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A. G. TILLINGHAST'S SEED CATALOGUE 
Winter Gardening on Puget Sound 
In our mild climate we can enjoy fresh, growing vegetables of many kinds all 
winter. In selecting seeds and making the garden, you should bear this in mind 
and provide for those things that a little frost will not hurt, but actually improve. 
Everyone knows that Parsnips are sweeter and better after being frozen in 
the ground, and you' should not omit putting in plenty of them for winter and 
spring use. 
Salsify is also a winter vegetable that any amount of freezing will not hurt. 
It is as good as oyster soup when it is properly cooked. Plant some and see if 
It does not pay to have it. 
Carrots will stand a good deal of freezing when left in the ground, and are 
sweeter than from the pit or the cellar. 
Turnips and Rutabagas are also at their best fresh from the garden, and, with 
the Carrots and a head of Cabbage, will make a fine boiled dinner at any time 
during our winter. 
For winter use. Cabbage should be planted out late in July, so they will be 
just beginning to head in the fall. When soft and growing they will winter well. 
Broccoli is very hardy and will stand much more freezing than Cauliflower or 
Cabbage. Set out the Autumn White Cape in June. It will head up during the 
winter and is most delicious eating in early spring. 
Kale will make fine greens and frost will not hurt it. The Kale and the Cab- 
bage will also be much enjoyed by the poultry when other green food is scarce. 
.■\ small bed of Par.sley will be nice to garnish your Christmas or New Year's 
turkey, or other dishes, during the winter and early spring, and it will be as green 
and fresh as ever when dug out of the snow in our very coldest weather. 
Radishes, sown late in the fall, will grow some all winter, and will be relished 
when brought in for the table. 
Celery, with a little protection, can be kept best out in the garden, crisp and 
brittle, and be enjoyed nearly all winter, or while it lasts. 
Potatoes can be left out undug and be brought in fresh from the ground when 
we want them. So here are a dozen different vegetables we can draw from our 
gardens here in Western Washington when our Eastern friends can hardly dig 
out their parsnips with a crowbar, their gardens being frozen up solid, generally 
from November to March, 
For very early spring use. Onions can be sown in August and left in the bed, 
and will supply you with nice green onions earlier than spring-plattted onion sets; 
or the sets can be put out in tlie fall and be ready for use earlier than if set out 
in the spring. 
Also, Lettuce and Cabbage can be sown in September and the plants will be 
ready to set out very early in the spring. In fact, the wideawake gardener will 
have vegetables in his garden for the table and the market the year around. 
Quantity of Seed Required to Plant One Acre. 
Cabbage — 4 ounces. Mangel Beets — 4 to a lbs. 
Carrot— 2^4 to 3 lbs. Onions— 4 to 5 lbs. 
Corn — 8 to 10 lbs. Turnips— and Rutabagas— 2 lbs. 
