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occupation of M. C. Lecomte, and comprises 1 acre 16 perches. 

 The rent is 56 per annum, and the annual expenditure for 

 manure is '96. The plant, including bell-glasses, frames and 

 lights, implements, horse, etc., had cost between 600 and 

 650. 



" The next garden I visited was in the occupation of M. 

 Laurent, who rents 2 acres of land, including house, etc., at 

 120 per annum. His stable manure cost him 200 per annum, 

 under a series of contracts, at rates varying from Hd. to 2d. 

 per horse per day. This plant is said to be worth 1,400, 

 including the cost of a machine for warming frames with hot 

 water instead of manure, for the purpose of growing early 

 carrots, and 200 for hand-glasses and lights for frames. He 

 has three courses of cropping, viz., sows turnips (Navets de 

 Vertu, race Marteau) at the end of January and beginning of 

 February ; in May he plants melons as the turnips are sold, 

 and then pricks in cauliflowers between the melons. After the 

 melons are sold, corn-salad or winter spinach is sown between 

 the cauliflowers, which are marketed in the autumn, and the 

 land is cleared during the winter." 



BOTTLING BRITISH FRUITS. 



FRUIT can be "bottled" (or canned, as it is termed in 

 America) in two or three ways ; either by boiling or baking 

 it before it is put into the bottles, or by filling the bottles 

 with the ripe, raw fruit, and boiling in a stew-pan of water 

 filled up to the necks of the bottles. All these methods are 

 described here ; the last mentioned looks best when done, 

 but is the most trouble ; the baking plan gives the least 

 trouble, and is equally effective if the sealing process is 

 carefully attended to. Dr. Trail's method of making flannel 

 air-tight seems to be the best for this purpose, where the 

 fruit is wanted to keep a long time and in large quantities. 



The jam-makers, who boil down fruit alone in summer 

 into pure " pulp," for after use, adopt a system of sulphuring 

 the jars ; this is also the ordinary method in German 

 families. Flower of sulphur is melted in any old saucepan, 

 and then bits of rag are dipped into it, and allowed to cool. 



