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nips, endive, Brussels sprouts, and the early varieties of corn, 

 carrots, cabbage, and cauliflower. I have put these pretty 

 nearly in the order in which they will be picked. If some of 

 them (lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, onion) are started in 

 frames, and transplanted to the garden, they will finish earlier 

 than if planted in the open ground. Corn and beans are 

 usually spring-sown, Brussels sprouts and endive usually 

 summer-sown. The others may be planted in either spring 

 or fall. Because frosts may come early in the fall is the reason 



why corn and beans, 

 which are tender 

 plants, are seldom 

 sown in summer. 

 The rest are all hardy 

 plants. 



It is worth noticing 

 that, except peas and 

 corn, all these plants 

 are small. Every one 

 of them can be 

 planted in rows 

 eighteen inches apart 

 or less, but the tall 

 peas and dwarf corn should be twice as far apart. From 

 these plants we go to the longer season plants, some of 

 which are likewise small. Onions, grown from seed, late 

 carrots, parsley, and salsify may also stand eighteen inches 

 apart or less. But all the other late vegetables had better 

 be either two feet apart (late cabbage and cauliflower, egg- 

 plant, okra, pepper, parsnip, potato), three feet (pole beans, 

 celery, corn, bush squash, cucumber, tomato) , or four feet or 

 more (squash, marrows, melons). There are, of course, va- 

 riations from this. Celery, started very early, may stand in 



Fig. 97. — Beets yield two vegetables, the 

 greens and the roots. Cook the smallest beets 

 with the greens. 



