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Leeks— 1 oz. will sow a bed 5 feet by 5 feet. 



Lettuce— \ oz. will sow 50 feet. 



Mustard — Same as Cress. 



Onion — 1 oz. will sow 40 feet. 



Parsley — 1 oz. will sow 50 feet. 



Peas— 1 lb. will sow 30 feet of a drill 5 inches broad, of the small, and 36 



feet of the large sorts. 

 Parsnips — 1 oz. will sow 100 feet. 

 Potatoes — 1 peck will plant 100 feet if the seed is good, and cut to 2 eyes to 



a set only. 

 Radish — 1 oz. will sow 20 feet. 

 Spinach— 1 oz. will sow 60 feet. 

 Turnip — 1 oz. will sow 100 feet. 



Cabbage, Cauliflowers, Savoys, and all the Brassicas should be got in packets, 

 as a very small quantity of seed will raise enough for most gardens cultivated 

 by amateurs. Indeed, it is advisable to get the plants from the nursery or 

 from some obliging friend, and so save a great amount of worry. 



In some collections of seeds offered by enterprising seedsmen, I have some- 

 times seen 3 oz, of Cabbage included for gardens of ^ of an acre ! Why, it is 

 more than enough to raise plants for the whole ground ; of Celery and all other 

 vegetables not included above, a moderate packet is sufficient. A mere pinch 

 of Celery will raise hundreds of plants. 



Concerning annual flower-seeds, some of the best got-up seedsmen's cata- 

 logues afford a good deal of information ; and to these I must refer the amateur 

 in the meantime, until I treat of them in a chapter on flower-gardening. 



Kinds to Sow. — It is not enough for the inexperienced to know the proper 

 quantity of seed required to sow a given space, it is of greater importance to 

 know what kinds to sow. The kinds named below have been fully proved by 

 the writer of this, and he can therefore recommend them. Almost every 

 variety recommended has been well proved, and I have carefully avoided 

 anything savouring of novelty which has not been found equal or superior to 

 older varieties. The inexperienced should not be led astray by the glowing 

 accounts of new introductions, as a great percentage of really new vegetables 

 are inferior to well-known kinds, and the really good are sometimes nothing 

 more than old kinds re-named. At the same time, really meritorious novelties 

 are occasionally introduced. In this selection, I range the names according to 

 their earliness. 



Beet — Dell's Dark Red, Nutting's Selected; and for extremely thin poor soils, 

 Egyptian Turnip, rooted. 



Broad Beans — Early Mazagan, Seville Longpod, Broad Windsor. 

 French Beans — Negro Longpod, Canadian Wonder. 



Brussels Sprouts — All depends on the strain ; Greens or Borecole, ditto. 

 Brocoli — Veitch's Autumn, Snow's Winter White, Purple Sprouting, White 

 Sprouting, Leamington, Elletson's Mammoth, Dilcock's Bride. 



Cauliflower — Early London, Dwarf Mammoth, Walcheren, Veitch's Autumn.. 

 Carrots — Sutton's Champion Short Horn, James's Intermediate, Altringham — 

 the Short Horn for earliest, and the Intermediate for shallow, soils. 



Cabbage — Little Pixie, small, but of the finest quality; and if planted close, 

 will yield more for the table than the large-growing kinds, many of which I 

 consider unfit for the table at all. Dwarf York, fine for sowing in April to 

 keep up an autumn supply: sown at the end of July, and planted out in 

 September, it is fit for use in April and May. The same may be said of 



