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fodder or silo should be planted in rows from 

 twenty- four to thirty inches apart. Soja beans 

 need rows 2V2 feet apart; about eight beans to 

 every foot. Plant the main or winter crop of 

 potatoes. 



Garden. Plant dahlia and gladiola bulbs. 

 Most of the seedlings which can be reared in the 

 house or hotbed can be planted out by the 15th, 

 and large plants which have been wintered in 

 the house can follow suit by the end of the 

 month. It is better to leave the plants in the 

 pots, and submerge to the brim in the soil. The 

 following seeds can be sown in the open ground : 

 Mignonette, phlox, petunias, nasturtiums, bal- 

 sams, castor beans, wild cucumber, hyacinth 

 beans. 



Put a heavy mulch of clean straw or lawn 

 clippings between the plants in the strawberry 

 beds. 



Bed out egg-plants, peppers and tomatoes 

 after the 15th. The sods containing cucum- 

 ber and melon can also go into the open ground. 

 Cucumber, okra, sweet corn, melon and squash 



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