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on with their work, but without 

 being able to account for the cause 

 of it. I recollect a similar circum- 

 stance happening, in unloading a 

 vessel laden with Virginian wheat, 

 some years since at Liverpool when 

 it was said to be caused by a minute 

 insect. Oats are not extensively 

 cultivated in any part of America, 

 and are every where bad ; but those 

 of this state, of the worst possible 



quality; they have certainly kernel 

 sufficient to enable them to vegetate, 

 but are, notwithstanding, light as 

 chaff. The cultivated oat appears 

 again returning to the original grass. 

 I never saw any oats that would be 

 marketable in England, except some 

 in the German tract in Pennsyl- 

 vania, and they would admit of 

 comparison with such only as we 

 should esteem very moderate. 



Communications in Gardening, by Mr. Weston ; from tlie Repertory 



of Arts. 



BELIEVING the following alphabetical list of all the useful plants 

 now cultivated in the most esteemed kitchen-gardens in England, 

 explaining at one view the number of crops of each sort requisite to 

 produce a constant succession of vegetables throughout the year, for the 

 use of the table, with the proper time of sowing and planting, may be 

 acceptable to those of your readers who are not proficients in the art of 

 gardening ; your inserting it in your useful publication, will oblige 

 your's &c. 



Richard Weston. 



Names of the Plants. 

 Alisander, 

 Angelica, . 

 Artichokes, 

 Asparagus, seed, 

 ■ i-oots, . 



• forced, 



■ in autumn. 



Balm, 

 Ba.sil, 

 Beans, first crop. 



No. of Crops. 

 . 1 



2 

 . 1 



1 

 . 1 



5 

 . 1 



1 

 . 1 



1 



early sorts, 



late sorts. 



Beets, white, 

 — — red, 



marble-rooted, 



— — — for seed, . 

 Boorcolc or Hale, 



Anjou for cattle. 



Borage, 



young for ballad. 



Time of sowing and planting. 

 Sow, March, August. 



March, August. 



Plant, March or April. 

 Sow, March or April. 

 Plant, March or April. 



Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. 



Cut down the stalkj, July. 

 Plant, March or April. 

 Sow or plant, March or April. 

 Plant, Oct. under a south wall. 

 Transplant Feb. or March. 

 Plant, Jan. Feb. March, July. 

 Feb. March, April, July. 



Sow, Feb. or March. 



Plant, Oct. or Nov. 

 Sow, March, April, June. 



May, June. 



Feb. or March. 



April, Mav, June. 



