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It can be grown so as to be fit for the table in August or 

 September, but it is scarcely desirable to do so, as it is 

 seldom wanted at that season of the year, and is not gen- 

 erally as good as that which comes in later in the season. 

 We shall confine ourselves to giving directions for grow- 

 ing the dwarf varieties as a late crop, they being much 

 easier to grow and fully equal for family use to the larger 

 growing sorts. 



In the beginning of April, or as soon as the soil will work 

 freely, in an airy spot not exposed to great heat, prepare 

 a seed bed, the soil of which should be well pulverized 

 and enriched with decomposed stable manure, raking it 

 smoothly. Draw drills eight or nine inches apart and 

 half an inch deep, and in them sow the seed rather 

 thinly. After sowing, roll the bed, or with a board press 

 the soil firmly about the seeds. When they are two or 

 three inches high they should be pricked out, four to six 

 inches apart each way, into a nursery-bed of rich earth, in 

 which they may remain for five or six weeks, at which 

 time they will be about seven or eight inches high, and 

 ready to transplant into the regular beds. When pricked 

 out into the nursery bed, they should be watered and 

 lightly shaded for two or three days, and if the weather is 

 dry they should receive frequent and liberal waterings. 



The transplanting into the permanent bed may be done 

 at any tune in the month of July, or even up to the middle 

 of August. There are many ways of preparing these beds, 

 but we only give directions for two such different modes as 

 involve the least labor. 



A bed four to six feet wide, and of any desirable length, 

 should be dug out to a foot in depth, and the soil laid upon 

 the edges of the bed; the bottom is then to be well spaded, 

 and well manured with either short stable or cow manure, 



