56 FAMILY RECEIPTS. 



Most vegetables thrive better' to shift the ground al- 

 ternately every year for different sorts, as each kind 

 draws somewhat different nourishment, on the principle 

 <Sf rotation of crops. Onions, however, are generally 

 considered an exception to the rule. [For particular 

 directions to germinate, see 1st. vol. Farmers' Reporter.] 



TO MAKE A KITCHEN GARDEN. 



"Many persons, sensible of the utility, are often dis- 

 couraged from constant attempts in cultivating a kitchen 

 garden, because the}'^ have experienced some failures 

 in particular plants. But there will never be a failure 

 t}f vegetables enough for a family's use, if the following 

 requisites be well guarded: — Richness of soil; due care 

 in the selection of seeds, as already directed: proper 

 cultivation; and a sutiicient variety of vegetables, that 

 'if one kind fails, another may be a substitute. 



"It is a general complaint among persons who pay 

 only little attention to their garden, that the seed often 

 fail. This usually happens because due care is not 

 taken in discriminating between ripe and unripe seed; 

 between blighted and sound seed, and by inattention to 

 the necessary rules for germination. 



"Our gardens do not generally present variety enough 

 to be profitable and convenient \o the owner, through- 

 out the whole year, even if all the planting succeeds. — 

 There is frequently no provision for the winter, and 

 many a long month, when the vegetable kingdom is 

 locked in frost, is passed with no variety on our tables, 

 to excite the languid appetite, or satisfy that which is 

 pleased with rotation. But surely it is as easy to store 

 our cellars with the beet, the carrot, the onion, the pars- 

 nep, and vegetable oyster, as with the dull monotony of 

 thepotatoc; and however nutritious the potatoc be, still 

 its utiHty cannot be hostile to the claims of other, pro- 

 ductions of the garden. 



"We do not invite the plough-boy from the Utility of 

 his farm, to the pleasures of a garden; we do not wish 

 him to sacrifice his grain fields to the culture of a tulip 

 bod; but we wish to call his attention to the utility, 



