No. 9. 



Fragments. 



291 



plants, select a warm border in your garden, 

 put on about three inches of good manure, dig 

 U in well and pulverize as fine as a rake and 

 willing heart c;in make it, then sow a small 

 quantity of Early York, Bullock's Heart, or 

 Early Battersca cabbage seed : these will be 

 tit to plant out in a few weeks, and afford you 

 a supply of tolerably early cabbages for table 

 use. The trouble will be trifling, and you 

 should not omit making the effort to secure a 

 supply. 



Peas. — Sow peas to come in when the 

 more earlier sown has become too hard. By 

 sowing a few rows once a fortnight tor a few 

 weeks you may secure yourself a continuous 

 supply. As your peas advance in sii.e, earth 

 them up; keep them clean, and be sure to 

 stick them before they get too high. 



Caulijlmvcrs. — Cauliflower seed may be 

 sown in open beds this month. 



Deans. — Plant your crop of beans for early 

 table use, and be sure to work them as they 

 require it. 



Lettuce. — Sow small beds of this vegetable 

 throughout this month at intervals so as to se- 

 cure continuous supplies of tender heads. 



Radishes, small salluding and spinach 

 should all be sown early in this month. 



Carrots, parsneps, beets, onions, turneps, 

 may all be sown, but the earlier they are in 

 the better. — Farmer and Gardener. 



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Fragments.— 7Vo. VI. 



" Gather up the Fragments that nothing be lost." 

 ECONOMY. 



The great art of economy in domestic life, 

 is comprised in the two very homely phrases, 

 " to turn every thing to account," and " to 

 make the most of what you have.''^ But their 

 meaning is often perverted, and the habit of 

 turning every thins; to an account, and of 

 making the most of every thing, is ascribed 

 to those who are actuated, not by a laudable 

 desire to produce as mucii comfort as their 

 circumstances will admit, but by an inclina' 

 lion to indulge in a strong propensity to stingl 

 ness. Between extravagance and parsimony, 

 the widest possible interval exists ; and that 

 economy, that management and application 

 of means, which is deemed perfectly consist 

 cnt with the most rigid virtue, and the mosi 

 generous impulse, is of too admirable a char- 

 acter to partake either of the spendthrift's 

 criminality or of the miser's meanness. 



In the young and thoughtless, a spirit of 

 emulation often shows itself, and sometimes 

 leads to the destruction of their domestic hap- 

 piness. This unbecoming spirit is the source 

 of discomfort, extravagance, and ruin, by urg- 

 ing on the weak-minded to vie with their su- 

 periors in fortune, and to sacrifice so much 



to appearances, as to render themselves des- 

 titute of the means of enjoying the substa.i- 

 tial comforts of life. 



Young housekeepers should consider the 

 serious consequences that are likely to result 

 from setting out in a style of lavish expendi- 

 ture; and they should remembi'r that, while 

 it is easy to extend, it is extremely difficult 

 to reduce, an establishment. One expensive 

 article requires another to correspond with it, 

 and one expensive entertainnvnt imposes the 

 necessity of other equally exj)ensive enter- 

 tainments; for it requires no smnll share of 

 moral courage, to risk the loss of consequence 

 which may result from allowing the world, an 

 it is called, to surmise, that we are not so rich 

 as may have been imagined. And when the 

 time comes, as sooner or latter it assuredly 

 must, when the means are not adequate to 

 the demands, what sacrifices are made, and 

 what unseemly contrivances are resorted to, 

 in order to keep up, at the last, a poor rem- 

 nant of " appearanccf and, when this can 

 no longer be effected, then comes the humilia- 

 tion, with all the bitter feelings attendant 

 upon retrenchment ; of all which feelings, 

 the bitterest is, the dread of being degraded 

 in the world's estimation. 



SELF-GOVERNMEJfT. 



No man, whose appetites are his masters, 

 can perform the duties of his nature with 

 strictness and regularity. He that would be 

 superior to external influences, mui^t first be- 

 come superior to his own passions. 



UNIVERSAL GOOD. 



All skill ought to be exerted for universal 

 good. Every man has owed much to others, 

 and ought to pay the kindness that he has 

 received. 



INDUSTRY. 



Whatever busies the mind without corrupt- 

 ing it, has, at least, this use, that it rescues 

 the day from idleness; and he that is never 

 idle, will not often be vicious. 



INDOLENCE. 



Perhaps every man may date the predomi- 

 nance of those desires tnat disturb his life, 

 and contaminate his conscience, from some 

 unhappy hour, when too much leisure exposed 

 him to their incursions ; for he has lived with 

 little observation, either on himself, or others, 

 who does not know that to be idle is to be 

 vicious. 



FRUGALITY. 



Without frugality none can be rich, and 

 with it, very few would be poor. 



A man's voluntary expenses should not ex- 

 ceed his income. 



Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. 



