, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, lettuce, 

 onions, peas, radishes, spinach and turnips are hardy, though some 

 roots sown at this time will in some places go to seed in the spring 

 instead of enlarging. Potatoes are planted on slopes, well out of 

 hard frosts. In northerly coast valleys the soil is often too cold 

 and wet to make seed sowing wise. In such places the growth gets 

 a poor start. This depends greatly, however, upon the character 

 of the rainy season for that particular year. 



JANUARY. 



On warmer, drier valley lands in regions of light rainfall or 

 on protected hillsides plantings of beets, cabbage, carrots, peas, 

 turnips, lettuce, radishes and onions are usually wise. In colder 



