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generally more satisfactory if not planted until the ground is pretty 

 well dried off. 



It is quite important that beets that are intended for extra early 

 should be well thinned, after which they need but little attention. 

 The standard early beet for this section is the Egyptian, and it is a 

 good beet early in the season, but soon becomes hard and of poor 

 quality. 



For a general purpose beet, there is probably none better than the 

 Edmands ; but that has most too heavy a top and is too much of a 

 beet to be sold for the price they were last summer. They come at a 

 time when the gardeners are not heavily loaded, and are a good 

 vegetable, and perhaps we should consider that we are doing some- 

 thing for the poor. We certainly cannot be doing much for ourselves 

 when we sell good bunch beets for from 20 to 25 cents per dozen. 

 The best winter beets are grown when the seed is planted quite 

 late. From the middle of June to the middle of July should grow 

 them of good quality, and they keep better to be stored before very 

 hard freezing. 



The Egg Plant is a vegetable that, while there is very little demand 

 for them in our market, are worthy of abetter standing, as they make 

 a very nice dish when well served, and are quite easily grown, but the 

 people here have not got used to them yet. They are started and 

 grown about the same as tomatoes. 



There is hardly a vegetable that is more universally grown by both 

 large and small gardeners than the tomato, and while the season of 

 the fresh fruit is not a long one, it is very extensively used during its 

 season. One of the reasons for its general use is that it is easily 

 grown and usually gives a good crop. They are one of the vegetables 

 that will grow on most any soil and are not generally subject to 

 disease, although there are one or two diseases that are occasionally 

 (juite destructive to them. For a very early crop they may be set on 

 dry land that is not rich and set quite close (2x3 ft.), but where tlie 

 land is in good heart and moist, four or five feet apart each way will 

 be close enough. Thei'e are three types of tomatoes extensively 

 advertised, but only one in general cultivation here. They are 

 represented by the Atlantic Prize for extra early. Acme and Perfec- 

 tion for general crop, and Ponderosa — very large. There are a 

 good many varieties of each of those types, especially the Acme 

 and Perfection, and there may be some improvements on them 

 which were some of the first of this class. 

 Of all the late crops in the vegetable garden celery is king, and since 



