1 68 A YEAR'S WORK IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



month, and nice green pods for picking may be secured in the 

 autumn. 



CARROT. Thin the main crops early, and sow a few rows of 

 Champion Horn or Intermediate, for use in a small state during late 

 summer, when they make an elegant and delicate dish. 



CAULIFLOWERS must have water in dry weather ; they are the 

 most hungry and thirsty plants in the garden, but pay well for good 

 living. Plant out from frames as fast as ready, for they do no good 

 to stand crowded and starving. 



CELERY trenches must be prepared in time, though, strange 

 to say, this task is generally deferred until the plants have really 

 become weak through overcrowding. In a small garden it is never 

 advisable to have Celery very forward, for the simple reason that 

 trenches cannot be made for it until Peas come off and other early 

 crops are over. To insure fine Celery, the cultivator must be in 

 advance of events rather than lag behind them. Plenty of manure 

 must be used ; it is scarcely possible, in fact, to employ too much, 

 and liberality is not waste, because the ground will be in capital con- 

 dition for the next crop. There are many modes of planting Celery, 

 but the simplest is to make the trenches four feet apart, and a foot 

 and a half wide, and put the plants six to nine inches apart, according 

 to the sorts. This work must be done neatly, with an artistic finish. 

 In planting take off suckers, and if any of the leaves are blistered, 

 pinch the blisters, and finish by dusting the plantation with soot. As 

 Celery loves moisture, give water freely in dry weather. 



CUCUMBERS of excellent quality may be grown on ridges or hills, 

 should the season be favourable. Supposing the cultivator to have 

 the means of obtaining plenty of manure, ridges, which are to run 

 east and west, are preferable to hills. The soil should be thrown out 

 three feet wide and two feet deep, and be laid upon the north side. 

 Then put three feet of hot manure in the trench, and cover with the 

 soil that was taken out, so as to form an easy slope to the south, and 

 with a steep slope on the north side carefully finished to prevent its 

 crumbling down before the season ends. The plants should be put 

 out on the slope as soon as possible after the ridges are made ready, 

 and it would be well to cover them with hand-lights until they have 

 made a free growth, and the weather has become quite summery. It 

 is a good plan to grow one or two rows of Runner Beans a short 

 distance from the ridge on the north side to give shelter, and in case 

 of bad weather after the plants are in bearing, pea-sticks or dry litter 

 laid about them lightly will afford protection, but stable manure 



