. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. ay when the weather is warmand settled. Or, if only a few hills are wanted,heres another way to force the plants: Sow theseed in permanent hillsoutdoors early in April(in the North), and covereach hill with a small boxof any kind or shape,without a bottom and witha piece of glass laid onfor a top (see illustra-tion). Thus you have acheap, rough, miniaturecoldframe over each hill,which serves the doublepurpose of raising extra-early plants, and protect-ing them from insects un-A GLASS-COVERED BOX OVER til thcy g
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. ay when the weather is warmand settled. Or, if only a few hills are wanted,heres another way to force the plants: Sow theseed in permanent hillsoutdoors early in April(in the North), and covereach hill with a small boxof any kind or shape,without a bottom and witha piece of glass laid onfor a top (see illustra-tion). Thus you have acheap, rough, miniaturecoldframe over each hill,which serves the doublepurpose of raising extra-early plants, and protect-ing them from insects un-A GLASS-COVERED BOX OVER til thcy gct SO big that theboxes must be removed. ETC. PHOTO TAKEN MAY . - 9th in new jersey a piece of mosquito-net- ting over the top will keepout bugs whenever the glass is removed for ventila-tion (and ventilation must be closely attended towhenever the weather permits). The foregoing general directions apply to allthese vine crops. The following are additional andspecial points about each : Cucumbers.—In large fields cucumbers forpickles are often planted in hills 5x5 feet apart. CUCUMBER. MELON. PUMPKIN. SQUASH 129 (1,742 to the acre), and cultivated both ways untilthe vines cover the ground. One ounce of seed willplant about fifty hills; about two pounds to the or successional sowings may be made aslate as early July in the North; in fact, pickle grow-ers sometimes plant late on purpose—to escape theworst of the bug attack. Chicago Pickle, Everbear-ing, Early Frame, etc., are good pickling varieties. Asmall prickly kind called a gherkin is sometimesgrown. The crop is gathered in burlap bags andsold by the bushel or the hundred pounds to picklefactories, who usually make contracts in pickles of a certain specified size are wanted(usually three or four inches in length, sometimessmaller). Pickers must be hired, for the crop shouldbe picked regularly, systematically and often; for ifany of the cucumbers are allowed to grow large andmature seeds, the pro
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