448 Of Gardens. 



Expense of cultivating ten acres of garden ground, where a 

 considerable proportion of the soil is covered with hand- 

 glasses and frames. 



Rent of ten acres, at L.I per acre, per annum, .100 



Poor-rates, tithes, and other taxes, at L.8 per acre, 80 



Ten women, on an average, L.52 per annum each, 5^0 



Four women, at L.20 each, 80 



Five horses, at L.52 per annum, 260 



Two carters, at L.50 per annum, 100 



Manure, seeds, and water, 200 



Baskets, tools, &c 100 



Market expenses, 50 



Blacksmith's, wheeler's, and carpenter's bills, 100 



.1590 

 Interest of capital, and profit, 410 



.2000 



The produce must be immense, and the prices high, to com- 

 pensate for such heavy charges, as must be incurred in cases, 

 where 3000 hand-glasses ( 4ZI ) and 60 frames, are employed, 

 for securing an early produce. 



In market-gardens, where cultivation is carried to the great- 

 est perfection, cauliflowers and cucumbers are raised under 

 glasses, and yield large sums. Cauliflowers, when grown ear- 

 ly in spring, in a good season, will yield at the rate of L.80 

 per acre ; and cucumbers, when the crop is abundant, and 

 when they are brought to market in warm weather, (which 

 greatly promotes their consumption), will fetch from L.I 00 

 to L.I 20 per acre. Asparagus is also forwarded by means 

 of glasses. Between the glasses, there is generally an inter- 

 crop of celery ( 42 *), which in many cases is continued in the 

 same soils for years. A variety of other articles are likewise 

 raised, as radishes, lettuce, beet, onions, spinage, broccoli, 

 cole worts, or cabbages, either in succession, or intermixed 

 with each other, according to the judgment of the gardener. 

 Of late years, sea-kale has been extensively forced in such 

 gardens, and it brings a high price in the market, from Janu- 

 ary till March. 



Among the crops produced by market-gardeners, that of 

 asparagus, cultivated in the open air, merits particular atten- 

 tion. The general average value of its produce, may be 

 stated at from L.50 to L.75 per acre per annum ; but that is 

 the only crop that the soil yields during the season, and it is 

 attended with considerable labour and charges, in the gather- 

 ing and preparing it for market. The original expense, in 

 laying down an acre of asparagu's in a proper manner, can- 



