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of September for spring use: or sow in drills eight or 

 ten inches apart, and hoe and keep clean. When the 

 winter has fairly set in, the plants must be covered with 

 straw, salt hay, or cedar brush : they will bear the frost 

 of an ordinary winter without protection; but by covering 

 them, an earlier and better crop is obtained. 



SQUASH — Giraumon, 



"The Early Bush Squashes are best for garden cul- 

 ture, and their produce is allowed to be equal in quality 

 to the running kinds. The Vegetable Marrow is also 

 well deserving of cultivation. The seeds of these may 

 be planted early in May, in hills four or five feet apart. 

 The Running Squash may be planted at the same time 

 and in the same manner as pumpkins; and the manage- 

 ment of these various kinds of vines is the same in every 

 respect as cucumbers and melons. It is always best to 

 put five or six seeds in a hill, as a guard against acci- 

 dents. When the plants are past danger, they can be 

 thinned to two or three in a hill." 



The fruit of the early or summer sorts are unfit for 

 use when ripe ; and the winter sorts cannot be used till 

 they are ripe. 



SALSIFY, OR VEGETABLE OYSTER Satsifis OU CerClfis. 



Sow early in April, an inch deep, in drills twelve 

 inches apart. When the plants are two or three inches 

 high, they should be thinned to the distance of six 

 inches from each other, and afterwards hoed. The 

 ground should be kept clean and loose round the 

 plants, by repeated hoeings; and in the autumn they 

 will be fit for use. The roots may be taken up late in 

 the fall, and secured in moist sand from the air; or be 

 suffered to remain out, and dug up when wanted. 



STRAWBERRY — Fragaria, 

 There are many varieties, and the number is con- 

 stantly increasing by crossing and cultivation. 



