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mature fruits and pack them in straw in a cold frame to ripen up. 

 In this way they may be had for several weeks after frost. 



TURNIPS. — Seed for the first crop may be put in as soon as the 

 groimd can be gotten ready in the Spring. As they are at their 

 best for table use only for a short time, it is a good plan to plant an 

 early and a medium or late variety about the first of each month 

 through the season; in July a larger plemting can be made for Winter 

 use. While the tender seedhngs are very small when they first come 

 up, they grow very rapidly, and unless thinning out is done at once, 

 it is likely to give the crop a severe set-back when it is attended to. 

 Freshly manured soO should be avoided, and if there is a spot in the 

 garden which is fight and sandy, it is apt to produce roots of a milder 

 flavor than heavy soil. 



Mammoth Sugar Corn — ^well-developed ears 



VEGETABLE MARROW.— This is another member of the curcubit 

 family, very similar in habit of growth to the Summer Squashes, 

 there being also bush, dwarf and running varieties. It is planted 

 and grown in the same way. The fruits should be used while com- 

 paratively young. 



WATERCRESS. — There may be opportunities for the cultivation 

 of fresh young plants of this deUghtful, pungent, and health 

 giving salad. It deUghts in a slow rimning brook, but may be 

 also cultivated in beds where there is a very slight flow of water. 

 It is easily raised from seeds, but more generally perhaps from 

 cuttings. A bunch of the stems one buys from a green-grocer, 

 stuck in the wet soil, will root readily, and the young tender 

 sprouts from these will furnish the supply throughout the Sununer. 



