THE CAMPAIGN IN SEPTEMBER. 189 



"Bother all this!" growls some practical 

 reader, " I want you to tell me how to plant 

 spinach." 



And so my sentiment becomes sandwiched 

 between an onion and spinach-bed. The inter- 

 ruption has thoroughly clipped my wings, and 

 the rest of the chapter shall be satisfactory even 

 to old Money Bags himself. 



Spinach should be sown from the 1st to the 

 1 5th of this month, and in our latitude I should 

 have the best expectations from seed put in the 

 ground during the first week. Plants that have 

 had time to attain good size, with strong long 

 roots, winter over the best ; and where you can 

 commence selling a good crop in April it is very 

 profitable. No great skill is required to raise 

 spinach. Richness of soil is the main necessity 

 for either a summer or winter crop. Like all 

 vegetables grown for their foliage, it must make 

 a rapid growth to be good. Therefore it sue- 



