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be followed with turnips, and the lettuce ground with successional 

 crops of French beans. Besides these, tliere will be several vacant 

 spots occurring from time to time, which should be filled up with 

 autumn cauliflower and the very useful Walcheren broccoli, and 

 with various kinds of saladings and turnips. A late crop of French 

 beans on a south border should also be thought of. These vacant 

 spots on the borders are especially useful on which to prick out 

 celery, and for the occasional sowings of small seeds, such as the 

 Walcheren broccoli, autumn cabbage, and cauliflower, as well as for 

 the diff'erent sowings of radishes. 



In the main square the second supply of cauliflower will give a 

 piece of ground for late rows of celery, as will also the first crop 

 of broad beans and turnips, make way for further breadths of winter 

 stuff", including the sproutiug broccoli, Scotch kale, and the cottager's 

 kale, and some of the latest spring broccolis ; and as the potatoes 

 come away, the ground must be immediately occupied, either with 

 a bed of winter spinach, or more of the Walcheren broccoli sown in 

 the first week in May especially for the purpose. Grub up the 

 spring cabbages as soon as they are all cut, dig into the ground a 

 good dressing of fresh lime, and let it lay for a fortnight, if you 

 cannot vary the crop. Plant at one foot apart each way the 

 colewort cabbage ; these will j^roduce double the amount of greens 

 from the same space than will the old stems of the previous plants. 



Space between Crops. — A mistake often committed by many 

 is the fact that they do not give room enough for the individual 

 plants of any crop to develop themselves, and to show their true 

 character. This is done under the mistaken notion that thereby 

 they increase the bulk, but it is an erroneous practice. The amateur 

 cultivators at least must not share in our censure of this practice, 

 because they have not had the experience to aid them in a right 

 understanding of the subject ; nor is the single-handed gardener 

 to be severely blamed, although only a moderate amount of obser- 

 vation ought to have convinced him of his error ; but those who 

 profess to advise the reading public in such matters are the parties 

 most deserving of censure : for when we see the advice that peas 

 should be sown at three feet apart, as I have done in horticultural 

 publications, I feel that such men and their writings would have 

 been better if they had never been known — for when advice is so 

 given and accepted upon the strength of the respectability of the 

 paper it appears in, we know the result will be a disappointment to 

 the one and a discredit to the other. To rectify this erroneous 

 practice, I shall here give the proper distances between the prin- 

 cipal crops of the garden, that ought to be carried out, because 

 if any crop has not proper room for the development of all its 

 parts, how can it show its true character, or attain that degree of 

 productiveness which ought to be the main object of the cultivator 

 to secure ? About half of the peas and potatoes grown in private 

 gardens in this country are completely starved for the want of air 

 to circulate between them ; and in the case of peas sown at four and 

 five feet apart (the tall ones I mean) half of the ground and labour 

 is lost. 



