. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. 180 GARDEN GUIDE mature fruits and pack them in straw in a cold frame to ripen u
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. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. 180 GARDEN GUIDE mature fruits and pack them in straw in a cold frame to ripen up. In this way they may be had for several weeks after frost. TURNIPS.—Seed for the first crop may be put in as soon as the groimd can be gotten ready in the Spring. As they are at their best for table use only for a short time, it is a good plan to plant an early and a medium or late variety about the first of each month through the season; in July a larger plemting can be made for Winter use. While the tender seedhngs are very small when they first come up, they grow very rapidly, and unless thinning out is done at once, it is likely to give the crop a severe set-back when it is attended to. Freshly manured soO should be avoided, and if there is a spot in the garden which is fight and sandy, it is apt to produce roots of a milder flavor than heavy soil.. Mammoth Sugar Corn—^well-developed ears VEGETABLE MARROW.—This is another member of the curcubit family, very similar in habit of growth to the Summer Squashes, there being also bush, dwarf and running varieties. It is planted and grown in the same way. The fruits should be used while com- paratively young. WATERCRESS.—There may be opportunities for the cultivation of fresh young plants of this deUghtful, pungent, and health giving salad. It deUghts in a slow rimning brook, but may be also cultivated in beds where there is a very slight flow of water. It is easily raised from seeds, but more generally perhaps from cut