APPENDIX. . 143. 
tion of it will give you some early spinach and peas. | 
Radishes may also be planted from time to time along 
the fruit border, but too much of this will injure the 
trees. A few egg-plants and peppers may also be 
planted in the fruit border, but not immediately under 
the trees. By the exercise of a little judgment, a 
variety of things may be made to follow each other in 
this way, so that no spot of ground need necessarily 
remain unoccupied for a single day during the whole 
season. : 
The ground must be kept free from weeds, and well 
worked at all times. When the weather is dry, use the 
hoe more frequently than usual, (a narrow, long-pronged 
rake is best,) which will enable the ground to absorb 
moisture from the atmosphere, of which it always con- 
tains some, even in the dryest weather. Frequent 
stiring of the soil is important in another respect, in 
keeping it open and porous, and enabling it to take 
up the gases of the atmosphere, which constitute no 
inconsiderable portion of the food of plants. It will 
also give an earlier and better crop. Discard the prac- 
tice of earthing your plants, except for the purpose of 
blanching. MHiulling should not be tolerated, except in 
soils naturally retentive of moisture; the true remedy 
for which consists in underdraining, and not in hilling. 
The preceding remarks are mostly of a general 
nature, but a few words may be said here of the time 
and labor necessary to cultivate and keep in order a 
. garden like that here described. A person familiar 
with the operations to be performed, and expert in the 
use of implements, can generally perform the necessary 
labor (unless he is dronish) without detriment to his 
