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there are both town and country houses to supply. Nor 

 will he be in full sympathy with the concentration of a 

 great amount of manure and labour on the task of pre- 

 paring a piece of ground to yield three-pound Onions. 

 It would be to his personal advantage to make up the 

 few pounds which the man hopes to win in prizes with the 

 monster vegetables thus produced by giving a shilling 

 or two more a week in wages. The labour and manure 

 would then be diverted and diverted with cheerfulness 

 to sites for frame-beds, where an equal quantity of 

 vegetables would be produced, but in continuous small 

 crops. 



Most kitchen-gardens are made much too large, because 

 they are designed for the production of great crops of 

 coarse vegetables. There are varieties of Cauliflower 

 which require a full square yard each of ground. Reckon 

 that a hundred plants are wanted, and a calculation will 

 soon show how large a piece of ground is needed for this 

 crop alone. There are, however, Cauliflowers which need 

 no more than half a yard of ground, and far from being 

 inferior to the larger sorts in quality they are much 

 better. 



The old-style grower will reply to this with the argu- 

 ment : If you use two hundred small plants you will 

 require more labour than with a hundred large ones, 

 because you will have double the quantity to plant. 

 But the whole point is that longer successions of smaller 

 quantities are provided. With smaller vegetables there 

 is less waste, and here again the Cauliflower may be 

 chosen as an example. The great varieties that need a 

 square yard of ground each do not require all this space 

 for their hearts, the edible parts. It is necessary because 

 of the huge leaves they carry, and which are of no value. 



The scientific spirit should be brought to bear on. 



