86 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



In the spring radishes are often sown broadcast upon land, 

 and afterward beets or parsneps are -sown in rows, or early 

 cabbage-plants are set out at the proper distances for those 

 crops. In due time the radishes are pulled, and the land left 

 to the remaining crop, which then receives the ordinary cul- 

 ture. See also EARLY POTATOES and POLE BEANS, page 171. 



Other combinations occur, as fancy or the variety of crops to 

 be raised may dictate. In raising root-crops on a large scale, 

 combination may sometimes be wise and profitable, as where 

 either carrots, or beets, or parsneps are raised together with 

 onions. The onions being sown at the very opening of spring 

 in drills three feet apart, after they have been weeded and 

 thinned say early in June the spaces are plowed, and two 

 rows of either of the other articles named are sown at eight- 

 een inches apart in the intervals ; and the onions being gath- 

 ered in August, the roots last sown are cultivated in the usual 

 manner, and may yield from two to four hundred bushels per 

 acre. 



In any combination of crops, it must not be forgotten that 

 the labor is generally increased, and, unless in land of extraor- 

 dinary richness, and with special care in the cultivation, each 

 crop will afford much less than a medium yield. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



Transplanting of fibrous-rooted vegetables is one of the most 

 important operations of the garden. 



It is sometimes assumed by writers on the subject of culture 

 that it is highly expedient, if it be practicable, to sow all seeds 

 where the plants are intended to mature, and that to transplant 

 is not only additional labor, but a disadvantage to the crop. 

 This may be true of tap-rooted plants, as beets, carrots, &c., 

 because they can not well be removed entire and replanted in 

 their natural position ; but in reference to those which are 

 fibrous-rooted, the very opposite of these conclusions will be 

 found correct in practice. The labor of keeping in order an 

 acre of cabbages sown in the hills for the first month after sow- 

 ing will be found much greater than its thorough preparation 

 for the crop while the plants are left for that period in the 



