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as a great deal of the flavour is in the rind. For carrots, the early horn is 

 best for an early, and the Altringham, or Altrincham, for a late, crop. For 

 parsneps, the Guernsey grows to a large size, and the Siam is particularly 

 well flavoured. The dwarf red beet is the kind best grown in gardens. The 

 Flanders spinach is greatly to be preferred to the common kind, and will be 

 sufficient for a small garden ; but, where there is room, the white beet and 

 the New Zeahmd spinach may be grown, to afford variety and a crop in 

 summer, when annual spinach runs too rapidly to seed. For onions, the 

 early silver-skinned and the Deptford may be recommended. The Portugal 

 and the Spanish are mild, and grow to a great size, but do not keep well. 

 Of leeks, chives, garlic, and shallots, only one kind is in general cultivation. 

 Of the plants used in salading, the best are the union cabbage, and the large 

 Brighton Cos lettuce, the Batavian endive, the variegated chicory, the curled- 

 leaved and broad-leaved Normandy cress, and the scarlet and white turnip 

 radishes. The best celery is the Italian. The curled-leaved parsley is the 

 handsomest for garnishing, and answers equally well with the common for all 

 the purposes to which parsley is usually applied. 



125. j4s the greater part of cuUnary vegetables are raised from, seed, sown 

 partly where they are to remain, and partly for transplanting, something 

 requires to be said here on that subject. In our catalogue of culinary vege- 

 tables, we shall state under each kind the quantity of ground which a given 

 quantity of seed will sow; and also the smallest quantities of such seeds 

 which are generally ordered from the seed-shops ; and we shall only here 

 state that the larger seeds, such as peas, beans, and a few others, are purchased 

 by the pint, and almost all the small seeds by the ounce. There are very 

 few gardens to suburban houses in which half a pound or a pound of any seed 

 is required ; and of many articles, such as potherbs, parsley, celery, &c., half 

 an ounce, or threepenceworth, is quite sufficient for a small garden. In 

 general, it is always safe to order seeds in small quantities, because the chance 

 is greater of getting them fi-esh. 



126. Management. — A back garden, even if only 200 ft. in length, and 

 50 ft. in breadth, with a front garden forming a square of 50 ft., cropped in the 

 manner we have described, would occupy one person from April to September, 

 during a fourth part of his time, or at least two hours a day ; and besides 

 this time, when much watering was required to be done, or insects to be got 

 rid of by collecting, he would need the assistance of the female part of the 

 family. Where there is a steady man-servant, this is just the sort of garden 

 that he could take care of, directions being given to him by bis employer 

 as to the quantity of particular crops, and the season of sowing or planting, 

 on the supposition that he was not a reading gardener. If he were, and 

 took an interest in having the garden in good order, and in raising large 

 crops we would recommend him to be as little interfered with as possible ; 

 for every man likes to have something on which he prides himself, and, to 

 keep up that pride, it is necessary that it should be as much as possible his 

 own work. 



127. Expense. — The first cost of laying out and planting a garden of the 

 kind here described, will be about 30/. ; and the annual expense afterwards, 

 supposing a commercial gardener to be employed, will be, on an average, a 

 day and a half per week throughout the year ; an arrangement being made 

 that this time shall be bestowed on the garden, according as it is wanted, and 



