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Tomatoes, Peppers, and Egg Plants, and lie buys again, 

 but this time from another seedsman, warranted honest. 

 He renews his hot-bed it is now a month later, and a 

 bright .March sun, with milder nights, give him the 

 proper temperature in his hot-bed (seventy or eighty de- 

 grees) and his eyes are at last gladdened by the sprout- 

 ing of the troublesome seed. April comes with warm 

 sunshine, inviting him to begin to "make garden" out- 

 side. He has yet the balance of the original lot of seeds 

 that he bought in February. But as he is still entirely 

 befogged about the cause of his failure in the first hot- 

 bed, he begins his open ground operations with little 

 confidence in his seeds, but as he has got them, they may 

 as well be tried. And again he sows, on the same day, his 

 Peas and Lima Beans, Radishes and Pumpkins, Onions 

 and Sweet Corn. Hardy and tender get the same treat- 

 ment. The result must of necessity be the same as it 

 was in the hot-bed ; the hardy seeds duly vegetate, while 

 the tender are of course rotted. This time he is not sur- 

 prised, for he is already convinced that seedsman No. 1 

 is a rascal, and only wonders how any of his seeds grew 

 at all, so he again orders from seedsman No. 2 for the 

 articles that have failed. Here circumstances continue 

 to favor the latter, for by this time the season has ad- 

 vanced in its temperature, and the seeds duly vegetate. 

 Every experienced farmer knows that in this latitude he 

 can sow Oats or Wheat in March or April, but if he 

 sows his Corn or Pumpkins at the same time they will 

 perish ; this he knows, but he may not know that what 

 is true of the crops of the farm, is equally true of the 

 garden. Hence the importance of a knowledge of the 

 season when to sow vegetable seeds or set out plants. 

 A most important case in point occurs just as I write 

 (May loth, 1886). A would-be farmer to whom we sold 

 fifty bushels of Sweet Corn complains that not a seed of 

 the corn which he had planted has grown. He had 



