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Rhubarb. Same date as for Asparagus. 



Turnips. For fall sowing, the Sweet or Strap-leaved 

 kinds of Turnip should be sown from September to Octo- 

 ber, while the Kuta Bagas, requiring a longer time to 

 mature, should be sown a month earlier. For " spring 

 sowing," January to February for the extreme Southern 

 States. 



Spinach. A hardy vegetable, and a valuable crop in 

 many sections of the South. May be sown from Septem- 

 ber to October at Norfolk, Virginia, and from November 

 to December at Charleston or Savannah ; but as it is slow 

 to germinate in dry weather, see what is said in relation 

 to it at page 101, under the head of the " Use of the 

 Feet in Sowing and Planting." At the extreme South 

 Spinach is not much grown, as it does better in such 

 latitudes as Virginia or Delaware. 



Squash. Same as for Cucumber. 



Tomato. A most important vegetable grown at the 

 South for the Northern markets. It is usually set out 

 by first raising the plants under glass, often in hot-beds, 

 when great earliness is desired. The reader is referred 

 to " Construction of Hot-beds," which will be necessary 

 in most sections for the first sowing for the seedling 

 plants. An ordinary three by six feet sash will raise 

 from 1,500 to 2,000 seedling plants. * These if sown, say, 

 February 1st, will be large enough to transplant at three 

 or four inches apart, again under the protection of sashes 

 or of " sashes " of the protecting cloth, until fit to set 

 out in the open field. As it is also a most tender plant, 

 easily hurt by chill, the same rules apply here as for 

 Cucumbers. 



