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as a board. If you are likely to want the mould, wheel all of 

 it to a heap at the most convenient part of the premises. If 

 the garden happens to be a great length, say a hundred yards 

 or near it, it would be as well to have a cross-walk or path 

 also, about half-way down, instead of having to go the whole 

 round when you are at work on the middle ; but this is a 

 mere question of convenience. When you come to trench and 

 dig the whole space, throw all sorts of stones and rubbish, 

 brickbats, tiles, oyster-shells, broken glass and crockery^, brick 

 lubbish, and everything else that is hard and durable into 

 these paths ; and when you have thrown all that you meet 

 with in digging and trenching, procure enough of any kind of 

 rough stuff to fill them nearly up with, so tliat there may be, 

 say, three inches left for road-sand or gravel, to make a facing 

 good and dry to walk on, or wheel a barrow on. 



Compartments and their Management. — You may now, 

 with stakes of wood driven down here and there, mark your 

 ground out into compartments, that you may number as you 

 please, say from one up to twenty or more ; this facilitates a 

 system which every gardener, professional or amateur, ought 

 to adopt — that is, make memorandums of his garden opera- 

 tions, taking especial account of the times he sows and gathers, 

 what department it is in, how he manui-ed or dressed (if at 

 all), and the general state, if not actual quantities of the crop ; 

 and, if he sells, what they brought him. By this he may 

 always avoid sowing or planting the same thing twice on the 

 same spot, until he has sown the whole ground in turn. For 

 instance, say he plants jJ^o. 1 with potatoes in November 1849, 

 he need jiot plant No. 1 with potatoes again until all the 

 other departments have been planted with them ; or, perhaps, 

 he may plant No. 1 with potatoes in November, No. 6 with 

 the same vegetable in December, and No. 10 and No. 12 in 

 February. Here are four compartments engaged in potatoes 

 the same season. He can avoid planting these four -with 

 potatoes for four or five years again, only by looking at his 

 book. It is the same with all the rest of the crops : carrots, 

 beetroot, parsnips, turnips, or cabbages of all kinds, may be 

 regulated in the same way ; for crops ought to be varied as 

 much as possible, and the ground should be dunged or other- 

 wise at every cropping, according to the. plants that have 

 come off, as well as those that go on. ^Yhe^l the garden is so 

 marked out, the alleys should be made at the marks ; and the 



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