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POTATOES. 
If you wish to enjoy new potatoes early in the season, 
your seed potatoes must be planted as early in the 
spring as the ground can be prepared. Plant them one 
foot apart in the row and cover with the com plow. I 
would advise the planting of medium-sized potatoes 
in preference to large ones cut to pieces. If large 
ones must be used cut them a few days beforehand, 
so that the newly cut surface may dry before planting, 
otherwise, there is danger of the pieces rotting in the 
ground, especially if there is much rain immediately 
after planting. The Early Ohio gave us excellent 
returns for several years in succession. 
We will next take under consideration that portion 
of the garden devoted to the vegetables requiring 
the greater part of the season to mature. The most 
important of these are 
EGG PLANTS, TOMATOES, POLE BEANS, BEETS, CARROTS, 
LATE CABBAGE, CUCUMBERS, SQUASHES AND 
SWEET POTATOES. 
Sow Egg Plant and Tomato seed in a hotbed and 
remove the young plants to a cold frame when three 
inches high, from whence do not remove them till 
the weather is settled and warm. 
Egg Plant will repay the extra care it requires, 
and should be in every garden. Handle the plants 
very carefully in transplanting, and never remove 
them to the open ground before the nights are 
warm. At the North plants may be grown in flower 
pots plunged in a cold frame till the w T eather is suffi¬ 
ciently warm. Plants should stand 2J feet apart in 
