FOR THE SOUTHERN ‘STATES. 
and therefore very few are planted for 
shelling purposes. With a little care, 
however, they can be kept, but they 
ought not to be planted before the first 
of August, so that they may ripen when 
the weather gets cooler. When the 
season is favorable leave them out till 
dry; gather the pods and expose them 
a few days to the sun. It is best to shell 
them at once, and after they are shelled 
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put them to air and sun again for a few’ 
days longer. Sacks are better to keep 
them in than barrels and boxes. The 
Red and White Kidney are generally 
the varieties used for drying. Beans 
raised in spring are hard to keep, and if 
intended for seed they should be put up 
in bottles, or in tin boxes, and a little 
camphor sprinkled between them. 
Sweet Potatoes should be planted. 
APRIL. 
Sow Bush, Pole and Lima Beans, 
Sweet Corn, Cucumbers, Squash, Melons 
and Okra ie 
Beets, Carrots, Swiss Chard, Radish, 
Lettuce, Mustard, Endive, Roquette, 
Cress, Parsley, Chervil and Celery for 
cutting. 
Sow Tomatoes, Egg Plants and Pepper 
for succession. It is rather late to sow 
Cabbage seed now, but if sown, the 
early varieties only can be successfully 
used. Kohlrabi can still be sown, but 
it is best to sow it thinly in drills a foot | 
apart, and thin out to four inches in the | 
rows. 
Towards the end of this month a 
sowing of the late Italian Giant Cauli- 
flower can be made. It is very large, 
and takes from eight to nine months 
before it matures, so it has to be sown 
early. It is always best to make a 
couple of sowings, so that in case one 
should fail the other may be used. This 
variety is hardier than the French and 
German kinds. A good plan isto sow 
the seed in boxes, elevated two feet or 
more above the ground, as it will keep 
the cabbage-fly off. The plants should 
be overlooked daily, and all green cab- 
bage worms or other vermin removed, 
Sweet Potato Slips, for early crop, 
can be planted out. Early Irish Pota- 
toes will be fit to dig now,and the ground 
they are taken out of may be planted 
with Corn, Beans, Squash, ete. 
Sow Pumpkins of both kinds, the 
Field and the Cashaw. 
German Millet should be sown this 
month. The ground ought to be well 
plowed and harrowed. Three pecks of 
seed is the quantum to be sown per acre. 
It will be well to roll the ground after 
sowing, and the seed will require no 
other covering. If no roller is handy, 
some brush tied together ought to be 
passed over the ground sown. For hay, 
it should be cut when in flower. Every 
planter should give it a trial. 
MAY. 
Very few varieties of vegetables can 
be sown during this month. Many of 
the winter varieties will not do well if 
sown now. The grounds should now be 
occupied with growing crops. 
Where Potatoes and Onions are taken 
up, Corn, Melons, Cucumbers, Squash 
and Pumpkins may be planted. 
' Nothing of the Cabbage kind, except 
the Creole Cabbage seed, can be sown 
this month. It issupposed to stand the 
heat better than other varieties, but it 
makes only loose heads and runs up to 
seed as early as the end of November. 
Yellow and white summer Radish and 
Endive should be sown. Lettuce re- 
quires much water during hot weather, 
and, if neglected, will become hard and 
tasteless. The Perpignan is: the best 
kind for summer use. Okra can still be 
sown. 
The first sowing of White Solid Celery 
is to be. made this month. The seed 
requires to be shaded, and, if the 
weather is dry, should be regularly 
watered. Late Italian Cauliflower 
should be sown. 
Cow Peas can be planted between the 
