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INDIAN CORN. 

 MAIS. Zea mayz. 

 VARIETIES. 



larly Button. 

 Early Tuscarora. 

 Early Canadian. 

 Sweet, or Sugar. 



j Cobbet's Early Norrnandy. 

 Southern Horsetooth. 

 Earlv Golden Sioux 

 Mottled, and Curious Pearl. 



THF, different varieties of Early Corn intended for boiling 

 when young, or others as curiosities, may be planted in the 

 garden the last week in April, or early in May, in hills four 

 feet apart, or in drills. If some of each esteemed variety be 

 planted in separate beds at the same time, they will come in 

 for the table one after the other in regular succession. After 

 this, if any particular variety be preferred, it may be planted 

 at different plantings in the months of May and June. If 

 the ground be poor, mix a shovelful of old manure with the 

 earth in each hill before the seeds are planted, and after the 

 plants are up strong, scatter a tea-cup full of wood ashes 

 around each hill. This, with attentive hoeing and hilling, 

 will cause it to produce eats early. Deep digging between 

 the hills is very beneficial when the corn is about eighteen 

 inches high. 



JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE. 



POM ME DE TERRE. Heliantlius tuberosum. 

 THIS plant is a native of America* The tubers of the 

 root which are generally abundant, were, before potatoes 

 became improved by cultivation, in great esteem, and are 

 yet considered a fine flavoured and nutritious food, when 

 boiled and mashed with butter. They may be easily propa- 

 gated by cutting the roots into sets, with two eyes in each, 

 and planting them in the same manner as potatoes, in 

 March and April. To have them in perfection, they should 

 be hoed frequently, and the ground kept loose around them, 

 In digging them for use, care should be taken to gather them 

 t)ut clean, as the least particle being left will grow the year 

 following, and encumber the ground, without producing a 

 crop worth standing. 



