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ishes, autumn lettuce and celery. Early carrots by 

 autumn spinach, kale, turnips, winter radishes. Sum- 

 mer squash by kale, turnip, winter radishes. Cucumber 

 by autumn spinach, turnip and winter radishes. Early 

 beets by spinach, kale, turnips and winter radishes. 

 Early sugar corn by a second crop of the same kind or 

 by autumn spinach, beans, tomatoes, celery. 



There are some late maturing varieties of garden 

 plants which seldom afford the cultivator an opportunity 

 to sow anything else as a succession ; among these are 

 late sugar corns, parsley, parsnip, leek, pumpkin, mel- 

 ons, winter squarsh, tomatoes, okra and peppers. 



THINNING OUT. 



It takes a determined conviction of necessity to thin 

 out young plants in the vegetable or flower garden., that 

 they may have full space to properly extend their growth. 

 Among vegetables of large leaf development, as cabbage, 

 lettuce, spinach and parsley, the space necessary for 

 growth without crowding, may be found by marking 

 round the plant a circle on the ground equal to the 

 diameter of a fully developed specimen, and those plants 

 with large roots, such as beets, radish and turnip, must 

 be allowed room in proportion to their usual size. 



Do not hesitate to thin out, no matter how sturdy 

 and attractive the plants may be, for the plant which 

 crowds another is simply a weed. This thinning should 

 be done before the plants be drawn or elongated in their 

 stems or leaves, or they will ever afterward show the 

 injurious effects of crowding. It may be done by cut- 

 ting out with a hoe or knife of those plants which are 

 not needed elsewhere, or, if considered worth transplant- 

 ing, they should be carefully dug up, that the finer roots 

 be preserved. No vegetable or flower will properly 

 develop if crowded ; certainly one symmetrical plant is 

 worth a dozen sickly ones, not only for market, but 

 in effect. 



