140 MAKING HORTICULTURE PAY 



from any real expectation of its being a success. 

 Some of my neighbors laughed when they saw me 

 after July 4 sowing seed which they believed 

 should have been put in the ground by the middle 

 of May. My results were far better than I an- 

 ticipated, and in the future I shall be able to get 

 more from a certain plot of ground than ever be- 

 fore, for, in many instances, a succession of crops 

 will keep the ground working from early spring 

 until the frosts come. 



" Among the vegetables I planted in the summer 

 were corn, squashes, parsnips, lettuce, wax beans, 

 bush limas, parsley, cucumbers, radishes, endive, 

 spinach, tomatoes, and beets. The corn used was 

 Early Crosby, the seed being dropped July 4, with 

 a liberal amount of hen manure for a pusher. The 

 exceedingly dry summer affected the growth, as it 

 did that of all the vegetables, so I was forced to 

 water the 25 hills planted. This began to bear 

 about September 15, the last mess of some 20 ears 

 being picked October 13, after frost had killed 

 nearly all the other garden truck. 



" Two kinds of squashes were planted July 5, 

 the Summer Crookneck and Hubbard. The former 

 did well, escaping most of the ravages of the squash 

 beetle, but the winter squash did not make a good 

 size, the largest being about 9 inches in diameter. 

 The parsnips remained in the ground yet to be 

 dug in the spring. In this section the season is 

 not long enough from July to make a very 

 large growth. Lettuce was sown all through the 

 summer, Denver Market, Black-Seeded Simpson, 

 and Tennis Ball, Hanson and Boston varieties being 

 used. A cold frame was placed over the late plants 

 and I had some fine heads for Christmas. 



