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pulled lay it straight and put it away in a dry place, as it can 

 be used for making mats or other protective purposes.) Lightly 

 fork ground and plant broccoli in rows 2ft. Gin. apart, 18in. 

 between plants in the row ; then sow short horn carrots between 

 rows of broccoli (these carrots will be fit for use in late autumn 

 when early-sown carrots are large and coarse). 



8. In October plant hardy cabbage lettuce, 1ft. apart each 

 way. In January sow two broad beans (:) between each lettuce 

 in every alternate row. When beans are cleared plant celery 

 in trenches, 3ft. apart, and crop the space between trenches 

 with radish, spinach, or lettuce. 



Enough examples have now been given to show how the 

 ground can be almost constantly occupied and cropped to its 

 full capacity. The plants must on no account be set closer 

 than the distances indicated. The ground must be kept well 

 supplied with manure, the plants well watered and in some 

 cases mulched, and the surface of the soil frequently stirred 

 with the hoe. Never allow the plants to occupy and exhaust 

 the ground after the crop is ready for gathering, but clear away 

 at once and prepare for another crop. 



In conclusion, cottage gardeners, allotment holders, and 

 indeed all workers on the land, are earnestly recommended to 

 study the following remarks by Prince KROPOTKIN, and to put 

 his suggestions into practice : 



"A necessary condition of success in work on the land is communica- 

 tiveness continual friendly intercourse with your neighbours. A 

 book gives general advice only, while every acre of land has its own indivi- 

 duality, which depends upon the soil, the position, the prevailing winds of 

 the locality, and so on. These things can only be learnt by local residents 

 of a long experience an experience which represents the collective know- 

 ledge of the local population. Let every beginner remember that the 

 superior gardening of the French, the Flemish, the Jersey and Guernsey 

 gardeners, and the work of the English greenhouse growers and florists, 

 is the result of their collective experience. Every gardener may have his 

 own secrets on this or that special point, but the bulk of the general know- 

 ledge which has developed in a given locality is the result of collective 

 experience, and of the continual talk among the gardeners about matters 

 which interest them. Beginners who appreciate that talk and turn it to 

 good account will find that advice is never refused by neighbours." 



