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WHAT TO GROW (Continue^ 



SWEET CORN 



THIS delicious vegetable should be grown in 

 every garden large enough to give it room. Just 

 gathered from the stalk, it has a delicacy of 

 flavor which the corn obtained in the market 

 never has, unless bought fresh from the grower. 



Sweet corn does best in a soil of sandy loam, 

 highly manured. Work it deeply, that the 

 roots may have a chance to penetrate with 

 ease to a considerable depth. 



Plant in hills three feet apart for the small- 

 growing early sorts, and four feet apart for 

 the tall, strong-growing kinds like Sto well's 

 Evergreen. 



At the north, corn can be planted with 

 safety about the middle of May, but not earlier. 

 In cold, backward seasons, it may be well to 

 defer planting until the twentieth of the month, 

 or even later, as the seed often fails to germi- 

 nate in a cold, wet soil. 



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