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wards ; sow the seed in rich earth, and rake it well 

 and even, in an open situation. 



SOW CABBAGES AND SAVOYS, 



This is the proper time to sow cabbage and savoys 

 tor winter crops, they wdll be lit to transplant in July ; 

 they will hav^e good heads in October, and continue in 

 order for use till next spring. 



ATTENTION TO BEANS IN BLOSSOM, 



Top your small early beans (if you wish to have 

 very earl}'^ crops) as soon as the bottom blossoms be- 

 gin to open. The early mazagan bean may be topped 

 when the stalk is eighteen inches high, and the large 

 sorts when thirty inches high. By topping your beans 

 the pods will siet sooner and swell faster ; the nourish- 

 ment from the root going to the pods, which nourish- 

 ment would go to the tops if not cut off. When beans 

 are ripe, cut them off rather than pull them. 



POTATOES, 



Early this month earth up potatoes that were plant- 

 'ed early in spring. 



ONIONS, 



Keep your onions well weeded ; thin those that 

 stand too close ; leave them standing four or five inches 

 apart, except such as you are thinning daily for use; 

 thp^e may remain close. 



SOW PEAS. 



Continue to sow peas (three or four times this month) 

 \lz, green imperial and dwarf prolific, marrow-fats, 

 Knight's tali honey, hotspurs of various kinds and dwarfs, 

 Earfh up peas that require it as the crops succeed each 

 other, and keep them clear of weeds ; top those that are 

 in blossom (as directed for beans this month) also stick 

 peas that have advanced two ox three inches above 



