ROT 



523 



RUB 



Carrots 

 Kohl-rabi . 

 Swedisli turnip . 

 Common turnip . 



24 

 17 

 IG 

 14'- 



" Brassicas after raspberries or straw- 

 berries ; peas after brassicas ; celery 

 after peas; celery after asparagus; 

 beans and brocoli after celery ; carrots 



2. It is important that the exuvia; of f'f parsnips or beet after brocoli."— 

 a preceding crop should not be offen- Gcrd. Mas 



sive to Its successor. 



The writer of the Kitchen Garden 



Thus, brassicas will not grow health- Calender in the Gardener's Chronicle for 



ily upon soil where the immediately 

 previous crop was of the same tribe ; 



1S44, (p. 72,) says, " the chief rule is 

 never to have two crops of the same 



but if the ground be pared and burnt, class directly following each other."' 

 they will grow luxuriantly; and the He adds, that -'celery is a good pre- 

 same occurs to ground exhausted by paration for carrots, turnips, parsnips, 

 strawberries: if it be burned and ma- onions, and early cauliflowers, or for 

 nured, strawberries will grow as vigor- peas, with potatoes and winter greens 

 ously as upon fresh ground, but they or brocoli between the rows. Autumn- 

 will not do so if manure only is applied, sown onions, followed by spinach, let- 

 It has also been observed that the tuce, &c., and early cauliflowers by au- 

 roots of plants placed in water give out tumn onions. Spring-sown onions are 

 theircharacteristicflavoursto theliquid; well succeeded by cabbages in beds, 

 but on this, as evidence that they emit and scarlet runners between ; and if the 

 excrements, no great reliance can be ' cabbages remain through the summer 

 placed, for some of the roots, during i and next winter, the ground will be for 

 removal from the soil, must be wound- j celery, potatoes, and peas in the spring." 

 ed. The fict that the roots of plants In gardens of limited extent it is not al- 

 do give out peculiar and varying mat- j ways practicable to observe a system- 

 tcrs to tiie soil which sustains them,iatic rotation of crops, even though it 

 aids to explain why one rotation of crops i were as important to successful culture 



is superior to another. 



as some writers declare. For all prac- 



3. As fusiform-rooted crops should tical purposes deep tillage will suffice, 

 precede or follow a fibrous-rooted crop, : and tliere can be little doubt that if the 

 because the one draws its chief supply j land be deeply dug or ploughed after 

 of food from a greater depth than an- each crop, and the exhaustion supplied 

 other, and, conse(]uently, exhausts a by manure, that the same description of 



diff"erent portion of pasturage ; founded 

 upon these consiilerations, and sanc- 

 tioned by practice, the following rota 

 tions are recommended : — 



Onions. 



Lettuce. 



Cabbage. 



Carrots. 



Manure. 



Turnips. 



Celery. 



Peas. 



Potatoes. 



Manure. 



Mr. Kelly, of Airthrey Castle, Scot- 

 land, says, that " on poor ground the 

 rotation he finds best is celery ; second 

 season, caulitlowers and red beet ; third, '^^^^^ situation 

 onions ; fourth, derman green, or peas. 

 By digging deep, and manuring abun 



vegetable growth may be successfully 

 produced for successive seasons — in- 

 deed the only inmate of the garden 

 which we have seen tire the land, as it is 

 termed, is the pea. Some market gar- 

 deners, whether from habit, or an idea 

 that particular localities answer better 

 for certain vegetables, invariably use 

 them for such, and year after year the 

 same crop may be seen growing there- 

 on. 



ROTHIA trifoliata. Hardy trailing 

 annual. Seeds. Common soil, and a 



ROXBURGH I A. Two species. 



dantly, for celery, the ground islrought I ^'°^'^ evergreen climbers. Suckers. 



into such fine tilth, that the whole rola- Light turfy loam. 



lion is often gone through without any ROYAL BAY. Lauriis nobilia. 



gone tnrougli witnout any 

 further addition, and without failing in 



ROYEXA. Eleven species. Green- 



any of the crops. Another good rota- | 'io"s° evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings, 

 tion is strawberries, celery, cauliflow- Loam, peat, and sand. 



ers." — Gard. Chron. 



ROY LEA elesans. Green-house 



Mr. Errington, gardener at Oulton I evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Light rich 

 Park, Cheshire, recommends the fol- soil. 



lowing as good successions : — 



RUBIA. Five species. Hardy herb- 



