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Carrots are of great value, both to be used in soups and as a 

 vegetable. For early use French Forcing, while for late sorts 

 Chantenay and Danvers Halflong are good. Parsnips are a root 

 crop that need a long season to grow, but are very useful as a winter 

 vegetable. Salsify is too seldom grown, but it will be found one of 

 the best of vegetables for fall and winter use, having when cooked 

 that peculiar flavor of its own, which gives it the name of vegetable 

 oyster. 



It is hardly necessary to mention turnips, and yet it is often a hard 

 matter to get a good tasting turnip either for summer use or for 

 winter, when the Rutabagas, or Swedish turnips, are much used as 

 vegetables. 



Spinach is much used as greens and may be planted for one of the 

 early vegetables or for late fall and winter use. The New Zealand 

 variety is much used by some people for the dry summer season. 



Eggplants are one of our best summer vegetables, requiring warm 

 weather to bring them to perfection. They should be started under 

 glass, like tomatoes. The most serviceable variety is New York 

 Improved Purple. It is a stronger grower and will produce more 

 fruits than some others. 



Peppers should be started under glass about the same time as 

 eggplant. 



Okra is a useful vegetable for soups. Plant for summer use, 

 and, if the pods are kept cut ofP, a succession will be kept up on the 

 plants till frost. 



Leeks may be planted for use in soups or as a vegetable. To 

 get good sized they may be transplanted, as recommended for the 

 onions. 



Summer squash may be put in at more than one planting. The 

 Crookneck varieties are perhaps the best. Other varieties of squash 

 may be planted, if room will permit. 



Muskmelons, if they can be grown free from disease, should not 

 be forgotten. There is such a difference as regards the quality of 

 these in various locations that experience is the only teacher of 

 which varieties to plant. 



Watermelons do not ripen early enough in this locality. 



I do not think you would wish me to forget the potato, and, if 

 you have room to grow any, take for varieties those that are of a 



