Garden Hints. 
BY W. D. BOYNTON. 
Our gardens are now well started, or 
ought to be, but there are still many things 
to be looked after in the way of providing 
a succession of vegetables for all the season, 
and also in making provision for the wants 
of another season. 
LATE ONIONS. 
A small patch of onions should be sown 
late in the spring or early in the summer, 
to be left in the ground over winter for 
early use next spring. Onions for the table 
may be obtained in this way two or three 
weeks ahead of those that are set in the 
the spring; just as soon as the snow is off 
the ground they commence to grow, and 
by the time that sets are ordinarily put 
into the ground these will be large enough 
to eat. In fact, they are large enough for 
table use before they commence to grow 
in the spring, and only want a little filling 
up and solidifying, which a few days of 
good weather will give them. They should 
be sown in drills, as usual, and kept clean 
through the summer. In the fall they will 
be about the size of walnuts. Before heavy 
freezing comes they should be covered over 
with some kind of mulch to protect them 
from alternate thawing and freezing which 
injures them more than steady heavy freez¬ 
ing. Crisp, fresh onions are a great luxury 
in early spring, and the gardener will find 
it well worth his time to sow such a bed. 
RADISHES, LETTUCE AND PEAS. 
These three vegetables may be enjoyed 
all through the summer season if the gard¬ 
ener will but go to the small trouble of 
sowing a few at intervals of two or three 
weeks from the time the ground is in good 
condition until the dry, hot weather sets in. 
Radishes and lettuce will soon get tough 
after they have attained their growth, so 
that only a few messes can be enjoyed 
from any one sowing. For that reason 
they must be sown often and late in order 
to get much benefit from them. Peas, too, 
and especially the early dwarf varieties, 
will afford but few pickings before they 
become too ripe for green use. I have 
often made four separate sowings of peas 
in a season, and felt well paid, too. 
CABBAGES, 
Cabbages for winter use are usually 
pushed ahead too fast. That is, they are 
set out too early and consequently ripen off 
too early, so early in many cases that they 
will not keep till January. Cabbage plants 
set out the last of June on good rich soil 
will make much better keepers than if set 
out the first of June. To be truly valuable, 
the garden must produce something for 
all seasons of the year, a constant and plen¬ 
tiful supply. This cannot be done by sow¬ 
ing the garden all at one time, as too many 
do, rather than have any after trouble with 
it. 
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