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rough, laying this in the north side of the row, one board lying 



at, the other standing upright. A few stones may be placed so 



s to keep the boards from blowing over on the plants. This 



Hows the sun to strike them all day and not the wind. At night, 



urned upside down over the row, they are much better than 



loxes and cans. If the green tomatoes are picked off the last thing 



fefore frost, wrapped in paper and stored in baskets or flat boxes 



not too many together) in a cool, dry place, most of them ripen 



|.s good as southern stock seen in the stores. 



Muskmelons too are not grown as generally as they should be. 

 Small early varieties like the Jenny Lind may be grown succ- 

 essfully quite far north. 



In the growing of any of the melons and cucumbers a little 

 cheme used by and learned from a southern grower for early 



Fig. 373. — Harvesting Snap Beans 



use has been most valuable.* Throw up a ridge about a foot high 

 running east and west, then at a distance of from three to four 

 feet make openings on the south side from the edge. This will 

 be from very shallow at the edge to quite deep at the back of 

 opening. Then take one-half of the seed and soak in tepid water 

 for twenty-four hours, or long enough to start the sprout; mix 

 with dry seed and plant from the edge of opening into back 

 of same and cover. One will then have sprouted seed and that 

 *See article on "Melons" by Charles D. Barton. 



