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and choose for potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and beet, 

 plots that have been well manured this season. If 

 the soil allows of deep digging, fork over the second 

 spit, and if it is of a friable and fertile nature bring 

 it to the top, so as to turn the whole soil over from 

 18 inches to two feet deep. Plant out the early sown 

 cabbage, cauliflower, and brocoli, leaving the weakest 

 in the seed bed for future planting. Plant out lettuce 

 in a warm situation. Take up potatoes when ripe. 

 Spinach must be thinned until the plants are about 

 six inches apart. Earth up celery. Use the fork, 

 spade, and hoe as much as possible to keep all plots 

 clean. Turnips must be thinned in good time. When 

 sown broadcast, the hoe must do the thinning, weed- 

 ing, and loosening of the soil ; but when in drill it is 

 best to thin them by hand, as the hoe always leaves 

 two or three together, fighting for a place, which is 

 an evil. Onions must be housed, and if not dead ripe 

 may be spread in a dry, sunny place. If well dried 

 at once they will keep well, but if stored soft some 

 will rot and some will grow, and all will very soon be 

 worthless. Capsicums and tomatoes that ripen tardily 

 should be exposed to the full influence of the sun, by 

 removing any shoots or loaves that shade them, or 

 they may be cut, with a portion of stem attached, and 

 strung up in any warm, light place. Sow cabbages, 

 cauliflowers, spinach, onions, carrots (early horn), 

 turnips, and other vegetables required for Spring use. 



