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Large Peickly. — Is an excellent variety for fall sowing, 

 being very hardy, yet requiring a light covering of straw where 

 snow cannot be depended upon. The leaves are large and thick, 

 and of excellent quality. 



Flanders. — This variety is highly spoken of by those who 

 have raised it, many giving it the preference over the Large 

 Prickly. It is beKeved to be fully as hardy, and, consequently, 

 equally adapted for wintering over, while the leaves are larger, 

 thicker, and more succulent. It grows quite bushy, and, there- 

 fore, needs to be thinned out to about nine inches apart. 



!New Zealand. — This is botanically quite a different plant 

 from the common Spinach, though for all practical purposes and 

 uses it ranks with it. It needs the same soU and cultivation, 

 except that being a larger plant, it requires more space for its 

 development. Well grown plants measure five and six feet in 

 diameter. Many sow in a seed-bed or in a frame, and afterwards 

 transplant to three feet apart each way. In deep and rich soil it 

 grows with great luxuriance, especially in hot weather. The 

 leaves can be gathered and used as they grow, and if not kept 

 too closely cropped, each plant will continue to yield its leaves 

 all summer long. It is very easily grown and very productive, 

 but win not withstand frost. 



TOMATO. 



Ifot very many years ago, the Tomato was occasionally seen 

 ia village gardens, under the name of Love Apple, cultivated on 

 account of its beauty of appearance, as an ornament merely, but 

 now that it has found its way to our tables, it is grown by every- 

 one who makes any pretensions to keeping a garden, and hundreds 

 of acres in the vicinity of the large towns and cities of America 

 are devoted to its culture. Every farmer residing convenient to 

 market, finds it profitable to grow a proportion of Tomato, and the 

 yield and price rarely fail to be such as to give a fair return for 

 the labor. The earliest ripe Tomatoes brought to market com- 



