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so recommend the use of brush. Every garden 
should have at least three plantings of peas. 
Those in this space should be the latest, may 
be put in six weeks after the first, and should 
be planted an inch or a trifle more deep. The 
earlier ones need only to be covered with the 
soil. I approve of putting the seeds not more 
than half an inch apart in the shallow trench 
made for them. 
In the next two-foot space plant beans, to 
be used early as string beans. At intervals of 
a foot apart in sowing, you may leave spaces 
of six inches in which to sow mignonette 
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The next two-foot space is for a second 
crop of beans, sown from two to three weeks 
after the first. 
Then come two three-foot spaces planned 
for two plantings of two rows each of peas. 
The very earliest, planted as soon as the 
ground can be worked, I would put in the 
outer of these spaces. “The peas ought to be 
ready early in June. “They can then have 
their places taken by the last planting of sweet 
corn. 
The remaining seven feet of space may well 
be devoted to corn, the earliest (Early Cory) 
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it can no longer be cultivated, between the 
hills, seeds of Hubbard or. Boston Marrow 
squashes may be planted. They will be well 
started while the corn is maturing, and after 
that is picked the stalks should be removed and 
the squashes given all the space in which to 
spread. ‘They can lie till October. 
Along this extreme edge of the garden I 
suggest that dahlia bulbs be set. They will 
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