Practical papers —market gardening. 413 
3 'our work up to this time has been ever so well done. And many 
times, after a long day of twelve or thirteen hours’ labor, your 
market man comes home with an order, or a letter cornes with an 
order for so much of this or that, to go upon the first train or the 
first boat in the morning. Tired and weary as you are, you must 
go back to the garden and fill the orders, or soon find your busi¬ 
ness sadly injured. Do not think me drawing a fancy sketch, for 
I remember well one week, two years since, when from four o’clock 
in the morning till eleven at night, some if not all of my sons were 
in motion. This was, of course, only for a few days. But from 
the first of May to the middle of August, you will find long days 
the rule, not the exception. 
From the middle of June to the 10th or 15th of August, comes 
the additional work of getting in the second crops. The varieties 
of the second are not so great as those of the first one. The last 
of June or first of Julv, the Early Horn carrots should be sown 
between the rows of your black seed onions. If your ground is 
. in the right condition, and the weather favorable, they will come 
on, and bv the time they need the ground, the onions will be ripe 
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and they may be gathered, and the whole ground given to the 
carrots. But sometimes at this season of the year, the dry weather 
and a burning sun together will kill the young plants after they 
are up. Such was my case last season, but after I found that the 
carrots would be nearly or quite a failure, I sowed the beds with 
turnip seed, and the result was, a fair crop of as pre tty turnips for 
table use as I ever saw. In June, the radishes, lettuce, etc., are 
getting out of the way and making room for celery and late 
beets, as well as rutabagas, though I think a better way to raise 
these two last named crops, is to sow the seeds in a bed and then 
transplant them. Let me illustrate this. Last season, I intended 
to raise cabbages after my early potatoes, but before I had the 
ground all set out, my cabbage plants gave out, and I concluded 
to fill up the ground with rutabagas and beets. It was nearly or 
quite the first of August, and the weather was very dry, as well 
as very hot. But there was no time to spare, and the plants were 
set out. They were set twelve inches apart each way, and al¬ 
though they were well watered, for a time they looked like almost 
anything, more than what they were intended for, crops of beets 
