XIV 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



April, 1907 



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filling out gaps by transplanting, which is un- 

 necessary work if thick sowing is practiced. 

 After scattering the seed, sift fine earth over it 

 to the depth of about a quarter of an inch for 

 seeds of ordinary size, and less for very fine 

 seed. Then press it down well with a smooth 

 board. This is easily and rapidly done by lay- 

 ing the board, which ought to be about six 

 inches wide and six or eight feet long, length- 

 wise the row, and stamping on it. This will 

 make the soil compact enough to retain all 

 the moisture needed to insure germination. 



If you have a garden cultivator with a seed- 

 sowing attachment, or a garden drill, hand- 

 sowing can be dispensed with wholly. Seed- 

 sowers can be adjusted to fit seeds of all sizes, 

 and an attachment for covering the seed can 

 be adjusted to do this work satisfactorily, so 

 that one trip along the row is all that is 

 needed to complete the work. 



Wherever possible have the rows run north 

 and south. This gives the sun a chance to 

 get at each side of them more evenly than 

 where they run east and west. 



Such plants as melons, cucumbers, and early 

 squashes can not be transplanted as easily as 

 most other vegetable seedlings. It is a good 

 plan to put the seeds in blocks of turf, if you 

 start them in the hotbed. These blocks can be 

 removed to the cold frame without disturbing 

 the plants growing in them, and later they can 

 be placed in the garden without giving the 

 seedlings any check. Cut the blocks of even size, 

 so that they can be disposed of compactly in 

 liotbed and cold frame. 



I am often asked what varieties of vegeta- 

 bles to grow. Desirable new varieties are 

 constantly being introduced, but among the 

 old stand-bys are several which have not been 

 improved on for a good many years. They 

 have held their own against all newcomers, 

 and the chances are that they will continue to 

 do so for a long time to come, for it is hard 

 to see how some of them can be improved on. 

 Here is a good list: Sweet corn, white cory for 

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 later. Cabbage, Jersey Wakefield for early. 

 Stone IMason for late. Carrot, Danver's orange, 

 cauliflower, early snowball, and late Algiers. 

 Celery, golden self-blanching, early, white 

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 white spine, lettuce, white cos, and cabbage, 

 onions, Danver's yellow and white Portugal, 

 or silver skin. Peas, early, Gradus and 

 Thomas Sexton ; late, champion of England. 

 Radish, scarlet globe, white turnip, and French 

 breakfast. Parsnip, hallow crown. Squash, 

 early, bush crookneck, late, hubbard ; tomato, 

 imperial, early; trophy late. 



Peas should be planted as early in the season 

 as possible. To grow this most delicious vege- 

 table well, it is very necessary that it should 

 be given an early start, that it may develop 

 its roots before hot weather comes. Late 

 sown peas seldom amount to much, because 

 hot weather prevents their forming strong roots 

 without which the plants are unable to stand 

 the ordeal of summer. The seed should be 

 covered deeply, that the roots of the plants may 

 form far enough below the surface to be rea- 

 sonably sure of plenty of moisture at all times. 

 Shallow-sown peas, with defective root-devel- 

 opment, seldom produce half a crop. They 

 will not do this unless the season is a most 

 favorable one. It pays to plant early, and 

 cover well, and give the vines of all climbing 

 \ arieties a good support. 



Pansies for early flowering must be started 

 early in the season. Sow in the hotbed, and 

 transplant the seedlings to coldframe or open 

 ground as soon as they have made their second 

 or third set of leaves. Or they can be sown in 

 shallow boxes, and kept in them until the time 



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