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potatoes and onions, stowing away those intended to 

 be kept, and shipping the others ; if rain, plant slips 

 and peas ; trench the fruit vines. 



Arrowroot. — Clean and transplant, if too thick. 



Irish Potatoes should be all taken up, and others 

 put away, to keep or to be shipped. If they lie in 

 the ground long after they are ripe, they will not be 

 fit to eat. 



Onions should be all taken up ; those not shipped 

 should be put up in bunches and hung in a dry 

 place ; they will keep till October quite sound, and 

 then fetch a good price. 



Sweet potatoes. — Plant the slips fifteen or eighteen 

 inches apart, to give them room to grow. 



Pumpkins. — Trench and manure the vines as they 

 run, pick off the tip end of the slip when about two 

 yards long. 



Peas. — ^Plant bird's-eye peas for a full crop in 

 waste land. This is a valuable but neglected crop, 

 as they can be planted in any soil, will yield a good 

 return in peas, which will sell readily, give abun- 

 dance of fodder for cattle, and employ ground which 

 would otherwise be full of weeds. 



Melons. — Clean the vines, as the fi-uit will begin to 

 ripen. Do not plant cucumbers and melons in the 

 same land, or the bees will spoil both. 



