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Show planting IrJcgc tafiles I SOME persons have inquired if it is J safe to plant vegetables in the open H ground while there is still likelihood nB of frosts. mB In answer to this it; may be stated iB that cabbage, Irish potatoes, early IB peas (smooth, as distinguished from wrinkled), onions, kale, spinach and H mustard will not bo injured by light H frost. Tomatoes, egg plants, peppers IH and cauliflowers may be started in seed IH boxes in the house or in hotbeds. H Lettuce, radishes, parsnips, carrots, H beets, wrinkled sweet peas and early H sweet corn should be planted only after H danger of hard frost is over. IH String beans and lato varieties of H sweet corn should be planted only when jH all danger of frost is past. Early tomato H plants may be set out, but they should H be protected by a shelter of newspapers, H boxes, &c. H Cucumbers, melons, squashes, pump- jH kins, lima beans, tomatoes, egg plant H and poppers should be set out when dan- IH gor of frost is past and the earth has 1 begun to warm up well. IH Crops like peas, beans and lettuce may WmWm be planted every three or four weeks H whenever the space is available. Some MwM can be planted in the spaces made avail- iB able by removing tho other crops. In J this connection the efficiency chart is a nl valuable guide. IlI If your garden is small do not attempt ll to grow potatoes or late sweet corn. It H Is better, the specialists say, to select Mmm half a dozen crops which tho family likes Wmm than to grow fifteen or twenty. If the size of your plot is less than 40x100 WmWM feet, or 4,000 squaro feet, it usually is H not advisable to grow late potatoes or H late varieties of sweet corn. H bears handsome spikes of ivory bell iH shaped flowers. H The herbaceous splrcas are among tho H most valuable of hardy plants and flower IH freely in midsummer. They should be H given n damp and partly shaded post- H Campanulas and platycodon you will jfl surely want to havo if they will thrive M in your locality, which is probable. The M Iceland poppy should do well with you, M and it is a welcome addition to the flower H garden. H Try scabiosa and salpiglossis for cut- JH Plant only early cosmos; tho late va- H rictics arc too uncertain for you. H In the matter of hedges, do you want H an evergreen or deciduous one; a flower- H iug or merely a leafy one? The barberry H is strongly recommended if your locality H favors it A sheared evergreen of the H variety best adapted to your climato H would bo good. In a nursery far north H the Actluidla arguta, e vigorous vine, is H used for wind protection and sheared for lm a close, hcdgeliko appearance. Tho Rosa JH ragosa makes an admirable hedge, whero ll it .can bo mado to grow, and that is nl- M most everywhere. |