March, 1909 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDEN v 
you can get the very essence of plant food. I 
have yet to find a better sort for everybody’s 
sowing than the Mignonnette. This is a won- 
derful little hard-heading sort, growing with 
speed, and very sweet. Another capital kind 
is the Hansen, and another the Golden Queen. 
The largest head that I have seen, measuring 
seven or eight inches in diameter through the 
solid part, is the Marblehead Mammoth... The 
May King is a very early sort that gives good 
heads without much special care, and it is a 
good sort for growing in your cold frame for 
late use. 
After the lettuce is cared for, and just as 
early as the soil is friable, put in peas and 
potatoes. I do not believe that one person in 
fifty, even in the country, knows what our 
very best peas are. They go on growing the 
old marrowfats, and many farmers have only 
the field peas. JI wish they would try for 
earliest the Gradus, and with that the Thomas 
Laxton. For a second early the Senator is a 
grand advance, and British Wonder is an- 
other. They are so sweet that you may 
imagine them to have been supplied with sugar 
in the cooking. The Hero is a large-podded 
sort with big peas, and the quality is beyond 
criticism. I used to get from Mr. Gregory 
A No. 1 and Mayflower, but I do not find 
them any longer on the market. “They were 
remarkable for thin skins and sweetness. Now 
let me suggest (1) that you select varieties 
that grow from two to three feet high, and do 
not need bushing. Unless your ground is just 
right the very dwarf sorts are liable to dry up 
and give you no satisfaction. ‘The tall ones 
need too much bushing. (2) Select at least 
three sorts that will come on in succession. 
(3) Make your sowings from early in April 
until the first of June—so as to make succes- 
sion for at least three months. (4) Sow your 
peas in trenches about four or five inches deep, 
and cover with friable soil mixed with com- 
post. Peas are good eaters. (5) Buy your 
seed wholesale, that is, select a first-class dealer 
and stay by him year after year. It will cost 
you about half as much for your seed when he 
puts you on his list of wholesale dealers. I 
advise you also to experiment with one or two 
new varieties each year. 
Potatoes for home use should go in just as 
early as the soil will permit. For early po- 
tatoes I know nothing better than Bliss’s 
Triumph. In Florida they will hardly grow 
anything else. It starts quickly and ripens 
quickly; is a bright red in color; and the 
quality is good, but not the best. A good deal 
better potato is Norton Beauty; this is very 
productive and very early, and the flavor is 
nearly as good as the State of Maine, which 
is saying a good deal. “This last named va- 
riety is to my notion the very ideal. It gives 
big crops, and the potato bursts open just 
enough, in cooking, to make you dream of the 
richness inside. Close after this put Gold 
Coin, and you will have all you want—a 
vigorous, productive, handsome, and most ex- 
cellent sort. All of these will do well in the 
garden, but the last two are the prime sorts 
for field planting. Do not hill up your po- 
tatoes, but run your cultivator, and keep the 
soil loose. 
About the first of May I plant my corn 
and my beans, sometimes a little sooner. Both 
of these are liable to catch a frost; if so, I have 
retained seed to plant over again. I find it 
better to run the risk, because three seasons 
out of four I will gain ten days in my supply. 
Of corns, I experiment with the best adver- 
tised sorts, and sometimes get something extra 
good; but I rely upon my own cross-breds for 
main supply. I created these by crossing the 
Black Mexican with the Henderson and the 
Evergreen. The result is large ears of black 
and white corn of the most delicious quality. 
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