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 fall and winter. Eclipse is one of the best early Beets and Long Blood Red is the very best late variety.

Sow late seed in a seed bed, when danger from frost is over, and when plants are three inches high, plant them in rows three feet apart, with plants 2½ feet apart in the row. Late Flat Dutch, Burpee’s Surehead and Large Late Drumhead are reliable sorts.

and seeds should under no consideration be planted before the weather is settled and warm, as the young plants are extremely tender and sensitive to cold. Cucumber hills should be four feet apart each way, and squash hills should be six feet apart. Scatter about a dozen seeds in a hill, and when the second pair of leaves have formed, remove all but three of the strongest plants. No fruit should be permitted to ripen on cucumber vines, as this greatly weakens the plant and prevents it from further setting fruit. Pinching off the tips of winter squash vines when they are about three feet long increases their productiveness. Early Green Cluster, White Spine, and London Long Green are good varieties of cucumbers. The list of desirable squashes is long, but whoever grows the Pineapple and the Brazil Sugar Squash for early use, and the Essex Hybrid and Hubbard for winter use, will not be disappointed.

The term “hills,” as used here and elsewhere in this paper, does not imply heaped-up soil, but simply means that several seeds are to be planted together in one place, on a level with the rest of the ground. This I have found to be better than heaping up the