SEEDS WHICH SUCCEED 



EXTRA PROFITABLE GARDENING 



Three Crops during one Summer from the 

 same Ground in the Garden 



Certainly an extra profit can be assured to the gardener if he be determined to grow 

 two crops from every foot of land when before only one crop was grown. It can easily be 

 seen that resowing will double the capacity of the garden — perhaps triple it. 



Too many gardens are allowed to grow up in weeds after the first crop is gathered 

 for table, of course this would not be the case if the land were resown for a second crop. 



Why should family gardeners be influenced by the practice of past ages which was after 

 the general crop was matured to give everything up to weeds and disorder. 



Why! in England and France a third crop is often obtained, not because the climatic 

 conditions are more profitable but because the gardeners are more persistent workers, and 

 when three crops are obtained the pursuit of gardening is elevated to a profession, whether 

 the work be pursued on a fifty acre tract or a small garden patch no larger than the floor 

 space of an ordinary room. 



True no garden vegetables grow with the same rapidity in the mid-summer or late 

 autumn as plants of the same nature grow in April, May and June, but in the summer and 

 autumn-months there yet remains time to make crops if the Seeds be sown thinly, or after 

 sprouting thinned out so that each plant can properly develop quickly. Of course trans- 

 planting must be avoided as it results in a loss of time. 



In the middle Atlantic States the principal garden vegetables which can be sown in 

 mid-summer to develop to table size during the autumn months are named below, each 

 family requiring about the number of days attached to it but differing in accordance with 

 variety of each family. This table is for the Middle Atlantic States. 



Peas 45 to 50 days 1 



Beet 45 to 50 days 



Cucumber ...55 to 80 days 



Lettuce 40 to 45 days 



Carrot 55 to 70 days 



Endive 45 to 50 days 



Radish.. 25 to 35 days 



Parsley 50 to 55 days 



Kale 50 to 65 days 



Parsnip 55 to 70 days. 



In addition to this list there are many other families which can be successfully grown 

 during the late summer and autumn months. 



It will be observed that Garden Seeds should not be planted at random as to quality, 

 but also as to time of Maturity for table, early ripening sorts generally give the greatest 

 satisfaction. 



To indicate how three crops can be grown in the Middle Atlantic States we will take 

 Extra Early Peas which might be sown 1st of April and picked in 45 days or the 15th of 

 May. 



These might be followed by other Beets, Endive and Spinach which would be fit for 

 table in 45 days or by the 1st of July. 



These might be followed July 10th by other sowing of Kale, Lettuce, Turnips, Beets 

 and Radish which would be fit for the table in 45 days or about the 20th of August, cer- 

 tainly 1st of September. 



These showing how three crops could quite easily be taken off the same ground, pro- 

 vided the gardener be active and intelligent. 



Of course south of the latitude of Washington there will be greater time to spare, 

 possibly enough for a fourth crop — try it — the weeds prove it — they flourish everywhere. 



From date of sowing according to variety when the 

 same or some other sort of vegetables can be grown 

 in the same piece of ground. 



D. LANDRETH SEED COMPANY 



BRISTOL, PENNSYLVANIA 



For Express charges paid by customer, or small seeds Postage paid by us, see page B. 



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