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the middle. Pinch that short ofF. Let them stand in this bed till your 

 cucumbers sown in the natural ground come up ; then make some little 

 holes in good rich land, and, taking a pot at a time, turn out the ball, 

 and fix it in the hole. These plants will bear a month sooner than thosf 

 sown in the natural ground. 



Carrot. — For the cultivation of the carrot, see article Carrot in 

 The Farm. 



Corn. — Early corn is so delicious a vegetable that it should by all 

 means have a- place in every good kitchen-garden. Its cultivation is, 

 however, so easy and so well understood, that special directions ibr it 

 need not here be given. 



Egg-Plant,— Sow in April, on a warm border where they are to re- 

 main ; or transplant in June during moist weather. Plant in rows two 

 feet apart, and two feet from planfto plant. The seed will keep three 

 or four years. Sow valentine-beans between the rows. 



Select the fruit when at maturity ; cut it into slices, and parboil it in 

 a stew-pan; when softened, drain off the water; it may then be fried 

 in batter made with wheaten flour and an egg, or in fresh butter, with 

 bread grated fine and seasoned before it is put in the pan, with pepper, 

 salt, thyme, and such other herbs as may best suit the palate. Some use 

 marjoram, summer savory, parsley, onion, etc. 



Endive, — Sow the seed in April, in drills half an inch deep, and about 

 eighteen inches apart; thin out the plants to six or eight inches in the 

 row. The plant produces beautiful blue flowers, and is worthy of a 

 place in the flower-garden. The roots, when dried, roasted as coffee, 

 and ground, may be mixed in the proportion of two ounces of the 

 powder to a pound of coffee. 



lettuce. — Varieties : large green-head, Dutch, or cabbage, tennis-ball, 

 or rose, Madeira, or passion, large green curled, loco-foco — these are 

 hardy kinds : early Silesia, imperial, or sugar-loal^ pale-green, or butter, 

 grand admiral, large summer Silegia, and Paris loaf-coss. 



The first six of the above varieties have been tested, and are known 

 to stand our winter. They may be sown from the first to the middle of 

 September; covered with straw as the cold weather sets in, and, trans- 

 planted into a warm border as early as possible in the spring, will pro- 

 duce fine heads early in June. 



All kinds of lettuce intended for heading should be"^lanted in good 

 ground, twelve inches distant from each other every way ; the plants 

 slfould be carefully hoed every other week during their growth ; the "first 

 hoeing should beione in about two weeks after they are transplanted. 



The coss-lettuce requires to be blanched ; this is done by gathering 

 up the leaves of the plants and tying bass round them, when grown to 

 perfection. 



Melon. — Varieties : green-fleshed citron, Murray's pine-apple, grcen- 

 fleshed Persian, green-fleshed nutmeg, large yellow cantaloupe, pome- 

 granate, or mnsk-scented, Skillraan's fine netted, snake (curious). 



For the varietiesof the musk or cantaloupe melons, prepare a piece of 

 rich ground early in May ; manure it and give it a good digging ; then 

 mark it out into squares of six feet every way ; at the angle of each 

 square, dig a hole twelve inches deep and eighteen over, into which put 



