The Home Garden 



give it the very best of treatment. Do not let 

 it exhaust itself by overbearing. Pick off all 

 the seed that forms after the first crop, and 

 throw the entire strength of the plant into the 

 perfecting of that. This is the only way in 

 which extra fine seed can be grown by the 

 home gardener. Too many amateurs seem to 

 think that seed is seed, and it does not matter 

 much how you come by it. But they will find, 

 if they continue in the gardening business long, 

 that plants from seed w^hich has not been 

 grown with a view to making it the best of its 

 kind will soon ''run out,'' and give most un- 

 satisfactory results. 



Now is the time to pinch off the ends of the 

 blackberry canes, and induce the production 

 of side branches. 



The earlier varieties of cabbage should be 

 disposed of as soon as they are thoroughly 

 matured, and the ground on which they grew 

 given up to some other crop. 



Set out celery for a late crop. 



As soon as the earlier plantings of celery 

 begin to make upward growth, begin prepara- 

 tions for blanching, either by earthing up about 

 the plants, or by setting boards up each side 



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