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occupied with spinach; this should bo heavily manured, 

 and may keep the ground until time to plant melons and 

 other vines, when just enough of the ground may be 

 deeply dug to form the melon hills, and the crop will be 

 ready to remove before the melons begin to run. The 

 melon crop may be followed by one of turnips. All such 

 plants as radish, lettuce, and other small salads, need 

 take up no room ; they can, any of them, be raised between 

 the potato beds or drills, or between melon hills, rows of 

 corn, etc., and they will come to perfection before the 

 potato or other crops require the ground. Radishes can 

 be raised between the rows in the beds of all kinds of 

 plants that are slow in coming up, as carrots, parsnips, 

 etc., and will be ready to remove by the time the others 

 come up. 



Any vacant spot that occurs early in summer should be 

 occupied with plantings of extra early or sweet corn, 

 potatoes, beets, kidney beans, for preserving for winter 

 use, and cucumbers for pickling. Those coming later in 

 the season may be occupied by sweet potatoes until July, 

 then corn, cowpeas, or rutabaga turnips. Where the early 

 onions grow, both the alleys and the center of the bed 

 may be planted with late cabbages or Siberian kale 

 before much of the crop is removed. Cabbages will head 

 if the winter sorts be planted as late as the early part of 

 August, and early Vorks put out in September, if in rich, 

 moist ground, and well cultivated. Sweet corn may be 

 planted until August. Still later, every unoccupied cor- 

 ner should be covered with turnips and winter radishes, 

 which may cover nearly the whole garden, being sown in 

 drills between the rows of plants not yet quite ready to 

 be removed. After the frost has come, any vacant spaces 

 should be immediately sown with spinach, onions, and 

 other crops for early spring use, or with barley or rye for 

 the cow. The secret of successful cultivation, says Down- 



