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TURNIPS. 
With our hot, dry summers, turnips can only be 
raised satisfactorily as a fall crop. They can be 
grown as a second crop, after early sweet corn, pota¬ 
toes or peas, and should be sown as soon as possible 
after the first of August. The ground should be 
plowed or run over two or three times with the culti¬ 
vator, and then harrowed till it is as fine as it is pos¬ 
sible to make it. If the seed is sown broadcast, some 
winter radish seed should be mixed and sown with 
it. The ground should be rolled after sowing, not only 
to compact the soil round the seeds, which is essential 
to good germination, but also to prevent washing by 
the September rains, if the ground is at all sloping. 
But where the finest turnips and a sure crop are de¬ 
sired, it is much better to sow our garden turnips in 
drills, one foot apart if you have a wheel hoe, or as 
narrow as you can cultivate, if you have not. This 
will tend to having the roots of even size, and the 
finest appearance, as they can be frequently worked. 
When about three inches high, or when beginning to 
form bulbs, they should be thinned out to four or five 
inches apart in the rows, with the narrow hoe, leav¬ 
ing each bulb to stand by itself. It will be found 
that by this method, with careful culture, a larger as 
well as a much finer crop can be raised on the same 
ground than if they were sown broadcast, and that 
not half as much seed need be used, as it is carefully 
planted just where it is to grow. 
of tomatoes. The very small tomatoes, such as Victoria, Red Cherry, 
Pear-shaped Yellow and White Apple, will be found useful and orna¬ 
mental for preserving.-— Ed. 
