134 MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY 



this lot is used as a chicken park, but we have 

 several plum trees of bearing age planted in it. 



" As we grow considerable fruit, much of the 

 garden is permanent, but all the vegetables used in 

 the family are grown, with the exception of winter 

 potatoes. Lettuce, radishes, and onions are planted 

 early, a second and sometimes a third planting 

 being made of the first two. As soon as the 

 ground can be worked peas are planted, and as 

 none but those which are planted early are a suc- 

 cess here, we plant in this way: Three varieties, 

 an early, a medium, and a late sort, are planted at 

 the same time, thus furnishing a succession for a 

 long time. If the season is cold and backward we 

 sometimes make another planting a few weeks 

 later, using only an early sort. 



" Seed of onion, parsnip, carrot, beet, squash, 

 sweet pumpkin, water and muskmelon, string and 

 shell beans and cucumbers are planted in their sea- 

 son, while tomato, cabbage, celery, cauliflower, and 

 parsley are grown in hotbed and cold frame until 

 proper time to plant them in the garden. Peas are 

 followed by celery, winter radish, late cabbage, and 

 cauliflower, all ground being made to raise two 

 crops, if possible. 



" Sweet corn is planted like peas, three varieties 

 being planted as early in the season as possible, two 

 later plantings being made of two varieties each, 

 and when the strawberry bed is done fruiting it is 

 plowed under and planted to any early variety of 

 corn. The plan furnishes us with sweet corn for 

 the table from July 20 till killing frost, which is 

 due here about October 15. 



" Last season the latest corn was planted July 7, 

 and was ready for use in ten weeks, the last of it 

 being frozen on the stalks just before the middle 



