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planting will be gone, unless it be the onions, and 

 these will not remain long enough to do any harm. 

 When the earlier vegetables are finally re- 

 moved, rake the soil mellow, and mulch the to- 

 mato plants with litter or coarse manure, cover- 

 ing the whole bed four inches deep. This will 

 conserve the moisture, and greatly improve the 

 fruit in both quality and quantity. Twenty-seven 

 plants are required to fill space as in diagram. 

 Better order three dozen plants, and "heel out" 

 the surplus for replacing. Varieties for this 

 planting: Field's Early June, Earliana, Globe, 

 Ponderosa. Other varieties that are good are 

 Livingston's Stone, Bonny Best, Favorite, and 

 Marketeer. For directions in growing extra 

 early tomatoes, staking, mulching, and general 

 cultural directions, see page 72. 



The following ten pages show practical dia- 

 grams and complete detail directions for plant- 

 ing vegetables correctly. 



