198 THE MANSE GARDEN. 



Vegetable Marrow^ or Succada A species of 

 gourd, the pulp of which, from its richness and fla- 

 vour, has been called marrow a more harmless 

 luxury than the animal sort, as being cheaper and 

 less productive of vapours and vertigo. In lower 

 situations it may be sown in March under a hand- 

 glass, and planted out in May before a wall or trellis, 

 the one or other being requisite not only for warmth 

 and shelter but for the support of the runners and 

 fruit. The reader may be reminded of the gravel 

 bank for fruit trees, previously described, which can- 

 not fail to have the most perfect aptitude to the 

 training of succada on the vacant spaces between 

 the trees. 



It may here be remarked, that for the implement 

 handglass, with very little skill of the hands, may be 

 substituted an article that costs almost nothing. Let 

 four boards, each twenty inches long and four broad, 

 set on edge, be nailed together in the form of a square ; 

 insert on the upper edge a few willows, and tie them 

 together at the top, making either a dome or pavilion 

 roof, which cover with strong white cartridge paper. 

 This, rubbed with linseed oil, turns rain, admits 

 plenty of light, is better than glass for striking all 

 manner of slips, and as good for tender seedlings in 

 the months of spring. In higher situations a little 

 help of warm dung will be requisite ; but as the 

 trouble of making a hotbed might be judged too 

 much to be exchanged for the privilege of eating 

 marrow, the author defers the process till speaking 

 of certain beauties and curiosities of the flower de- 

 partment, when it will appear that the same apparatus 

 which serves for succada will serve also for amaranths 



