WHEN TO COMMENCE A. GARDEN. l6l 



winter both are ready to crumble into soil and 

 the ground can be thoroughly and deeply cross- 

 ploughed. This gives the frost a chance to 

 sweeten and pulverize it. In the spring it 

 should be again well enriched, ploughed deeply, 

 and planted in early potatoes, sweet corn, peas, 

 and similar summer crops that would secure good 

 cultivation. By July and August these crops 

 are gathered and your land is clear. Again ma- 

 nure it heavily, plough deeply, very deeply with 

 a " lifting subsoil plough," and now your ground 

 can be laid out as you desire, and in one short 

 year will be in as high a state of culture and fer- 

 tility as the majority of gardens around you. 



Still if you are bent on grand success, you 

 will not be half satisfied, but by most liberal 

 cultivation will secure increasingly large returns 

 as the years roll on. 



By the course described, however, you can 



lay out your garden in accordance with your ap- 

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