OF ONE ACRE. 
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able seedsmen who have their supplies grown in the 
North. Such northern grown seeds retain their 
instinct to hurry up and mature in a short season, 
while in one’s own saving they begin even in the first 
year to grow more leisurely and to accommodate 
themselves to the longer season. In the case of peas 5 
those grown in Northern New York and Canada, such 
as are sold by all our leading seedsmen, will mature 
from one to two weeks earlier than those saved in 
our own neighborhood. The northern peas are also 
generally free from the weevil or striped bug, which 
bores the large round hole in all the home-saved peas 
and destroys their germinating power. So it is with 
almost every known variety of vegetable; each has 
some special locality in which it reaches a higher 
degree of perfection than in others less favorably 
situated. While, of course, these facts are of interest 
to the gardener, they are only learned after years of 
experience, and it is the seedsman’s business to know 
the peculiarities of the different varieties, and to raise 
or procure his stock from the best strains grown in 
the most favorable localities. It is for the gardener to 
purchase from a seedsman whom he knows to be thor¬ 
oughly reliable, and whose interest it will be to serve 
him with prompt shipments and carefully-selected 
strains of the vegetables desired. All this is equally 
Rows No. 19. Sweet corn planted between the rows of berry bushes; a large 
late variety will be the best for this purpose. 
Rows No. 20. Two rows of fruiting strawberries, to be plowed under and be 
replaced by peas sown in August. This, of course, applies only to a 
garden of at least a year’s standing; and the fruiting plants of straw¬ 
berries will come in a fresh place each year. The rows No. 6 being the 
bearing plants next season. 
