3(J4 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



Turnip are sold off, and the ground plowed for the 

 second crop (except in the cases of Asparagus and Rhu- 

 barb), by the end of the month. For private gardens 

 (or in special cases for local markets), succession crops 

 of Beets, Bush Beans, Cabbages, Cucumbers, Lettuce, 

 Peas, Radishes and Potatoes may still be planted, but, 

 as a rule, it would hardly I profitable for market pur- 

 poses, as it would occupy he jand wanted by the mar- 

 ket gardener for his se -rop, besides the market 

 buyer of the cities will 1 : touch a vegetable or fruit 

 behind its season at ; rice. He will pay ten cents 

 per bunch for Ra '...'. m May, and will pass by a far 

 better article of t. .>..-ne kind in July or August, 

 though offered at ont-ufth the price. He will give fifty 

 cents per quart for Tomatoes (half-ripe), in June, that 

 he could not be induced to touch in October, if he could 

 buy them at twenty-five cents per bushel. 



The Cucumbers, planted in cold frames and forcing- 

 pits, are also marketable in the latter part of this month. 

 Great care must be taken to have amdantly 



watered in dry weather ; inattention t^ "ring (par- 

 ticularly of all vegetables under glass), is sure to entail 

 loss on the cultivator, by giving an imperf r partial 

 crop. Watering had better be done in the ev?ning, 

 unless chilly, whenever the surface appears dry, net 

 by a mere sprinkling, but by a thorough soaking ret 

 less than a gallon to every square yard of surface. As 

 soon as the Cucumbers are all cut from the frames, the 

 sashes should be piled up at the ends of each section and 

 covered with a shutter, and a weight of some kind put 

 on the top, to prevent these from being blown off by 

 high winds. 



JULY. The remaining part of the spring crops a>'e 

 cleared off in the early days of this month, and by the 

 middle of it, unless the season is unusually dry, all the 

 ground is planted with the second crops of Celery, Sage, 



