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Cultivated Grasses: This is a good time for growing pasture grasses, 

 which may either be put in with or without a grain crop. Rye grasses 

 hold a leading place in cultivated pastures, but cocksfoot, the clovers, 

 prairie, and other strong growers all deserve a place. Fair results are got 

 at times by chipping the surface soil only, and sowing as the chipping goes 

 on, but the true cultivation is the preferable process to get strong growth 

 of pasture. 



VEGETABLE SUPPLIES FOR WINTER AED SPRING. 



The Home Garden. This may be made a profitable and attractive 

 feature of the homestead in all the departments of agriculture, and in all 

 parts of the country (see pages 244 to 280). The choice is immense. 



Some Good Things Available. We are just entering upon the season to 

 have vegetables in abundance. Where the summer series are backward, 

 including melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, &c., they should be pushed on to 

 maturity as rapidly as possible. We cannot make them grow much after 

 February, so that manuring, either liquid or solid, is not helpful in that 

 direction. But, by using the hoe as freely as circumstances may allow, we 

 can help them along towards ripeness. When the weather is dry, and all 

 the better for our purpose, we stir the surface soil somewhat deeper, to 

 check the surface root action, and so force on as perfect maturity as we 

 are likely to get after this month. Celery claims attention. Advantage 

 should be taken of the first dry days to earth it up ; the soil should not 

 be so moist as to adhere together when earthing, but should be in nice 

 friable condition. Sow peas in any quantity required. Turnip and radish 

 may be sown at intervals, and parsnips sown with the radish, when 

 required ; monthly sowings may be made of spinach and carrots. Small 

 sowings of onions may be made. A few growers also make a so wing about 

 the middle of March for transplanting and growing into full-sized bulbs 

 for early spring, when dry bulbs begin to get scarce and dear. Sow for 

 parsley. Slips of marjoram, winter-savoury, tansy, tarragon, and thyme 

 may be planted. Shallots, garlic, potatoe and tree-onions may be planted, 

 and fresh sowings made of cabbage, cauliflower, and lettuce : while trans- 

 planting is being carried on until the full crops are in the ground. 



Vegetables for Autumn Cropping Artichoke, green globe ; aspa- 

 ngus, giant Dutch, Connover's colossal; broad beans, broad Windsor, 

 green Windsor, green gem, long pod ; beet, blood-red, silver and 

 spinach for the green tops, which are an excellent substitute for spinach ; 

 borecole, dwarf green ; brocoli, early white, white mammoth very 

 hardy, grows to greater perfection in cold localities than the cauliflower ; 

 Brussels sprouts, hardy ; cabbage (early), St. John's Day, early York, 

 augarloaf , ox heart ; medium early, marble head, east Ham, London 

 market, Enfield market, king, Winningstadt ; late, large, drumhead, flat 

 Dutch, Schweinf urt, red drumhead (for pickling), Savoy, large drum- 

 head, green curled ; carrot, sh rthorn, intermediate ; cauliflower, early 

 London, large Asiatic, Stadtholder ; celery, white solid, turnip-rooted, 

 or celeriac ; chervil, curled ; shallots, garlic : kohl rabi or turnip-rooted 

 oabbage ; leek, London flag ; lettuce, drumhead, Neapolitan in cold 

 districts, white cos ; mustard, white ; onion, brown Spanish, brown 

 globe, silverskin ; parsley, triple-curled ; parsnip, hollow crown ; peas, 

 Yorkshire hero, Veitch's perfection, McLean's little gem in cold 

 districts, rising sun, Bedman's imperial, blue Peter, Laxton's supreme 



