PREPARING FOR WINTER QUARTERS. 2 09 



freshened and prepared for the table, you can 

 scarcely tell them in February and March from 

 those just picked. 



In some places they would also find a ready 

 sale in the fall, though out of season. We find 

 the limas full of green but well-filled pods. 

 One slight frost would spoil them all, but if 

 picked before it, and spread thin on the garret 

 floor, they will make one of our best winter 

 vegetables. We will give the late cabbage and 

 cauliflower one more good hoeing, and pull out 

 any that are diseased. The carrots should be 

 taken up before the ground begins to freeze, 

 and the squashes gathered before the frost 

 touches them. The celery is growing fast now, 

 the cool weather just suiting it, and therefore 

 every few days it should be well earthed up so 

 that the blanching process may go on with the 

 growth. Select a few well-loaded tomato- 

 vines and egg-plants in some sheltered place, 

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