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late showers quite certain. Tender plants are out of serious dan- 

 ger except in especially frosty places. Beans can be confidently 

 planted. Peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, sweet potatoes and other 

 growths started under cover can be brought to the open ground. 

 Corn, melons and squashes can be safely planted as field crops. 

 The season's race is well along in its last quarter, and heat and 

 drought have already made hay and are ripening the grain. 



MAY. 



Everything for which there can be assured ample moisture 

 can still be planted in the moderate heat of the coast regions, but 

 it is late for shallow-rooting plants to take hold in the interior heat, 

 even with irrigation. Heat-loving plants, like watermelons, corn, 

 sweet potatoes, etc., will grow grandly with moisture enough. On 

 the coast, Lima beans, sugar beets for late crop, corn and roots for 

 fall use will do well if well cultivated. All planting now which is 

 well taken care of will carry its verdure and its crop to refresh the 

 grower in the midst of the dry season. It is a time to seek and use 

 moist land or to count on soon employing the fullest irrigation 

 facilities the place affords. 



JUNE. 



June completes the garden year. It is the last chance to plant, 

 and it is useless to plant at all except on land moist naturally or 

 by irrigation. It is the last chance to get a second crop on land 

 which has given produce. In the garden clear up all that has 

 matured of the winter plantings, irrigate well, plow and quickly 

 fine the surface and put in beans, beets, cabbage plants, corn, melons, 

 potatoes, squash, tomato plants, and a succession of small truck, 

 and be sure that they do not lack moisture, or their courses will be 

 short and unprofitable. 



TABULAR SHOWINGS OF TIMES OF PLANTING. 



To afford the reader a condensed view of the facts noted in 

 the foregoing suggestions for the months, tabular showings are 

 prepared. These are not made from theoretical generalizations, 

 but are prepared from records of actual practice which the writer 



