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tables of a similar character to cabbage and broccoli, because of their 

 being so much better when cooked soon after they are gathered. 

 Such things as potatoes and onions, which can be transported long 

 distances without undergoing any deterioration whatever, should 

 only be grown in quantity in gardens where there is plenty of room 

 for everything. In fact, only the early potatoes, which can be cleared 

 off the ground early enough in the summer for it to be planted again 

 with broccoli, or winter greens of some kind, should be planted. 

 Peas also are not profitable, and the finest marrow varieties only 

 should be grown ; for peas can be frequently purchased early in the 

 season for less than the cost of the sticks. The better class of peas, 

 on the other hand, which are not only fine in quality, but very pro- 

 ductive, cannot often be purchased, and must therefore be grown at 

 home. Onions and carrots should only be grown in limited quan- 

 tities for use during the summer in a young state ; and turnips and 

 parsnips should not be grown at all, as the ground can be more pro- 

 fitably employed. Cauliflowers do not, perhaps, yield such a large 

 supply of food as cabbages and other greens, but they well repay the 

 cost of cultivating, and should be planted liberally. The extent to 

 which cabbage is grown must be determined by the esteem in which 

 it is held, and in any case they should be planted rather close to each 

 other, and cut and sent to table before they are full grown. Broccolis 

 will well repay the cost of cultivation, but they cannot be depended 

 on, for such winters as 1870-71 cuts them up in a wholesale manner. 

 Scarlet runners are one of the most profitable of garden crops, for 

 in ordinary good soils they yield a very large supply throughout the 

 season. Two sowings should be made of these, one as early in the 

 season as the state of the weather will permit, and the other early in 

 June, to keep up the supply after the crop has become exhausted. 

 Dwarf French beans are hardly so profitable as the scarlet runners, 

 but they take up very little room, require no sticks, and they can be 

 highly recommended. Lettuce aud other salading should, as a matter 

 of course, be grown in proportion to the space at disposal. 



Iu determining the manner in which each quarter is to be cropped 

 next year, so as to keep it at work without intermission, it must not 

 be forgotten that, as far as possible, no quarter should be occupied 

 two consecutive years with the same kind of crop. A proper system 

 of rotation is one of the grand secrets in kitchen gardening, but as 

 there is not sufficient room in small gardens for carrying on a system- 

 atic rotation of cropping, it is not of much use to enlarge upon 

 this part of the question. It will also be well to bear in mind 

 that some things do better in ground manured the previous year 

 than they do in that which has received a liberal dressing of fer- 

 tilizing matter a short time previously. 



Peas, potatoes, and all the members of the great Brassica family, 

 on the other band, require an abundance of manure, and there is no 

 fear of the ground being too rich for them. 



One of the most important points in kitchen garden practice is 

 to stir the soil to a considerable depth, early enough in the winter 

 to admit of its thorough pulverization by the frost and rain. To say 

 that trenching the ground early in the winter, and leaving the sur- 



