HOW, WHEN" AND WHERE TO SOW SEEDS. Ill 



great market of New York, are now excelling our Hud- 

 son County, New Jersey, market gardeners, whose 

 limited areas and high-priced lands do not permit them 

 to use this system of "resting ".their lands by a rotation 

 of grass or clover. I have been so much impressed with 

 the value of this plan, that, as soon as our cold frames have 

 been emptied of Cabbage and Lettuce plants in May, the 

 ground is sown at once with Clover, Millet or Oats it 

 makes little difference which ; this crop is cut off twice 

 or thrice and by September it forms a good sod, which is 

 turned down. It is rotted in thirty days and the land is 

 in the very best possible friable condition for the reception 

 of the cold frame Cabbage, Cauliflower or Lettuce plants, 

 which we begin to plant about the middle of October. 

 Even when only a few weeks can be spared, we fincl it 

 pays to sow the land with some green crop to be plowed 

 in, rather than it should remain bare. 



QUANTITY or SEEDS PER ACRE. The quantities given 

 below are somewhat higher in some kinds than the usual 

 estimates, our experience showing us that in weak vege- 

 tating seeds, such as Parsnips, Carrots, etc., it requires 

 numbers, particularly on stiff soils, to force through 

 plants enough to form a crop. More seed is required 

 when sown during the dry, hot months of summer than 

 if sown in the cooler and moist seasons of spring and 

 fall, hence quantities are regulated accordingly: 



QUANTITY OF SEED REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACBE. 



Asparagus 4 to 5 pounds. 



Beans, Dwarf ...in drills 2 bushels. 



Beans, Pole- in hills - 10 to 12 quarts. 



Beet in drills 5 to 6 pounds. 



Cabbage in beds to transplant '/a pound. 



Carrot .-in drills 3 to 4 pounds. 



Com in hills 8 to 10 quarts. 



Com (for soiling) 3 bushels. 



Cucumber in hills - 2 to 3 pounds. 



Cress, Water in drills 2 to 3 pounds. 



