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The pathways between the beds are afterwards dug 

 out 8 to 10 in. deep, the soil being placed at the end 

 of the rows until it is again required. The trenches 

 thus made in the pathways are filled with three parts 

 of fresh manure to one part of old manure or leaves. 

 The heat generated from the manure in the pathways 

 causes the Sorrel plants to grow, and forcing has 

 commenced. Watering with tepid water occasionally, 

 and giving more or less air according to the state of 

 the weather, constitute the principal points to which 

 attention must be given. 



About fifteen or eighteen days after the manure has 

 been placed between the frames, leaves will be ready 

 to pick and will continue to appear for about two 

 months. Sorrel beds forced in this way will give a 

 fair yield the second year, but afterwards the plants 

 .do not possess sufficient vitality to give a reasonable 

 crop. 



When the crop is finished, the manure is removed 

 from the trenches, and these are refilled with the 

 soil taken from them at first, after which the frames 

 and lights are used for other purposes, and the Sorrel 

 bed is again open to the air. 



SEAKALE 



Seakale (Crambe maritima) the " Chou mar in " of 

 the French growers although now so extensively 

 cultivated by market-gardeners in England for the 

 blanched leaf-stalks, is curiously enough not yet a 

 great article of commerce in France, owing probably 

 to the difficulty in securing sufficiently large tracts of 

 land, that are so necessary to raise a quantity of 



