. Agriculture and the farming business . nder of the garden. Vegetables that require transplanting.—The seasonrequired for certain vegetables to mature for the table isso long that in the North and Northwest they must bestarted in hotbeds in the latter part of the winter andtransplanted when the weather is warm enough. The com-mon plants belonging to this group are cabbage, celery,cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, eggplant, pepper,sweet potato. Lettuce and muskmelons may also be trans-planted to good advantage. Many of these may also betransplanted to advantage in the South. The hotbed.
. Agriculture and the farming business . nder of the garden. Vegetables that require transplanting.—The seasonrequired for certain vegetables to mature for the table isso long that in the North and Northwest they must bestarted in hotbeds in the latter part of the winter andtransplanted when the weather is warm enough. The com-mon plants belonging to this group are cabbage, celery,cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, eggplant, pepper,sweet potato. Lettuce and muskmelons may also be trans-planted to good advantage. Many of these may also betransplanted to advantage in the South. The hotbed.—For small gardens the plants that areto be transplanted are often started in shallow boxes, eggshells, paper cups, or berry boxes. The more commonmethod is, however, to use a hotbed. A hotbed is made as follows: Select a sunny place shel-tered by a building or fence from the north winds, andmake a bed of coarse manure from the horse stalls eighteeninches deep, eight feet wide, and any multiple of three feet THE FARMING BUSINESS 311. Typical dasliecu hill, a new vegetablepotato for the South aud Southwest. substitute the 312 AGRICULTURE AND
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