Laying-out and Cropping. 59 



July, when the ground is immediately prepared for celery in 

 trenches ; after the planting of the celery is completed lettuce 

 are set out and spinach and radish sown between the trenches. 

 The following season spring-sown onions occupy these two 

 divisions, and in the third season they are filled with carrots, 

 parsnips, beet, and leeks. 



This completes the three-years' rotation on the first section ; 

 on examination of the Plan it will be seen that the second year 

 crop on the first section is that of the first year on the third 

 section, whilst the crop of the third year on the first section is 

 that of the first year on the second section, with this slight 

 difference, that until the rotation is established some temporary 

 crops are grown on the second and third sections in the first 

 and second years only ; from the third year onward the crops 

 and rotation as explained above in detail occupy in turn the 

 sections shown in the accompanying diagram. 



The method of cropping the bed for the earliest spring crops 

 and the treatment of asparagus, seakale, rhubarb, artichokes, 

 &c., will be found in the cultural details given later. 



