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drills fifteen inches to two feet apart. If it be desired to 

 make seed, thin out to one foot apart in the row and 

 cultivate. The young leaves make healthful and palata- 

 ble greens. 



NASTURTIUM. (Tropceolum minus and T. majus.) 



Plant in May ; lay off rows two feet apart, one inch 

 deep in which drop the seed about one to two inches 

 apart ; cover lightly, keep clean. Gather the seed pods 

 while young and succulent, and pickle and iise as capers. 

 Very pretty bloomer. The tall kind should be provided 

 with brush or other support to climb upon. 

 OKRA. (Hibiscus esculentus. ) 



This is one of the finest, most nutritious and health- 

 ful of all vegetables ; strictly a southern plant ; easily 

 grown on any kind of soil. Plant in April or May. Lay 

 off rows four feet apart, two inches deep. Soak the seed 

 in sweet milk or water twenty-four hours ; drop three or 

 four in a hill, three feet apart. When up, thin to one 

 plant to a hill ; cultivate nicely. The pods are used 

 when young and tender for thickening soups, etc. They 

 are also delicious when boiled and seasoned with butter, 

 pepper and salt, or boiled and then fried brown in sweet 

 fat. The pods are also cut and dried, and used during 

 the winter for soups. Okra and tomatoes make beyond 

 all question the finest vegetable soup known to the cook 

 book. There ought to be a great demand for dried Okra 

 in sections where it cannot be grown. 



ONION. (Allium Cepa.) 



There need be no more difficulty in making a crop of 

 onions than a crop of potatoes. I will, however, notify 

 you in advance that your ground must be rich. Manure 

 without stint. Apply from twenty-five to one hundred 

 two-horse wagon loads of stable manure, or 1000 to 2000 

 pounds of ammoniated superphosphate per acre. The 

 land should be deeply and finely plowed. It is well to 



