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change of subjects for the winter. But we shall deal with this 

 cleared ground more at length under the head of Eolation 

 Cropping. 



Isext the peas should follow as many more early potatoes as the 

 ground will admit of, or the family will be likely to require ; and 

 then come the onions, carrots, and parsnips in continuous beds, also 

 beetroot, salsify, and scorzonera. These last two are not popular 

 vegetables, but with some families they are much esteemed. The 

 first planting of the autumn-sown cauliflowers, saved through the 

 winter, may be put out between the asparagus beds, and the second 

 should follow the other crops on the main square ; and next these, 

 summer cabbages, leeks, Brussels sprouts, scarlet runners, 

 turnips, savoys, broad beans, vegetable marrows, and any other 

 vegetables that may be required which are not named above. 



But no one should regret seeing, for the space of a week or two, 

 a piece of ground unoccupied (during summer), so that it is 

 trenched up, that the elements may play about it and pulverize its 

 substance, thus rendering it much more genial and sweeter for the 

 next crop, because the roots of all plants need the assistance of these 

 natural purifiers, to replenish the ground again with those agencies 

 which the previous crop exhausted it of. 



EOTATION CEOPPING. 



This is of such importance in a villa garden, where space is 

 limited, that on it depends much of the success of the cultivator, 

 although it cannot be carried out \vith any degree of precision 

 where space is short, as it can in places of more extent. The prin- 

 cipal rule to be observed, as far as possible, is for all land that has 

 been cropped with cauliflowers, brocoli, or cabbage, to be followed 

 with potatoes. Failing these, scarlet runners or broad beans. 

 Celery should follow peas, which, after a short crop, the next year 

 comes in admirably for brocoli or any kind of winter stuff*. 

 Onions are best followed the same autumn by cabbage. Turnips 

 should either follow beans or peas ; they are not so well to follow 

 any of the brassica tribe. Carrots in old gardens are very particular 

 subjects ; a plot of ground ought to be trenched every year early in 

 winter, and be allowed to remain until sowing-time. When the 

 winter spinach is destroyed, a liberal dressing of lime is beneficial 

 to cause a speedy decomposition of all organic matter. The ground 

 then becomes vacant in ample time for scarlet runners or for vege- 

 table marrows, and ridge cucumbers for pickling. Savoys succeed 

 best on ground that has been exposed all winter. They should 

 follow on a spot only partially exhausted the previous year ; as also 

 should the firt^t crop of Brussels sprouts, when the land can be 

 spared. Beetroot is not very particular in the choice of a spot, so 

 that the soil is in a kindly friable condition. 



I have omitted to number the whole of the principal square, 

 because it is impossible for any one to give the precise breadths of 

 diff'erent vegetables required by different famdies ; as, for instance, 

 some require cauliflowers all through the summer, while others will 



