Conducted by 
F. F. Rockwell 
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First Steps Toward the Vegetable 
Garden 
HILE the garden does not take a 
place of first importance in one’s 
mind when the snow is piled high in the 
front yard, there is one matter concerning 
it that should be considered now. This is 
the matter of seed buying, and upon it 
depend your chances of enjoying a per¬ 
fect garden next summer. 
Take out your seed catalogues and your 
last year’s garden records—if you haven’t 
any, take the lesson to heart and make 
one this year—and go through them, 
checking up the varieties and amounts you 
want and making a temporary list. If 
you do not do this you will find at the last 
minute that you have too much of some 
varieties and too little of others. 
Here are the amounts of the various 
seeds and plants required for a fifty-foot 
row, which is a convenient length: 
Asparagus, 50; asparagus seed, 1 oz.; 
bean, bush, 1 pt.; bean, pole, y 2 pt.; beet, 
1 oz.; broccoli, 35; borecole (kale), 25; 
brussels sprouts, 35; cabbage, early, 35; 
cabbage, late, 20; carrot, y 2 oz.; cauli¬ 
flower, 35; celery, 100; corn, J4 pt.; cu¬ 
cumber, y 2 oz.; eggplant, 25; endive, 
oz.; kale, 25; kohl-rabi, \ lettuce, 50; 
lettuce seed, y oz.; leek, J4 oz.; melon, 
musk, 54 oz.; melon, water, J 4 oz.; 
onion, y oz.; okra, y 2 oz. ; parsley, y oz.; 
parsnip, J4 oz.; peas, 1 pt.; pepper, 25; 
potato, >4 pk.; pumpkin, 54 oz.; rhubarb, 
25-20; radish, y 2 oz.; salsify y oz.; spin¬ 
ach, y 2 oz.; squash, y oz.; tomato, 20-15, 
and turnip, J4- 
Here are some good, standard varieties, 
that you get from most reliable seedsmen, 
and that have detailed descriptions in the 
catalogues: 
Asparagus —Palmetto (heaviest yielder), 
Giant Argenteuil, Barris Mammoth. 
Beans (Bush) —Early Red Valentine, 
Stringless Greenpod, Bountiful, Brittle 
Wax, Rust-proof Golden Wax, String¬ 
less Refugee, Burpee Improved Bush 
Lima. 
Beans (Pole) — White-seeded Kentucky 
Wonder (Burgers Green Pod), Golden 
Chester, Sunshine, Horticultural (used 
in place of pole limas in cold localities), 
Case Knife, Scarlet Runner, Early 
Leviathian Lima, Ideal Lima, Giant 
Podded Lima. 
Beets —Early Model (for earliest), Crim¬ 
son Globe, Columbia. 
Brussels Sprouts —Dalkeith, Danish Giant. 
Cabbage — Early Jersey Wakefield, 
Charleston Wakefield, Early Spring, 
Allhead Early, Glory of Enkhuisen, 
Succession, Danish Roundhead (for 
winter), Perfection Savoy (best quality 
of all). 
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A planting plan. The figures at left and top 
indicate the length and distance apart of 
rows 
(early), Chantenay, Danvers Half- 
long. 
Cauliflower-— Early Snowball, Best-early, 
Dry Weather. 
Celery — White Plume (earliest), Golden 
Self-blanching (fall), Winter Queen. 
Corn — Golden Bantam (earliest and very 
sweet), one of the several yellow sec- 
ond-earlies, Early Cosmopolitan or 
Howling Mob, White Evergreen, Coun¬ 
try Gentleman, Black Mexican (small, 
but extra sweet). 
Cucumbers — Extra Early White Spine, 
Davis’ Perfect, Fordhook Famous, 
Vickery’s Forcing. 
Eggplant — Black Beauty. 
Kohl-rabi — White Vienna. 
Lettuce — Mignonette, Wayahead, May 
King (early head varieties), Grand 
Rapids, Curled Simpson (“loose-head” 
varieties) ; Salamander, Hanson, All- 
season, New York, Brittle-Ice, (for 
summer months). 
Melons (Musk) — Osage (Miller’s 
Cream), Champion Market, Montreal 
Nutmeg (all large sorts) ; Rocky Ford 
(Netted Gem), Fordhook, Hoodoo, 
Jenny Lind, Paul Rose (small sweet 
sorts), Henderson’s Bush (new “vine¬ 
less” variety). 
Melons (Water) —Cole’s Early, Ford¬ 
hook (early) ; Ice Cream, Hungarian 
Honey, Sweetheart, Halbert Honey. 
Onions —Silver King (early), Southport 
White Globe (finest quality), Southport 
Red Globe, Southport Yellow, Prize- 
taker (for main crop), Ailsa Craig 
(largest). 
Peas — American Wonder, Nott’s Excel¬ 
sior, Alaska (extra early, but not of 
best quality), Gradus, Early Morn, 
British Wonder (early, extra good 
quality), Boston Unrivalled, Telephone, 
Champion of England. 
Peppers — Early Neapolitan, Ruby King, 
Chinese Giant, Sweet Mountain. 
Radishes —Rapid Red, Early Scarlet But¬ 
ton, Crimson Giant, White Ocicle, 
Rocket; a large number of other good 
sorts. 
Spinach — Swiss Chard (beet), Lucullus, 
Victoria, Long-standing, New Zealand 
(for mid-summer). 
Salsify (Oyster Plant) —Mammoth Sand¬ 
wich, Wisconsin Golden Island. 
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