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regions, but it is late for shallow-rooting plants to take 

 hold in the interior heat, even with irrigation. Heat-lov- 

 ing 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, po- 

 tatoes, 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 show- 

 ings are prepared. These are not made from theoretical 

 generalizations, but are prepared from records of actual 

 practice which the writer has been collecting for the last 

 30 years. It would be easy to add more data to the tables 

 as inferences from what is laid down, but readers can do 

 that for themselves. It is beyond question, for instance, 

 that a vegetable planted in May and July could also be 

 planted in June, and is no doubt planted in June in actual 

 practice. But to present tables which are actual and not 

 inferential, only affirmative and specific cases are given 

 place. The work of several hundred growers is condensed 

 into these tables. 



Separate showings are made for southern California and 



