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white Dent is much sweeter than northern 
field corn and vastly better than the Adams 
Early, the only recommendation of which 
is its earliness. Stowell’s Evergreen plant- 
ed here from May to July generally does 
well but early sugar corn furnishes a dainty 
bit for the boll worm before cotton 
comes on. 
The middle of March is early enough, 
even here: to bed sweet potatoes, for noth- 
ing is gained by setting the plants earlier 
than last of April. We prefer to bed in 
clear sand in a cold frame and cover with 
sashes, getting in this way better rooted 
and more healthy plants than we have 
ever gotten in beds heated by manure heat 
from below. But when bedded here on a 
sunny slope the last of the month they 
usually give an abundance of plants with 
little trouble. We advise our Norch Caro- 
lina friends to plant more of the Nanse- 
mond and Virginia Red Nose for northern 
shipment. The Hayman is also a good 
shipper and more productive than the 
others, but does not bring as good a price 
as the Nansemond. One of my correspon- 
dents in the Gulf States writes that he has 
succeeded in getting seed from the sweet 
potato, and expects to have no difficulty in 
getting it hereafter. We may then be on 
the road to improved varieties of this popu- 
lar tuber. The plant blooms here but I 
have not been able to ripen any seed. 
Early in the month here and southward 
get the eariy tomato plants “spotted’" out 
in the frames and lose no opportunity for 
exposing them fully to the air, so as to get 
them into that tough blue-green appear- 
ance familiar to tomato growers. In this 
condition they will stand any frost we 
usually have here in April, and the earlier 
they can be gotten to stand outside the 
earlier the crop will be. Our New Jersey 
readers will have to make an average of 
four weeks allowance on our dates. 
Seeds of cucumbers and melons planted 
in four-inch pots of rich compost the 
middle of the month and packed closely 
together in a frame and protected with 
sashes will give fine plants to turn out into 
the hills a month or six weeks later, and 
will be well in advance of the season. 
The first of March is usually early enough 
to sow egg plant seed under glass in most 
localities. This plant is of such a tender 
nature that it is better to defer its sowing 
until the days are quite warm and then 
keep it growing on rapidly without any 
check until the ground outside is thorough- 
ly warm. Egg plants cannot he hardened 
off like tomatoes and any attempt to do so 
will only result in stunted plants. June is 
early enough to put them in the open 
ground anywhere north of Mason and 
Dixon’s line. 
In this latitude we find that tomatoes do 
better when sheltered from the high noon 
and afternoon sun. On the east side of a 
board fence running north and south they 
will grow all summer while in full expo- 
sure to the afternoon sun they rarely pass 
the first of July — as fruiting plants. 
Some persons are fond of spring grown 
turnips, and in the Philadelphia market 
they used to sell very well. They should 
be sown first of March in a warm light soil 
highly enriched enough to grow radishes 
quickly. The Purple Top Strap Leaf is the 
kind to use or the Extra Early Milan. If 
grown quickly they are fine and saleable, 
and here will he off in time to sow a crop 
of cow peas to cut for hay in August and 
turn the stubble under for a late crop of 
Irish potatoes. 
Kainit, spread now at rate of }., ton per 
acre, has a w underfill effect on the size of 
asparagus stalks. Try it. 
In the south a top) diseasing of nitrate of 
soda will largely increase the crop of early 
Irish potatoes, it should be applied at two 
intervals during the gi’ow ill one hundred 
pounds each time. The first dressing soon 
after they are all well auove ground, the 
second when beginning to bloom. 
We would like some of our friends north- 
ward to try this spring some late fall 
grown sdi them potatoes for seed in com- 
parison with the northern grown potatoes. 
We find here that these are far net ter for 
spring planting than the northern grown 
potatoes. T. W. Woods & Sons, of Rich- 
mond, Va., are, offering them this season, 
of the Early Rose variety. — W. F. Massf.y, 
North Carolina. 
Bunch Onions for Early Market. 
These are vei-y px-ofitable if properly 
managed as they will stand five or six years 
without resetting or cultivating. The best 
variety for the piurpose is the Perennial, or 
Egyptian. The best time for planting is in 
the fall from sets, but I have set in the 
spring and made a very fair crop the first 
spiring though later than when set in the 
fall. This variety never makes large bot- 
toms hut just small straight onions used to 
eat gi-een and in this state the Egyptian is 
remarkable sweet and tender. They are a 
multiplying variety and if thinned out can 
be raised in the same place for years with- 
out resetting. Some growers cut off the 
sets which grow on topi in the latter part of 
July with a scythe close to the ground, dig 
up tin old onions or bottoms, and plant 
them in rows from 12 to 15 inches apart, 
some three inches deep and about two in- 
ches apart in the row. They will grow 
stronger and make earlier onions for mar- 
ket than the small sets. They will stand 
any amount of freezing and even in winter 
when we have a few warm days will start 
to grow. They gi’ow very rapidly if on 
good giound, the richer the soil the fast- 
er they grow. Therefore they should be well 
manured annually. When well established 
MAULE’S 
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