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standard kind, the " Improved White Spined," 

 can be planted and covered with glass. With 

 this artificial heat they will come forward very 

 rapidly, and if kept well aired and watered, will 

 give a fine and early yield. Some hasten the 

 crop very much, by placing a small box covered 

 with four panes of glass over the hills in the 

 open garden. Plants so protected can be started 

 by the middle of April. 



The curious reader has doubtless failed to see, 

 thus far, the bearing of these pages on the sug- 

 gestive Indian word " Succotash," with which I 

 commenced this chapter. This has been on the 

 good old principle, that we try to save the best 

 till the last. It is probably known, that this 

 savory dish which crowns our dinner tables in 

 July and August, is a relic of the red-man ; and 

 it is the one Indian antiquity that I am specially 

 interested in. The vanished tribes will never be 

 forgotten while corn and beans grow, and this 



