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CHAPTER III. 



SliED AND GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTING. 



To make a success of growing vegetables for shipment, 

 you must not only plant the varieties suited to the Florida 

 soil and climate, but you must know the kinds that sell best 

 'On the markets you intend using, and plant accordingly. 

 I have tried to give you all the leading varieties planted 

 for shipping to distant markets, also those for the home 

 garden and local markets. 



Another point that truckers do not pay enough attention 

 rto, is, be sure the seed you wish to plant is suited to this 

 part of the country. Some truckers think if they buy a 

 certain variety of seed that it will give the same results, 

 no matter where the seed is grown, but such is not the 

 ■case. Take, for instance, corn. If we are planting field corn 

 .and should happen to buy seed that is grown in the North 

 or West, we will not get near the results that we would if 

 we had planted .Southern grown stock. But sweet corn is 

 entirely different ; if we want the finest sweet corn, plant 

 Connecticut grown stock. Then, again, take Bermuda onion 

 seed — a great many seed men tell us that California grown 

 Bermuda onion seed is equally as good for planting in this 

 part of the country as the genuine Teneriffe grown stock, 

 but such is not the case, as the California grown seed of this 

 variety will prove a complete failure, but if you wish to plant 

 the Australian Globe, Silver Skin or the Prizetaker, the 

 California grown seed is excellent. If you do not under- 

 stand the seed problem, buy from some good reliable South- 

 ern seed house which does. 



In planting seed always plant about double the amount 

 you think you will need to produce the number of plants it 

 will require to plant your own acreage, for no matter how 



