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the plants should be thinned out to six or eight inches 

 apart. The last, not producing such large leaves, should be 

 thinned out to four or five inches apart. It is also slower 

 in running to seed than the Flanders. 



SWASH, 



Squash seeds should be sown in May or June, in hills, as 

 directed for cucumbers and melons, their after culture 

 being the same. The bush sorts should be sown in hills 

 three or four feet apart; the running sorts in hills six to 

 ten feet apart, according to the nature of their growth. 

 Five or six seeds should be sown hi each hill, and care be 

 had to keep off the striped bug ; after the plants are past 

 danger they may be thinned out to two or three plants in 

 a hill. 



For early use the White and the Yellow Scalloped Bush 

 varieties, with the Summer Bush crook-necked, are the 

 best. For late summer, autumn and winter use, the Boston 

 Marrow, the Turban or Acorn, the Yokohama and the 

 Httbbard are the best, the latter keeping into the late 

 spring. 



In keeping winter squashes, it is absolutely necessary 

 that they should "be kept from cold or dampness, and the 

 flower end should never be set under, as they soon decay 

 when this is not exposed to the air. 



SWEET POTATO. 



The sweet potato requires a light, warm, rich soil; in 

 heavy soils it does not succeed. In this latitude it is prop- 

 agated by planting the tubers, in April, in a moderate 

 hot-bed. The tubers, uncut, should be placed three or 

 four inches apart, with two or three inches of sand or soil 

 under them, and covered with three inches of light, rich 



