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strong, heavy lauds, approaching to a stiff clay, are 

 most suitable lor it. Tlie soil is prepared in the 

 same manner as for turnips. 



To drill in the seed as for turnips would require 

 4 lbs. per acre; and as the seed is costly, the usual 

 plan in England has been to sow a well prepared 

 seed bed at the side of the field in March, and keep 

 the bed free from weeds by hand hoeing till the 

 young plants have attained a size 

 sufficient for transplanting, which 

 is when they are six inches high. By 

 the middle of May, they are trans- 

 planted into rows in the field, three 

 feet apart, and with an interval of 

 from twelve to twenty inches be- 

 tween each plant. If rain follows the 

 transplanting, it cannot fail of suc- 

 cess ; but if dry weatlier ensues, the 

 I)lants will flag some, and perhaps a 

 few be lost, which can be replaced 

 from the seed bed. By this method, 

 only half a pound of seed is required 

 per acre. In our climate, the opera- 

 tions of sowing and transplanting may 

 take plaice a month or six weeks later, 

 according to the exigencies of the sea- 

 son. It would probably cost more 

 to transplant here than in England, 

 where labor is cheap; but it is not 

 after all so very expensive an opera- 

 tion as might be supposed, as it is 

 found that four women will easily 

 plant out an acre per day; and it 

 must be borne in mind that no fur- 

 ther hoeing or thinning out is re- 

 quired when the plants are trans- 

 planted — all the after cultivation 

 necessary being done with the horse-hoe. It is 

 also said that the bulbs are larger and better when 

 transplanted than when grown in drills like turnips. 

 A little experience will soon demonstrate which 

 phin is best adapted to this country. 



The after cultivation is about the same as for 

 turnips, and consists mainly in frequent stirring 

 of the soil, and keeping it clear and free from 

 weeds. 



The plants arrive at maturity in England in about 

 twenty-five weeks after being transplanted, when 

 they are pulled and stored like turnips, the tops 

 being first removed and given to the cattle. It 

 must not be forgotten that these tops are larger 

 and more valuaJtle than those of turnips for feeding 

 to stock, especially milch cows, in the fall, at the 

 time when pastures are becoming bare. 



A fair average crop of this plant in Scotland is 

 25 tons of bulbs to the acre, and about 8 tons of 

 leaves; though 35 tons is not an uncommon yield 

 in Ireland, and even GO tons have been raised. The 

 Late Green variety, of which we give a cut, is 

 considered the best for general cultivation and pro- 

 ductiveness. 



LATE GREEK EOEL-RABI. 



CoEN NOT Injured by Late Spring Frosts. — 

 Last year a friend of ours in Canada had a five acre 

 field of corn that was well up when the trost of the 

 10th of June came; the plants turned brown and 

 withered from the effects of the frost, and he con- 

 cluded the crop was gone, and that he would plow it 

 up. Going into the field with him next day, we pull- 

 ed up some of the plants, and on unrolling the leaves 

 found the heart of the plant still green, and apparent- 

 ly uninjured. We, persuaded him to let them alone 

 for a week or t^o,. and. instead of plowing them up 

 to run a, eultivator between the rows, "W© afterward 

 learned; from him that, with a ftew exceptions, tlie 

 corn all eame up again, and^tl^at he harvested a very 

 fair crop. Many instances have oocarred where 

 potatoes haye b'een> cut down by fi-o«i in the spring, 

 but which. aft^rw and" produced' ^ good crop. , 



