366 THE NEW GARDENING 



kitchen-gardening, just as it is on making armour plates 

 and keeping ledgers. The old routine is followed genera- 

 tion after generation. There is improvement in vegetable- 

 growing, certainly, but it is rather improvement in 

 varieties than in method. 



With a wider use of frames and cloches there will be 

 greater concentration. Smaller varieties than hereto- 

 fore will be grown. There will be more labour in moving 

 manure and frame-lights, and less in deep delving. 



It is a common remark that the French put more 

 appetizing vegetables on the table than the British and 

 Americans, and the difference is attributed to superior 

 cookery. That has something to do with it no doubt, 

 but the main thing is that smaller kinds are used, grown 

 quickly and pulled young. 



: Gardening with frames and cloches is not necessarily 

 what is commonly called French Gardening. In many 

 large Anglo-Saxon gardens glass has been used for many 

 years in growing early vegetables. What is suggested 

 is that the glass area unheated except for manure 

 should be increased. Of French Gardening proper I 

 shall have something to say in another chapter. 



One who learns how tender and delicious young 

 Carrots, Cauliflowers and Cabbages are will be satisfied 

 that there are other vegetable tit-bits besides Asparagus 

 and Seakale ; and will be only too ready to spend a 

 pound or two in frames and cloches. He will consider it 

 well worth while to make arrangements for having a 

 long succession of crops, limited in quantity, but adequate 

 for supplying a table where small delicacies are recognized 

 to be at once more enjoyable and more nourishing than 

 coarse masses. 



An amateur gardener who manages his own vegetable 

 supply will find it both more interesting and more satisfy- 



