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Se el ee ES — 
Southern Prolific Pole Beans may be planted during this month. 
Continue to set out Sweet Potato Vines. . 
Sow Yellow and White Suinmer Radish, sow Endive for salad; this 
is raised more easily than the Lettuce. ; 
Lettuce can be sown, but it requires more care than most people 
are willing to bestow. Soak the seeds for half an hour in water, take 
them out and put them in a piece of cloth and place in a cool spot, un- 
der the cistern, or if convenient, in an ice-box. Keep the cloth moist, 
and in two or three days the seeds will sprout. Then sow them; best 
to do so in the evening, and give a watering. 
If the seed is sown without being sprouted, ants will be likely to 
carry it away before it can germinate, and the seedsman:be blamed for 
selling seed that did not grow. This sprouting: has to be done from 
May to September, depending upon the weather. Should the weather 
be moist and cool in the fall it can be dispensed with. Some sow late 
Cabbage for winter crop in this month, saying that the plants are easier 
raised during this than the two following months. I consider this month 
too soon; plants will become too hard and long-legged before they can 
be planted out. 
This is the last month to sow the Late Italian Cauliflower ; towards 
the end, the Early Italian Giant Cauliflower can be sown. Some culti- 
vators transplant them, when large enough, at once into the open 
ground; others plant them first into flowerpots and transplant them 
into the ground later. If transplanted at this time, they will require 
to be shaded for a few days, till they commence to grow. | 
Sow Tomatoes for late crop during the latter part of this month. 
JULY. 
Plant Pole Beans; also Bush Beans towards the end of the month. 
Sow Tomatoes in the early part for the last crop. ~Some Corn for roast- 
ing ears may still be planted. Cucumbers can be planted for pickling. 
Early Giant Cauliiower can be sown. Sow Endive, Lettuce, Yellow 
and White summer Radish. Where the ground is new, some Turnips 
and Ruta Bagas can be sown. Cabbage should be commenced with 
after the 15th of this month; Superior Flat Dutch, Improved Drum- 
head, St. Denis, or Bonneuil and Brunswick are the leading kinds. 
It is hard to say which is the best time to sow, as our seasons differ so 
much—some seasons we get frost early, other seasons not before Jan- 
uary. Cabbage is most easily hurt by frost when itis half grown; 
when the plants are small, or when they are headed up, frost does not 
hurt much. It is always good to make two or three sowings. Asa 
general thing, plants raised from July and August sown seed give the 
most satisfaction ; they are almost certain to head. September, in my 
experience, is the most ticklish month ; asthe seed sown in that month 
is generally only half grown when we have some frosts, and therefore 
more liable to be hurt. But there are exceptions; five years ago the 
seed sown in September turned out best. Seed sown at the end of 
October and during November generally give good results. November 
is the proper month to sow for shipping. The surest way to sow is in 
a cold frame to protect the plants from frosts which sometimes occur 
in December and January. January and early part of February is 
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