134- THE MANSE GARDEN. 



of sixty cart-loads of the best manure, which will 

 make all around you to flow with milk and honey. 



After the above preparations, the raising of crops 

 becomes pleasant and profitable, as the work is easy 

 and the remuneration sure. We suppose the soil 

 now to be in a good state, both as to depth and 

 richness, and the first thing with regard to cropping 

 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. Cor- 

 responding to this arrangement, let such crops as 

 require immediate manure be distinguished from 

 those which thrive sufficiently well or better without 

 it, and let them be disposed accordingly. The fol- 

 lowing 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 judiciously 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 re- 

 quires a special notice. The borders, on account of 

 the wall fruit trees, must be kept clear of it: it ought 



