Planting Table for Vegetables and Plants 
I give the following planting table as a guide for my customers. 
Be careful to watch the depth; this is very important. Seed sown too deep or not deep enough may mean the failure of that 
seed to germinate properly. For instance — if the soil is wet and cold in the spring, and you get the Corn just a trifle deeper than it 
should be. it will rot in the ground and fail to grow. The same is true of Lima Beans and the tender-podded Yellow Beans. Don't 
get the seed too deep. 
V'ariety 
Asparagus Seed 
Asparagus Plants. . . 
Bean, Dwarf, Yellow- 
and Green-Podded 
Bean, Lima — 
Pole 
Buph 
Beet 
Blackberry Plants 
Cabbage and CauU' 
flower Plants 
Carrot 
Celery Plants 
Corn, Sweet 
Cucumber 
Currant and Goose- 
berry Plants 
Eggplant Plants 
Lettuce 
Melon, Musk 
Melon, Water 
Onion Seed 
Parsley (takes about 4 
weeks for seed to 
start) 
Parsnip 
Pepper Plants 
Peas 
Potato 
Radish 
Rhubarb Plants 
Raspberry Plants 
Spinach 
Squash; Pumpkin. . . 
Strawberry Plants. . . 
Tomato Plants . 
For horse cultivation 
have rows 
2l< ft. apart 
4 ft. apart 
2^3 ft. apart 
4 X 4 ft. apart 
2>^ X ft. apart 
2}i ft. apart 
8 ft. apart 
ft. apart 
ft. apart 
3-4 ft. apart 
4 ft. apart 
5 X 5 or 6 X 4 ft. apart 
5 X 5 ft. apart 
2I2 X 2'yi ft. apart 
2>j ft. apart 
6 X 4 ft. apart 
8 X 8 ft. apart 
2^2 ft. apart 
2M ft. apart 
2'/3 ft. apart 
2^2 ft. apart 
3-4 ft. apart 
3 ft. apart 
2^2 ft. apart 
4 ft. apart 
6 ft. apart 
2K ft. apart 
8x8 ft. (Bush Squash 
4x4 ft.) 
4 ft. apart 
4 X 4 ft. apart 
For hoe or wheel- 
hoe cultivation 
have rows 
r ft. apart 
3 ft- apart 
I ft. apart 
3 X 3 ft. apart 
i'.^ ft. apart 
I ft. apart 
6 ft. apart 
ft. apart 
1 ft, apart 
2 ft. apart 
2 ft. apart 
Same, or in rows 
5 ft. apart 
5 X 4 ft. apart 
2x2 ft. apart 
r ft. apart, or sow 
all over small 
beds 
Same 
Same 
12-1$ in. apart 
I ft. apart 
I ft. apart 
ft. apart 
1 ft. apart 
2-2^2 ft. apart 
I ft. apart 
3 ft. apart 
5 ft. apart 
I ft. apart 
Same 
3 ft. apart 
2-3 ft. apart 
Distance apart in the 
row 
3 in., transplant in i 
year 
2 ft. 
Thin to 4 in. 
Thin to 4 plants to a 
pole 
Thin to 6 inches 
Thin to 4 in. 
2 ft. 
16-24 in. 
Thin to 4 in. 
6 in. 
8-12 in. 
Scatter 15 seeds in 
hill; thin out later 
Thin to 6-10 in. 
Scatter 15 seeds in hill: 
thin out later 
Thin to 4 in. 
Thin to 6 in. 
Thin to 4 in. 
15 in. 
Continuous row 
12-18 in. 
Thin to 3 in. 
3 ft. 
Red, 2 ft. 
Black. 2K ft. 
Thin to s in. 
2-3 ft. 
Depth to 
cover 
Time to make first 
planting in Pa. out- 
doors. (See footnote.) 
I in. 
March-April 
5 or 6 in. 
March-April 
2 in. 
May lo-is 
May 20—25 
I in. 
I in. 
May 
March-April 
April; 
Jiin. 
2 in. 
yAn. 
Early kinds, April; late 
kinds, June 
March- April 
Early crop. May; late 
crop, early July 
First sowing.early May 
May 15 
VAn. 
April; or in the fall 
March-April 
>3in. 
May IS 
>iin. 
May is-20 
March-April 
Min. 
3 in. 
4 in. 
lAn. 
2 or 3 in. 
Early April 
March-April 
June 1 
March- April 
Early , M arc h-A pr i 1 ; 
late, May-June 
March- April 
March- April 
Early spring 
I in. 
|jin. 
March-April (or fall) 
May 15-20 
Have crown 
level with 
ground 
April (Pot-grown 
plants in August.) 
May 25-June I 
Note — Planting-timc vanes according to season and locality; dates given above are only approximate, and are based on the 
latitude of Pennsylvania; allow about five days' difference for each lOO miles north or south of this state. Do not work soil in 
sprnig while it is very wet and soggy; wait. Plants set in autumn must be well mulched with strawy manure leaves etc. during 
the first vvinter. Successional jilantings of Corn, Peas, Beans, Beets, Lettuce, Radish, etc., may be made right along during the 
summer after the dates given for the first planting. 
To Successfully Produce Any Crop, the Following are Positively Necessary 
1st. — Seeds ol Unquestionable Quality. This means 
seeds that will positively grow — the vitality of which has been 
proven by the seedsman whose reputation for integrity is so 
firmly established, that when he tells you he has tested the 
seeds and that they will grow perfectly you ktum because A« 
says that it is so. Growing tests of all my seeds are made and 
they will grow. 
2d. — Intelligence. A child, a tree, a plant, a calf, a colt, 
any form of life must be "mothered" in its infancy. A plant 
must be "born." must have its infancy, must be "mothered." 
Therefore intelliRcnce must be used to grow any crop of plants 
successfully. There is a proper and an improper way to prepare 
the soil, a proper and an impro[)pr time to sow the seed and the 
way to sow it; there is a right depth to cover the seed depending 
on the moisture m the soil and the warmth of the sun at the time 
the seed is sown, and there is a wrong depth. You cannot care- 
lessly dig the soil, hurriedly sow the seed, be too busy to cul- 
tivate, weed and care for the plants and expect those seeas to 
produce the valuable crop of perfect vegetables tliat it is pos- 
sible for them to produce and that tlicy will produce if inlelli- 
genl care and attention are given from the preparation of the 
soil to the gathering of the crops. Plan and care for your gar- 
den inti'ilitiently. 
8d.— Feeding and What Food to Use. Plants must be 
fed just as surely as any other form of life — some "starve" to 
death, others are "overfed." It is important ami necessary 
that the plants he fllrni.slied through t lie feeding processes of the 
soil, the proper kind of food (or fertili.!er) in the proper way, 
at the proper time. The nearer you follow nature the greater 
will be your success. Manures are nature's best plant food. 
.^11 crops flourish wiiere it is used in abundance. Lime should 
be used to keep the soil sweet. Chicken manure must be 
used very cautiously, in small quantities and for certain crops. 
Slieep. cow. and iiorse manure are all good. Wizard Brand 
Pulverized Sheep Manure is the most valuable for all crops. 
It is in fine pulverized form and can readily be worked in any 
soil or applied to any growing plants. (We have it. see page 04.) 
When manures cannot be had or where soil has been overfed 
with manures, use a commercial fertilizer the ingredients of 
which suit the needs of your soil. It is seldom, however, that 
too much manure has been used, but very often not enough. 
4th. — Cultivation. This might be termed the "exercise" 
of the plants and is a vital part of their healthful growth and 
productiveness. The loosening of the soil about the plants and 
their roots allows them to "stretch" out. "loosen up." gain 
strength, get newfood. fresh air (and they need air) . and you can 
readily .see the importance of it; however there is a right and a 
wrong time to cultivate just as there is a rieht and a wrong time 
to exercise. Never cultivate plants when thev are wet — they 
"catch cold." sometimes it results in "rust." "blight." "mildew" 
and other plant diseases. One important time to cultivate if the 
soil is dry. is just before a rain or a reasonable time after. 
In Conclusion. .Xsk us for any help or information needed. 
We have a force of intelligent men at your service. Remember 
always we are not simply in iiusiness to sell, we are in business 
to serve, and the success of our business I measure, not by the 
volume of sales made, but by the kind and volume of service 
rendered. 
WALTER S. SCHELL 
