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horse, hog, or chip-dung in the hill. Continue to 
plant late peas. Plant early corn, such as the small 
tucket, sweet corn, Canada corn, and great tucket. 
Sow cabbages, cauliflowers and broccoli ; plant 
early squashes, musk-meloris, canteloupes and water- 
melons. Begin to cut asparagus for use. Continue 
to sow celery, spinach, parsely, sage, thyme,' and 
other aromatics, with beets, carrots, &c. Continue 
to plant potatoes ; plant broom-corn, holcus, bicolor, 
or chocolate broom, and close your seeding before 
;he 26th. 
Culture of the Carrot. 
Select a deep rich garden mould for the culture of 
this root ; a warm sandy loam answers best. Pre- 
pare this land with high ^lanuring, by the richest 
and best rotted manures, and deep ploughing. Let 
the earth be nicely pulverized with the harrow, and 
struck out into beds^of 3 1 2, or 4 feet wide. In 
striking out these beds, let the plough pass up and 
down, or. return back, in the same furrow ; this will 
turn the earth equally up to each bed. When the 
beds are thus struck out, haul in the loose dirt from 
the furrows on to the beds, either with a hoe, or a 
rake, and let it meet on the centre of each bed ; this 
will lay the beds crowning; then break all the clods 
upon the beds fine with the back of the hoe, or with 
a wooden clod-knocker, made for the purpose, and 
finish the beds by pulverizing as fine, and as deep 
as possible with the rake; (a rake with sharp iron 
teeth is preferred.) When the beds are thus pre- 
pared, mark them off into rows 10 inches asunder, 
with a large heavy rake made for the purpose, with 
3 or 4 teeth placed at that distance, and about 5 or 
6 inches in length, well sharpened at the points. 
The beds are noxv ready for sowing ; prepare your 
carrot-seed by rubbing it with the hands, after it is 
shelled, until the seeds are all separated, so as not 
to stick together ; then mix them with plaster of Pa- 
