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considerable beauty is the Tomato. In my own district 

 we cannot grow it out of doors, but in many warm districts 

 this is done largely every year. It can be trained up a 

 trellis or fence, as can also the Vegetable Marrow, another 

 extremely valuable crop. Another plant to be grown out 

 of doors in warm districts only is the Egg Plant. The Ice 

 Plant and the ornamental Chilian Beet may also be 

 included. 



The Globe Artichoke and the Jerusalem Artichoke are 

 useful plants for hedge purposes. Sometimes the last- 

 named sort will flower in England, but it is not often. 

 Both are splendid food vegetables, and far from being 

 unsightly. 



We now come to saladings, which include Lettuces, 

 Radishes, and Corn Salad. These are all extremely useful, 

 and should most certainly be given a place in the picturesque 

 vegetable garden. 



There are some people who would include the Red 

 Pickling Cabbage in the picturesque vegetable garden, 

 for they say it possesses the novel appearance and beauty 

 of form of some of the crops I have mentioned. It is one 

 which might go in or not as you like. A good variety is 

 Early Erfurt Blood Red. 



There are several other crops which might be included, 

 but I will only mention that known as Spinach Beet or 

 Seakale Beet. Although at times this is rather a coarse 

 growing plant, its fine rich-green leaves, and its creamy 

 white leaf-midribs, make it well worthy of a place in the 

 garden. It is easy to grow, and valuable for food. The 

 gathering period lasts from July to the following June, 

 the green portion of the leaves being used in the manner 

 of Spinach and the white midribs as Seakale or Celery. 



Cultural instructions for growing all the above can be 

 found in any good book on vegetable gardening, so I do 

 not propose to deal with them here. But what is equally 

 important is how to arrange them, and I hope the following 

 notes will be useful. 



Take, for a first example, a row of tall Peas, It was 



