112 The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



can be effected to a large extent by the frequent use of the hoe 

 and a judicious application of mulches (see pages 17 to 21). 



Having secured a warm, friable, rich and well-drained soil, 

 with arrangements for protection and shelter and increased 

 supplies of moisture when required, the foundation has been 

 well laid. With this to build upon pains and patience can 

 accomplish wonders. 



The Cropping of the garden may now be considered. By a 

 careful examination of the " Plans of Rotation and Intensive 

 Cropping " and the detailed explanation thereof on pages 58 

 to 62, the chapters on Seeds and Sowing, the Routine Work 

 of the French Garden, and the Details of the Cultivation of 

 Vegetables, ample information of a clear and precise nature 

 will be found which, if followed, will enable the allotment 

 holder to successfully emulate the French gardener in most 

 things except the earliest crops from hot beds, to his own profit 

 and satisfaction. 



In laying out the garden there should be set aside a space 

 for seed and plant beds, herbs and mint ; also for rhubarb and 

 seakale, both of which, as well as many other things, may be 

 forced or forwarded, easily and cheaply, by the methods des- 

 cribed in the chapters dealing with those subjects. Sugges- 

 tions for the arrangement and rotation of main crops will be 

 found in previous chapters. The following suggestions for 

 intercropping are recommended as being easy and profitable: 



1. In February plant cabbage lettuce from frames or beds, 

 lOin. apart; in March set well-hardened cauliflower plants be- 

 tween every second lettuce and in every fourth row, then sow a 

 line of short-horn carrots in the middle, between two rows of 



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lettuce. By the middle of May clear the lettuce, hoe well, and 

 set three dwarf beans from pots, triangular, between each 



