6 ' THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



dens. It now should be broken up very 

 deep with a plough. Then cover your 

 beds well with manure from the stable, 

 and break it up again. Where the stable 

 has been well and regularly replenished 

 with leaves, the manure is much the best ; 

 and the reason is obvious, because it is 

 not so burning to vegetables. Cabbage 

 plants should be transplanted as early in 

 March as possible. Early York cabbage 

 should be planted two feet apart each way 

 in rows. Drumhead, or Mountain White, 

 should be planted at least three feet apart; 

 as soon as they commence growing, they 

 should be neatly ploughed. This I do 

 by hitching in a strong hand to a small 

 plough stock, with a small scoop (or 

 scooter) on it ; they then should be neatly 

 hoed over. The garden should be ploughed 

 and hoed at least every two weeks, and 

 suffer neither weeds, grass nor pursley, to 

 infest your cabbage. For late cabbage, 

 the seed should be sown about the middle 

 of June. 



English peas should be planted in Jan- 

 uary or the first of February, in rows 

 about three and a half feet apart, and in 

 the drill from ten to twelve inches apart. 

 As soon as they are up, plough and hoe 

 them neatly. When they are about six 

 inches high, they should have a stick by 

 the side of every hill. To ensure a good 

 stand, there should be planted four or five 

 peas in every hill, cover them about one 

 inch deep, and when properly up, thin 

 them to two stalks. These peas make a 

 fine show early in the spring, but if we 

 wish to -have the benefit of peas, plant the 

 bunch or dwarf pea in the same manner. 

 Attend them well with the plough and 

 hoe, and they will yield more abundantly. 



Peppers should be sown on the first of 

 April, in drills. When properly up, thin 

 to stand about ten or twelve inches apart, 

 leaving one or two stalks in a place. 



Mustard, for winter use, may be sowed 

 in the latter part of August, or the first 

 of September, in drills, about eighteen 

 inches apart, covered very lightly. The 

 bed on which it is sown, should previously 

 be made very rich. As soon as it is up, 

 thin it out so as to -let every plant have 

 three or four inches space between them. 



For spring use, it may be sown in the 

 same manner in January or February. It 

 should be hoed and kept clean. 



Lettuce may be sowed in the last of 

 December, or first of January, in drills 

 twelve or fifteen inches apart. As soon 

 as it takes a good start to grow, thin it 

 out to stand two or three inches apart, 

 minding, as you use it, to keep thinning 

 it regularly ; it should also be hoed and 

 kept free from weeds or grass. This bed 

 should also be very rich. 



Beets should be sown in February or 

 the first of March, in a rich, sandy soil, 

 in rows, or drills, eighteen inches apart. 

 The seed may be planted in the drills, ten 

 or twelve inches apart, and three or four 

 in a place ; after the plants are well up, 

 thin them to one stalk, or plant, and at- 

 tend well with plough and hoe. After 

 they have arrived to perfection, in the fall 

 they may be banked like potatoes, and 

 preserved all winter. Transplanting of 

 beets does not answer well. 



Beans, bush or bunch beans may be 

 planted in the last of March, in a rich, 

 sandy soil, in some part of the garden 

 that will shelter them from the north wind, 

 and give them the sun in the early part 

 of the day. If it should be likely to frost, 

 cover them at night. They may also be 

 planted about the full moon in April, and 

 for a succession of crops on to the 4th of 

 July, or even later. They may be drilled 

 in rows two feet apart, and after they are 

 well up, thin to two stalks, eighteen or 

 twenty inches apart. Stick (or pole) 

 •beans may be planted from the middle of 

 April to July in the same manner as the 

 others, except that they should have more 

 distance, say two feet one way and three 

 and a half the other. Have your land 

 well manured, and attend well with plough 

 and hoe. As good seed is of the greatest 

 importance, the stalks you allow to save 

 your seed from, should never a bean be 

 plucked from,. till they are perfectly ripe; 

 then gather, shell them out, and dry them 

 properly in the sun, then put them up in 

 a small bag with some tobacco or snuff, 

 and hang them where they can have the 

 air : the tobacco preserves them from the 

 bug in a great measure. The seed should 



