The Importance of 
SUMMER-SOWN VECETABLES FOR AUTUMN & EARLY WINTER USE. 
The practice of sowing vegetable seeds in summer for pro- 
ducing succession crops during autumn and early winter has very 
widely extended during recent years. Experience has conclusively 
demonstrated that by sowing seeds of suitable varieties in the open 
ground during July and August, and by following the cultural direc- 
tions given below, choice Vegetables and Salads of many kinds may 

be obtained from September onwards. In many gardens plots cleared Soon Senne 
of early Vegetables during summer are often allowed to remain un- > BLES I 
occupied for several months. Yet by adopting the system of summer |aawemy = PRODUCED i 
sowing not only is the cropping capacity of the garden greatly |x es We Sieens ee 
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increased, but supplies of many favourite Vegetables, which 
otherwise would cease at the end of summer, may be extended 
through the autumn to early winter. The secret of success 
lies in sowing only early-maturing varieties and in 
thinning out the plants immediately they appear 
(instead of transplanting), so that they receive no 
check in growth. Under this system Cabbages are often fit 
for cutting in October, which, if transplanted, would not be ready 
before March or April. 

The accompanying illustration shows a small portion of our Exhibit of 
Vegetables grown from Seeds sown and Potatoes planted July rsth, and staged 
at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Meeting, September 24th, 1918. The 
Lawrence Medal, as well as Silver-Gilt Knightian Medals on November 17th, 1914, 
October 26th, 1915, and September 24th and October zznd, 1918, have been 
awarded by the Society for our exhibits of Summer-sown Vegetables. 


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THE FOLLOWING ARE ESPECIALLY SUITED FOR SOWING IN JULY AND AUGUST 
for producing tender young Vegetables and Salads in autumn and early winter. Descriptions, and prices of seeds, are given in the general list of 
Vegetables, pages 5 to 62. 
BEANS, Dwarf French. CAULIFLOWER. (Sow early in July.) LETTUCE, Cabbage. PARSLEY. 
(Sow early in July.) Sutton’s First Crop Sutton’s Matchless Sutton’s Imperial Curled 
Sutton’s Masterpiece Sutton’s Magnum Bonum Sutton’s Heartwell 
Sutton’s Plentiful Sutton’s Purity Sutton’s Ideal RADISH. 
Sutton’s Evergreen , Sutton’s White Queen - Sutton’s Golden Ball Sutton’s Foreing Carmine 
Sutton’s Selected Canadian Sutton’s All the Year Round Sutton’s Commodore Nutt Sutton’s Scarlet Globe 
Wonder oe eects French Breakfast, Sutton’s 
BEET. CORN SALAD, Itali aed FOneiie 
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Sutiontal Globe LETTUCE, Cos. French Breakfast, puiton he 
Egyptian Turnip-rooted Sutton’s Peerless Sutton’s Red White-tipped 
CRESS. Sutton’s Nonsuch Chinese Rose Colour 
CABBAGE. Sutton’s Extra Fine Curled Sutton’s White Heart 
Sutton’s Earliest American, or Land Sutton’s Little Gem SPINACH. 
Sutton’s All Heart ONION. aa Long-standing Round 
Sutton’s Harbinger Sutton’s Improved Queen oun P 
Sutton’s April . ENDIVE. . White Queen : Perpetual, or Spinach Beet 
Sutton’s Extra Fine Green Small Paris Silver-skin 
CARROT f Curled TURNIP. 
: 3 Sutton’s Winter Curled PEAS. Sutton’s Early Snowball 
Sutton’s Inimitable Forcing Sutton’s Pioneer Sutton’s Early White Milan 
Sutton’s Champion Scarlet Horn KOHL RABI Sutton’s World’s Record Sutton’s Early Red Milan 
Sutton’s Early Gem . Sutton’s First of All Sutton’s Red Globe 
Early Horn Sutton’s Earliest White Sutton’s Early Giant Sutton’s Golden Ball 
Sutton’s Favourite Sutton’s Earliest Purple Sutton’s Bountiful Sutton’s Early Six-weeks 
THE LAWRENCE MEDAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
awarded to Sutton & Sons for Summer-sown Vegetables. 
(See ‘accompanying illustra'ions, photographed on a reduced scale ) 
The Rev. W. WILKS, M.A., writing on December I1, 1918, said : 
‘It is with no little pleasure that I am able to write, at the request of the 
President and Council, to tell you that the Lawrence Medal has been awarded 
to your firm for the exceilent quality and great educational 
value of your frequent exhibits of summer-sown 
Vegetables at the Society’s Meetings held since War broke 
out. The exhibits themselves have shown such a high standard of cultivation, 
and have been so widely influential in increasing the food production of gardens 
during the years of the War, by demonstrating what could be done along the 
lines of this new system of cultivation, that the Council feel the least they can do 
now that the War has been brought to a happy termination, is to place with you 
this high mark of their appreciation. 
‘As I think you know, the Lawrence Medal represents the highest award 
of the Society, and it is one which is never given more than once yearly.’ 



Mr. ARTHUR W. SUTTON’S PAPER ON SUMMER-SOWN VEGETABLES 
Read before the Royal Horticultural Society, October 22, 1918, and published in the Society’s Journal has, by permission, been reprinted, 
and copies may be obtained from Sutton & Sons, 

SUTTON & SONS, READING, Seedsmen By Appointment to His Majesty King George V. 
