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if put in while the soil is still cold and wet; 

 but in light, sandy soil the danger is not great. 

 In any soil, take the risk. 



Peas are cranky; they can stand hot weather 

 only if their roots can go way down where the 

 soil is cool and damp. If you can thoroughly 

 soak these roots twice a week in dry weather, 

 you need not worry about the crop. In regions 

 where August is apt to be cooler and rainier 

 than June and July, a July sowing of early 

 varieties often gives gratifying results. 



THE SPINACH PROBLEM SOLVED AT LAST 



Too many Americans say they do not like 

 carrots and beets. They don't know what they 

 are talking about; for when the right kinds, 

 baby size, are placed before them they say, 

 **Yum-yum!" and ask for more. Try the 

 Parisian forcing carrots. They are always 

 "small, but, oh my!" As for beets, look not 

 upon them with favor when they are red, but 

 plant the light-pink and whitish Bassano variety, 

 which is not only sweeter and tenderer, but 

 remains edible longer than the reds. Sweeter 

 still are the sugar beets. There is a general 

 impression that these are good only for making 

 sugar or feeding cattle, and most of the seedsmen, 

 who ought to know better, do not offer them at 

 all among the vegetables intended for the table. 

 Try the white Wanzleben sort and you will 

 find it, when young, as tender as the Bassano, 



