Occupations > Abercrombie's improved practical gardener; with a monthly calendar for the flower garden

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with water, or they will start to seed Defore they
come to any size.—Spinach may he gathered any
time after it is a sufficient size, either in winter
or summer, either by picking off the leaves, or
taking the whole plant where too thick and close
together.
The summer crops must be thinned out to
seven, eight, or nine inches, as the ground is foi
being rich, and the crop strong. In spring the
winter standing crop may be thinned to the same
distance.
To obtain seed of both sorts, the best way is to
sow a bed of each early in March, and when up
an inch high they should be thinned out to a foot
or fifteen inches apart, and they will run to stalk
and ripen seed in June and July. Each sort
should be sown separate, and when in flower
they should be looked over, to see whether the
small plants, which are easily distinguished by
their farina upon the blossoms, stand too close,
and if they do, they must be thinned out, leaving
only sufficiency to fertilize the females, otherwise
the blossoms will be abortive. When the seed is
ripening it should be looked over, and the lower
seed gathered, as it would shake and be lost
before the whole is ripe.—It must be dried as
gathered, and put by for use.
TANSY.
This is a perennial plant, rising two or three
feet high, with deep green finely divided leaves;