Lesson XIX 
Pull all weeds and leave a soil mulch 
over the whole garden. 
Thin beets to three inches apart, trans- 
planting where necessary to fill out the 
row. 
Turn melon vines into garden and pinch 
off the ends. 
Plant one row of radish seed six feet 
from the north end. 
Clean south and west walks and pick 
flowers, lettuce and tomatoes that are 
ready. 
Wild Carrot^: Queen’s lace handker- 
chief. Damns Carota {dau'-kus ka-ro'ta). 
This beautiful flowering weed is so trouble- 
some that in some places there is a law 
requiring it to be cut to prevent its going 
to seed. From this plant our common 
carrot has developed by cultivation. It 
* Always have the weed present, roots, stem and 
flower. 
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