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to apply it to the under side of the leaves 

 the liquid insecticide will be found more ef- 

 fective. 



Improved Early ^Miite Spine is a favorite 

 with all who like a crisp, tender-meated, 

 finely flavored cucumber. Ever-bearing is 

 an excellent sort for pickling as well as for 

 use on the table during the fall, as it con- 

 tinues to bear until frost kihs the vines. 



Corn 



Sweet-corn is one of the most delicious of 

 all garden vegetables, and every garden that 

 is large enough to admit of its culture should 

 give place to two or tln^ee varieties of it. 

 Because of its tall growth and the distance 

 requked between rows it is not adapted to 

 cultm^e in the very small garden, though I 

 would willingly go without some of the other 

 vegetables generally grown there in order 

 to give place to a few hills of it. 



Golden Bantam produces ears only four or 

 five inches in length, but what they lack in 

 size they make up for in tenderness and sweet- 

 ness. 



Country Gentleman is a medium variety, 

 very tender, sweet, and juicy. 



But the ideal sweet-corn is Stowell's Ever- 



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