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fall and winter. Eclipse is one of the best early Beets 
and Long Blood Red is the very best late variety. 
Sow late Cabbage seed in a seed bed, when danger 
from frost is over, and when plants are three inches 
high, plant them in rows three feet apart, with plants 
2f feet apart in the row. Late Flat Dutch , Burpee’s 
Surehead and Large Late Drumhead are reliable 
sorts. 
Cucumber and Squash seeds should under no 
consideration be planted before the weather is settled 
and warm, as the young plants are extremely tender 
and sensitive to cold. Cucumber hills should be four 
feet apart each way, and squash hills should be six feet 
apart. Scatter about a dozen seeds in a hill, and when 
the second pair of leaves have formed, remove all 
but three of the strongest plants. No fruit should be 
permitted to ripen on cucumber vines, as this greatly 
weakens the plant and prevents it from further 
setting fruit. Pinching off the tips of winter squash 
vines when they are about three feet long increases 
their productiveness. Early Green Cluster , White Spine , 
and London Long Green are good varieties of cucum¬ 
bers. The list of desirable squashes is long, but 
whoever grows the Pineapple and the Brazil Sugar 
Squash for early use, and the Essex Hybrid and 1Tub- 
bard for winter use, will not be disappointed. 
The term “ hills , 1 ” as used here and elsewhere in 
this paper, does not imply heaped-up soil, but simply 
means that several seeds are to be planted together 
in one place, on a level with the rest of the ground. 
This I have found to be better than heaping up the 
