172 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



In all closely planted stuff we keep the slide hoes or weed- 

 ers going- often. In all crops we aim to stir the 'surface of 

 soil as soon after rain as practicable. These early cultivations 

 preserve the soil moisture and dry the surface so that many 

 weed seeds never germinate. Some finger weeding has to be 

 done, but it is usually done at time of thinning and is seldom 

 done more than once. 



After a crop of small stuff is taken from between coarse 

 stuff' the ground is thoroughly gone over with plow or culti- 

 vator, or both. Great care and good judgment have to be used 

 so as not to injure the coarse stuff by letting the spinach, rad- 

 ishes, or other fine stuff stay too long, or by trampling the 

 coarse when harvesting the fine. 



M-any gardeners who raise coarse stuff manure in the hill 

 or row. It takes less manure and labor, and where the seed is 

 sowed early is less liable to rot. They cover the manure 

 with a little soil as soon as it is in the row and plant the seed 

 on the soil instead of directly on the manure. 



Early sowed seeds are more lightl_\- covered than those 

 sowed later in the season. 



Many times in the busy season and hottest weather crops 

 of spinach, radishes and beans grow so fast that they get no 

 tillage. 



Radishes will grow in seventeen to twenty-one days 

 spinach in twenty-five to thirty days, lettuce in forty, and 

 beans in thirty-seven days. Corn, sweet varieties, Crosby and 

 Cory, have been picked to sell in sixty days from planting. 

 Where stuff grows so fast it is of the finest quality and costs 

 the least for tillage. 



Harvesting begins as early as May tenth, from spring 

 sown seed, and continues most every day till November fif- 

 teenth or twentieth, when good gardeners expect to have all 

 their crops harvested. Celery, spinach, and cauliflower are the 

 latest to come in. 



In harvesting seme kinds of stuff it is necessary to go 

 over the plot ten to twenty times, taking only those plants 

 which are ready. Lettuce, cauliflowers, cabbages and melons 

 would come in the list. 



