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for salad. It is orowii under glass the same as lettuce, or in 

 the open ground. 



Most people like to grow their own sweet herbs, peppermint, 

 thyme, sweet inarjorani, summer savory, sage, etc. It takes 

 but a small piece of ground, and they are ever so much better 

 than can be bought at the apothecaries. 



Sweet Corn is a garden vegetable that is eaten by as many 

 people as any vegetable ; and if the variety is good, and it has 

 been well grown, it makes a vegetable that is nutritious and 

 wholesome. As a farmer's son T knew nothing of this superb 

 vegetable, but as a gardener I soon became acquainted with it. 

 We children used to boil and roast field corn, and thought it 

 was good ; it was, and the only green vegetable we had as 

 children. You think I was a child in some heathen land, per- 

 haps? but I was not. My birthplace was in a good farming 

 town in Bennington County, Vermont, and this statement is not 

 more than forty years old. I presume you might find many 

 good farms, next summer, were you to journey forty miles 

 across the country, in any direction from Worcester, where 

 there was not a hill of sweet corn raised, and never had been. 

 I feel proud to state that I raised the first sweet corn, tomatoes, 

 and celery ever grown in my native town, and that I learned 

 how to raise and eat them, in this city, on the farm of Stephen 

 Foster. There are many good varieties of sweet corn, but if I 

 were asked for the best three for early, medium, and late, I 

 should say Crosby's. Plant it once a fortnight, commencing 

 when the apple trees are in bloom, continuing till July 4, and 

 you will have good sweet corn all summer and until frost comes. 

 If you choose, you can dry or can it, and have sweet corn all 

 winter. 



Beans are a sjood vegetable to have, either to go with the 

 corn for succotash, to eat cooked in the pods, as string beans, 

 or boiled and served with cream or butter as a vegetable for the 

 day. If you want a very nice dish in the winter, shell the beans 

 while they are tender and green, then dry them, and you can 

 have it. Canned green beans are better than ripe ones. The 

 wax beans are best for string, and the Horticultural, bush, or 



