American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-16

1t costs no more, and the profits are
double, to cultivate a garden rich in
choice small fruits and vegetables than
one growing inferior and ordinary sorts.
Too great care cannot be exercised in
procuring good seed of desirable variety
and having it.on hand in ample time. to
SOW in season. A second serious con-
sideratiolii is putting the seed in the
ground at exactly the proper time-this
is even more Important in a garden than
n field. Many seeds have delicate germs,
and if cold ), wet , weather succeeds their
planting they rot in the ground. Lima
beans, okra, cucumbcrs, melons, squash,
pumpkins, etc, may be cited in instance
Of these tender kinds. On the other
hand, peas. radishes, lettuce, turnips,
satisfy, onions and bects will withstand
the same conditions that destroy the
first mentioned vegetables and thereto
can be planted at an earlier date.
A knowledge in respect to the correct
season for sowing vegetables and secur-
ing desirable succession of crops is all
important to the market farmer, whose
success depends on gaining highest
prices with products that meet the de-
mand for them in season. For instance,
spinach, kale and other extra early
greens are very welcome until lettuce is
large enough for the table; while lettuce
in turn loses favor when early peas APP
| pear. Radishes are valuable only dur
ing the early season, there being little
| demand for them when cucunbers are
| at hand.
The depth to which seed is planted in
the ground frequently determines its full
| development or its early destruction.
| The size of the seed controls to great
| oft fc
| is an old rule which limits the depth of
covering to twice the diameter of the
| seed sown. This, like most other rules,
| is liable to exceptions, the character of
the soil having somewhat to do with the
| matter. 1t requires only a moments
| consideration to see that a heavy soil
| which lies close to the seed admits of a
| sligbter covering than does shifting
| sandy one.
Care exercised in gaining a rotation
| of crops exhaustive to the soil is advised.
| No two crops of similar nature, as
beets, carrots and parsnips, should be
| grown two years in succession on the
| same ground.
The quantity of garden seeds required
| to plant given space varies with soil,
| location and character of the seed, so
that only approximate figures can be
| given. In general way it may be said
that asparagus will from one ounce of
seed produce 1000 plants and requires
a bed twelve feet square. One quart of
large pole beans will plant 100 hills,
| while the same amount of small ones
will give 800 hills. One ounce of beet
seed plants $50 feet of row. One ounce
of cabbage seed produces $500 plants.
One ounce of carrot plants $50 feet of
row. One ounce of cucumber is required
for $50 hills. One ounce of lettuce seed
produces about 1000 plants. One ounce
of onion-seed is enough for 200 feet of
row. One quart of peas will plant 120
feet of row. One ounce of radish seed
is sufficient for 100 feet of row. For
seventy-tive hills of squash one ounce of
seed is required. One ounce of tomato
seed produces 1900 plants, and one
ounce of watermelon seed is required for