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ers for the London market a Banksian Medal, for energy- 

 shown in the business, believing that while he had benefit- 

 ed himself, he had benefited the community. I have no 

 doubt whatever, that, in situations where irrigation could 

 be used at pleasure, and regular plantations made as for 

 Cranberries, that, grown in this way, — judging from the 

 enormous price they sell at, picked up as they are in the 

 present hap-hazard way — at present prices, an acre would 

 sell for $4000 or $5000. 



COLEWORT, OR COLLARDS — (Bmssica oleracea.) 

 Collards, as grown in this countiy, are nothing more than 

 sowings of any early variety of Cabbage, in rows about 

 one foot apart, which are cut off" for use when 6 or 8 

 inches high. Spring sowings may be made every two 

 weeks from April to June ; and in fall from September, as 

 late as the season will admit. I have never seen them 

 sold in our markets. 



C0RN.-(^« Maya.) 



The varieties* known as " Sweet," are the sorts most 

 cultivated for culinary use in the green state. It may be 

 either sown in rows 4h feet apart, and the seeds planted at 

 8 or 9 inches in the rows, or planted in hills at distances 

 of 3 or 4 feet each way, according to the variety grown 

 or the richness of the soil in which it is planted. The 

 taller the variety, or richer the soil, the greater should be 



