PRACTICAL GARDENING 



tivate when the soil is wet, but never fail to 

 cultivate when the soil is friable after a rain. 



Hardy Vegetables. For a small garden, 

 buy plants free from disease, thrifty, stocky 

 and true to name. Plant out cabbage (Early 

 Jersey Wakefield), cauliflower (Early Snow- 

 ball), lettuce (Big Boston or Early May 

 King) , celery ( Golden Self -Blanching) , 

 Brussels sprouts (Long Island Improved). 

 Keep a succession of plantings of peas every 

 two weeks. As the season advances, plant the 

 pea seed deeper, from one to four inches. 



Various Crops. Feed the parsley liquid 

 manure and cultivate regularly. Don't pick 

 off all the leaves and expect a good growth. 

 Sow carrots and parsnips in a deep soil ; beets, 

 turnips and radish as catch crops between rows 

 of celery or late cabbage. Transplant onions 

 from the coldframes into muck soil enriched 

 with horse manure. Plant on cloudy days. 

 Cut, but never pull, the seed-stalks from rhu- 

 barb later in the season. In pulling out the 

 seed stalk, the heart is injured. Feed rhubarb 



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