View of our Trial Ground in which hundreds of plantings are made to determine 
the value of new varieties as well as of the various lots of seed we have in stock. 
DAYS TO MATURITY 
The number of days required by any particular variety to pro¬ 
duce garden stuff ready for table use varies from year to year and 
depends upon growing and seasonal conditions. In our description 
of most varieties we are giving the average number of days from 
seed to edible stage. Time given for broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, 
pepper and tomato is days from setting plants to marketing fruits. 
Figures are based on growing conditions here and are meant only 
for convenience in comparing earliness of varieties. Less time to 
maturity may be required in the South and for late planted crops. 
SUCCESSFUL GARDENING 
Hints that may interest both commercial and home gardeners 
SOIL The growing of high quality, tender and succulent vegetables 
requires quick and continuous growth. Good market garden¬ 
ing land is “quick”; that is, it warms up early in the spring, 
comes speedily into workable condition after rain, is easy to keep 
in good tilth and responds quickly to fertilizing materials. A rich, 
sandy loam is best. Stiff clays are the least desirable. Heavy soils 
require deep ploughing and frequent rotation with leguminous crops 
and the addition of plenty of fibrous material. Sandy soils are, as a 
rule, ploughed rather shallow to compact the under soil and prevent 
leaching'. Too much emphasis cannot be placed On proper tillage and 
rotation. Gardeners will find, when soil becomes unproductive for 
some particular crop that changing to another crop or seeding down 
to clover or alfalfa for a year or two will result in profit. Rotation 
tends to even up the demands on the soil, no one element of plant 
food being exhausted; leaves the land in good physical condition 
for the following crop and incorporates humus. Other advantages 
are distribution of labor, better use of irrigation water, less disease 
risk, encourages the keeping of livestock, controls weeds and helps 
to minimize risk of hall, insects and low markets. Where available, 
a liberal coating of manure should be given the ground. This should 
be of the best quality, well fermented and shoveled over at least 
twice during the previous summer. It thereby becomes thoroughly 
decomposed and is quickly incorporated with the soil. Its plant food 
soon becomes available and, in addition, weed seeds are killed. The 
use of fresh, rank manure is especially undesirable when growing 
such crops as onion and parsnip, as this is liable to result in soft 
bulbs, scallions and branched or misshapen roots. 
TILLAGE Remove all refuse of previous crops as early as possible* 
in the fall. Spread the composted manure evenly. First 
disc in and then plough, taking a narrow furrow in order 
to thoroughly mix the manure with the soil. Fall ploughing enables 
the gardener to be forehanded with his work, renders the land 
earlier in the spring and improves the physical character of the soil. 
Freezing during the winter slacks the lumps, making it easy to 
have a finely pulverized, mellow, deep seed bed. In irrigated coun¬ 
tries, fall and winter irrigation is desirable. 
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