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Dates for Sowing or Setting Vegetables, continued. 

 Lettuce ........ About the middle of September. 



Onion ......... About January ist. 



Pea ........... About December ist. 



Potato. ........ The ist of February. 



Radish ........ From Christmas to the last of February. 



Spinach ....... From September loth until October i5th. 



Squash ........ About the last of February up to the middle 



of March. 



Sweet-Potato. . .In cold-frames, about the ist of January. 

 Tomato ........ About January ist. 



Watermelon . . .About the i5th of March. 



a. Tender and Hardy Vegetables. 



Vegetables injured by a slight frost, and which should therefore be 

 planted only after the weather has settled. 



All Beans. Egg-Plant. Pumpkin. 



Corn. All Melons. Squash. 



Cucumber. Okra. Sweet Potato. 



Pepper. Tomato. 



Vegetables which, when properly handled, will endure a frost. 



3. Usual Distances Apart for Planting Fruits. 



Apples ........................... 30 to 40 feet each way. 



" Dwarf ..................... 10 " " " 



Pears ......... .................. 20 " 30 " " " 



" Dwarf. . . 10 " 12 " " ' 



