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parts about four inches long, and the main 

 stick two or three. Point the ends of the 

 forks and peg down the branch at an easy 

 angle from the bush. Draw the earth up 

 round the fork, and about the first week in 

 August the branch can be severed from the 

 bush close to the peg, and an individual 

 plant will be the result. 



As the green beans, peas, summer cab- 

 bage, lettuce, etc., ripen and are consumed, 

 clean out the vines, cultivate, enrich, and 

 replant the ground. Winter cabbage, fall 

 spinach, celery, leeks and Brussels-sprouts 

 all the foregoing are gross feeders and 

 demand heavy fertilizing with well-rotted 

 stable manure. Leeks stand six inches apart 

 in the rows; Brussels-sprouts, a foot. Cel- 

 ery rows should be four feet apart to allow 

 space for the deep "earthing up" later in 

 the season. When setting out celery plants 

 great care must be taken to spread root- 

 lets, but only the root must be buried, for 

 if the heart of the plant is covered, it will 



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