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Beets—Sow; select the dark-blood varieties, such as Detroit Blood Turnip. 
Cabbage—The late varieties can still be sown, if not attended to last month. The 
early sowings will be sufficiently large to plant out the last of this month. Select the 
largest and strongest plants. The small ones can be transplanted la/ter for a succession. 
Stock Beets—Such as Mangel Wurzel and Sugar, should now be sown for Winter 
feeding. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of this crop. Its yield is enor¬ 
mous (from 600 to 800 bushels to the acre) and its value to the farmer great. Select 
Buist’s Golden Globe if your soil is shallow; Buist-’s Mammoth Long Red, Golden 
Tankard, Chirk Castle Mangel, and Danish Sludstrup, if your soil is deep and rich.^ 
Carrot—Continue sowing the Half-Long Scarlet for table use, and Buist’s Long 
Orange for stock feeding. 
Corn—Plant for first crop the Adams Early and Perkins Early Market; follow with 
Golden Bantam, Stowell’s Evergreen and Country Gentleman. For green roasting ears. 
Buist’s Snowflake and Golden Dent are the favorites in the South. 
Cucumber—Make a general planting. Select Perfection Early White Spine and 
Buis-Es Long Green. If you wish only one sort, select the former, and make a small 
planting each month until August. 
Kohl Rabi—Sow. This vegetable is a great favorite with the Germans, and if prop¬ 
erly prepared for the table is fine. 
Lettuce—Sow in rows, and thin out—Hubbard Market, New York and Salamander. 
The latter will give you heads 2 pounds in weight; is delicate and tender. 
Melon—Plant BuisPs Perfection Rocky Ford, Emerald Gem and Fordhook. The 
latter is the finest of the yellow flesh varieties. For Watermelon, select the Tom Watson. 
Kleckley’s Sweet, Halbert’s Honey and Florida Favorite. 
Parsnip—Sow early for general crop, and thin out last month’s sowing. 
Peas—Sown now should be planted deeper than usual to prevent dry weather from 
injuring their roots. A crop thus planted will produce more abundantly and continue in 
bearing longer. Select the wrinkled varieties. 
Set out Egg Plants and Tomato Plants. Sow Tomato Seed for a late crop. 
Give all the growing crops your attention. Just remember that good cultivation is ' 
almost as powerful a stimulant as manure. Beets, Carrots and other root crops sown last 
month will need your attention; they should be thinned out, cultivated and kept from 
weeds. 
APRIL 
The vegetable garden is now in its exuberance of growth; cultivate well, and look 
out for weeds. If you have sown Buist’s Seeds, we know that you have met with success 
and have a luxuriant garden, and as the season advances you will have an opportunity to 
compare the product with the vegetables produced from inferior brands of seeds, which 
are scattered almost broadcast throughout the Southern States. Thin out all young crops 
to prevent crowding. Water when dry. Cauliflower requires copious watering at the 
roots when forming heads. Celery-seed beds and plants are also in need of water- if 
however, labor and care are deficient, those vegetables will not make a return for planting’ 
as soil can never be too rich for them. Where Beets are too thick, they can be trans¬ 
planted; cut off the large thick leaves, lift carefully, and plant them in rows, or amongst 
other crops that are too thin; do this in moist weather. 
Bush, or Snap-Short Beans—Plant every two weeks for a succession. The Best 
of All Wax, Green-Pod Stringless, Bountiful and Giant Stringless Green Pod, are 
the most desirable for Sumrner planting. If your Lima or Pole Beans have not come 
up satisfactorily you are still in time for replanting. It is always a good plan to start the 
Lima in cold frames or place them between sods, and transplant them, when sprouted 
to prevent any such disappointment, as they will not withstand cold, moist weather. 
The potato bug is now very industrious. He is a good feeder, but a far better propa¬ 
gator , therefore look out for him, and dust the foliage with a mixture of one-eighth 
