HOW, WHEN, AND WHEBE TO SOW 'SEEDS. 



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this time the season has advanced in its temperature and 

 the seeds duly vegetate. Every farmer knows that, in 

 this latitude, he can sow Oats or Wheat in March or April, 

 but that 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. 

 The temperature best fitted for the germination of seeds 

 of the leading kinds, will be best understood by the tabu- 

 lar form given below. 



It will be understood that these dates refer only to the 

 latitude of New York, farther South, operations should be 

 begun earlier, farther North, later. So much for the time 

 of sowing ; I will now refer to suitable soil and the man 

 ner of sowing. 



THE CHOICE OF SOIL, when choice can be made, is of 



great importance, the best being a light soil, composed 



of leaf mold, sand, and loam; the next substitute for 



leaf mold being well decayed stable manure, or better 



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