PART SECOND. 



VEGETABLES. 



TTEGETABLES are not good for food, or pro- 

 f fitable to the grower except they grow well; 

 but the size to which they attain in a given time 

 is not the only criterion of successful cultivation ; 

 for there is an overgrowth which, as well as bad 

 thriving, is prejudicial to every good quality of 

 potherb production. The pea, which cannot be 

 too plump and large, may be judged an excep- 

 tion; but if the stalk be too luxuriant it will not 

 produce the pea: an overswollen and consequently 

 hollow-hearted potato, is a further instance of the 

 waste that is occasioned by overkindness to the 

 plant, and a hard, stringy, ill rounded turnip 

 affords an example of the bad quality of the vege- 

 table from bad thriving, and of loss to the cultiva- 

 tor by poverty of soil. We club the interests of 

 the whole of the vegetable tribes, then, when we 

 consult first for the ground on which they are to 

 be reared, keeping quality and economy equally in 

 view, remembering that the great waste is the 



