130 THE AMATEURS’ GUIDE 
uninterrupted succession. The first plantings should be made as 
soon as the ground can be worked, and for a regular succession, 
sow at short intervals during the spring and early part of summer. 
PEPPER. 
1. Large Sweet, Bell-shaped. 3. Cayenne, or Long. 
2. Tomato, or Flat. 
Sow late in spring or first of summer, in drills, on a warm bor- 
der, and when up three inches high, thin them to stand eighteen 
inches apart. They may be be sown early in the spring, in a hot- 
bed, and transplanted as soon as frost has*ceased. Nos. 1 and 2 
are principally used for pickling when green. The first is quite 
mild and attains a large size. No. 3 is usually ground, when ripe 
and dried, for table use, though the green pods are also pickled. 
One ounce of seed will produce about three thousand plants. 
POTATO. 
1. Fox’s Seedling. 3. Foxite. 
2. Walnut-leaved. 4. Mercer. 
The best soil for Potatoes is a rich, sandy loam, for they will 
not prosper on stiff, heavy, clayey, or wet soils. From the middle 
‘to the end of spring is the time for planting the general crop; but 
if planted the beginning of spring, a very good crop may be ob- 
tained, without being liable to injury from frost, which frequently 
oceurs with those that are planted earlier. In planting cut Pota- 
toes, take care to have two good eyes in each set. The small 
Potatoes should be deprived of the sprout or nose end, as a redun-- 
dancy of eyes exhaust the set and produce weak plants. The sets 
should not be planted until a week after being cut, in order to 
afford them time to dry. Plant in drills, four or five inches deep, 
and about thirty inches apart. The sets may be dropped six or 
eight inches apart. When uncut Potatoes are used for seed, all 
the eyes but one ought to be scooped out, and should be planted. 
