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not have head lettuce. It is because the heads are placed too 

 close together. They should be fourteen inches between the 

 rows and eight or mne inches apart in the rows. 



Dandelion : French, thick leaved. Put about a foot apart. 



Radishes: Early, Scarlet Globe. 



Cucumber : White Spine. 



Spinach : Thick leaf. Sow thickly and manure highly. 

 Should get a crop six weeks from the time the seed is sown. 



Beets: Early, Crosby 's Egyptian ; late, Edmands. 

 Parsley : Arlington double curled. Always salable, fine and 



white. 

 Melons : A blight seems to have struck the melons so it is not 



feasible to try to raise them unless you can do it early in the 



season. Millers Cream and Rocky Ford. 

 Peas: Alaska, very early; Gradus, Maud S., General Butler, 



Thomas Law ton. The Gradus is early, has a large pod, is 



sweet and very fine. 

 Corn : Cory, Early Crosby, Golden Dawn. This has not been 



raised very much because people do not understand it. It is 



very sweet, somethmg like Black jNIexican corn. Late corn : 



Moore's Concord, Potter's Excelsior, Stowell's Evergreen. 

 Squashes: Early Summer, Hubbard, Early Prolific. 

 String Beans : Davis, Kidney, Wax (some years these have 



black spots), Wardwell. 

 Shell Beans: Horticultural, Goddard's Bush. 

 Cabbage : Early, Jersey Wakefield ; late, Warren Stone Mason. 

 Tomatoes : Some localities prefer pink tomatoes, others red. 



The Imperial is a good pink tomato. 

 Celery : Paris Golden is the leader, not so good as late celery. 

 Late Celery : Giant Pascal, Boston Market is fine. Is not 



grown as much as the Giant Pascal. 

 Carrot : Danvers Half Long. 



For celery select any soil that will raise a good crop of corn. 

 Do not have a dry hard soil but one that is rich and loamy. It 

 is not an easy crop to raise. The seed is sometimes sowed in 

 the field. This takes more seed and we cannot always be sure 

 that the seed thus sowed will come. If part is sowed and 



