SWEET POTATO. 



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the summer varieties are used green. They are usually 

 planted eight or nine feet apart, in hills prepared in the 

 usual way. These squashes are great feeders, and for 

 the best results the soil should be well enriched, besides 

 the special manuring in the hills, as the vines throw out 

 roots at every joint to assist in feeding and maturing the 

 heavy crop they usually bear. The popular varieties are 



Fig 1 . 100. — SQUASH — MABBLEHEAD. 



Hubbard, Marblehead, Yokohama, and Winter Crook- 

 neck. Most of the winter varieties, if kept in a drv at- 

 mosphere at a temperature from forty to fifty degrees, 

 will keep until May. A garret room in a mocleratelv well 

 heated dwelling house, will often be a very suitable place 

 for storing them. 



SWEET POTATO. {Ipomaea Batatas,) 



It is useless to attempt to grow the Sweet Potato on 

 anything but a light and dry soil. On clayey soils the 

 plant not only grows poorly, but the potatoes raised upon 

 such soil are watery, and poorly flavored. The plants 

 are raised by laying the roots on their sides on a hot-bed 

 or bench of a greenhouse, and covering them over with 



