With a number of vegetables grown in the garden or truck patch, it is quite an item to keep up a supply during the greater part of the growing season. This can be done by making repeated plantings, or still better, by a little care in the selection of the varieties. With quite a number of these that it is desirable to keep in supply, there are early, medium and late varieties, and by planting them a succession can be kept up with less trouble than to attempt to make a number of separate plantings.

Beets, radishes, lettuce, peas, beans, sweet corn, cabbage, cucumbers, carrots and melons can, by a careful selection of varieties, be made to furnish a supply with a much less number of plantings than when the whole dependence is placed upon one variety. Turnip-rooted, French-breakfast and any of the larger long kinds, like Chartier radishes, can be sown at the same time, and by the time the first is used, the second will come in Sweet corn and the other kinds can be managed in the same way. It is always an item to save time and labor, even in the garden; and while it is an easy matter to plant too large a number of varieties, I have found it profitable to use varieties to a considerable extent to keep up a supply and avoid making repeated plantings. - N. J. Shepherd, Missouri.