18 GENERAL KEMABKS. 



Cress, Leek, Nasturtium, Okra, Onion, Salsify, Scorzonens, 

 and small Herb seeds in general, may be kept two years. 



Artichoke, Asparagus, Egg-plant, Endive, Fetticus, Let- 

 tuce, Mustard, Parsley, Skirret and Spinach seed, may with 

 care be preserved three years. 



Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Celery, Kale, Radish, 

 and Turnip seed, will keep four years, if properly attended to. 



Beet, Cucumber, Gourd, Melon, Pumpkin and Squash, 

 also Burnet, Chervil, and Sorrel Seed, have been known to 

 grow freely when five and even seven years old j but it is 

 not prudent to venture seed in the garden, of the soundness 

 of which we are not certain. 



In order to put such on their guard as may attempt to 

 raise seed either for their own use or for the market, I 

 would observe that great care is necessary, as it is an indu- 

 bitable fact, that if seed of similar species be raised near 

 each other, degeneracy will be the consequence,' it is, 

 therefore, difficult for any one man to raise all sorts of seed, 

 good and true to their kind, in any one garden. 



If roots of any kind become defective, they are unfit for 

 seed, as the annexed fact will show. I once planted for seed 

 some beautiful orange-coloured roots of Carrots, but as they 

 had been previously grown with some of a lemon-colour, 

 they produced seed of a mixed and spurious breed, and as 

 this is not a solitary instance of degeneracy from the like 

 cause, I have come to the conclusion, that as in the animal 

 frame, so it is in the vegetable system disorders rery 

 frequently lay dormant from one generation to another, and 

 at length break out with all their vigour ; I would therefore 

 advise seed growers not to attempt to " bring a clean thing 

 out of an unclean," but if they find a mixture of varieties 

 amongst their seed roots, to reject the whole, or they wilJ 

 infallibly have spurious s^ed 



(t/ 5 * In order to aid th- novice in gardening, the following 

 brief classification of such .>peci- s and varieties as comprise 

 our catalogue of vegetable ;t( ds is subn itted, and it is pre- 

 sumed that the connecting links, and explication of this 

 table will not be altogether uninteresting 10 the experienced 

 gardener and xced^iun u 



