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can be grown. under a three by six feet sash, it will repay 

 the labor in such places as this, where protection against 

 the sun is a necessity. 



Collards. Require to be sown about the same date as 

 Spinach, which see. 



Corn, Sweet Corn is a valuable crop in some sections 

 South, to be sold in our Northern markets. It is one of 

 the most tender plants. Thousands of acres are sacri- 

 ficed every season by impatient cultivators, who, deluded 

 by a few warm days in spring, plant too early. No 

 date can be given with safety, only, as a rule, one 

 will be safer to be a little behind his neighbor than 

 before him. If the usual date is the 1st of the month, 

 you will be certain to catch up if you wait until the 4th 

 or 5th, as it is a crop easily checked even by a slight 

 chill. It may be forwarded six or eight days by sow- 

 ing in pieces of sod under sashes, as recommended for 

 Cucumbers. 



Cucumbers, Another "tender" plant, requiring the 

 same conditions for vigorous growth as Sweet Corn. It 

 may be sown on pieces of inverted sod, cut in sections of 

 three or four inches ; these, if placed in frames and cov- 

 ered with the protecting cloth, or better still for this 

 purpose, glass sashes, may be started two weeks sooner 

 than they can be sown outside. In about a month after 

 sowing (if not begun before the temperature would aver- 

 age fifty-five degrees at night), they will have grown two 

 or three inches and have matted the pieces of sod full of 

 roots ; the temperature now should be ten degrees higher, 

 and they may then be set in the open field and will give 

 a crop at least a week earlier, which will well repay the 

 extra labor. 



Egff Plant, The same rules may be applied to this, 

 remembering, however, that this is an extra "tender" 

 plant, and at least five degrees higher will be necessary. 



