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room enough to plant two rows bP cabbage 

 plants between the peas, at two feet from 

 row to row. Ciinliflowers will also do 

 planted one row between tiie peas, as the 

 cauliflowers will take more room than 

 cabbage. Early spinach will do well sown 

 in lirills, between the rows of peasat two feet 

 apart, in the same way as the cabb:ige plants 

 are planted. Tin; peas b.-ing si.x. feet apart, 

 you will obtain at least double the crop you 

 do in the usual old method of sowing pea><, 

 about three or four feet apart. They can- 

 not get light and air enough ; the conse- 

 quence is, that very few peas are obtained 

 in tiic middle of the crop, the principal part 

 of them being on the ends of the rows, and 

 the outsides. If the peas are sown .six feet 

 apart, you will obtain at least double tlie 

 crop you do in the usual method of sowing 

 them. Another greater advantage of 

 cropping the ground in this manner is, 

 that a greater quantity of crops are pro- 

 duced. The cabbage, cauliflowers, or 

 spinach, whicliever niay be that are planted 

 between the peas, will be cut and cleared 

 off before the peas are ready. On this 

 ground may be planted celery ; and when 

 the peas are cleared off, there will be a 

 space of six feet between the celery, which 

 may be planted with endive, lettuce, or 

 coleworts, or any other vegetable that will 

 be ready soon enough to earth up the celery. 

 If this system be adopted, by giving the 

 plants moe room, and sowing other kinds 

 of vegetables between that do not require 

 80 much time or room, that, by so doing, 

 we siiall obtain a considerably larger 

 amount of matter, and in a much higher 

 State of perfection. 



I must now say a word upon cropping 

 the quarters of the garden, as v/e so Often 

 see the tall kinds of peas, ssuch as Kniglit's 

 Tall, Marrows, Rollison's Victoria, Deiiance, 

 and others of similar growth, sown about 

 four feet six, from row to row. Sown in 

 this way, they get grown one row into tlie 

 otlier above their stakes. There is also 

 great difiiculty in getting between the rows 

 to gather what few po Is there aie grown 

 between the rows, the principal part o( 

 them being on the ends of the rows and 

 the outsides. 



Ex|>erience has taught me to sow those 

 tall kinds of peas twelve f^^et apart from 

 row to row ; that will leave between the 

 rows of peas room enough for five rows of 

 potatoes at two (bet apart. Between each 

 other row of potatoes a row of Cape brocoli 

 may be planted with ail vantage, the pota- 

 toes being planted two feet from the peas 

 on each side ; that will leave a space of 

 six feet when the potatoes and peas are 

 cleared away. This ground will do lor 



turnips or late cslery, lettuce or winter 

 onions, and many other kinds of vegetables 

 that may be required. When the brocoli 

 comes off, that will make a space of about 

 six feet ; this may be thrown up into 

 ridges until wanted. Tliis method of 

 cropping will be found far before the old 

 method ot sowing i>eas so close as four feet 

 six, as there is four i'eet six of ground un- 

 occupied until the whole of the crop of 

 peas is cleared. There is two-thirds or 

 more of prodtice by sowing at greater dis- 

 tance, and a considerable greater quantity 

 of plants on the same sp-.ice of ground. 

 Brussels sprouts, savoys, and brocoli may 

 be planted between rows of potatoes, plant- 

 ing them after the potatoes are eartlied up, 

 between each other row of them. If the 

 potatoes vrevQ planted about two feet apart, 

 tiie brocoli, etc., will be four feet. As the 

 potatoes grow, they may be gently laid 

 tOijether to keep them from the plants. 

 When the potatoes are \ip and cleared off, 

 there will be four feet between the plants, 

 which may be planted with coleworts or 

 spring cabbage. When the brocoli are 

 cleared off, Mazagon beans may be sown 

 betweeti the cubhage. In the place of the 

 brocoli, dwarf French beans may be sown. 

 If Mazagon beans or Windsor beans are not 

 required, the dwarf French beans will do 

 equally well. E-ich time the land is cleared 

 of its various crof)s, it will require a good 

 manuring, and well trenched. If celery 

 is changed to different parts of the garden, 

 it vvill cause, by digging the trenches, the 

 ground to be well moved. When the celery 

 is cleai'ed off, the same ground will do for 

 the peas the season following, and will be 

 midway between the ground they grew on 

 the pr-eceding year. Exactly the s ime for 

 the celery. If scarlet-runner beans are 

 sown twelve feet from row to row, ridge, 

 cucumbers do well between the rows. If 

 the ridges are thrown out in the middle of 

 the rows of runners, the cucumbers will 

 bear abundantly. The cucumbers by being 

 sheltered by them will do far better than if 

 planted in the open garden. 



Vegetable marrows will do exceedingly 

 well if ridge cucumbers are not required. 

 I have grown ridge cucunibers and vegetable 

 marrows this way for years, and have never 

 failed to get a gooa supply of both. Tliis 

 last season was bad for ridge cucumbers, 

 but I had a fair supply of the ridge cucum- 

 bers grown in the way described. Wiien 

 the cucumliers or vegetable marrows are 

 cleared off, this ground will be found useful 

 for cauliflowers under hand glasses : if not 

 wanted for cauliflowers, throw out the 

 manure, well mix it with the soil. It will 

 make a good bed for Early Horn carrots, 



