. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. f !• 154—How to Make the Garden Pay. Lazy Wives.—Pods are wonderfully broad, thick, fleshy, and above all entirely stringless, retaining their stringless and tender qualities until they are almost ripe. The vines cling remarkably well to the poles. Pods are rather flattish, oval shape, and when fully grown are from four to six inches long. Horticultural, Speckled Cranberry or Quail Track, much esteemed for the home garden. Seeds oval, speckled. Improved Dutch Runner has many of the characteristics of the Lima in growth, and is very productiv
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. f !• 154—How to Make the Garden Pay. Lazy Wives.—Pods are wonderfully broad, thick, fleshy, and above all entirely stringless, retaining their stringless and tender qualities until they are almost ripe. The vines cling remarkably well to the poles. Pods are rather flattish, oval shape, and when fully grown are from four to six inches long. Horticultural, Speckled Cranberry or Quail Track, much esteemed for the home garden. Seeds oval, speckled. Improved Dutch Runner has many of the characteristics of the Lima in growth, and is very productive. Beans clear white and of largest size. Next to the Lima, the best for market. Scarlet Runner.—A strong grower; flowers of beautiful scarlet, and produced in great abundance. Probably more ornamental, than useful for the table. BEETS. Beta Vulgaris, German, Rothe Rube; French, Betterave. Beets for early bunching are a leading crop of the market garden, and generally quite a profitable one. I have already in a former chapter alluded to their cultivation under glass, in cold frames, and cold houses. In open air they are grown in a similar way, only more space is usually given, and no radishes are grown between them as a secondary crop. Rich warm soil (sandy loam) is the chief requisite. It is well- manured with rotted compost, and prepared as for other small vegetables, that is to say, plowed well, harrowed well, and made thor- oughly smooth, if necessary with steel rake. In early spring when soil conditions and weather will permit, the seed is sown in drills from 12 to 18 inches apart, and clean and thorough cultivation given from the start. The crop is especially grateful for one or more applications of nitrate of soda, and can be largely increased or made earlier by this means. The market gardener's aim is to get a uniform lot of roots, bunch them for market while small (two to three inches in diameter), clear the land at the earliest possible date, and replant to so
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