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season to mature in are : Long Blood Beets, Egg Plants, Water- 

 melons, Onions, Pejypers, Winter Squash and Tomatoes. Other 

 vegetables mature more quickly; for example: String Beans, 50 

 to 60 days ; Lettuce, Turnip Beets, Summer Squash and XurnijJS, 

 in about 65 days. Corn, Early Cabbage and Caulifloicer require 

 somewhat more time, while Badishes can be grown in about one- 

 half the time. By starting many vegetables in the hotbed or cold 

 frame, and growing them in trays, pots, tin cans, old strawberry 

 boxes, etc., and thus beiug ready to set the partially grown plant 

 in its permanent quarters, much time can be saved and thus an 



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extra crop obtained. Lettuce, Cabbages, Beets, Onions, Musk- 

 melons, Cauliflower and Celery, during a large portion of their 

 period of development can be confined to a limited space and 

 then finally transplanted to their permanent places to mature. 

 By so doing we not only get more crops off a given area, but we 

 are able to keep the soil in better condition for the plants them- 

 selves. As soon as one crop is taken out, the soil should be put 

 in fine condition for the next plants to go in. Weeds are largely 

 eliminated by this practice. 



VII. Varieties. — It is not an easy matter to say just which one 

 or two varieties are the best vegetables to plant, when there are 

 upwards of a hundred or more varieties of each kind. In offering 



