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be required, and given clean and frequent cultivation. 

 All, with the exception of leeks and potatoes, are 

 given level culture. All will be greatly benefited, 

 when about one-third grown, by a top dressing of 

 nitrate of soda. 



Beet: — Beets do best in a rather light soil. Those 

 for earliest use are started under glass (as described 

 previously) and set out six to seven inches apart in 

 rows a foot apart. 



The first outdoor sowing is made as soon as the 

 soil is ready in spring, and the seed should be put 

 in thick, as not all will come through if bad weather 

 is encountered. When thinning out, the small plants 

 that are removed, tops and roots cooked together, 

 make delicious greens. 



The late crop, for fall and winter use, sow the 

 last part of June. For this crop the larger varieties 

 are used, and on rich soil will need six to eight 

 inches in the row and fifteen inches between rows. 



Carrot: — Carrots also like a soil that is rather on 

 the sandy side, and on account of the depth to which 

 the roots go, it should be deep and fine. The quality 

 will be better if the soil is not too rich. A few for 

 extra early use may be grown in the hotbeds or 

 frame. If radishes and carrots are sown together, 

 in alternating rows six inches apart, the former will 

 be used by the time the carrots need the room, and 

 in this way a single 3 x 6 ft. sash will yield a good 



