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Show TIMELY HINTS FOR HOME GARDENER WASHINGTON, D. C, March 13 -The garden specialists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture divide vegetables veg-etables into two classes "warm temperature" tem-perature" and "cold temperature" vegetables veg-etables When peach an olum trees are in blossom, they say, it is time to sow in the open ground such seeds aa lettuce, radish, parsley, beets, turnips, cabbage, carrots, peas, and onions The wrinkled peas should not be planted plant-ed until later, as they arc more liable to rot in cool ground than are the smooth varieties. When the apple trees bloom, it is time to plant tho heat-loving vegetables such as cucumbers, cucum-bers, beans, sweet corn, pumpkin, and squash. This is an old but excellent rule. The quickest crop to mature is the radish. Lettuce, turnips', peas, beets, and beans usually require from 6 to 9 weeks, corn from 11 to 13 weeks, . .1 . . r 1 c 1C tr anu pouuues iroui xo iu m iu mature. Lettuce is to the garden what the hay crop is to the field always need ed, and gives some of the best returns. rich sandy loam, with sufficient nitrate to stimulate leaf growth and intensify the chlorophyll or deep leaf color of the plant, and a sufficiency of soft water to keep the crop crisp and fresh. Much the same plan is practiced prac-ticed with cabbage, except that it does not require so much water. Beans do not require very rich soil and it Is safe to plant them on the very poorest patch. Snap beans maybe may-be grown in rows between the orchard trees. The Lima bean requires a rich, moist soil, but does not seem to deprive de-prive the land of its productiveness. Lima beans have been grown on the same fields in California for many years. Cucumbers, squashes and melops require re-quire rich soil, and the cucumber prol-Its prol-Its by the application of fresh hore manure Sheep manure will hurry plants along more rapidly than most chemical fertilizers. |