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taker and Alsa Craig; for best keepers, Red Wethersfield, 

 Yellow Globe Danvers and Southport White Globe; Parsley, 

 Moss Curled; Parsnip, American Hollow Crown; Peas, Alaska, 

 earliest of all peas, but very poor quality; New York Market 

 is a good early pea, but sow Gradus at the same time. Make 

 three sowings in the month, using one or two rows of New York, 

 Marshall or Nott's Excelsior, and the balance all Gradus, a 

 pea you will never tire of. Potatoes, For early use, Bovee, 

 very free bearer, or Noroton Beauty; for main crop use Carman. 

 No. 3, Green Mountain, or Uncle Sam. Radish, Ne Plus 

 Ultra or French Breakfast. Salsify, Mammoth Sandwich 

 Island. Spinach, Viroflay and Victoria, and, towards the end 

 of the month, sow a row of New Zealand for summer use. 



If you have absolutely no room for coldframes 

 or hotbeds and have no early-sown cabbage plants, 

 you can make a sowing of this vegetable about 

 April i, and at the same time one of cauliflower and 

 Brussels sprout seeds. 



Celery can now be sown outdoors for the late or 

 main crop and will follow up the early lot which 

 was started in February. 



Get your potatoes in now. You do not gain any- 

 thing by putting off such jobs. As suggested last 

 month, cut your seed to one eye and plant about 

 twelve to fourteen inches apart in the row. 



Corn. If I were you, I'd try a few hills of some 

 early corn, say Golden Bantam. Maybe there will 

 be no more frost, and you can be having sweet corn 

 while your neighbor is dreaming about it. Now 

 is the time to prepare melon hills. Use a liberal 

 amount of manure, and if you can procure some 

 fresh sod, it is a good plan to mix it with the manure, 

 using two-thirds sod and one-third manure. Dig 

 holes two feet deep and three feet across and fill 

 them with the compost, raising the hills a few inches 



