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generally an old celery-bed ; trenching it deeply and planting immediately, 

 and watering copiously until the plants are established. Where this is not 

 available, the system is to prepare a piece of ground by trenching and 

 ■manuring as above, marking it into 4-feet beds, with 15-inch allej's between. 

 In autumn or early spring, a row of strong plants are planted in the alleys, 

 and the beds between cropped with summer lettuce. As the strawberries 

 advance in growth, the young plants from the runners are carefully la3'ered 

 among the lettuce, and soon become strong, vigorous plants, producing heavy 

 crops of very large fruit. 



1567. In small gardens, strawberry banks or terraces are an excellent device ; 

 they are formed as follows : — A space of ground of any given length, and six 

 feet wide, being marked out, a wall nine inches high is formed of stones, flints, 

 •or old wood, the space between the walls being filled with compost, such as 

 we have described. Upon this compost and nine inches within the first walls, 

 two more are added and filled up in the same way ; and thus the work 

 proceeds, a row of plants occupying the space between each pair of walls, until 

 the space comes to a single row of plants at the top. In a bank of this 

 ■kind, the walls, if running due east and west, insm-e both a very early and 

 very late supply of fruit, and it may be planted at any time, taking care, 

 at planting, that the ground slopes inward slightly, so as to secure a full 

 sujDplj' of moisture at the roots. Stones, clinkers from the furnace, or other 

 arrangements for preventing evaporation, and providing a clean surface for 

 the fi-uit to rest upon, are easily applied to this mode of cultivation ; while 

 copious waterings with manure-water from the time the plants show blos- 

 soms until the fruit is ripe, will greatly assist this or any other sj'stem of 

 cultivation. 



§ 4.— Kitchen-Garden. 



1568. The gardener who would have everj^thing thrive and prosper, must 

 •exercise the greatest vigilance during this month. Apart from the necessity 

 of cropping and removing such as have ceased to become profitable, his atten- 

 tion is drawn towards the midtitudes of garden pests, which exhibit their 

 effects at this time of the year more than any other. Caterpillars should be 

 looked for, and destroyed as quickly as they can be discovered, — at least, 

 before they fatten on the produce of the garden, which they will do to the 

 ■deterioration of the crops in a very short time, if not prevented. The ravages 

 • of these insects produce an effect at once uubightly and discreditable. Savoys 

 and cabbages, riddled by caterpillai-s, are at once unpleasant to the eye and 

 suggestive of neglect. A free use of lime, which should be scattered over the 

 plants on dewy mornings, will, in a great measure, save them : the insects 

 should, nevertheless, be hunted and destroyed on every possible occasion. 

 The wireworm and other insects become troublesome at this time, and may 

 ihe trapped by means of potatoes cut in half, and the cut sides laid down- 

 wards, I find it a good plan to trench all the vacant ground at this time of 



