150 CROPS AND MANURE. 



richness, and the first thing with regard to crop- 

 ping is the economy of manure. Let one half of 

 your garden receive a rich supply one year, the 

 other half the year following, and so on alternately. 

 Corresponding to this arrangement, let such crops 

 as require immediate manure be distinguished from 

 those which thrive sufficiently well or better with- 

 out it, and let them be disposed accordingly. The 

 following may be successfully raised on such ground 

 as has been well manured the year before, namely, 

 pease, beans, carrots, parsnips, radishes, curled kale, 

 late turnips, sown in July; with these may be 

 classed the potato, which in rich garden ground 

 will grow a good crop without a fresh dunging and 

 prove of better quality. But when the ground is 

 less rich, a mere sprinkling in the potato drill will 

 be sufficient; and thus it is still to be regarded 

 apart from those vegetables which cannot be judi- 

 ciously cultivated without a recent and liberal 

 supply of manure. 



Considering the varieties here enumerated, as 

 well as the quantity of each that is usually required, 

 it is obvious that you have plenty in this list to 

 occupy one half of the ground which is allotted for 

 culinary productions. In this method of manuring 

 and of distributing the different sorts of crops, the 

 pea requires a special notice. The borders, on ac- 

 count of the wall fruit trees, must be kept clear of 

 it: it ought not to be frequently on the same 

 ground; it thrives best on that which is newly 

 trenched; it requires a large space, say a fourth 



