Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-04-12
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IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN.


Amount Of Seed to the Acre as Estimated
by u Market Gardener.
An important condition to be consid-
cred when stating the quantity of seed
required is, How close will the fertility
of the soil admit of planting? Land in a
high state of cultivation, like the land Of
professional market gardener, will adj
NIT of closer planting than the general
run of farm land. A market gardener,
who takes it for granted that the cult
vator is familiar with the conditions of
heat and moisture most conducive to
termination Of the different varieties Of
seeds. and that the seed has 30 per cent
OF vitality, estimates the quantity in
Rural New Yorker as follows:
Beans, dwarf, in drills three feet apart
and eight inches apart in the drill, IA
bushels per acre; one quart to 100 feet Of
drill. Beans, pole, in hills three feet
apart both ways, 10 to ~ quarts, six
seeds to the hill. Beets, table varieties,
in rows IA inches apart. six to eight
pounds. One ounce will SOW so feet Of
drill. Cabbage in beds, one ounce will
produce 5000 plants. 1t will take $500
plants for an acre, with rows three feet
apart and the plants two feet apart in
the row. With seed sown in the field,
thinning out to single plant, with six
seeds planted to the hill, two pounds
will be required. Carrots, with rows 10
inches apart, three pounds. One ounce
will SOW 100 feet of drill. Caulifower,
the same as cabbage. Celery. one ounce
will produce 1000 plants. One and one
half pounds will be required for drilling
in in the field.
Corn in rows 81 feet apart, the stalks
quarts. One quart will plant 200 hills.
Cucumbers, in hills four feet apart each
way, one to two pounds. One ounce will
plant 80 hills, six seeds to the hill. Egg
plants, four feet each way, one-fourth
pound. One ounce will produce about
1000 plants. Lettuce in beds to trans.
plant, one-fourth pound. One ounce will
produce 1000 plants. With seed sown
in drills IL inches apart in the field, about
one pound: plants to be thinned to IL
inches apart in the row. Watermelons,
hills, six feet apart each way, four
pounds. One ounce will plant about 80
hills with six seeds to the hill. Musk
melons in hills five feet apart each way,
about two pounds. One ounce will plant
about go hills, eight seeds to the hill.
Onions in rows 10 inches apart, five
pounds. One ounce will SOW 100 feet Of
drill. Parsley in rows IL inches apart,
II pounds. One ounce will SOW $50 feet
Of drill. Parsnips in rows IA inches
apart, six pounds. One ounce will SOW
100 feet of drill. Peas in rows three feet
apart, II bushels of the early varieties
and one bushel Of the later sorts. One
quart will sow 100 feet of drill. Peppers,
one ounce will produce 1900 plants.
Radishes in drills six inches apart, six
to eight pounds. One ounce will SOW
100 feet of drill.
Potatoes in rows three feet apart,
plants enc foot apart in the row, eight
bushels of cut tubers. Satisfy in drills
IA inches apart, s to 10 pounds. One
ounce will sow so feet of drill. Spinach
in drills IL inches apart, 10 to 16 pounds
One ounce will SOW so feet of drill.
Squashes in hills eight feet apart both
ways, three to four pounds. One ounce
will plant Is hills, six seeds to the hill.
Tomatoes, one ounce will produce 1000
plants, 1000 plants to the acre. Tur-
nips, fiat, in drills IL inches apart, one
to two pounds; broadcast, three to four
pounds. One ounce will SOW $50 feet of
drill.