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HOW TO PLANT. 



Small beds may be established in the garden in a con- 

 venient manner about as follows : After forking in about 

 six inches of well-rotted lot manure, open out three fur- 

 rows, eighteen inches apart, any desired length. Plant 

 one root every eighteen inches in the furrows, and cover 

 the crown six inches deep. The sprouts are cut just below 

 the surface when young and tender. When boiled and but- 

 tered, and peppered, it is perfectly delicious, surpassing 

 the English pea. No one should be without an asparagus 

 bed. Transplant in November, December, and January, 

 the earlier the better. This is a profitable market crop. 

 The plant is perennial. 



BEETS. (Beta vulgaris.) 



Beets require rich soil, mellow and deeply broken, but 

 never use green manure. Lay off 

 row's three feet apart, one to two 

 inches deep. Soak the seed twen- 

 ty-four to thirty-six hours in wa- 

 ter ; drop them so as to average 

 one to every inch ; cover about one 

 inch deep; when up, thj^ to one 

 plant every six to eight inches ; 

 cultivate clean and well. Some 

 check the land off eight inches 

 square, drop two seed in each 

 check, thin to one plant, etc. Plant 

 from February 14th to May, and 

 again in August. 



TURNIP BEET. 



BROCCOLI. (Brassica oleracea, VAR.) 



Sow in seed bed the middle of spring ; when plants are 

 eight to twelve inches high, transplant to open ground 

 in rows four feet apart, and setting the plants two feet 

 apart in the row. Cultivate clean and well ; use when 

 the head forms. Plants may be left out during winter 



