498 THE GARDENER. [Nov. 



Jersey walking-sticks. Such being the case, recourse must agcain be made to the 

 manure-heap, the spade, and water-pot as the talisman. We proceed to detail iu 

 a general way our own mode of rotation. Celery with us is considered a sort of 

 lead ing-ofF crop: the Celery quarter is chosen from gi'ound which has been occu- 

 pied probably more than one year with Sprouts, Brocolis, and winter Greens. 

 Ridges for single rows are thrown out 5 feet apart ; this, with the eartbing-up, 

 amounts almost to a trenching. "When the Celery is gone, or it may be when only 

 a part is cleared, an opening is made at one end of the quarter, crosswise to the 

 ridges, the soil is turned over to the depth of the ridges and levelled, then rotten 

 manure thrown on the surface as the work proceeds. 



After a few weeks' exposure to the weather, the land is broken over with wooden 

 rakes, which mixes the manure with the surface-soil, and Onions are sown in 

 lines : this management, with a dusting of guano after the crop is thinned, is 

 found sufficient, with attention to watering, for a fine crop of Onions. In 

 September, after the Onions are gathered off, the ground receives a dress- 

 ing of manure, and a portion of it is planted with Cabbages which have been 

 once transplanted from the seed-bed, the remainder of the ground being filled up 

 in spring. Unless part of the ground is wanted, the quarter remains under the 

 Cabbages until winter again, a crop of good Cabbage-sprouts being got after the 

 first cutting. The land is now trenched 2 feet deep, the leaves and stumps of the 

 Cabbages thrown in the bottom, a dressing of manure given just over the first 

 spit of soil. When the trench is turned over, the manure will be about 15 inches 

 from the sui'face, and the quarter is ready for Carrots, Parsnips, Salsify, or 

 Scorzonera. The quarter, it will be seen, has had two manurings at different 

 depths — namely, the Cabbages at bottom, then the manure in trenching. After 

 the Carrots are removed, the ground is again manured on the surface, and only 

 dug this time, and it is ready for Peas 5 feet apart, with rows of Spinage between ; 

 the Peas find depth and a good pasturage in this way, and ought to be watered 

 abundantly. We forgot to remark above, that the best Spinage and Lettuces are 

 grown on the tops of the Celery ridges, sometimes Turnips and Cauliflowers. It 

 might be supposed that some seasons this would be too dry a position for any of 

 these crops, but it is not so, the additional depth and warmth of the soil com- 

 pensating for the seemingly disadvantageous position. After the Peas come 

 winter stuff again — Savoys, late Brocolis, and winter Greens as cottagers' Kale 

 and Borecoles. 



The above is a course of rotation for some of the main crops in a garden, but, 

 of course, it does not include all. The parts and crops of a garden are fragment- 

 ary and miscellaneous. A south border is generally chosen for early Peas. In 

 the south the Peas are off in time for the second sowing of Kidney-beans : these 

 are followed by Endive for winter use. In the following spring the ground will 

 be available for early Cauliflowers, Turnips, or Lettuces. Breadths of early 

 Potatoes on south borders are followed by autumn Cauliflowers or Snow's winter 

 Brocolis. Turnips for winter, winter Spinage, and spring Brocolis, can always 

 follow Potatoes as they are dug up. 



A good patch of Asparagus is annually lifted for forcing ; the ground with simple 

 digging . answers for a second planting of Cauliflowers, to be trenched on the 

 removal with additional manure. Land which has been under Asparagus is not 

 poor if the Asparagus has been very highly cultivated ; it answers well for Straw- 

 berries after the Cauliflowers. We trench down annually, after the fruit is gone, a 

 large piece of Strawberries ; if these have been annually mulched with a good thick- 

 ness of short grass to keep the fruit clean, and again in the autumn with manure, 

 the ground will be by no means poor, though the Strawberry plants will be inad- 



