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form hard-baked surface when it rains or when the watering pot is used. 
‘rangements should be made to shade the beds until the young plants are 
~hot with a dense dark shade, but with some contrivance which will 
Moy broken sunlight to fall upon them. Nothing answers the purpose 
Well as a kind of make-shift bush-house, where you can increase the 
jguat of light over any particular part by simply removing a few branches. 
W forked sticks will do for supports. If you do not remove the shade as 
t las your seedlings are up, they will get spmdly, because it is their nature 
9 seek the light, and if it will not come to them they will do their little best 
» 80 to it; and if there is one thing which you can count on in vegetable 
PoWing, it is this: That a weak seedling will never make a satisfactory plant. In 
th * country you will find it a good plan when you have sown your seeds, to cover 
Mm With “a thin covering of finely sifted leaf mould. All seedlings love leaf 
‘ Tt is their natural covering in the great majority of cases. Even in 
eed beds I like to see seeds sown in drills. It looks smarter. ; You can more 
| ke detect weeds, and you can stir amongst the young seedlings with great 
Pe Uetit to them, and with corresponding discomfort to the host of weeds which 
a ‘trive to be in at the feast of good things you have provided for your 
oan gs, se 
— | tee (Broap).—This very nutritive vegetable likes a deep, stiff, well- 
| yo Wated soil, well drained, and with plenty of manure worked in. Mark out 
a Ur rows 2 feet apart if the variety is dwarf, and up to 3 feet apart for tall 
iu t Set each seed about 5 inches apart in the rows. They are often sown 
Be he ouble rows, zig-zag fashion, each seed being about 5 inches from its 
= | Se 'shbour, and in this way they do well and serve as a mutual support. 
Witt 4 quarts of seed is the usual allowance for a garden of 1 acre. Broad 
idsor, Early Long Pod, and Johnson’s Wonderful are favourite sorts. 
Make oe Your crop of beans have set, pinch out the centre of the plants to 
#e them throw all their energy into the business of maturing the beans. 
th Bang (Kipnry).—These, like the former, are, of course, to be sown where 
the Will bear, TI mention the fact because I have known a beginner to sow 
‘ ra aseed bed. Years ago, in Europe, I raised them in pots under glass, 
aa Planted out in rows to dodge the late frosts. They like lighter, warmer 
pe than the broad sort, and both this and the broad bean will well repay 
attering with liquid manure. ‘The most marvellous bean crops 1 ever saw were 
ated with sewage during the growing period of the plants. Two quarts may 
; owed for a one-acre garden. They should be sown, like the _broad beans, 
lid he’ about 2 feet apart for the dwarf kinds; and for the tall climbing kinds, 
| ae you will have to accommodate with stakes by-and-by, you may allow 3 
deen, Let your seeds be set 6 inches apart in the rows; cover about 1 inch 
Wit > and when the plants get a few inches high, hill them up on either side 
«1 10e, or on a large scale with the Planet Junior or other cultivator, 
= | 7 ls helps to retain moisture from watering, rain, or irrigation, and acts as a 
= a0 Pport to the plants. ; 
| Dey: 1 *tieties—Dwarf sorts: Bush Lima, Canadian Wonder, and Governor 
a $0 are approved sorts. Climbing sorts: Large Lima, White Dutch, and 
i den Butter. 
| inehute Sosa Bran (Soja d’ Htampes), which grows to a height of about 20 
*S, Is a most useful vegetable. 
Burns. —If there is a country on earth whose people ought to relish the 
8 Salads which the climate produces in such abundance, that country is 
Osland, Purple, Crimson, and Silver Beets make beautiful salads, and are 
an My relished. ‘Tho sceds arc to be sown where there is abundance of sunlight, 
tlag the position where the plants are to mature. If you want really first- 
h ’ beet, your soil must be trenched a couple of good spades deep, digging the 
i after’ well into the bottom layer in order to induce the tap roots to go down 
(rg, “Ue food which they take up in large quantities, beets being an exhausting 
ark out rows about 18 inches apart, scatter a little fine soil along these 
