. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. 256—How to Make the Garden Pay. summer sorts, and eight to twelve feet each way for the running or wmter varieties, and mix three or four shovelfuls of r ch compost with the. soil at each intersection; then plan? a dozen '^^ s^^<^s, or set a sod with plants in slightly raised hills. Afterwards cultivate and hoe frequently, always drawing some fresh soil up to the plants. Pull up all but two or three of the most vigorous plants, and continue fighting the cucum- ber beetle and squash bug. Also guard against the attacks of the squash borer.
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. 256—How to Make the Garden Pay. summer sorts, and eight to twelve feet each way for the running or wmter varieties, and mix three or four shovelfuls of r ch compost with the. soil at each intersection; then plan? a dozen '^^ s^^<^s, or set a sod with plants in slightly raised hills. Afterwards cultivate and hoe frequently, always drawing some fresh soil up to the plants. Pull up all but two or three of the most vigorous plants, and continue fighting the cucum- ber beetle and squash bug. Also guard against the attacks of the squash borer. Covering the first one or two joints, after the vines have begun to run, should never be neglected. The summer varieties are gathered and marketed while young and yet tender. The winter sorts must be harvested before frost, and marketed in bulk or in barrels. If carefully handled Hubbard. ^^^ stored in a dry room, like sweet Txr- 4. 1 ? potatoes, they may be kept until soring Winter squashes thus kept can generally be mLketed dS winter or spring at prices that make the crop a very profitablf SUMMER VARIETIES {C, Pepo). White Scallop, White Bush, ior^^TA^^^^""^' YeHow are leading sorts tor market, diffenng only in color of the skin homf gaX" ^-^''"-^^-Q-te popular, 'espedally for the and fSr^plnlifi^^^H'T^ '"""'"^ ^^""^y' fi»^ f"^ '^te summer ana lall. i'rolific and of superior quality. WINTER VARIETIES {C. Maxima). Hubbard.—The leading market variety. Fruit dark ereen marked with red. Unexcelled';-or quality?anfas a is ash'^-gr''ay.''"'"~^""".'° ''"^'^'?'' ^""P* '" ^°'-' -^^'^h pri J?o?q"amr"*~''"'' ^""" '°'' '^^'^''' ^"^ "^^"^'y Prolific Marrow has been introduced as an imorovement on Boston Marrow. Both are fine autumn sorts ""'''^°^"'"^"' mended. ^^' ,' ^^^^-^ new introduction,
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