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to selecting varieties that are adapted to the season in which 

 they are grown ; for instance, one would not want to use' the 

 same variety of sweet corn for the early crop that he would 

 use for the main season crop. 



Seeds should be purchased from a reliable seedsman, one 

 who expects to stay in the business and who has a reputation 

 to maintain. 



Early season and late season plants. There is perhaps no 

 feature in vegetable gardening regarding which more mis- 

 takes are made than the time of planting the various crops. 

 Most people do not realize that the thirty or forty common 

 vegetables which anyone can name in a few minutes were 

 brought here from all parts of the earth, and that we can 

 succeed in growing them here by furnishing them somewhat 

 similar conditions to those under which they originated and 

 developed. Naturally, coming from many widely different 

 climates, each crop has its special temperature and moisture 

 requirements. We recognize this tendency by growing them 

 during a time of the year best suited to their needs, and by 

 planting them in moist or dry locations according to their 

 preferences. Happily, the thirty or forty different vege- 

 tables divide themselves into groups according to the tem- 

 perature and moisture requirements, so that, instead of it 

 being a problem of remembering thirty or forty different 

 cultural methods, we may reduce the number to a very few 

 by dividing the vegetables into groups. 



All vegetables may be divided into two general groups, 

 cool-season and warm-season groups. The cool-season crops 



